The Romantic Man

Yesterday a little joke with Alberto triggered the memories of Mas, the incredibly romantic man.

Mas is a Malay guy whom I met in a scout camp in my college life. He was nice, the reason I had my eye (only one) on him was because he kinda looked like Adam Sandler. Yes, I know, Adam Sandler might not be that cute compared to the Hollywood stars but he sure does compared to Malay guys.

The seven-day camp was a lot more colourful than expected because of Mas. Apparently, most of my classmates already knew him as he was the commander for some scout marching thingy but I didn't as I was too lazy and too princess-like to join something like marching.

Ok, Mas was special, as he said something sooooooo romantic that nobody ever said to me...

He looked into my eyes passionately and said...

..."One day, I would really want to buy you... to buy you... to buy you... a Muslim headscarf!"

He was so not joking, his eyes was shining.

My first reaction was to burst out laughing like "HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA...", but that was a really romantic moment and I dared not to ruin it.

I could only hold down my laughter and pretended to be sweet and indulging so I made a meaningful sound, "aww..."

But I did not mean it at all, yeah right, like I would fucking like to have a headscarf on my head!

He said it in such romantic sense that I had to ask him why to make it more romantic.

He said, "Nothing, just to see how you look like with it..."

There he goes, the shining eyes again!

Wow, unbelievable..

He said it with the same tone when a man tells you he wants to buy you really sexy and revealing lingeries and sees how you look like it in!

With all due respects, I don't have a problem with people having a headscarf on their head as it is not mine, it might be a piece of art, but not for me.

After the seven-day camp, we said goodbye and we only saw each other once after that. He still called every day after the call but not anymore after I changed my number. Though there were some little stories but no point talking about it, as he was really religious and I am against religions.

There the story goes...