Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Abang ni pelakon ke?

Making your way in the world today
Takes everything you've got;
Taking a break from all your worries
Sure would help a lot.
Wouldn't you like to get away?

All those night when you've got no lights,
The check is in the mail;
And your little angel
Hung the cat up by it's tail;
And your third fiance didn't show;

Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name,
And they're always glad you came;
You want to be where you can see,
Our troubles are all the same;
You want to be where everybody knows your name.

Roll out of bed, Mr. Coffee's dead;
The morning's looking bright;
And your shrink ran off to Europe,
And didn't even write;
And your husband wants to be a girl;

Be glad there's one place in the world
Where everybody knows your name,
And they're always glad you came;
You want to go where people know,
People are all the same;
You want to go where everybody knows your name.

It's the lyrics of the intro of the once famous sitcom in the 80's, Cheers. The only thing that I don't get is line 21 "And your husband wants to be a girl' ? What does that even suppose to mean?

And yes, sometimes it's a good thing to go a place where everybody knows you and that they're always glad you came. Like tonight for example. It has been three weeks since I last went to this stall run by a group of young ladies in my neighbourhood. The moment they saw me they went 'Haaa bang! Outstation ke?' or like 'Biah! Abang tu dah datang!' (at this moment, I just realise that this story can be misleading). It's a burger stall okay! Not whatever stall that you pervert might have in mind. But there was one question from them that I couldn't quite see where they're coming from 'Abang lama takde ni pergi berlakon ke?'. Apa sembang?

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Yes, Dalida said it. Cet amour me tue, si ça continue. So you better go away.



3 comments:

Fuzzy A! said...

Kimi hot stuff siot... I don't know about you but it ruffles my feathers pretty badly when some stranger calls me abang.

One time, [at band camp] a hyperactive kid of 4 was running around and hit me at the back of my legs. His mother promptly said, "Cakap sorry kat uncle tuh!"

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LeLa BeSt said...

abg pegi mane bang lame xnmpk? abg ade amik job blakon kt mane2 ke bang? x btau i pun...

Fuzzy A! said...

Oh and the husband wanting to be a girl is just a part of the general fucked-upness that is the subject's life to emphasize the need to go to a place where everybody knows your name and drown your sorrows.