relationship blossoms

Es usted casada? = Are you married? (use casado if you are asking this Qs to a male.)
Soy soltera = I am single.

and why is that?? hah! i am sure this question has invoked many hours of family debates. maybe not so much now this is my last "30th" year and my uncles and aunties are resigned, perplexed but ever hopeful.

it's not that i'm unattractive you see. not also that i lack any intelligence or social/communication skills. not that i don't know how to clean up and wear the appropriate outfits when required(although i would struggle to discard the denim, i do LOVE the diamonds).

in the Indian Times i may even be advertised as honey colored(?) or would it be wheat(?).
as owning my own apartment, car, TV and DVD player, jewellery, hand-phone (what else does one add?). as having a good steady job and a regular income.

of course there would be the things we would struggle to strategically position in the same advert. things like: amreeth owns a 4.5 foot green lizard who is her life and her focus, and rules the house and is non-negotiable. amreeth is outspoken and has stubborn (oops scratch that) definitive points of views. she also prefers her own company, or hanging out with her parents and select relatives and friends versus the night-life now. so is social without a fault if she chooses to be (like at work and within a strictly select inner circle). she doesn't cook or clean house, and believes in outsourcing the management of her house work which she does successfully.

hmm, oh and how do we slip this one in??: she is allergic to commitment(!) she still likes the bad boys (read as in: Heathcliff, Tristan, vampires) and they better be built like Brad Pitt and speaketh the spanish.

aiyoh, this advert thing isn't going so well, and how would we communicate the age??! shock, horror. scrap scrap.

well, 2007 being the year of the golden pig, a marriage relationship is foretold to blossom for the single monkey.
i guess i better start practicing civility 24/7.

Perdone, por favor. Hay una iglesia cerca? = Excuse me, please. Is there a church nearby?