Melody's Kingdom

Let’s be real, as kids, we all would have loved to have birthday parties, RIGHT? Well, that’s subjective, some people might not have liked it for their own reasons and that’s alright. So, this is for rest that loved having birthday parties. I’m going to be honest, I didn’t exactly know the significance of born day and the whole cost of birthday parties until I had my 21st birthday celebration. Back then, I only knew that I get to dress up prettily and get PRESENTS! YES, that’s my favourite part of all 😃 My parents would go ‘ooh aah’ over birthday parties and no biasness, they did the same for all my siblings. Well, maybe until I came along :P Even then, something happened when I was 6 that my parents stopped having birthday parties after that. I used to call it the most embarrassing moment in my life until I realised it is actually a funny story to tell my future kids. There is nothing to be embarrassed about, coming to think of it, these are just moments in life. Not the hap...

I consider myself too young to think about marriage, after all I am only 25 years old. I swear if I didn’t have unmarried older siblings, my parents would have pressured me into marriage when I finished my degree. However, thankfully, that is not the case. I am surrounded by many people who are of age for a marriage. ‘Of age for a marriage’? Heck, whoever decides there’s an age for marriage? Your age, old or young, shouldn’t determine your readiness for marriage. After all, marriage is not a game of Snap or jigsaw puzzle. Maybe it is a game in life. I am beginning to feel like there is a game for every stage in life. That would make it easier to contextualize. So, who decides it is time to tie the knot? In most cases, it is definitely not the individual’s decision. The right age to get married is determined by society and parents. I know quite a few of them who got married due to parents’ expectations and they regret that decision now. These people’s parents are not alive anymore ...