When my Atuk called me Mak Embam as a toddler, I know he probably meant it as a term of endearment because I was a chubby toddler. His cute grandaughter no less. But I am middle-aged now, having morphed from chubby to thin to plump to skinny to svelte and now back to chubby. I am a BIG girl and Mak Embam just ain’t so cute anymore.
What’s so bad about big? There are lots of people who are big and beautiful. Well, maybe not in Malaysia as much as in the West but I know I am not alone. Childbirth, middleage and affluence have taken their toll on my midriff and I have now joined the big leagues. I am also addicted to blogging and suddenly got an idea to blog about the big things in life, like making a BIG scrap book about the good, the bad and the ugly side of being generously proportioned.
For a start, I am blogging about my favourite big person, Malaysian songstress Adibah Noor. Now that is one big lady who, when she starts to sing, she just mesmerizes you like no other. Having enjoyed all her funny TV commercials, I was thrilled to bump into her once and was completely won over by her warm personality. She carries herself with such style and grace that all you really notice is her big cheeky smile and those eyes with that naughty twinkle.
She is famous now and has her own fansite and here is an article on her that you might find interesting. It says that Adibah actually rejected an offer to record an album on condition that she slim down. She said no way! (I would’ve said ”Take this job and shove it you slimy toad!”) She got the guts and gumption to save enough money to produce her own album her own way! Way to go girl! Watch her video and be glad she did it because her voice is amazing.
When Donald Trump said “I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything you might as well think big”, Adibah got the idea spot on. So in this blog, I’m thinking BIG!
adibah noor is really kewl! she mesmerized me by just being herself…
$weE + 666 she is as fun in person as in those movies and commercials. But the song she sang from the heart and with so much feeling is what captured her the recognition she deserved. I hope that we will never have to mourn with that song each time some missing child ends up cruelly tortured and murdered. It should be song to mobilise us into preventing another Nurin.