It's Hari Raya Haji today.....
Well Selamat Hari Raya to all my malay friends out there....
Anyway, that's not the main thing i wanna talk about!!!
I'm like super pissed and damn highly insulted today lah! Damn...
Maybe highly insulted is not even the word to use...coz i'm just super duper...like super highly bogusly insulted...
Hmmm...ok, so did that just sounded really incoherient???? Well I dun really care....
Went to the market early this morning with mummy and daddy to buy some stuff and to have a nice breakfast at the hawker center just behind. I simply love the market's hawker center food...it's like the good old days....all cheap and good...
Esp having been in Perth the last year, it's just simply delicious and yummy....
Really love the soya bean milk, you tiao, char kway, mi zhnag kway...or how ever u spell those stuff...
Ok....so then comes the story of the day....
Was sitting at one of the tables waiting for my parents to buy their food...mum went off to buy her favourite noodles. Then this ah pek...ok maybe in his late 60's or ealy 70's came up to my table and asked if he could sit. Bring a public holiday, the market was like super crowded as compared to the norm. Bring the nice gal i am...i gladly acknowledged and nodded my head with a nice smile. Dad then stood up, handed me some money and went off to buy his food too....so yea, just me and the ah pek sitting at the table.
Ok, so i was pretty unglam looking for a start....HELLO....it's the market for crying out loud...was in like shorts, a pretty oversized shirt, had my hair tied up in a pony tail and just wore my glasses....
Then, sitting there happily sipping away on my soya bean milk, waiting for my parent to return so that i could buy my stuff, another old man approached and asked if he could sit, but i told him nicely that the seat was already taken, so yea, he moved off. The ah pek then spoke to me in teochew, just commenting that the market was really crowded today and i agreed....then pointing to the seat that i mentioned the the other uncle earlier on wa taken, he asked me (translated directly from teochew) "oh, who's sitting there? U're child ah?"
I think my eyes nearly popped out at that moment and i just looked at the ah pek, all stunned, it took me quite awhile for watever he said to absorb, after which i shook my head and said no...and continued sipping my drink....then he spoke again..."So, u waiting for ur husband to come back issit? went to buy food? that's nice!" (mind u, he was already seated at our table and saw my dad passing me the money)
Jacinta's Mind: (takes a split second for the info to process...stunned again, eyes open even wider...looking at the ah pek) Do i really look that old to the extent that this ah pek sitting here at the same table would even think it possible that my 50 year old father would be my husband!!!! For crying out loud....he's 50!!! He's my dad...my daddy, father, PAPA, fu qin.....goodness, was that ah pek blind or what! Is he living in another era? No more matchmaking leh....goodness....i'm gonna puke!
(jacinta to the ah pek in teochew): " eh uncle, i'm only 20 years old, that's not my husband, he's my dad, and the other person sitting here is not my child, she's my mum! (ok, dun worry i didn't raise my voice although i think i did sound kinda scarcasrtic! hehee)
Ah pek: (looking a little loss, but emotionless): "Oh...."
Jacinta's mind : (is that all u can say...oh??? Hello uncle, u just insulted me leh....do i really look like 30 or something that i can be mistaken as my dad's wife...surely i can't be that old...or am i? get mistaken as my mum's sister not so bad....kao, WIFE....!!!!! *pengz* *wacks head against a brick wall*)
(so mum and dad returns to the table and sits)
Ah pek: ( looking at my dad and pointing to me): " oh u're daughter ah? (dad nods in approval) but u look really young leh!"
(dad grins from ear to ear and gives out a laugh, while i look at him out of the corner of my eye feelin highly insulted)
After breakfast, while walking home, told the entire incident to my parents and all they could do was laugh away....kao! Never even sayang me! And my dad can still say to me "isn't it good, he's saying i'm young...good what! At least i dun look 50! But,...haha, he's saying u're old!"
jacinta: "DADDY!!!!!"