Walking Home

Teruntukmu hatiku,
Inginku bersuara,
Merangkai semua tanya,
Imagi yang terlintas...

- Tentang Seseorang "A2DC"-


Today i took a different route home than the usual one i go on. I usually walk to KLCC and hop on the LRT there..instead, today, i decided to challenge myself (fuhh, challenge nyerr..) and walk down the Jln Raja Chulan to the Masjid Jamek LRT Station...part of the reason is to see how long it would take, part of it is not wanting to be stuck on a bus to the same destination (while hanging on for your dear life and smelling someone's sweaty armpits..hey, when ur short, u take it as it comes..) and wasting my time when i could go home and study for my exams next week (yeah, right...what am i doing online now updating my blog? hehehe, guilty as charged..ok, ok, i promise, after this..it's straight to the matresses..err, i mean, books)...where was i? oh yeah, and another reason for my walking through kl through horrendous traffic, stifling smog, uneven pavements (grr,grr...), suicidal motorists is that i wanted to save on the bus fare...i can hear my officemate, Leen, laughing hysterically here...ok, fine...i knowlaa its 70 sen...but hey, sikit-sikit, lama-lama jadi bukit...hahaha, this month i'm a self-confessed cheapskate and Hjh Bakhil ( Welcome to the Cheapskate Anonymous...err, yeah, my name is Dalie and i'm a cheapskate...)..altho' my case would would be, sikit-sikit lama-lama jadi lombong...

anyways, as i was walking , taking in the scenery as i go along..when something caught my eye...now there's this tiny church on the other side of the road...what got my attention was that there was this small wedding procession coming out of the church...there was a bride in a white dress, minus the veil but with a bouquet of roses...a groom in a white suit..they were taking photographs outside the church while the traffic witnessed the whole thing...hmm..i thought that was really a sweet bit of my journey...what surprised me was the fact that the wedding was held on a weekday afternoon..a Thursday, to be precise...in our society nowadays, wedding is not merely an occasion intertwining two souls legally and emotionally, but also reason enough to throw a bash...i think only a handful of malaysian can boast of their own private wedding reception held on an inconspicous day of the week, minus the large crowd and the big hoo-ha, just attended by their very, very closed and dear ones...reminded me of the movie "Runaway Bride"....where Julia Roberts's character wanted to get married on a workday...*sigh* Richard Gere..drool,drool....

i am not against a big wedding..heck, i'm actually all for it....i love the pandemonium and the chaos, the merriness, the grandeur, the crowd, the whole package...altho' in Islam, it is only required of us to hold a reception merely to announce the marriage,hence, a small one would do, as long as the public is aware that the couple are married...i guess i admire the fact that it went against the convention...

i'm not one for convention, altho' , as i discovered, growing up, i find the need to be accepted..therefore i revert to convention..i go with the mainstream just to fit in the crowd, to be one of the gang...somewhere along the way, i find that i have lost part of myself that doesn't care about what other people think...and now, when i desperately need that part of myself to distingush me in a crowd, it has gone into hiding and at the moment, much amount of coaxing would actually encourage it to show its face...hmm...oh, well...recuperating, reconstructing and regenerating..i shall come back with a vengeance!! muahahahahahah...