Foong Speaks Her Mind

Now, we’ve all heard about alimony and how a divorce would end with the couple squabbling over the division of assets but it is first for me to hear read about a couple literally splitting a house into two!

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A couple in rural Cambodia has terminated their 18-year marriage with a divorce settlement that entailed sawing in two the wooden house they once shared, villagers said Friday.

The husband, 42-year-old Moeun Sarim, has taken away with him all the bits and pieces of his half a house, said his 35-year-old wife, Vat Navy.

“Very strange, but this is what my husband wanted,” she said by phone from a village about 62 miles east of Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh. She said they ended their marriage last month.

- AP - MSNBC

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Talk about drawing the line and half is yours and half is mine! I wonder what the husband gets from the bits and pieces of his half of a house? Sell it off as firewood? Err…can he even build a new house using the debris?

In this day and time, divorce is much, much more common than in the olden days. Though it used to be a ‘western disease’, it has now spread all over Asia and very much so, Malaysia. My parents are also divorced. And I have a few relatives who are divorced. Some of my friends are divorced and there are countless acquaintances who are divorcees.

Why do couples divorce? The usual reason is irreconcilable differences to be followed by extramarital affairs and of course, there are the few ‘due to in-law meddling’. Of course, no couple entering into a marriage would want it to end with divorce but when love turns sour, the partner change, minor disagreements turned into huge quarrels, sometimes, divorce is inevitable.

Luckily, though there are many gold-diggers now, no women marry a rich man with a plan to catch him cheating and then get alimony…you know, like the character played by the gorgeous Catherine Zeta Jones in Intolerable Cruelty.

This is probably because our legal system does not work this way, at least not like in US where the poorer spouse gets a share of half of the richer spouse’s assets, providrd of course he / she has a skillful divorce lawyer.

Over here, wives who are left by their irresponsible husbands are even lucky to get child support, much less alimony.

Oh, but I am rambling all over and getting much too serious again……heheheh…actually, I was just tickled funny by the couple who literally saw their house into two and wanted to share it. So, reminder to all couples out there, you want to divorce, better think of ways to saw your house into two first…or decide on what you want to do with the house.

I am sure none of you wants a half-house right?

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Every once in a while, I’d go around reading unimportant, amusing stuffs (just to get away from the utter boringness and mind-numbing stupidity of local news due to brainless politicians in recent times) so imagine my delight upon finding the article titled 25 Fascinating Love Facts.

I remember I had a fun time reading the smooching list by the same writer, Laura Schaefer and now she’s back with another list and this time it’s on love.

Here is the list:

1. Men who kiss their wives in the morning live five years longer than those who don’t.

Hey, what about the wives? Do they live any longer too? And is it before or after he brushes his teeth? Uggghhh…better hope it is after!

2. People are more likely to tilt their heads to the right when kissing instead of the left (65 percent of people go to the right!)

*yawn* this has been said in the kissing list….seriously, the writer is repeating herself…oh well, maybe she forgot

3. When it comes to doing the deed early in the relationship, 78 percent of women would decline an intimate rendezvous if they had not shaved their legs or underarms.

Hmmm…that would surely explain the rise in teenage pregnancies huh? They are too young to have sprouted so much hair for them to worry about shaving before ‘doing the deed’…or maybe not…hmmm..maybe teenagers are too free and shave whatever ugly body hair all the time so that’s why they don’t have to worry about unwanted body hair before doing the deed…

4. Feminist women are more likely than other females to be in a romantic relationship.

You don’t say? No wonder there are so many people like Engineer who are lesbians but nobody believed him, of course.So, does this mean  we better be feminists if we want to be in a romantic relationship?

5. Two-thirds of people report that they fall in love with someone they’ve known for some time vs. someone that they just met.

There goes the ‘love at first sight’  theory out the window…hands up you people who fell in love at first sight. Anyone? Hello? Hmmm…she must be right…

6. There’s a reason why office romances occur: The single biggest predictor of love is proximity.

Ahah! No wonder a certain Monica could not get her lips attention off a certain Bill. Mystery solved! Hmm..this means you wives out there better watch out for the sexy secretary of your husbands…either you move into his office or move him out fast.

7. Falling in love can induce a calming effect on the body and mind and raises levels of nerve growth factor for about a year, which helps to restore the nervous system and improves the lover’s memory.

Hey! I beg to differ. Hands up all those whose spouse have forgotten their first date anniversary, first kiss anniversary, first night anniversary, wedding anniversary, whatever anniversary? What’s that? ALL of you? See? who said it improves the lover’s memory? Ceh… Ahh but wait. Maybe it does improve the memory - the memory of the wives who will remember to death that their husbands forgot their first kiss anniversary just 20 years into their marriage. That boor. How could he? And it was only after 20 years.

8. Love can also exert the same stress on your body as deep fear. You see the same physiological responses — pupil dilation, sweaty palms, and increased heart rate.

Ahem, I beg to differ. It is NOT love but LUST. And just like how predators can smell fear from far, land wolves (meaning: leery, sex-crazed, sex-starved egomaniacs) can smell lust from far…oh wait, it’s their own lust they are smelling…
9. Brain scans show that people who view photos of a beloved experience an activation of the caudate — the part of the brain involving cravings.

I don’t know about that but if you show me a picture of chocolates, the brain scan will definitely show an activation of the caudate. MAJOR activation.

10. The women of the Tiwi tribe in the South Pacific are married at birth.

Talk about cradle snatchers, the Tiwi tribe wins the prize hands down!

11. The “Love Detector” service from Korean cell phone operator KTF uses technology that is supposed to analyze voice patterns to see if a lover is speaking honestly and with affection. Users later receive an analysis of the conversation delivered through text message that breaks down the amount of affection, surprise, concentration and honesty of the other speaker.

People actually trust some unknown new technology to tell them whether the other person is honest, affectionate, etc, etc? Hell, what if the tech screwed up?

12. Eleven percent of women have gone online and done research on a person they were dating or were about to meet, versus seven percent of men.

**snigger** I know of some people who’d go online to ‘do research’ on people they weren’t dating or about to meet but merely because they have nothing better to do.
13. Couples’ personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.

Oh craps. Does this mean I may start growing sideburns and needing a shave (on my chin!) and pee standing up?
14. The oldest known love song was written 4,000 years ago and comes from an area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

And the love song is titled….???? Talk about cliffhangers…

15. The tradition of the diamond engagement ring comes from Archduke Maximillian of Austria who, in the 15th century, gave a diamond ring to his fiancée, Mary of Burgundy.

Wow…sigh and I didn’t even get a diamond engagement ring. Just the diamond wedding band. Does that count?

16. Forty-three percent of women prefer their partners never sign “love” to a card unless they are ready for commitment.

I’d prefer he NEVER sign love to a card UNLESS it is addressed TO ME! Who cares when he sign the card.

17. People who are newly in love produce decreased levels of the hormone serotonin — as low as levels seen in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Perhaps that’s why it’s so easy to feel obsessed when you’re smitten.

That’s why there are stalkers and this crazy obsession with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears and the likes of them.  And now this explains the mystery of why a certain Jeanne married some sleepy brainless kampung old man…must be due to an obsessive compulsive disorder.

18. Philadelphia International Airport finished as the No. 1 best airport for making a love connection, according to an online survey.

Okay, listen up all the singles still looking for love out there! You know where to go…
19. According to mathematical theory, we should date a dozen people before choosing a long-term partner; that provides the best chance that you’ll make a love match.

OH NO. I didn’t date a dozen people before I got married. I’ve been cheated AGAIN. Ceh…

20. A man’s beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.

Really? No wonder my husband needs to shave every day… :grin:But wait, isn’t he growing more similar to practically hairless me, so why does he need to shave still? Hmmm….

21. Every Valentine’s Day, Verona, the Italian city where Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet took place, receives around 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet.

Either those Romeos are stupid or there really is a Juliet there…

21. When we get dumped, for a period of time we love the person who rejected us even more, says Dr. Helen Fisher of Rutgers University and author of Why We Love. The brain regions that lit up when we were in a happy union continue to be active.

Stupid, stupid brain. And I thought we have brains to help us get through life intelligently…So, next time don’t think with your brains, think with your heart when you get dumped.

22. People telling the story of how they fell in love overwhelmingly believe the process is out of their control.

Yeah, I remember all those stories of how ‘fate put us together’ or ‘Thank God she became part of my life’ that sorta things…goosebump and inducing, I tell you…

23. Familiarity breeds comfort and closeness … and romance.

Hey, that’s a twisted misquote of the popular phrase ‘familiarity breeds contempt’!

24. One in five long-term love relationships began with one or both partners being involved with others.

So, that means one out of five of us are adulterers.

25. OK, this one may not surprise you, but we had to share it: Having a romantic relationship makes both genders happier. The stronger the commitment, the greater the happiness!

Uhhh…duh …But then, ask those who have been married for years and they’ll tell you otherwise….why do you think there are marriage jokes like these:

You have two choices in life:
You can stay single and be miserable,
or get married and wish you were dead.

At a cocktail party, one woman said to another,
‘Aren’t you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?’
‘Yes, I am. I married the wrong man.’

When a woman steals your husband,
there is no better revenge than to let her keep him.

A woman is incomplete until she is married. Then she is finished.

A little boy asked his father,
‘Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?’
Father replied, ‘I don’t know son, I’m still paying.’

A young son asked,
‘Is it true Dad, that in some parts of  Africa
a man doesn’t know his w wife until he marries her?’
Dad replied, ‘That happens in every country, son.’

Then there was a woman who said,
‘I never knew what real happiness was until I got married,
and by then, it was too late.’

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Just think, if it weren’t for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.

A Woman’s Prayer:
Dear Lord, I pray for: Wisdom, To understand a man , to Love and to forgive him , and for patience, For his moods. Because Lord, if I pray for Strength I’ll just beat him to death’

That ends the fun facts about love and the more fun non-facts about love and marriage. Lol. Have a great week!

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I hate people who nags at me. I couldn’t stand it when my grandmother nagged at me when I was younger and now I hate it when some other people nagged at me at every opportunity. It jangles my nerves and yes, sometimes it makes me so worked up, I literally feel like strangling the nagger or possibly stabbing myself to death.

Frankly, I’d prefer to dig out my eyeballs with a blunt fork than to be nagged. It would definitely be more pleasant.

Anyway, I find that it is quite common for people to nag, especially at their partners. It is a common believe that wives nag a lot. But let me tell you, some men also nag a lot and this is from my own personal experience, okay? (no, no, no, not my husband….)

Whoever nags, better be careful and think twice before you indulge in your favourite past time. Apparently, nagging could prove to be very fatal. Really, I am not joking here. Just read the news below:

Henpecked husband strangles nagging wife
16/09/2008 16:19

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An Australian husband strangled his nagging wife after she upset his beloved pet dog as he tried to rock it to sleep, a prosecutor told a local court.

Anthony Sherna, 42, then left his dead wife’s body on her bed for a few days, but not wanting his dog traumatised by the sight of a decomposing body, he took the Jack Russell to a pet resort.

Sherna pleaded not guilty on Monday in Melbourne’s Magistrates Court to murdering his wife Susanne, local media reported on Tuesday.

The prosecutor told the court that Sherna and his wife lived in isolation at rural Victoria state, with no friends, no social life and just their Jack Russell Maltese terrier cross, Hubble, for company, the Herald Sun reported.

Each night, Sherna rocked Hubble to sleep in his arms while listening to the radio, but one night in February his wife began shouting at him as he cuddled the dog. Sherna snapped.

“I reached the threshold of the horrible life that we had together,” Sherna allegedly told police in an interview.

“It was loud and Hubble was shaking like a leaf, and because it takes a good 15 minutes to get him into bed…he was shaking and I was really angry.”

Sherna put his dog to bed, grabbed a dressing gown cord and strangled his wife, said the prosecutor.

- Reuters

See? It is definitely bad for health when nagging could result in being strangled or worse, stabbed 10 times.

Heheheh…I don’t know about you but I find both piece of news quite…errr…interesting (?)…can’t say funny or else you people will think I am so heartless laughing at the death of a nagger….

On another note, who in their right mind treat a dog like a baby? And some more rock the dog to sleep? I love animals but this is really too much. I don’t remember ever rocking my dog to sleep. I find the idea of doing that darn weird, considering that some dogs, due to their ‘watchdog’ instincts, usually don’t sleep at night but take short naps.

Oh well, I guess the dog forgot that its a dog and thought it was human. I couldn’t get my dog to stay in his bed for even an hour, much less put him to bed! He prefers to roam around the house and sleep wherever he wants, whenever he wants.

The moral of the story here….don’t nag at your husband if he can confuse a dog with a baby. It could prove fatal.

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