HENG Married Adults?

HENG adj. lucky
SOY adj. unlucky
EXPLICIT COMMENTS (R-18)

The moment you ka-when (get married), you are immediately considered an adult with all the nagging rights. You could also talk openly about enjoying blue films without embarrassment and without the need for silly coded language. For pre-puberty kiddies, you automatically inherit the super-title of aunty and uncle. How nice.

How nice? You must be kidding.

Let me spell out the downside of being a married adult...

For reasons completely unknown to me, sex becomes a duty and not an exciting scandalous pursuit (they say it is only pleasurable up to the 3rd anniversary if you're heng, I seriously hope this is just bad stats). Bills multiply, in amount and variety. Working is part of your body physiology, and leisure is the time during the car journey after work and before reaching home.

You also begin to worry about your health. You are obsessed about the values on the blood pressure machine, comparing them with friends like your golf handicap.

You begin to ask questions without real answers like "what is happiness" and "what is success", and debate furiously about them usually with family members like you have cracked them.

And don't you start with the ang-pow situation during Chinese New Year...

Sigh.

I know we should really PAUSE, RELAX AND BREATHE SLOWLY. We shouldn't worry too much... life is short. Most of us are lucky to be with a loving spouse, but our spouse, ASTRO channels and beer cannot entertain us for 24 continuous hours, so if you have any tips on how to cheer a married adult up, please share.