Sunday, January 11, 2009

Amazing shanghai "love" story

I heard this from a make up artist that I worked with.

All names are changed to fictional names.
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Amy is a shanghainese gal studying in Japan. Her aim in life is to marry a rich husband since her days in the university.

Amy had a boyfriend called John. John is an american born chinese(aka ABC). While amy is still doing her university in japan, she broke up with john. just 2-3 days before their brokeup, they had sex. and just after a few days, she met Peter (another ABC). and just after 3 days, they are together as a couple and start having sex.

1 month later, the doc said amy was pregnant.

Amy told both John and Peter about her pregnancy. at this moment, amy has no idea who is the real father of her child. Both John and Peter do no know the existance of each others. thus, both of them thought they fathered amy's child.

Both of them suggested amy to abort the baby, as they never thought of marriage yet. But amy insisted to keep the child (indirectly implying to the guys to be responsible)

John's reasoning is they are already broke up, so even if amy insist, he should not be so obliged to marry amy. but on the other hand, he felt guilty to make amy an single parent even before she finish her university.

Peter's reasoning is since they are still together, and amy wants to keep the baby. no matter how reluctant he was, he HAVE TO marry her. whats more, Peter's parants think the baby is a continuation to their family line. So peter decide to marry amy.

Now what amy had been waiting for came through. for its common knowledge that most ABC come from a well to do family, so is Peter. Amy requested the following

1) She must go to San franscisco to give birth, so that her child will have american citizenship.

2) She should go to san francisco now so that she can start to take good care of herself as the baby grows in her tummy. she requested to stay in "hotels" especially made for pregnant ladies. that means the "hotels" plan the pregnant ladies' diet, exercise, check ups etc etc

3) Peter's family is suppose to pay for all these.

Of course, despite knowing these request are largely amy's own desire to enjoy like a queen during his pregnancy days, Peter's parents also know its good for the baby too (professional caretaking for the baby and american citizenship).

Peter's family agreed to the requests.

Amy gave birth to a boy, which to many chinese families, is a blessing over a baby gal.

Amy informed john about her safe delivery of the baby. This make John even more guilty (John still do not know about Peter). John offered to give amy some monthly allowance to help her tide thru this difficult period of a new born and a jobless mum.

On the other hand, Amy requested to go back to shanghai with her baby to stay. reasons being amy's mum have not seen amy for more than 8 months, and amy's mum could help her take care of her baby. amy also claimed that America is too foreign a culture to get used to, and since her baby already has american citizenship, her baby can leave the country now.

Peter's family thought its only human for a daughter to want to see her mum after 8 months of seperation, and its reasonable for amy's mum to want to see the baby too, so they agreed.

Amy request the purchase of a condo in downtown shanghai and an european car to settle down in shanghai. reason being her house in shanghai is not big enough to take care of a baby, and a car would also be convenient for them to go around as she is still weak after giving birth.

Peter agreed to all these.

In the mean time, amy is also receiving the monthly allowance from John, which by shanghai standard, is half as good as an expat package.

Please also take note that up to this point, amy and peter had not yet go through any legal procedure as a married couple.

I am still waiting for any updates to this story, this is what i have witnessed so far.