Damn vain

One thing which I can’t decide to be happy or cynical about. My age.

Today, well, when I was passing through the security check point. A man and a madam stopped me for the standard security check. So we had the usual polite small talk. Then the man asked me a question. He asked what is my age. I asked him, is that a legal question. He said yes, cause we have to make sure we are not hiring underage here. I’m like. Underage?  –_- You gotta be kidding me! Fine! Its XX (I ain’t revealing my real age here).

Both of them were extremely shock. The lady was like OMG, What are you eating (to that I answered Australian junk food)? and bla bla bla. The man was like ‘but I thought you were 18, bla bla bla’.

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Is this the joke of the century? The lady even shook my hand!!!

Not the first time I was mistaken for being 18 – 19. I know, laugh all you want, choke on your food if you must. Heck, I did. I am not full of myself ok. I mean it’s good to be complimented right? But 18 is too much lah, WAY too much. Isn’t this ridiculous? Can’t they see my crows feet? My XX age body? MY BLOODY PIGMENTATIONS, they kept popping up!!!

Another one of my colleague, we were talking and she was talking about her daughter. I was like, you have a daughter? I was asked to guess her age, and I was damn wrong. She looks so much younger than her age. So my turn, guess how old she think I was. 18. –_- When my boss interviewed me, she was shock to see me, ‘you don’t look like your age at all!’

I think this is a conspiracy. Victor thinks its an insult, I don’t take it that seriously, just very cynical. I always look at the person’s background when they are guessing my age. Like my colleague, she knew I was a student so she may have made a miscalculated judgement there. Or if the person is around 18 – 19, most probably they would have guess me around that age too. It’s normal. Right?

It kind of makes me wonder. Do I look that childish to people? I don’t think I look innocence or naive at all but neither have I been behaving like a teenager. I am just quiet and all I do is observe people. I think sometimes its not the look that is ageing people but the personality? Or maybe they think I am not worth my age? That I don’t have the wisdom or knowledge for a person of my supposed age. You know, those ‘how wise or knowledgeable can a 18 years old person be’ those kind of mentality? So people must have think I am not so wise and not so knowledgeable?

Oh, another factor is Asian people always look younger. That or the salmon fish oil I’ve been taking is really working. Perfect for women!