Today is not a good day. I had tears from my already red and puffy eyes (due to the lack of sleep I had the night before thanks to insomnia) while I went for baju kurung hunting at Geylang. Was annoyed irritated stressed depressed hungry sleepy burnt out cranky moody offended fed up plus 101 other emotions. I tried to suppress these mix emotions that were bubbling up inside me like as if I was about to explode but I was not as strong as you think I am and so those tears finally flushed down my pimply cheeks and I didn’t bother to wipe it off even though I had 100 eyes on me. My headscarf was not properly worn and for the first time I didn’t give a damn. One moment I thought passersby can look at me all they want but then a moment later I felt like punching their faces for being so so jakun, like as if they’ve never seen people with teary eyed before.
I hate Geylang and most of their ugly orbit horrible out of fashion kurungs/kebayas. Even my mom is with me. What is with the flowery patterns and orbit designs? Why is it so hard to find a plain simple and nice one these days? They must be running out of ideas. The one I saw, my love at first sight I should say, costs a pretty penny, like 335 dollars! And the kurung is at BAZAAR! It is not even at boutique! Joke of the year joke year. Add a few bucks to 335 I can buy myself an ipod classic or a decent digital camera. And anyway, 335 is way to expensive (and obviously way beyond my budget too) for a kurung that I will confirm plus chop wear it once and will never wear it again till the next raya. We shouldn’t have stopped tailor made our clothes. We went through a pretty hard time searching for raya clothes last year and we went through it again this year. Hmm, I should have learnt my lesson.
So I managed to find and bought one. It is not one of the nicest and not one of the ugliest, I hope. I haven’t fall for it yet, but I like it though for it’s simplicity and songketness. Songket is like an ‘in’ thing for raya and anything Malay, if you must know.
Thanks for reading I am fine now. You know I was exaggerating. ;)
