Olaa...

Hello, there… welcome back in this new entry. For the second week for my life here there’s nothing much I want to share with all of you because I still not entered the General English 2 class because of Miss Syahidah absentee. Due to that I have to continue with my reading which is I have told you before.

For this week I have read the first short stories entitled Bugis. Let me review a bit about this story. First thing first I heard my friends mentioned about the title Bugis, I expect that it must be a historical story about a war which involved by Bugis or whatsoever. Later, after me myself had read it I realize that this is not a historical story, but it is about teenage life.

Salmah has never used to wear tudung before, but suddenly had changed her appearance because of her boyfriend Sazalie (who cannot pronounce ‘R’ well. The narrator once have become Salmah best friend ever had turn to be Salmah number one enemy. The narrator hate Salmah so much because of her attitude that the narrator though it was very hypocrite.

Another reason why the narrator does so it is because she also had a feeling towards Sazalie. In addition, the way Salmah behave herself which is she pretends to be so ladies in front of boys rather than the narrator. That is why Sazalie attract more to Salmah.

Why Bugis? I also kept wondering why… Bugis, is a street in Singapore which called Bugis Road late in 1979. At the street there are lots of transsexual just same like nowadays in Malaysia, for example Jalan Haji Taib.

After all, for me Bugis is an interesting story because it has covered all of the lifecycle in this world. Maybe some of us cannot accept this story, but if we take a look by other side it actually has lots of moral values there.

:: As we went out the door, instead of saying, “Have a good time,” mother would say, “Have a poise!” as though it were optional ::