Assumptions about my age in Penang

Since coming to Penang I have heard several good ones.

"Come here to study ah?"
When we were looking for an apartment, my mother said that it was for me, and several people asked whether I was coming to Penang for my studies. The same thing happened later when we were buying electrical appliances.

"Now you're the youngest here."
This was at work...probably my first or second day. There's one they call xiao mei mei (little sister) there, and someone told me that they called her that because she was the youngest...and "now it's you". But...turned out that she's younger than me. (Not to mention another guy who said to me "you're still young"...and later I discovered that he was actually younger than me (by only a few days, but...you get the idea))

"You just graduated? Or waiting for results?"
And today at badminton there was someone new...after a game he went around introducing himself, and he said to me, "You look young. Just graduated? Or waiting for results?" Er... Well, I told him I was a fresh grad. No sense shocking him with my age. lol

All this in the past three months. I'm already 25! Some people my age already have kids!

Though I think the "setting" has something to do with it. In the first scenario, being with my parents and my uncle/aunt probably made me look like a child. At work they already knew that I had graduated...and at badminton it was a team of working people, so that fellow knew that I couldn't be too young...

But it's better to look young than to look old (I get the feeling that I've said this before, but I don't know where :P ). So I'll just enjoy it while I still can. And also, it reminds me of this post I wrote back in the year of the ox.

And maybe sometimes I can just reply: Yes dears. I just completed my SPM, and I'm in Penang to further my studies. ;)