Posers

God how I missed this.
They drink beer, I drink wine.

We pose.
We giggle, laugh, scold.
We (some of us) speak like chinese gangsters
while sitting lady-like straight backed

I waggle my finger and tell them
"Smoking kills!"

We go to the bathroom together
1,2,3,4,5, and more at the same time

Girls.

We bitch at other people's outfits
forgetting that we aren't dressed quite so
'normal' Penangy ourselves
We spot and save each other from people
we want to avoid.

We hug, we cry.
We say "You traitor, how can you get married?"

Call each other names, tease
laugh with and at each other
We say "Yam-ah, yam-ah, yam-ah!"
We tell each other
"Thank you, I love you."

And I really don't know if its just
us
Or is it like this with all girls?

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12 midnight and I eye the bride, say to Ana

"I think if we buy the bride one more shot,

we kautim, all can go home."

I go outside to escape the smoke

(and also a very angry bride-morphed-into-dragoness
someone has spilled beer over her)

10 days to 23 and I now have so much less patience
for this environment

(the smoke, not the dragoness)

I wander through the hawker stores

aware that my 'tights n boots' aren't exactly normal

but does it warrant this much staring?

Seriously man, these men have no tact

LOML is being grouchy as fuck

practically growling in my ear

not happy with my wandering

I order a double beef special Ramly

A beggar asks for money

I tell him, no cash but a burger if he wants

he says ok and stands next to me to wait patiently for 15 minutes.

Then May comes out and wants to know

why she can't have his burger!

I said babe, "It's the beggar's one wor!"

She said, "Babe, I'm hungry wor!"

Daddy asked me the other day

he said, "Who is this 'babe' you keep referring to?"

"Daddy, they're all 'babes'!"