Originally posted by sqully:
Meddling with Love University in Singapore
Posters which promote events promising romantic encounters fill the
walkways spilling with couples. The school encouraging boys and
girls to grab some hand they can hold onto. Even though it can be
as little as a year ago when these boys and girls were prohibited
from doing so in JCs. Now you see signs everywhere that tells u to
get a girl or guy. Overt and subvert social pressures for you to
get attached.
The university has got to be the biggest and most intrusive
match-making agency in Singapore. It cant wait for you to fall in
love. It has to meddle to make sure you would. It orchestrates
moves that cultivate this oppressive couple culture which pushes
you to date. Maybe it does so to be in line with govts plan that
we should all start dating as undergrads so we can get hitched n
have babies immediately after we grad. But what horrible
implications these stuff bring onto people like me. I was happy to
single until I went into university. Once, twice, thrice
perhaps
for at least a hundred times I resisted the kind of message that
says u should be dating. But as u know even a drip of water can
make it thru a stone if it does so persistently over time, after
these images and messages were flashed at me for countless times I
started to wonder if I needed to be attached in order to be happy
in university. From the speed I see my friends settling for mates
it seems so. And I feel so much of an outcast that I m single. Like
I m somewhat inferior. Like I m not part of their community
anymore. Everyone no longer has time for friends as their beau is
of supreme importance and takes up most of their time n attention.
These things haunt me so much that they make my university life
miserable. I yearn for companionship but it neednt come from a
lover. Yet things dont seem to work that way. Everyones top
agenda is to look for a date and wheres friend on the list? For
some, I doubt it is on the list even. Why must the varsity turn
everyone into desperate housewives? Why cant they just let
things be?
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i believe in uni alot of singles around too so no need to feel
pressured for a lover... ur friends are attached so jz join another
group of friends who are single then... be urself... 
