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            <title>Am i not good enough? -Update- -Closure-</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/4991232</link>
            <description>&lt;!--SPOILER BEGIN--&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;spoilertop&quot; onClick=&quot;openClose('cf31efba291fa453e232e7d25e0ac701')&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;&amp;raquo; Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... &amp;laquo;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;spoilermain&quot; id=&quot;cf31efba291fa453e232e7d25e0ac701&quot; style=&quot;display:none&quot;&gt;&lt;!--SPOILER END--&gt;Just had a discussion with my long term gf (5 years together), and i am 33, she is 31. Both of us are manager level in financial industry, but my salary is few k slightly higher than her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After so many years, i thought of tying the knot, and with my salary about 5 figures (of coz compared with most people here, my salary is not that high, but based on my expenses and planning, i feel that i can take care of my wife) which is why i discuss about marriage with her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But she has different thoughts, she said she wants to buy another property (she has a house now) before settling down, and want to aim higher in career first. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I said: &amp;quot;After married, we just going to be staying together and I can take care of you and support you and share my life with you, i can do cooking and everything else about the house, nothing about tying you down, you still can buy another property under your name with my assistance, you still can pursue your career (I don&amp;#39;t want to have kid for now)&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She said: &amp;quot;but still that&amp;#39;s my life&amp;#39;s objective and i don&amp;#39;t need your financial support, besides, you said you want to have a stronger financial status first, no?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I said: &amp;quot;that was few years back, and now i am confident that i have a strong financial backing&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She replied: &amp;quot;then, maybe just wait till you have a VERY STRONG financial backing&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We laughed it off, and switch topic. But deep inside me, I am just feeling disappointed. Am I just not fit to be chose to be a husband of someone? &lt;br /&gt;- I have my own house, a B-segment car, controlled financial plan. I may not be filthy rich, but i can live comfortably without much financial concern and plenty of time for my loved ones, and I am doing my house chores and cooking now and not expecting her to do it. &lt;br /&gt;- I always help her whenever she has problem, I am her listener and problem solver. Even her job now was the result of me pulling some strings. &lt;br /&gt;- We never argue to be frank in these 5 years, even though there are times when i am not happy with her, I just keep it to myself.&lt;br /&gt;- I was fat, but now i became toned body because i want to be better for her. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Practically if we get married, she doesn&amp;#39;t need to do a thing and just enjoy life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only thing left which i can&amp;#39;t change is my look (a lower mediocre commoner face, aka face problem)  and my personality (a boring kind which isn&amp;#39;t good at humor or make life interesting, albeit i always try). Maybe that&amp;#39;s why she hesitate? I don&amp;#39;t know...&lt;br /&gt;What else i can do? Should i try to buy a proposal ring few months later and get a &amp;quot;be all, end all&amp;quot; answer? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS: she is staying with her parents and she sticking strongly to her parents and a workaholic.&lt;!--SPOILER DIV--&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--SPOILER DIV--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Update 1-Aug: Just had another talk today after dinner in my car.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--QuoteBegin--&gt;&lt;div class='quotetop'&gt;QUOTE&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='quotemain'&gt;&lt;!--QuoteEBegin--&gt;me: Since we had been in relationship for 5 years+ now, you never thought of staying with me sometimes? Is it something about me that is not good?&lt;br /&gt;She: No no, you are already very good, a lovely bf a girl can have. But i prefer to spend more time with my parents&lt;br /&gt;me: I am not wanting you stay with me all the time, a few days a week, and can still visit your parents, we can always discuss&lt;br /&gt;She: I prefer to spend every moment i can with my parents&lt;br /&gt;me: Then, do you have any plan in mind of our marriage?&lt;br /&gt;She: I know you want to and capable to give me a good life and treat me very well, but i prefer to have personal space and personal achievement to meet, so no, i do not have plan so far.&lt;br /&gt;me: I know, what i am saying is put it in time, i planning for our marriage in 2 years.&lt;br /&gt;She: Sorry, but i do not see that in near future.&lt;br /&gt;me: You know that i do not want any children after married, right?&lt;br /&gt;She: I know&lt;br /&gt;me: I see, since we can&amp;#39;t come to a middle ground on this arrangement, I don&amp;#39;t think it brings any meaning for us to continue. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*She stayed silent and left to her house.&lt;!--QuoteEnd--&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--QuoteEEnd--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In conclusion, didn&amp;#39;t work up, it is not a matter of my financial or physique, i have no regret that i am financial capable and good fit physique that i achieved now, but the thing was that i just lost to the upbringing value of both of us. We see things differently. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe that&amp;#39;s the end of my situation. Yea, i am disappointed, heartbroken, and many other things, but at least in this relationship, i was in my true self instead of being a template of the &amp;quot;ideal man&amp;quot; that people think a man in a relationship should be. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you all for you view/comments. &lt;!--emo&amp;:)--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
            <author>vaan321</author>
            <category>Cupid&amp;#39;s Corner</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2020 20:24:06 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>is it not normal for couple not staying together?</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/4618653</link>
            <description>Some background of me and my gf:&lt;br /&gt;I am 31 and she is 29. Our houses are quite a distance (around 110km one way) to each other and KL situated at the middle of where we stay.&lt;br /&gt;We are working adults, but she has more paper/reports workload than me. Well different field anyway, I am a project manager, she is in HR directly under an ops boss. &lt;br /&gt;Due to her nature of focusing on career, she likes to bring work home and finish it. Which is why sometimes is hard to ask her out. Or sometimes she has family time with her parents and sister.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My gf and i already in a relationship with each other close to 3 years. We never quarrel throughout our relationship. &lt;br /&gt;Maybe I just being a very calm person, which contributes to this. &lt;br /&gt;I only recently announced this relationship to my parents earlier this year and had a dinner together with my gf and my parents. &lt;br /&gt;Though, not much discussion as I asked my parents not to stress my gf for first meetup. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently, my mother asked me that &lt;br /&gt;“are you sure you in a relationship?”&lt;br /&gt;“why you never bring your gf home and stay overnight or something?”&lt;br /&gt;“3 years already, still not staying together?”&lt;br /&gt;“You should bring her home during weekend”&lt;br /&gt;“Why you stay home during Saturday and not dating? Couple supposed to stick together most of the time”&lt;br /&gt;“I don’t think a gf will reject a bf request for date”&lt;br /&gt;Etc, I can’t recall all of it. But her words are hurting me actually.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know that some couples really stick to each other 24/7. But, based on cases I read on cupid corner, some needs some alone time. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My gf and I had been to Melaka, KL, PD, etc for day trip and oversea trips (trip for this year also had planned). Sometimes I not even sure where to go anymore during weekend other than movies &amp;amp; shopping malls. &lt;br /&gt;And my gf is a career focus lady who sometimes feel tired after a week of work and prefer to rest during weekend. I totally understand that, which is why I just let her rest. &lt;br /&gt;And she put more attention to her parents (age around late 60s) and staying together with them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do feel I am being ignored sometimes but then I can’t be selfish right? &lt;br /&gt;I just let her be and maybe sometimes raise the suggestion if she wants to stay with me during weekend or something. But she hesitates most of the time, so I let her be. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The question is whether what my mother said is correct? According to her, a couple should be easy to be with each other and clingy. &lt;br /&gt;If anyone who are in a relationship and have the same situation as me and last till marriage, you are most welcomed to provide your opinion.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
            <author>vaan321</author>
            <category>Cupid&amp;#39;s Corner</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2018 14:31:57 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>after error loading os&amp;#33; pls help&amp;#33; urgent</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1193945</link>
            <description>hi,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;last night when i was reformatting my external harddisk to fat32(now i only knew anything larger than 16gb will causes crash&amp;#33; &lt;!--emo&amp;:cry:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/cry.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='cry.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt; ), my whole system crash&amp;#33;&amp;#33;&amp;#33; and a black screen writing &amp;quot;error loading Operating System&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;then i tried the methods on the net about xp boot cd dos screen(which is the screen after pressing &amp;quot;r&amp;quot; button) but cant fix the booting problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so, i tried reformatting the c drive coz my c drive is now in unknown format( dont know why... ) and the window boot normally...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so now the question is...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my pc last time is dual os which 2 window xp in 2 partition drive, one is in C: and the other is in F:&lt;br /&gt;upon switch on, it will prompt me to choose which os to use...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but now after reformatting the C:, there is only one OS in the system&amp;#33; i cant choose the F: window xp...&lt;br /&gt;but my file(ie: windows, program file...etc remains in F: but cant use...all the programs have error running)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;is there anyway that can reactivate the window xp in F: without deleting my files? thx &lt;!--emo&amp;:peace:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/icon_rolleyes.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='icon_rolleyes.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;urgent, pls help&amp;#33; thx &lt;!--emo&amp;:peace:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/icon_rolleyes.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='icon_rolleyes.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt;</description>
            <author>vaan321</author>
            <category>Technical Support</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:14:14 +0800</pubDate>
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