Being Pretentious
A night out with Beng is like a night out on one of those “Back to the Future” machines and everytime without fail, we go back to the same place.. Our childhood… But don’t get me wrong, Beng and I never met each other when we were kids… But when we get together, we sure do act like some...To a lot of people, our chemistry together is really rather weird. When you separate us, we are our own selves, and we act and behave like nobody but ourselves. But the moment you put us together, it’s as if some kind of magnetic field suddenly Clicked! and Zaaaped! We change into completely different people.
Over dinner, we pretend to be super models, talking about how fashionable it is to nibble on celery sticks and start wondering how come restaurants don’t serve potato juice and how other people are so fat compared to us. While walking, we pretend to scheme about getting married and running away with his dad’s money (although Beng’s gay and I’m married). When we pick up the phone, without fail, everytime we start with chivalry of not having met up for a looong time although we just hung up from each other 5 minutes ago. Sometimes we speak to each other in a French accent, and when Narrrling’s not around, we even attempt the Dutch accent. And sometimes when we’re completely in the mood, we simply skip the accent part and speak the language itself. In public, one will pretend to be speaking loudly in fluent French (which is ofcourse a whole lot of gibberish that sounds exactly like French) and the other will pretend to listen very attentively and say, “Ofcourse!” or “Oh, that’s great!” or “I beg to differ!”… and mind you, we can go on having a pretense conversation for a VERY long time…
Sometimes we pretend to be rich and dumb, sometimes we pretend to be gorgeous and dumb, sometimes rich and gorgeous, and sometimes,…just plain dumb.. I guess the key word here is, “pretend”… And when we are together, the sky’s the limit.
Last night at Ikano Power Center’s Pet Safari, Beng was the Fish Breeding Specialist and I was the dumb bimbo apprentice, walking over and over the aquariums (in our world Beng owns this ‘lab’). Beng would say something really convincing about the fishes’ natural habitat and behaviour explaining why this fish is doing this and that coral is doing that while I asked some really stupid questions as we went along. When we’re in one of those pretense modes, the entire world around us is switched off while we try to outdo each other with more and more suprising and original come back lines. The only times we jump out of our pretense world is when we simply had to stop and LAUGH! And immediately after that, we would immediately switch back into our world of Educational Fish Science or Hollywood Celebrity World or Kampung Life or C’est La Vie or Romeo and Juliet, depending on the theme of the day….
Last night, after one whole night of Educational Fish Science, I went home and thought to myself, Goodness, life can be so fun AND funny sometimes, why do we ever want to live life seriously? This one’s for you, Beng. (Beng is ofcourse not his real name but his name from ‘Kampung Life’. Mine is ‘Lin Fa’).
posted by Miki-C @ 3:53 PM
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