MatInCap Epidemic

Now what's up the mushrooming of MatCap or MatInCap going around everywhere these days? Just 2 days back, while waiting for the lift at a local departmental store, I was confronted with a highly disturbing & sickly sight which made even the MachoMat in me nauseous. I just swollowed my vomit again at the thought of the scene.

A daddy in his late (or early) 40s, (you can't really tell after they hit 40s) sporting a "tenggek"(pronounced as "teng-gek") black cap with his two teenage sons with 2 equally, if not more, unfashionable caps perched on their heads (the kind with some aluminium plating on the front). The bespectacled mom who was in T&J (tudung & jeans) must have given up on them as she hung her head low in utter embarrassment walking around with these 3 morons in public.

Now what's with the caps??!!!!
It's everywhere babe & it's sickening.
It's just the tip of the iceberg.

The damage goes deeper.

The Malay boys today are no longer mats... they are just a bunch of wannabes....

wannabe Black gangsta, they wanna be Maori (which explains the Malays in tattoos), wannabe HipHoppers... (now don't get smart on me saying the original mats were rockers wannabes.... cause MatRock took rock and made something sweet, mostly melancholic, out of it...)

Every generation sought a unique identity to disassociate themselves with their predesesors.
And this is what the NewMats' their best shot? Perched Caps??!
Remember the rediculous RudeBoy Phenomenon around 2002? ....

Remember skinny jeans, skinheads - MatPunk - around the same time?

And now what MatCappers?

There is a common denominator across all these generations.

The need to forge a brand new identity.

But this time, not only they have have failed, they failed miserably....

Perhaps a spin off from Wolverine:Origins, Datuk Jin Samsuddin aka DatukJ or SamJ should direct Mat: Origins...

My own foray into the film industry you ask? Not now, I'm still into my clandestine projects.

Though it has been prophesised that a time will come when I can't stand Datin Dairies or Jeritan Sepi or some Malay drama crap on SuriaTV no more, I will magnanimously undertake this project of straightening out the Malay TV. Malay media TV should be making movies like Fresh Prince of Bel Air... and fast forward 20 years later we get back a fine, charismatic, brown Malay president back at the helm. I don't really care who's president as long as I'm not paying too unreasonable taxes.

Hey why do I even blog? I blog to save us all my friend (bro). It's altruistic I know. Yes, a perfect loss of good, constructive time. At the expense of my own political candidacy, but I never aspired to be your local politician. Cause politicians cannot simply cannot hang out at kopi tiams as rightfully pointed out by a professor friend.

Yeah, no one told me to do this.

I never started this blog for the fame. (You see me shmoozing with XiaXue on XiangPow?).

For the money you say? (Gillrook Mexican Jeans have yet to contact me since their last Ramadhan's radio ad campaign).

I'm just here to bring back some dignity to tainted MalayMat name.

Being highly non-adapt in Mathematics is one thing.

Being a fashion nincompoop is simply unforgivable.

We may forgive them for no longer being able to pluck a guitar like their glorious UncleMats....
for fingerbanging on their GuitarHero guitars seems more fashionable these days ....

Wa tak lehhh angkat babe.... macam nak jotos satu2.

I'm here for social commentating.

I come highly untrained in the formal schools of Social Scientifing or Sociology.

What I lack in formal education in this field, I make up for it in clarity of purpose.

You don't need a PhD in Sociology, at best social science at PSLE, to sense that what's happening is just way wrong. The 4-year old kids are watching and immitating and sooner than you think you have a nation of MatMelayuInCaps!

One things for sure, the time when jambuls "pronounced as jum-bols" have long gone & past.

If any alien race are doing a careful studying Earth's cultural practices using this intel from the Internet, they must be laughing their extraterrestrial green @$$ off at the sight of the google-searched jpegs of MatCaps. And perhaps forwarding them to other alien civilizations across the universe to laugh at.

Beginning to sound like MatET or MatExtraterrestrial or MatAlien here.
I shall leave AstroPhysics for another day...

I would appreciate readers to assist me in taking shots of these rediculous Malay capped crusaders to be featured in this blog - for further analysis and commentaries until this epidemic is over.