Vogue-U Potion - "Hey, that's mine!!!!"

In the name of Allah, the Almighty, most Gracious and most Merciful…..

Dear Vogue-u-ers…..,

When I was in my 20s, I loved to go shopping with my sister. She’s the only sister I have besides my other 2 brothers. In fact all of us were quite attached and loved to hang out together, may it be “lepaking” at the East Coast beach, fishing, camping, cycling or even playing board games during weekends. In fact, all our cousins too were quite attached and we always hang out together during weekends and took turns to sleep over as well during school holidays.

Well, actually I wanted to talk about shopping and a very memorable incident happened many years back which is still fresh in my mind till today. So sit tight, let me go “Back To The Future”………

One night in the year of 1985 or so, I asked my sis to accompany me to our neighbourhood shops to look for shoes. We went to a few shops and tried some of the new patterns in the market. There were a few rows of shoe shops along the block. So we took our own sweet time to recce the “dream shoe”. We entered one shop and saw an old Chinese lady sitting in one corner and smiling away at us and nodding her head as if inviting us into the shop. The shop-owner was busy with a young Chinese lady, who my guessed would be a customer.

Both, my sis and me went through the shelves of shoes from one end to the other end. I could hear the old lady telling the shop-owner something. When I turned my head, I saw the shop-owner gestured to me to hold on for a while as he’s busy with the other customer. I understood his gestures and nodded my head. Since it was a neighbourhood shop, I guessed they did not hire extra hands to attend to customers, considering there wouldn’t be many customers coming to the shop at one particular time right…

While going through the shelves, I noticed 1 shoe was missing from the display and remarked to my sis, “Hey, one shoe missing, where could it be?”. Then our eyes suddenly looked down and saw 1 white court shoe laying on the floor. I remarked again, “Who is the culprit after trying never bothered to put back!!!” So I bent down to pick up the shoe. When I wanted to put the shoe back on the shelves, I was kind of attracted to it and told my sis that I liked the shoe. I looked at the size and voila it’s my size. Since the owner was still busy with the other customer, I put on the shoe and walked with a slight limp round the shop (obviously as I was only wearing on 1 side of my leg). My sis agreed that the shoe pattern was unique…… when suddenly I saw the other customer stood at the corner of the shelves and was staring at us. I smiled at her and asked her opinion, “Nice????” She gazed at me a while and said, “Hey, that’s mine. That's my shoe!!!!”

Both my sis and me looked at each other with our mouths wide opened as big as a cave……huhuhu. I quickly took off the shoe and gasped, “Oooopss, I’m sorry I didn’t know, it looks so new and eeeerrrrrrrr, I thought it was one of the shop’s shoe”. The lady did not utter a word but snatched her shoe back with the unhappy look on her face. The shop-owner just smiled at us.

Out of embarrassment, I signaled to my sis to quickly get out of the shop!!!!! We gave a loud laugh, and I guessed the whole block could hear our laughter!!!! wakakakakakakaka. However before I exit, I glimpsed at her leg to check where could the other shoe be….. My guess was right, it was on her other leg…….. However I couldn’t remember whether did I buy any shoes that night????? Hmmmmm????

So lesson learnt here, never ever try anything that’s laying around untouched, unless it is on display or better still ask the Sales person to assist you…… We agreed we were foolish that time. However it was quite comical though……hahahahahahaha. Recalling the incident really made me giggled sometimes….

So Vogue-ers…., whatever the situation you may be in, remember to stay Vogue n Cool always.........

May Allah Bless Us…… Amin

Mak Pah's beloved boots bought a few yrs back
(I've had 3 pairs of boots so far, but this one is still in my shoe rack)

PS: Ema – if you read this…. Just to let u know… I love you dear……muacks

Vogue-U Potion - 2, 4 or 6???

May Peace Be With You……

Dear Vogue-u-ers, happy Tuesday morning.

Haha, Mak Pah is back to “blabber” again today. There is 1 scenario which really made me laughed and yet pissed off a bit too…. huhu…. Without further ado let me begin…… jeng jeng jeng.

Many weeks before, Mak Pah accompanied my hubby to revise his papers for his exams in a 24-hr KFC restaurant in JB. Well it’s a payback sort kind of thing….. (he used to accompany Mak Pah to revise my papers for exam as well many many years back in Changi Airport).

Obviously being in a 24-hr restaurant, you tend to see traffic of people coming for suppers on and off after midnight. Then at around 1 or 2 am, I started yawning due to boredom…..huhu. I asked hubby how long more and he claimed maybe another 1 hr or so…… OMG, then started blabbering to myself…. “We should have checked-in a hotel, so at least you continued your revision and I could solely be in dreamland…muahahahahaha”. My hubby remarked, “If you want to sleep, nah take the car key and sleep in the car”. I dared not sleep alone in the car even if he could still monitor me while doing the revision in the restaurant. So I just sat there and continued to play the hp games and surfed the internet.

Then I began to feel bored again!!!!! And in order to kill my boredom, I began scrutinizing the restaurant and analyzed the deco and other customers. There was a group of 4 guys in one corner busy eating. At the counter, there were 2 groups, an Indian couple and behind them a group of 3 Chinese ladies. As I was “admiring” the deco in the restaurant, then I noticed 1 of the Chinese ladies, went round the restaurant to look for a cosy corner for them to tuck in, while the other 2 ladies still at the counter ordering the food. Suddenly I noticed something very funny about the lady going round the so called “almost empty restaurant” and then stopped at a 2-seater table. She stood there a while and was contemplating on which table to sit. She went to another 2-seater table and took a chair and put it together with the 2-seater she finally chose. I was wondering, there were 3 of them and there were 4-seater tables and 6-seater tables available, and what the heck was she choosing the cramp 2-seater table to share with her other 2 friends???

True enough my hunch was correct, when her other 2 friends came and told her it’s cramp!!!! She stood up without putting back the chair she took from the other table and followed her friends to a 4-seater table adjacent to my table. And then the funny part was, it seemed she didn’t like the table and suggested to her friends to move to a 6-seater table instead. At this point of time I was about to laugh out loud, but refrained myself, when I saw her standing up looking for the chilly sauce bottle. She took a bottle and shook it like nobody’s business until the bottle cover popped up and fell to the floor and making the sound “pip pap pip pip pap pap pap” and rolled under their table. She didn’t bother to pick up the cover and just sat and poured the sauce over her plate. One of her friend knelt down under the table to pick up the cover instead. I couldn’t stand her attitude, knocked my forehead and blabbered “OMG, what a foolish and selfish person this is!!!!!”.

My hubby who was so engrossed at his revision looked up and asked “What is it now???? What do you want????”. Obviously I did not want to disturb his concentration and just told him nothing was wrong and that I was just blabbering to myself.

So to conclude my point here is that, sometimes we didn’t realize that our action and attitude in public can forecast what type of a person we reflect….. Yes, I agreed that it is not wrong being yourself, however there are certain etiquettes which we need to be aware of. We need to respect others and remember this world is shared by many others as well. There is no point being self-centered and rude. Life is so short and should be cherished till the end.

So luv yourself and respect others…… n stay vogue all the time…