Paula's Blahs.
A month back I remember reading a few bloggers bitchings about the idea of having Paula Malai Ali to represent Malaysian women in their 30's for 'Around the World with Oprah' tv show. It's was all about, why a Bruneian, why not Asha Gill, why not a Malay, yada, yaadaa!
Then in the newspaper, someone told us to chill and wrote (now we know it's a lie) that she is actually representing the South East Asian women in their 30's.
Here's what Paula said:
As a 30-year-old woman in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Paula pays about $250 U.S. dollars to rent her three-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment. "I've also got a beautiful swimming pool. We've got tennis courts here. An average 30-year-old woman in Malaysia will earn something like $1,500–2,000 U.S. dollars a month. So, as you can see, every month we have plenty of change left over to buy that pair of must-have Jimmy Choos…did you know that Jimmy Choo is actually from Malaysia?"
Bi-weekly massages are a way of life for Paula. A one-hour massage here will cost her between $7–10 U.S. dollars. And Paula says many Malaysian women don't pluck or wax to remove hair—they use a procedure known as threading. "I don't know how [the threaders] do it. They get really precise. It's painless and it only costs five ringgit. That would be about $1.15 in America."
Clad in sarong up the chest, she made her appearance in a lavish spa, where she continued explaining the above. I am just wondering where she got the script from. Correct me if I'm wrong, we can only find Jimmy Choo's shoes in KLCC and they don't have enough to supply even 50 customers in a month, let alone allow those in 30's to all own it?! Jimmy Choo's is more expensive than the foreign Stuart Weltzman (the comparable cutting, average: RM2K per pair) brand. Do we really spend 1/3 of our own salary for it? As a matter of fact, for any shoe brand? For what? To go where? Once or twice a year... maaybe, if they don't have to pay with their own money.
Yes, yes Paula. You are a celebrity who's married to a royalty. Others are married at about your age too, late 20s. They'd usually work very hard to make up for the lost times and have an offspring by very early 30s. Their household which includes their own husbands is mostly taken care of by the Indon maids even if they decide to quit their jobs. I think the slimming centres is visited more often than spas because there are many 10 sessions slimming wraps priced at a crummy RM399 (USD10.50 per session!), massaging the fats off is surely considered spa. Even so, is it really our way of life to visit it biweekly? For new mummies, maybe, they'd be free enough to visit it 10 times a week.
Then in the newspaper, someone told us to chill and wrote (now we know it's a lie) that she is actually representing the South East Asian women in their 30's.
Here's what Paula said:
As a 30-year-old woman in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Paula pays about $250 U.S. dollars to rent her three-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment. "I've also got a beautiful swimming pool. We've got tennis courts here. An average 30-year-old woman in Malaysia will earn something like $1,500–2,000 U.S. dollars a month. So, as you can see, every month we have plenty of change left over to buy that pair of must-have Jimmy Choos…did you know that Jimmy Choo is actually from Malaysia?"
Bi-weekly massages are a way of life for Paula. A one-hour massage here will cost her between $7–10 U.S. dollars. And Paula says many Malaysian women don't pluck or wax to remove hair—they use a procedure known as threading. "I don't know how [the threaders] do it. They get really precise. It's painless and it only costs five ringgit. That would be about $1.15 in America."
Clad in sarong up the chest, she made her appearance in a lavish spa, where she continued explaining the above. I am just wondering where she got the script from. Correct me if I'm wrong, we can only find Jimmy Choo's shoes in KLCC and they don't have enough to supply even 50 customers in a month, let alone allow those in 30's to all own it?! Jimmy Choo's is more expensive than the foreign Stuart Weltzman (the comparable cutting, average: RM2K per pair) brand. Do we really spend 1/3 of our own salary for it? As a matter of fact, for any shoe brand? For what? To go where? Once or twice a year... maaybe, if they don't have to pay with their own money.
Yes, yes Paula. You are a celebrity who's married to a royalty. Others are married at about your age too, late 20s. They'd usually work very hard to make up for the lost times and have an offspring by very early 30s. Their household which includes their own husbands is mostly taken care of by the Indon maids even if they decide to quit their jobs. I think the slimming centres is visited more often than spas because there are many 10 sessions slimming wraps priced at a crummy RM399 (USD10.50 per session!), massaging the fats off is surely considered spa. Even so, is it really our way of life to visit it biweekly? For new mummies, maybe, they'd be free enough to visit it 10 times a week.
We're not living such tiring life to get pampered often. The maid can help for some who's lucky. We largely pamper ourselves instead with multi cuisine food which is really everywhere, that's what the slimming funds are for, in fact, it's absorbed in our dowries (the slimming funds I mean, not the food).
Women in other parts of the world shared more realistic insights on what they get for health coverage, what causes both their happiness and grief. Some, by 30 has at least gone through 3 divorces, some gets up to 4 free abortions by the goverment, Korean and Brazilian's obsession about plastic surgery. Do we still practise the 'susuk' to make us look beautiful?. This one by Zain Al Sabah is my favourite, it's not the Chanel jacket, look at that intelligent eyes and content smile, read on. I wish we're treated like them.
Women in other parts of the world shared more realistic insights on what they get for health coverage, what causes both their happiness and grief. Some, by 30 has at least gone through 3 divorces, some gets up to 4 free abortions by the goverment, Korean and Brazilian's obsession about plastic surgery. Do we still practise the 'susuk' to make us look beautiful?. This one by Zain Al Sabah is my favourite, it's not the Chanel jacket, look at that intelligent eyes and content smile, read on. I wish we're treated like them.
posted by Maine at 4:01 PM
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