The Women In Sarawak Are Not So Fortunate

The women in Sarawak are not so fortunate, unlike their counter parts in West Malaysia. The geographic location is mainly to be blamed. Sarawak is separated from West Malaysia and the only means of transportation between Sarawak and West Malaysia is by air. Unfortunately because of the distance and high cost or transportation, the airfare is barely affordable for the majority of women in Sarawak to frequently fly overseas. Partly also by nature of being women, they are unlike the men who have more and better opportunities to study and find jobs abroad. Besides, the parents in Sarawak are still tied to the conservative way of up bringing their children and are more reluctant to send their daughters to study and work abroad. They rather prefer their daughters to live closer to them and eventually marry local men. Therefore, the women in Sarawak are left with fewer man leaving them not many choices. By the time the men finish their studies abroad or decide to come back to Sarawak for good, usually most of them will bring back either their girl friends, fiancées or wives (or kids for some) from outside Sarawak.

As for those men who do not travel abroad, these are usually young men who stay back to take care of their family business, are less adventurous type, and are poorer ones who can’t afford to travel abroad. Somehow, the good and rich ones are usually grabbed by the younger women at their earlier age, and the poorer men are left behind. So these leave the women in Sarawak very little choice in finding their Mr. Right, and on-the-other-hand, this provide the men in Sarawak plenty of choices to pick their partners, and to a certain extent, some are taking full advantage of having more than one partner/girl friend. It is very common to see men and women caught in triangle love affairs and torn between two lovers, and all these usually end in quarrels, fights, broken hearts even to the extend of some taking their lives.

As for the prettier women, obviously there will be more men coming after them, but this doesn’t mean that the men are sincere in wanting them, and most of these men usually have more than one partner, and they constantly require more, perhaps they have stronger appetite for prettier women and always never have enough, and usually these men are rich and come from well-to-do families.

Besides, in Sarawak, there are not many interesting social activities and decent entertainment venues for women to hang out, to socialize, and practically the social life for women is very limited and confined. The only possible places women can hang out are at the pubs and drinking lounges, and usually these places operate at very late hours till dawn. Places like these are mostly frequented by not so decent people, and there is almost a zero chance for a decent woman to find a good decent partner at such night places.

These women who are left with limited choices, and most of them are slowly turning to social blogs such as the Friendster, Facebook, Twitter, Wayn, Flixter, Tubely, Linkedln, Mobilefrend, etc. But the most popular social blogs amongst the women in Sarawak are Facebook and Friendster. Almost every woman who owns a computer or a laptop will certainly have gone into Facebook. Even I myself, is almost obsessed going into Facebook.

To all the not so fortunate women in Sarawak, my deepest sympathy to all of you, no matter what happen, never give up, and I fervently believe that no matter where you are, who you are, and how old you are, there is always someone out there some where in the corner of this world waiting for you and is meant for you. It can either be a man or a woman. Hehehe….

I would like to delicate this song by Mob Marley “Don’t Worry Be Happy” to all the not so fortunate women in Sarawak.