I remember that few years back when I first came back from the states, I hung out with a close friend of mine, Khien. There was this vcd incident that was always on my mind. Today when I was checking, Khien, who is still in the states (went back to the states after I came back), left some comments and that reminded me again of what happened…
It was a normal night as any other night, and we went out for dinner at Taman Megah area. After we took our dinner, we noticed a lot of VCD vendors around that area (they are no longer there. It was years back). Khien told me that he actually bought quite a number of VCD there because its near to his place and he always took his dinner around there.
While browsing for the titles that we wanted to watch that night, a girl standing next to me asked the VCD vendor, “Hey boss, is this the original VCD?”
I looked at her, and Khien was busy shuffling through the VCDs and pretended that he didn’t notice. The VCD vendor? Well, he just looked at her like his eyes were going to pop out, and his jaws seems like had lost all the function to close the mouth.
It was a good 10 seconds that no one said a thing. Then the girl asked again, “Boss, I am asking you if this is an original VCD!”
I bursted into laughter, and Khien was giggling non-stop. The boss replied, “Hmmm… miss? We are pirated VCD vendor, we don’t sell original…”
Upon hearing that, I laughed louder and louder. Khien couldn’t supress his laugh, so he was bursting into laughter as well.
That girl looked at me, offended, and said, “Hey! Don’t have to be like that right? I meant to ask him if it was a clear version*” and with that, she walked away, after paying for the “original” VCD…
*NOTE: In Malaysia, a lot of those movies were recorded in the cinema. Most of the time, you’ll see that human shadow passing through the screen thanks to those fashionably late people, and then sometimes you will hear people coughing. The best was that one time I bought this cinema version VCD, the person who was recoding the show farted 3 times…
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