“Ayam goreng”, the kakak put one piece of fried chicken into a pack of rice wrapped by brown paper with banana leafs.

“Ubi kentang”, she scoops some potatoes and added on top of the rice.

“Telur dada”

She paused for a moment while looking at this guy’s eyes. Then she looked down and smile while taking a piece of malay styled omelette, telur dadar, add on top of the potatoes she added in earlier and  she wrap up the brown paper and put it into a plastic bag.

This reminds me of once a famous politician with his famous phrase,

“Jangan hisap dada” on a anti drug campaign.

I couldn’t agree more.

Five dressed formally ladies walked out of Masjid Jamek LRT station, and across to OCBC Bank building, and squeezed into three umbrellas, just to avoid the hot sun.

I totally understand what is the feeling standing/walking under the hot sun in the middle of busy city in a tropical country in Malaysia.

I totally understand for those who have sensitive skin and couldn’t expose to hot sun because the skin condition would get worse, irritate, itchy, etc…

I totally understand being woman who take care of their skin very much, willing to spend tremendous amount of money on skin care products just to keep their skin silky smooth, glowing healthy looking skin, and try their level best to avoid the brutal sun to destroy their skin.

I totally understand having your make up on your face, a hot and sunny day will ruin your make up. Make up products are expensive, reapply will take time, time equals to money.

I was walking not far behind these five ladies, I counted my steps from the place they deployed their umbrellas until they keep their umbrella away. And the number of steps taken for me to walk is…

18! Yes eighteen steps only! According to research, on average, men walk about 5.6km/h, women walk about 4.8km/h, and 120 paces per minute. 18 steps is merely a 10 seconds walk under the sun! For those who know the location where I’m talking about, it is that short!

Will 10 seconds of sun cause your skin condition worse? Your make up do melt? If so, how about others who are walking under the sun with me at the same day at the same place? If that is the fact, I would have diagnosed with skin disease long time ago due to long journey walking (10 seconds is so long that needed umbrella to walk under the sun, 10 minutes walk is a journey of marathon, climb to Mount Himalaya (staircases), jump across a few the valley of death (over some drains)) and probably will not it to lunch after so much of adventurous and obstacles to overcome.

I guessed their skin are made from cheaply made plastic, once exposed under the sun for 10 seconds, it will melt and the eyes will drop under same level with the nose, the eyebrow will melt and drag it’s skin until lips level and form moustache.

If only one person is doing so, I can totally understand, maybe that person has skin condition that couldn’t expose to hot sun. But five at the same time, all knowing each other, in the same company with the same skin condition? I don’t think so. Talking about one bullet kill two people, tell me one bullet kill five people next time (only bollywood movie could achieve this).