Sunday, January 4, 2009

Nehsional Geographic: Aunties

Hello, welcome to Nehsional Geographic. Today, we'll be doing a documentary on Aunties. Aunties have been known to be petty social elites in fighting for their needs and wants in their daily life. Such examples are fighting for MRT seats, picking the freshest oranges and leaving all the rotten ones for the rest, and eating oranges while they choose from a basket in the wet market. We have spotted a particularly aggressive aunty, 蔡婶。蔡婶 wakes up early in the morning for work as a Nestle promoter in Bukit GOMBAK. And after a heavy lunch of her usual Hokkien mee( no prawn) and mango ice, she will go to Giant to hunt for food to bring back home for her family. Now watch, as we tentatively approach the female while picking oranges for her family.



As you can see,蔡婶 flicks off the camera man when she felt threatened. For the safety of this filming crew, we backed off to safety immediately; in fear of her sudden verbal barage. Orange picking is an annual event for 蔡婶. Once a year, she will hunt for those orange ballz to celebrate a certain festive occasion. Orange picking is no doubt an ardious and tedious process, which requires you to scan, filter , harvest the ballz. But a true master 蔡婶 is. she can pick with her right hand, and illegally peel and consume oranges with her left. After the 10 mins of picking, we were lucky enough to catch her in a good mood, where we interviewed her harvest for the day.


* For optimal aural enjoyment, it is advised that you blast the volume.

Here, we can hear how 蔡婶 go about in hunting for her food, which is carefully scanning the environment for fresh seafood and blah blah blah.

Now, after the great hunt and a satisfied 收获, 蔡婶 is dead beat and heads for home, to feed her young ones.


This is the life of aunty 蔡婶, a lvl 94 aunty. And this is all the time we have. Goodbye and thank you for watching Nehsional Geographic. (: