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Comes in the form of a person. Here's the story.
She's a family friend, and unfortunately it was me who took the liberty of trying to introduce her to my mother. I've seen her work, and I thought - okay, satisfactory. Not overpriced, relatively at par with the result of her work. Okay la kan.
My brother's wedding is coming up in 2 weeks' time. Mother, my sister syaza, and me had made a simple baju kurung for the akad nikah session. My fault was, to insist my mother to add beads on the baju kurung. Why not, I said. She's a family friend, and it's not like we want to do something extravagant with the baju kurung. My mother is one loyal customer. She is currently happy with her own tailor, but no thanks to my persistence, she was persuaded to try.
That very night, I folded all the baju kurungs with post-its pasted on each, instructing the beads color we preferred for each baju, and put them all in one bag. In the bag too, I included one of my own baju kurung already tailored with beads for an idea of what design was expected from her. I wrote a note, which told her not to sew the beads too thick, just enough with the two-layer as per the hem of the sleeves of the sample baju kurung I gave. However, it is up to her own discretion to design and alter, whatever she deems fit.
The next day, although the baju kurung had been passed to her hands, although I had given her my phone number in the note, no call or a simple sms was received. I was beginning to wonder so I called this tailor up myself. Once the line reached her, this is what she said:
"Adik akak tak rasa la boleh buat macam design baju contoh yang adik bagi ni sebab beads yang dia gune jenis murah la dik akak tak rasa ade jual kat kedai pun. Beads akak ni dari Jepun, mahal la sikit tapi shining la. Tak macam beads kat baju adik ni takde shining. So akak buat design sendiri jela ye dik ye."
Apparently, she took my gesture of telling her what I want, instructing the beading work to be simple - as a pun. I wanted to laugh listening to her talk. She didn't even let me talk. She didn't even ask who did my beaded baju kurung, the sample I gave to her. And there was nothing humble in the conversation. If I were to conclude what she said, it would suffice to say that many ministers and artists and magazines had been robbed by the tailor who did my beaded baju kurung.
Before she could even start on the beading work, this person has lost three customers. Perhaps we were a bit particular. But surely she can't be serious in expecting nice, naive customers who would shower her with compliments for the rest of her part-time beading career?
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| | Posted 8/4/2008 3:43 AM - 132 views - 15 comments
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