feel like hanyut-ing to this today. hehh. :p
i was youtubing when i came across a weird video about tudung saji and how it was intended to relate to tudung that muslim girls wear. i remember a personal encounter.
a few mths back, i was hanging out with my friends and you know how your friends will bring their new partners to do some show and tell…bla blabla. so anyways, i ended up sitting next to this girl, my friend’s new squeeze. she was very pretty, clad in levi’s tube top and $112 mango jeans (she told everyone) and a proud owner of a Coach bag and purse. we were talking in a big group when everyone suddenly ran out of topic to talk. so pretty girl decided to put me on the hot seat.
pretty girl: hey nurul, do you feel awkward that you’re the only one here wearing that cloth *made selendang around the head actions* on your head.
(pretty girl is a malay btw)
me: TUDUNG you mean? hahha no. why?
pretty girl: you dont feel awkward AT ALL?
me: hahaha. no. its normal to me.
pretty girl: but YOU are the ONLY ONE dressed like this.
me: errr yeah, im used to this. [hello?? i can ask the same to you]
pretty girl: like you dont feel like everyone is like.. ermm, not religious, then you are.. you know..
me: no lah, what you are on the outside doesnt always show you in the inside. *looked at the other friends*
pretty girl: you sure dont feel awkward? i will feel awkward if im with covered girls. like i feel im different.
me: why?
pretty girl: like i want to have fun *made positive face* and they just want to be religious *made blasphemous facial expressions*
me: hahha. you mean “covered”? *made the purdah gesture*
pretty girl: hahha no lah. that one i run away already!
me: errr..hhurr.
she went on and on about how makciks at the train stare at her. and guys from the mosque after prayers looked at her with menacing eyes. BLA..BLA..BLA..by then, the whole group was getting bored of her persistence to make me admit something i dont feel.
pretty girl: so you dont feel like you are out of place. i would if i wear something ppl dont *sounded rather offensive*
me: hahha. i would, if im only wearing cawat right now. hahah.
other friends: *laughed*
pretty girl: whats that? ca.. what?
me: haha nvm.
pretty girl: is that some…err..tudung joke?
me: [BONUSSS!] hahhaa nvm nvm.
gosh.
but this is not my first time dealing with this kind of girls. i’ve met more. like they are SO proud that they are not wearing tudung, like as if they are flaunting their ‘freedom’ or ‘modern-ness’. and they just have to make you feel uncomfortable by saying things which appear innocent but at the same time, disrespectful.
honestly, i dont give a toot if you wanna wear tudung or not la. or if you want to wear sassysassy.. as long as its nice to seee. heeee. hahha.
sometimes i feel like these non-hijabed muslim girls are paranoid and they think that all hijab girls are judging them. they think we are always staring at them for not being ‘religious’. RELEKK SUAAA. we have better things to do, like making sure our ‘bumbung’ is upright. haha.
i didnt even feel like that before i don the hijab. neither did many of my hijab-ed gfs. so i concluded that these girls are paranoid and…too self-conscious or maybe cos of their guilty conscience or maybe jealous that they havent got enough confidence to don the hijab.