Thursday, March 23, 2006

Want "Nice Girls"

This afternoon I decided to eat in our room. I was sitting on the floor, leaning against my cupboard with a large bowl of pasta and a glass of juice, continuing a very hot, steamy romance by Christen Feehan and my siblings upto their usually antics. With four girls in one room, (there used to be five) you have to wade through ankle deep clothes and whatnots. One sister was busy shaking her booty to the sound of “Tempted to Touch” I think she is practicing for when she will be back with her husband in Canada. Clothes were being shed, incidents shared, someone had staked a claim to my bed and laptop (the only clean place in the room). I hate messy rooms. Mom has tried to shame them into tidying, saying: “No one can claim girls reside in this house.” They are worse than boys. It hasn’t brought on any shame. There have been moments when they’ve woken up giggling, looking scandalized when they claim they slept with a hanger. One of them had the audacity to claim that she loves it when the room is in this condition. The booty shaker has started a vegetable/fruit diet. She had a carrot for lunch! That comment was followed by snickers and laughter. We are all great at multi-tasking. I continued my novel and lunch. And Bubloo the cat joined in the circus, being the only male in the room he had to put in his two cents. I am officially putting it on record that my sisters are the messiest women on earth. Stamped and signed!

Amidst the chaos, I get a phone call from my best friend in Scotland. After the usual catch-up talk, she gets right down to business and states: “we are looking for a ‘nice girl’ for my brother”, I mumble a “Ah-ha” Since the brother is divorced, with two kids they are having trouble finding a “nice-girl”. And she wanted another one for her husband’s friend who recently got divorced. She wanted my suggestions. The minute I asked what sort of girls are they looking for, all conversation, movement came to a standstill in the room. Ears were trained towards my corner. Bubloo hid under the bed.

One comment she made got me thinking. She said: “men are idiots when they go for sex appeal. Cant they appreciate a woman who is beautiful on the inside?”

Like Mom says: “Are they going to make pickles out of all that beauty!”

So WHAT DO MEN WANT?

JLo’s posterior, Sharon Stone’s sex-appeal, Angelina Jolie’s mouth, Betty Crocker’s culinary expertise, Martha Stewart style home maker. A super mom during the day and a femme fatale at night?

Or would women like my rowdy, bratty, brainy, untidy sisters do?
(two of my brother-in-laws seem to think so)

Nice girls anyone?
(A thankyou to Guyana-Gyal for the inspiration. It was the "nice girl" in your post)

19 Comments:

Blogger psyched said...

'he' won't be doing the choosing..'I' will be doing the choosing... touche samay !!!

sprite...if i put down my version of 'what men want' and why they want 'those' - its gonna be some solid scandalization inciting a barrage of nonsensical volley of comments thats gonna be endless:P

but i just cant help myself now can i?? men are shallow...hence their insight are shallow as well...whatcha talking about 'the inside beauty of women"? - they cant get passed the surface! and oh! my famous theory - since circulation happens in one place at one time, and since according to the laws of gravity, the lower place will get more of the circulation therefore much thinking is done from there - and in conclusion, that explains why their version of 'a nice girl' is no rocket-science for us to understand! :P

hey guys! dont get me wrong! me no man-hater...i can just get very annoyed at times :)

24/3/06 01:03  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Let me put it nicely :P

See, we only want her to be attractive enough that when she is whinning or on pms we do not get to be annoyed with her and try to help her out of it. LOL

See so simple :D

24/3/06 05:34  
Blogger Read before use said...

iam sure Zag will like a bodily feature of a celebrity (as mentioned in the post).

24/3/06 10:34  
Blogger Mike said...

I like nice girls. I like pretty girls too. I could never choose one over the other... She's gotta be nice and pretty!

But it's a lot more complicated than that... There's personality, humor, intelligence, values, interests... It's foolish to build a relationship on just one quality.

25/3/06 10:30  
Blogger watersprite said...

Samay: Well, you are definitely one in a million. No doubt. :) And are you saying Bubloo doesnt have pouty lips? :O For a guy he is very sexy!!! :P - You may do the choosing

Psyched: Thankyou for that very detailled insight into the workings of a man's mind! LOL

Voxy: PMS and whining??? so thats why youd rather go for a woman who was attractive on the outside?

Hani: What about you? And youd have to ask Zag to read the post to make a contribution

Viking: I agree to what you are saying, but in socities like mine, where arranged marriages take place, alot of guys look at the prospective "nice-girl"'s picture and agree on physical characteristics. At times they dont get to meet the girl till the Wedding day. They wouldnt know if the girl is nice or not - they go by what their elders tell them.

26/3/06 21:31  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

mom once said...wat u gonna do with a goodlooking face?..eat breakfast off it?...and when that goodlooking face opens its mouth and talks nastily at u..u gonna still find that face attractive?...

Oh shit im in big trouble, mom gonna look for a guy whose face I wont be able to eat breakfast off...

27/3/06 01:41  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey I was joking :D

Really, you should never ask bachelors this question. It starts off with one thing and it goes on to describe how everything about her down to the family and social status .. haha .. Funny isnt it. Its a moot point I tell ya :P

I believe when they say nice girls, they mean someone above the guy's usual league. Its the reason world has more good looking people :P

On a serious note, did not pursue myself with my cousin. She was rich, one of the most beautiful women I know, nicely educated but the only problem with which I could not cope with was empathy and my family is pissed about it too. She never cared outside her domain. I wouldn't call somebody nice who knows more about lipstick than people around her.

27/3/06 02:57  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

tiddi....
wow...u make it sound sooo simple !!

hani....
ur so daim right ther! were is zag btw??? i miss his never ending quest to make a hit on every possible full toss that comes up

nadi...
aaahahaahahahahahahahahahaa ! gud one!

oh man! sprite woman ! i think u just freaked out our viks there! :P he must be thinking...which planet are we from?? lol

27/3/06 02:57  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

tiddi...
eeejackly! ;)

27/3/06 17:06  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lol Samay..
True tho...they gotta b pleasant to ur eyes...something u gotta like..otherwise..love will truly have to be blind...

27/3/06 21:25  
Blogger Read before use said...

umm, I wouldn't mind my lady to be be average looking.
In fact I like mediocre looking girls.
The Simple ones!

28/3/06 09:09  
Blogger Veiled Muslimah said...

Assalam Alaykum,


The best spouses are those which have the most [i]taqwa[/i] in Allah s.w.t.

Looks tend to fade away, but a persons character and personality doesn't. So looks arn't everything. A person can be the most coldest, meanest and cruelest looking person on the inside and still be very 'gorgeous' on the outside.

May Allah s.w.t grant all of us with spouses who are good in character, the pleasure of our eyes and have [i]imaan[/i] and [i]taqwa[/i]. Ameen.

Takecare,
Masalamah.

28/3/06 21:04  
Blogger Read before use said...

Samay:I am quite inexperienced in terms of females but the average looking girls I mean like they won't have highlights on their hair, the hair tied in a simple pony, you know what Iam saying, plain-faced!

29/3/06 12:19  
Blogger neena maiya (guyana gyal) said...

Hehe, so Nice Girl, you're being 'set up' again?

A woman we know phoned here last year, telling my mother the same thing...a guy in Canada, divorced with children, is looking for a nice girl.

I think she meant he wants a nursemaid, housekeeper, etc.

Did you say yes, eagerly, with bated breath? tee hee.

30/3/06 17:41  
Blogger Read before use said...

looks like I'll have to marry myself.

31/3/06 10:10  
Blogger watersprite said...

Seems like I missed out on all the fun here...lol

First things first - Nadi welcome, sorry am such a lazy bug about most stuff. Well, you ought to marry a guy whose face you can eat on. Am serious. :) It wont be the same if you try licking off cream and jam from a face you arent attracted to! :)

Samay its more diabolic than simple confusion. **groans and moans**

Hani you are adorable, why is it that there are not too many guys like you out there in the big bad world? And dont worry you'll find your simply nice girl. :)

Hey anyone hear about some law where you can marry your self?? LOL - it may actually save alot of us all the whining and heartache - hint hint Psyhced! :D

Voxy: Sprite is doing the mambo, the rumba and the chaCha Cha! In karachi! You wanna join? ;) (I dont do the lambada...lol)

Psyched gurl, please step out of the maze thats in your head! you are confusing Viking Mike with Viks! Urgh!

Guyana you sure read between the lines, since it was not an out and out demand that I marry her brother, I used my evasion tactics and said "I'll look for some girls" hehehe. You think im the eager, "bated breath" type?? :D ;)

31/3/06 23:25  
Blogger watersprite said...

Veiled Muslimah: Ameen to that, its hard these days to find men and women who are nice and simple and follow a religious code. Well inshaAllah may we all find the ones who are meant for us. :)

31/3/06 23:45  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

now u know how much i need to get outta here!!!!

1/4/06 01:32  
Blogger Read before use said...

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1/4/06 11:06  

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