This weekend has been really embarrassing and educational for me as I learnt quite a few new words through hardship and stupidity.

It’s all stated on Friday night when I was chatting with two of my friends – a gal and a guy from aus. They were talking about shopping and stuffs, which is not my specialties and I wasn’t really paying attention to at that moment. I was busy fixing some stuff at the back.

Then on one point when my friend said he got a boxer, it caught my attention, so I stated to get along in their conversation by saying:
“You? Box?”, and there began the whole story.

I merrily took this “Boxer” as some kind of boxing gloves and I was a bit surprised cos’ he doesn’t seem to me as a boxer type. So I simply ask about that and try to joke at him. It was such a stupidest move ever!

My friends started laughing at me that instant and the guy said:
“FYI: Boxer = underwear”

Then I got hot to the face and said:
“Oops, well excuse the Fiji girl”.

He said:
“Yah OOPS, more like Fiji Thaw Thu”.

There, a slap to the face. “Thaw Thu” here means from the village or a bush, in Fijian something like “Kai Co Lo” (kai tho lo). The idiots from the bush. Haha.

Well, what can I say; it was my stupidity that I didn’t know that usage. My girl friend was laughing at best she could and telling me how silly I was.

I just told them with a bit of awkwardness that I don’t go shopping a lot and I don’t know about under-wears named boxer. I only know shorts, panties, undies and briefs.
So I slept through that night with –
Boxer = underwear,
Boxer = underwear,
Boxer = underwear, in my head.

Ok my unfortunate humiliation didn’t stop there, the next day (Saturday night), another girl friend of mine came to greet me with how she laughed about the boxer story the gal told her on the phone. That’s just great isn’t it, yah spread the world gal.

I started to think, they were a bit mean by laughing too much at me. How would I know all those fancy names they give to the underwear. So I went through that night with irritated feeling on my friends, being so picky on me for my small mistake.

Not done yet…
Tonight (Sunday night) I happened to watch “Hope & Faith” TV series and this particular episode showed how Hope forced her husband to wear a boxer and the husband got really uncomfortable about it.

Then it all came back to me about my embarrassing boxer and I tried to warn/educate my poor mother (who says lots of mistakes in some occasions) with my boxer story. I was telling her:

“You know mom, if you and your friends ever happen to discuss about underwears, remember the “Boxer” is one of those underwears and don’t ever ask them like I did to my friends.”
And I told her about my mishap.

I should have keep my mouth shut at that moment and let my mom thank me for the warning but NOOO, I just have to continue and show off my smart discovery (rather the worst, the stupidest move ever!) by saying:

“There see, it even comes in “Hope & Faith”, pretty popular brand this boxer must be. I thought it’s only in Australia, now they use those in U.S too. Wow it’s a world-wide brand and I didn’t know about it!

I can’t blame my friends for laughing at me now. Who wouldn’t know such a famous brand but me!”

$hit! Crap! Holly cow! Help me! Why it always happening to me! Eeehhehehee.

There came a loud cracking and freaking laughs from my brother and sister which really gave me a big shock. They were laughing at me for about 2 min without saying anything but “OH MaSu, you are sooooooooo STUPID!”

I was like…
“What? What did I say? So you know about boxer then? Good for you! Well I didn’t know so I’m telling my mom not to make the same mistake as me! You got a problem with that?”

I absolutely have no clue why they laugh that much for, cos’ they didn’t laugh much when I first tell my mom about the boxer story but now…they laughing like never been before. So I got lost there, and asked them what I said wrong and why are they laughing that much.

Then my brother asked me, what did I understand by this word “Boxer”. I told him, “well it’s an underwear, I was just telling mom about, what so funny about it”,
Then he asked again:
“What did you just said before about the boxer?”

So I got confused, rethink what I said and explained him properly that this boxer must be the world famous underwear brand or a name tag.
Then my sister said:
“There you go stupid! Boxer is not a brand, it’s a term for men undies.”
I go like “HUH!!???” LOL

My brother said: “Have you ever heard of Boxers for men and Knickers for women?”
My smart arse sister added “Another name for women underwear is called – Lingerie.”

Ok that’s it. It’s official. I’m the biggest idiot of all time.
I didn’t know any of those and I have no idea how my 16 yr old sister knows about it and me 22 doesn’t.

Then I go: “OMG no wonder my friends laugh at me and called me Fiji Thaw Thu, I’m such a fool.”
My bro doesn’t help me but said “MaSu, even Fiji Kai Co Lo(s) know what boxer is.”

So I got nothing more to say and have to run for the dictionary.
My mom was laughing at me and said “You try to out smart me by telling me the wrong things that you don’t even understand of.”

There go another big “OOOPPPSSSSS!!” LOL

So now I noted down –

Boxer/Boxer Shorts – underwear for men.
n men’s underpants similar in design to SHORTS worn by boxers.

Lingerie/knickers – panties/undies for women.

1. (Brit) a woman’s or girl’s garment worn under other clothes and covering the body from the waist to the tops of the legs: wearing only (a pair of) knickers and a bra.
2. (US) = knicker-bockers.
   IDM – get one’s ‘knickers in a twist (Brit sl) to become angry, confused or nervous; to react to sth more strongly than is necessary: There’s no need to get your knickers in a twist – we’ve got two hours before the plane leaves.

Knickerbockers (US knickers) – short trousers gathered jut below the knee.

To add to those fancy terms, my sis bonuses me with the word “Thong”. I only know slippers and flip-flops so this “Thong” is new for me. Thank god I know now before someone tells me about Thong and I might go say stupid thing like “Ting, Thong, Thang” and make a fool of myself again.

Thong:

1. a narrow strip of leather, used eg. As a fastening or a whip.
2. (US) = FLIP-FLOP.

So this week definitely has been educational and most humiliated week ever – 3 days in a roll. Gosh!
So here I am sharing and spreading the world about my latest embarrassment.
I wonder what kind of embarrassing things you said/done lately and whether you know about the boxer.
Haha I bet you do, you can’t be that silly like me. If you feel like sharing some of your humiliating stories, please do so as I very much like to hear some.
I promise I won’t laugh.

Incase of live and death emergency such this, Buried alive, who would you save?

TWO children and their mother were buried alive after a landslide tore through part of their home at Vunivau outside Labasa at the weekend.

Their 70-year-old grandmother, who survived after being thrown into a nearby drain by the force of the disaster was still in shock yesterday.

I was just wondering…where this man was sleeping when the event happened…the wife close by and go for the mother.
Hmmm…Impressive!

Don’t take me wrong, I do pity this poor man on his losts. Just that I’m trying to think logically to who he should go for.

How is the level of affection and love between the mother, the wife and to the kids?
I might not be qualify to judge on this as I’ve never been married or have kids but what would I/you do in case of this.

I don’t know which one is stronger, the love for your mother or the love for your partner or the love for your own child?
Ofcos if my husband is an arse-hole then I would definitely ignore him and go for my mother or my kids.
But then on the choice of the mother and the kids, I would go for my kids…I guess that’s what all mother/parents would do. Ok lets not talk from a gal point of view. From a girl point of view, no girl would try to save a husband, should be the other way round rite?

Lets try from the guy(your) point of view, who would he go for? Why he couldn’t help the wife who was sleeping next to him and why not kids? They are lighter to carry…why the mother?
Gosh I sounded like I hate my mother. You know what i’m trying to say rite?

My way of looking at it is:
The youngers have lots of future ahead so the youngers should get more survival chance than the 70 year old elder. and what a 70-year-old do much for…say next 10 to 20 years?

Am I right in saying what I said or what would you have done? Hmmm so what’s your opinion on this?
Or do we just blame on the rotten fate?