A friction

I swear to God this is happening to a friend of mine.

Last week, I spent a night at a friend's place because of some plan that fell through. But let's not dwell on that, shall we, and pay attention to what I'm about to tell.

I'm so gonna be in trouble if the said friend knew I'm writing about her.

So anyway, I spent a night at a friend's place last week. The week before that, she went balik kampung in haste and since she never balik kampung if there was nothing of importance (her kampung is in one of the Northern states so it's quite far) so I asked her what was up. She suddenly burst into tears and told me that she's now engaged. Which is kind of weird because she just ended a 5-year-old relationship a couple of months ago.

And then came the whole story. She told me that one of her officemates masuk meminang senyap-senyap and her parents accepted. Just like that. Apparently, everytime they went out together, the guy would ask for permission from her parents senyap-senyap behind her back to take her out even if it was just dinner kat sebelah office building. And since my friend has a habit of working well into the night, so they always had dinner together. And don't ask how the guy knew her parents' phone numbers because I asked the same question to her and she said she doesn't want to ever know because she's afraid she might be creeped out by the guy. Well, more than now lah kot.

Oh and you might also know that her ex-boyfriend never met her parents (iyerps even after 5 years) so her parents said it was refreshing to know "yang ada lelaki yang hormat orang sampai macam tu sekali" (which both of us don't agree lah because the guy is quite creepy). So that happened 2 weeks ago, and my friend hasn't spoken a word to the guy ever since, balas whatsapp pun tak. The nikah ceremony was set in December and with only 2 months ago and so many preparations to do, time is scarce. And yet, my friend remains stubborn.

You see, even barang-barang nikah pun mak dia belikan because she said "aku malas masuk campur". Yesterday, her mom had enough of her stubbornness (they were due for a dress fitting and my friend failed to show up) and mula la start cerita sedih kata "mama dah tua, Na pun dah 26 tahun, sampai bila nak tunggu etc etc etc" lepas tu menangis. My friend said rasa macam nak tergelak tapi layan kan aje la mak sendiri hahahaha.

I swear all these are true!

And speaking of friends and weddings, I just realised that I have veeeery few friends. I'm not very good at preserving relationship and most of them fizzled out because of my faults. So it got me thinking, when I'm getting married and my few friends are throwing me a bridal shower or masa malam berinai or something, mesti rasa sedih sebab tak ramai orang nak datang haha kesian kat diri sendiri.