It's cold but i'll take the risk

So i was walking back home from school just the other day and i happened to encounter a couple. I did not know them but they seemed to attract my attention, only because they were the only couple in my view. Okay, so the girl was average height about 5"4 and the guy was like 5"10. So this is me walking in a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. It was pretty cool that day so i decided to use the former and latter to keep me warm. I was watching people-something that has just recently become a habit.

So the couple were right in my face. You know the guy had on a pair of pants and a t-shirt, but the girl-oh the poor girl. Imagine this, in Fiji and for us locals we all know that when it's like 30 degrees out there-well thats a bit cool for us. The weather can be harsh and there's always a 50 percent chance that it might rain. Again the girl-the poor girl was wearing what seemed like a spaghetti-summer-dress. You know the kind with the criss-cross at the back, and in the front it really outlines your cleaveage and all-oh and the dress was an angel white. She had this black thin tights knee-lenght but she looked COLD. Believe me i know because even the guy was folding his arms and tucking his hands under his pits.

Okay the girl was Cold. And what really confirmed my assumptions was that she admitted it hereself. While they were walking past me-or rather while we were walking past each ohter i heard her saying to the guy-i'm assuming that was the boyfriend-she muttered to the guy in an honest Indian Accent-'Aree yaar, I'm cold'. I couldn't help myself but laugh at her remark-well not letting them both aware of it.

So here's the thing-what's up with the idiom-'Dress to impress'. Why couldn't the poor girl just throw on a something a lot warmer instead of having to admit to the supposedly boyfriend that she was cold and allowing me the pleasure to eavesdrop and let me write about this in the end. Hey, lets be reasonable here, isn't it better to look aweful rather than catch cold or Swine Flu or what they have now termed as Influenza A H1N1? Which one of you would be sensible enough to choose the former and which one of you would choose the latter?

On a scale of 1 to 10, most fashion outgoing females (since they are the main victims in this case) would fall on 8. The number representing that they would go for fashion than comfort. This is now an evident perception with quite a handful of Pacific island women. And the number is still growing.

Whatever happened to preserving our identity and maintaining our integrity by covering our bodies? But this of course could be an argumentative point because history tells us that our great-great-bubu was walking around the village rara (grounds) in a just an above-the-knee grass skirt and going topless. But then again the pre-colonial period brought about many changes and some of these changes we have accepted and linked them with our culture. Which is where the issue of clothing and hiding our sacred bodies come in.

The western world has impacted our lives at great heights some of which we are not aware of. For instance, out of a Vogue issue-one sees the picture of say, Pamela Anderson, and her many times breast-implant bosom. She's wearing a low-cut spaghetti top and a mini denim skirt. She's looking FANTABULOUS. Hey if Anderson wee here in Fiji she'd probably rate what we locals call COLD as oven-hot. For you my fellow loyal and sane citizens-pliz listen to Mummy Nopa just this once-do the right thing and wear the right stuff where its convinient.

You can still be the prettiest and hunkiest bloke around if you cover your body especially if the weather is not really agreeing with you.