of all the topics in the world...

a girl can never have too much yum-chaing, gossiping and retail therapy with friends.
(neither can a girl have too many shoes, Chiann!!)


so, sue me for having fun on a Sunday and for cruising the shops till afternoon!

but hey, a girl just wanna have some fun man!


especially if fun included Sha, Janice, Chiann and Jacq

and Dragon Boat's yumcha session

and no-holds barred gossip session

and retail therapy at Supre and Valleygirl and Ozmosis



it's been ages since i last bought a tee and gossiped about pepper sprays and female genital mutilation --

(how yumcha can bring out this topic is still a mystery to me. but what can i say, when we girls get together, we do talk both frivalous AND serious world-changing afflictions. for further info on FGM or commonly known as female circumcision, check wikipedia or rather read a book for a change. try Waris Dirie's Desert Flower and Desert Children. even though Waris brought this topic to light and has since championed a few reforms, it's still quite rampant in the African regions and you will never believe the hellish experience some of the girls have to go through. imagine removing the clitoris and then sewing up the vagina until only a drop of urine can pass through at one time. and then imagine doing the operation on a rock, with unsterilised equipments, without anaesthesia, by an medically-unexperienced village healer of sorts. and then imagine the post op care including being wrapped up in a coccoon of sorts and left to your own healing devices with only minimum bandages and sustanence. urinating is a pain, having sex is no longer pleasurable. in fact, it is just excruciating. all for the price of supposed benefit of the circumcised girl. total utter nonsense is what i say.)


sometimes, it makes me angry at how some regions of the world are still living in the shadow of illiteracy and indifference and misinterpretion. i'm sure they do not choose to be uneducated (at least i hope they do not) but it's still no excuse for the things they do to their young girls.


yet there are regions in this world that has too much information on their hands. too much info and money to do as they please and to use that knowledge for "the greater good of mankind" is also not an excuse to commit the atrocities that are present in this society.


at times like this, i feel the shallowness and somewhat idiocy of being happy about my red and black cups and the fluorescent pink tee i bought from Supre when due to FGM, girls my age are squatting over flies-infested hole-in-the-floor-makeshift-toilets crying silently in pain with every drop of urine that falls noiselessly to the murky waste below.

it makes me sick.