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	<title>Patricia Chan &#187; quarter life crisis</title>
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		<title>When people call me mam, I twitch involuntarily</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 10:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Chan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anything Goes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Totally Random]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[25 years old]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[getting older]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am probably having a mid quarter-life crisis. Every time the followings happen, I have to consciously stopped my self from saying &#8220;pardon&#8221;, do double-take to make sure I am the one being addressed, reflexively looking for a mirror to see if early wrinkles have started forming or giving the person an evil look.  English 1. When people start addressing me as &#8220;Mam&#8221; instead of &#8220;Miss&#8221; - especially if these people are older than you. 2. When the &#8220;Young&#8221; has been dropped from &#8220;Young lady&#8221;&#8230; i.e. &#8220;The young lady over there is next to be served&#8220;. Indonesian 1. When people I don&#8217;t know start calling me &#8220;Ibu&#8221; instead of &#8220;Mbak&#8221; or &#8220;Kak&#8221;, or 2. &#8220;Tante&#8221; or &#8220;ii&#8221; instead of &#8220;Cici/Ce/Sis&#8221; &#8211; terms for addressing someone of Chinese descent in Indonesian (Luckily this hasn&#8217;t happen yet). Chinese/Mandarin 1. Luckily the Chinese are a bit more subtle. Most of the time, I am still addressed as &#8220;Siau Cie&#8221; instead of just &#8220;Cie&#8221;, &#8220;Ta Cie&#8221;, &#8220;Fu Ren&#8221;, &#8220;A ie&#8221;, or whatever they call an older Chinese lady grown up Chinese girl over there. Hopefully by the time people would be consistently addressing me with an older title, I would be mature enough to accept it gracefully. Damn! I am getting old!]]></description>
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