Wednesday, May 25, 2011

A Typical Modern Penang Grandmother

Some Penang grannies are a beautiful bunch if you view them from the back.They look sexy as a hot bod  lithe young nubile twenty year old nymph dressed to tease in a tight mini and tee,with shiny skin and lovely long hair to boot.
That is until she turns around and the toll of all those years of cruel dieting and ruthless exercising shows.
Some say these grannies seem to have forgotten their age,and pudding face which exposes the lies Estee,Olay and Shiseido cooked up.
Those who do realise that their mien looks like a cellulite ridden @$$ and have the $$$$$ for some invasive procedures end up looking suspiciously like an old washed up trannie from a Pattaya cabaret or a chinese/malay version of Joan Rivers face.
Heck,shopping centres from the island to butterworth and Ipoh even have the guts to award these 'fixed up' Ah Poh's,The Most Beautiful Mom titles with newspaper write ups to boast about.
These cut,stitched or injected neneks might make those of their age group jealous about their 'youthful'looks yet when they walk into any hawker centre or foodcourt the hush that greets them is not due to admiration but because each table has no tam pui like in the old days for us to puke.Indigestion due to internal shock is the order of the day.
Just when you think you have seen it all,few years ago I had to do a double take and nearly keeled over when I spotted in a petrol station an uncut,unstitched and uninjected old money Ah Mah in her 80s (I kid you not!)bending over to fill up her ride while flaunting her knobbly knees,thighs(groan...she exposed everything everyone didn't want to see till just below her buttocks) in all her shortest miniskirted glory.
Next time god,just spare me the sleazy old maid and zap my innards out onto the tarmac for me will ya ?


While this Disturbing phenomenon has been going on for years here,apparently there are pockets of these ladies too in Kayel (Cheras in particular) similar to what we have today in Penang.
So the picture below is just an example of how not to dress gracefully when one ages.
I have included it here so that you may plaster paper cut outs of Barbie's miniskirt and a very trendy top on top of it and alakazam...you get a vision of the typical modern Penang grandmother(uncut,unstitched,uninjected version) that makes the young ones scream.
After they cut,stitch and inject we still wanna scream.
Cos both versions look like Frankenstein's sister.
You can't turn broth back into rice.

Photo taken from the Malay Mail's "Too Sexy For My Shirt"(google that and check out all the reader comments at the bottom of the page)