Ada hari tu, aku saja cari satu kedai ni dekat Sunway Pyramid. Aku ingat lagi nama kedai tu, The Perfume Shop, sebab shop assistant kedai tu berlagak gila nak mampus padahal bukan authorised reseller macam Sephora pun. Masa tu aku nak lawat Sam, tahun 2014 tak silap aku. Sambil tu, aku ingat aku nak beli hadiah untuk dia so aku pun pergilah kedai tu. Shop assistant tu perempuan Cina kurus, muka macam sial, rambut karat. Aku tanya dia, ada tak Versace Eros. Dia tak pandang aku langsung, dia pergi ambil fragrance tu lepas tu dia hentak atas meja sambil asah kuku. Bila aku tanya dia berapa harga, dia buat tulis dalam calculator lepas tu dia lempar calculator tu atas meja. Memang aku belah teruslah. Biadab, lahanat.
Okay lah, aku mengaku, masa tu, aku miskin. Duit ada sikit je, tak mampu pun nak beli. Lepas tu, bersiap pun ala kadar je tapi kau pun shop assistant je, untuk small business, lol, so, tak payah acah - acah macam kau kerja untuk Versace. Fast forward to eleven years later, aku saja cari kedai tu and guess what? Dah lama tutup, hahaha! Tengok page kedai tu dekat Facebook, kali terakhir update tahun 2017. Kena cari kerja lainlah ye, babi? Hahaha, tulah, berlagak sangat, kan dah kena balasan tapi kau tahu apa, kau kafir.
Anyway, it made me think sebab beg Balenciaga Part Time vert d'eau aku ni released tahun 2014. Dulu, memang aku tak mampulah nak beli beg ni, tak pernah terlintas pun dalam kepala masa tu nak beli because it seemed so, impossible walaupun aku tanya Chat, dia kata harga beg ni masa tu RM5,000+++ je (aku kata je bukan sebab sikit but compared to the current prices of luxury bags, it's very low) but thanks to the pre-loved market, I can now buy things I couldn't afford in the past and it's sorta hard to describe the feelings, there's a pang of retrospective sympathy for my younger self but there's also gratitude.
Beg Balenciaga Part Time gris glace aku ni pula released tahun 2012. Can you imagine me carrying the bag to class during my foundation course days at UiTM Alor Gajah? I would be turning people's heads, hahaha, but looking back, I know maybe it's for the best I couldn't afford these bags for a number of reasons: too many evil eyes, they wouldn't fit my lifestyle at the time, hence, I wouldn't be able to take a good care of them even though I still like to reimagine those memories differently regardless.
