Darkschunt 
Sunday, January 09, 2005
This week i found myself talking to various friends about ah bengs and ah lians and I realized.... contrary to what they think and contrary to what they think i think... I don't hate ah bengs and ah lians! (Okay, I make fun of them a lot but I also make fun of grandmas, orphans and just about everyone else) I mean, I can think of a lot of reasons why I like having them around (this is mainly about the way they dressed, not their personalities)! Are you ready for the list?
1) You've got to give them credit for their guts to dress the way they dress.
2) has anyone noticed how retro they can be? just look at the way the ah bengs dress in their bellbottom pants and open necked shirts - they dress just the way my father and uncles used to dress when they were our age!
3) at least they're different. i mean, some of the people i see on the streets are so boring. plain t-shirts, plain jeans, blahblahblah, and some people who wear PAJAMAS on the STREET!!! and has anyone noticed the TON of people who simply make NO effort whatosever over their appearance? i mean, okay, so looks isn't everything and some people can really pull off that casual n simple thing but let's be honest, some can't, and that kind of ugliness is really not necessary. a touch of lip gloss or some conditioner can really make a difference. at least the ah bengs and ah lians make an effort, even though it's usually...sometimes...the wrong kind of effort. and they provide variety. and clothes and make up are there to have fun with, right? RIGHT? (which also brings me to the point of why i like to make fun of them, because honestly, these people are just setting themselves up to be mocked. But don't get me wrong! I'm not saying that's a bad thing!)
what number am i at now? 4) a lot of ah bengs and ah lians can be found around kl, in particular around sungai wang, and we all know that's where tourists can be found as well so we end up with the ah bengs and ah lians providing all kinds of picturesque entertainment for tourists to snap, then they go home and show their pictures to their friends and go, "look, malaysia is just like japan! sungai wang is crawling with these kids with their 'unique' fashion sense! They're just like harajuku and shibuya teens in japan without the goth make up! exceot that these kids take their cue from Taiwanese, Hong Kong, and Korean fashion as well so they're, er, like their tourism ads suggest, really a melting pot of Asia! Wow!" so in conclusion, ah bengs and ah lians provide some tourism entertainment for our country as well!
Anyway, i could go on and on but i'm losing interest quickly in this subject and my refrigerator is calling my name. Just let me add (and this bit is about their personalities, not their clothes) that despite the fact that ah bengs have really noisy souped-up cars that they can't stop showing off by gunning the engines while driving really slowly down the street and which can seem more than a tad lame and *most* ah lians tend to have really annoying high-pitched rough voices that sound like they're constantly nagging at you, *most* of them (well, I don't know THAT many, so i'm just going based on what i know) seem to be pretty nice n friendly people and they're not judgmental at all.
All right, that's the end of this post and we'll diss/support someone else next time! Ciao!
1) You've got to give them credit for their guts to dress the way they dress.
2) has anyone noticed how retro they can be? just look at the way the ah bengs dress in their bellbottom pants and open necked shirts - they dress just the way my father and uncles used to dress when they were our age!
3) at least they're different. i mean, some of the people i see on the streets are so boring. plain t-shirts, plain jeans, blahblahblah, and some people who wear PAJAMAS on the STREET!!! and has anyone noticed the TON of people who simply make NO effort whatosever over their appearance? i mean, okay, so looks isn't everything and some people can really pull off that casual n simple thing but let's be honest, some can't, and that kind of ugliness is really not necessary. a touch of lip gloss or some conditioner can really make a difference. at least the ah bengs and ah lians make an effort, even though it's usually...sometimes...the wrong kind of effort. and they provide variety. and clothes and make up are there to have fun with, right? RIGHT? (which also brings me to the point of why i like to make fun of them, because honestly, these people are just setting themselves up to be mocked. But don't get me wrong! I'm not saying that's a bad thing!)
what number am i at now? 4) a lot of ah bengs and ah lians can be found around kl, in particular around sungai wang, and we all know that's where tourists can be found as well so we end up with the ah bengs and ah lians providing all kinds of picturesque entertainment for tourists to snap, then they go home and show their pictures to their friends and go, "look, malaysia is just like japan! sungai wang is crawling with these kids with their 'unique' fashion sense! They're just like harajuku and shibuya teens in japan without the goth make up! exceot that these kids take their cue from Taiwanese, Hong Kong, and Korean fashion as well so they're, er, like their tourism ads suggest, really a melting pot of Asia! Wow!" so in conclusion, ah bengs and ah lians provide some tourism entertainment for our country as well!
Anyway, i could go on and on but i'm losing interest quickly in this subject and my refrigerator is calling my name. Just let me add (and this bit is about their personalities, not their clothes) that despite the fact that ah bengs have really noisy souped-up cars that they can't stop showing off by gunning the engines while driving really slowly down the street and which can seem more than a tad lame and *most* ah lians tend to have really annoying high-pitched rough voices that sound like they're constantly nagging at you, *most* of them (well, I don't know THAT many, so i'm just going based on what i know) seem to be pretty nice n friendly people and they're not judgmental at all.
All right, that's the end of this post and we'll diss/support someone else next time! Ciao!
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