twinkle twinkle little star

I was running from the train to bus station last Friday to get home from my office and relieve that the queue wasn't long as I expected. I was looking at the sea of busses searching for my supposed-bus when out of nowhere a girl with ‘Tudung Labuh’ approach the line and queuing up behind me. I wasn’t looking directly at her but she seems to purposely looking at me upside down and smile. She did that twice and I feel kinda weird but I smile back to her nonetheless.

My bintang

Out of habit I pull out my CLEO magazine and start reading page to page. While reading, I can feel someone’s head behind my back as if looking what I was reading. But I kept reading. And suddenly I feel someone nudge me. I look behind me, surprised. The girl smile and said ‘Dik, tak elok baca bintang’. I was confused for 5 second. ‘Bintang’? What does she mean by reading a ‘star’? And she nodded to the magazine in my hand. Oh! I was in horoscope page!! And she added ‘Akak just nak bagi tau tu je’. What!? You interrupted me just to say such nonsense?

I was like, who the hell is she to out of nowhere pisses off with someone’s habit of reading? It’s not like I read a Playboy magazine (not that it’s allowed here, yay!!). Is she someone I know and been friend with for years that she ought to know konon-kononnya I’m a person that read my horoscope every month, even believe it and depend my whole life on it? Who the hell she thinks she is?!!! Ustazah? What does an Ustazah doing at this bus station when it’s almost maghrib?! The problem with this girl is, she thinks she’s better by comparing her dressing with me. Sorry for any ustazah out there who happen to read this. (hey, one of my best friend is Ustazah too). If she caught me doing some ‘illegal businesses’ then I will not gnashing my teeth, but come on... I was reading a magazine's Horoscope section while waiting for the bus! How immoral is that?

But the real problem is, I was reading every horoscope on that page and she was there all the time, bends over her head behind me to see what I was reading. I was even on the Q&A Sex section and the page with Ms. Spears wearing a ‘barely there’ outfit. Why doesn’t she told me that one is ‘tak elok’? It was like she was waiting for me to make some ‘mistake’ so she can lashes out her urmm… knowledge? What if I read ‘Mastika’? Or many other ‘Majalah Picisan’ out there, will she tell me that one is not ok? I really had no problem with people who wants to show the world how knowledgeable they are, but those who thinks they’re better than others just by looking at others’ appearances really pisses me off. Don't judge the book by its cover, moron. Unless the book has no cover at all. (eh! whats this? haha)

Happy rabbit

P/s: I replied that girl, ‘Kak, ini bukan bintang la.. ini magazine.. dalam bahasa melayu kita panggil Majalah. Mana ada orang baca bintang.. tengok bintang or kira bintang adalah’ She and the guy in front of me was speechless with my obvious dumbness. Give me a dumb question and you’ll get the dumpiest answer from me.