Check out your facts before gossiping

Try to imagine that you are at work one day and your colleague suddenly asks you, "Eh, I heard your wife/girlfriend is pregnant. Is that true?" First of all, you'll probably be shocked where that person heard that news. Then you'll be annoyed why it's anybody's business to know. Then you'll probably be amazed how false rumours can spread like this.

Apparently somebody is telling people I look pregnant and the person he told happened to be my hubby's colleague who asked him whether it's true.

If you want to gossip about something that's a fact, then fine, go ahead if you want. But if you don't know whether it's true, please don't start rumours.

I'm damn annoyed that people expect a woman to get pregnant immediately after she marries. As if it's a woman's sole responsibility to get pregnant. I can understand why the older generation expect that. But coming from people from my generation is just sad.

It's almost like people have nothing better to do than to look for any indication that a newly married woman may be pregnant. And if it's a bit of weight gain, then she just has to pregnant and it's time to gossip. Why? Because she's just got married ma... so must be a baby la.

It's just plain annoying.