Cross-Cultural Conversations

Observations by a Malaysian studying in Australia

Women Are From Cocoa-Country, Men Are From Kindergarten

I had a huge headache after sitting in a packed bus for almost an hour. We just returned from an Economics excursion to the Toyota Plant in Altona. Now that I start to ponder, I'm not entirely sure if the bus trip was to blame or was it the noisy and bustling industrial activity in the factory which triggered it. But with such an excruciating pain in the back of my head I was in no position to do any pondering.

For some reason I didn't feel like eating a Panadol, so I decided to get some chocolates instead, since they're known to reduce headaches and I was feeling pretty hungry. However, after eating a Kit Kat and a cookies-and-cream Milkyway, my headache didn't subside. Chocolates do not cure headaches after all. But I could've sworn reading an article in one of my mum's women's health mags claiming that chocolates could alleviate headaches. Then I realised only those choc-obsessed women could come up with such a claim, and only us men could fall for such things.

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