Today i was having a conversation with a friend back home
We were talking about money...our expenditure...traveling funds...and the likes
so I told her to keep track on her savings..especially the one for her euro trip early next year (of course for selfish reason la kan...i want people to come here to see me ..;) )

me : weh...ko make sure saving to tak kacau...jangan nak shopping je
her : ehh shopping tetap shopping la...save pun save jugak
her : weh..beli la gladiator...lawa
me : gladiator?... ape tu?...sejenis kereta ke?...
(of course it sounded like a car ..macam macho2 and bold gitu)
her : bukan la....gladiator tu macam sandals la....
me : kejap kejap aku google.....
(at this point i really thought she was joking...who would name a genre of shoes after "gladiator"??)

allora ( translated as..."so" in Italian)....thanks to google images...i found this


and this ....
and this...
me : ieee ape ni...buruknye!...semak aku tengok..
her : sekarang fashion la....bile pakai lawa.....
me : tak pernah pulak aku tengok orang pakai kat sini....
her : ramai la....maybe your fashion sense dah malfunction kot
(ermmm....that might be true...)
(or just maybe it has skipped my sight...i mean..people's feet are definitely not my thing....i would look at those lean tight muscles on the chest of those hot italian hunks and... drool, or the curves of those double-meat that's hanging on a girl's chest and bottoms - for envious observation purposes laa!!...but not kaki orang....)
me : but now autumn...orang tak pakai dah kot mcm ni....maybe next summer
(then i remembered ...)
me : oh baru teringat....aku ade kasut macam ni...tp tak la tinggi mcm tu....itu pun aku beli ad
hoc kat H&M sebab kaki aku melecet kat shopping mall...
(plus it's only around 9 euros)...

It looks something like this


me : tapi aku sangat rimas bende ikat kat atas tu...so balik rumah aku gunting yang atas...tinggal
yang bawah je...so jadi la macam "normal" sandals
(truth is... my betis tu kembang ...so of course that little thing causes me discomforts due
to it's tightness)
her : cheh

So out of the conversation...
although reluctant to believe that people would actually wear it...
but then again.....i remembered when Crocs first came out.....


To my humour ...i thought to myself ...here it comes..."The Revenge of But Getah"
but soon enough... when i walk around in the city...i see vibrance on the streets ....in all sorts of different bright colours that can make an impotence out of a man...

anyway....i got a little bit curious.....do gladiators really wear those kind of shoes(something similar) back in the days??...so i browsed through my Rome pictures and stumbled upon ....

and this ....


ouh....that's my abah....ready to decapitate that poor Roman Gladiator....go dad!

Now i'm beginning to contemplate on who's more creative and imaginative....the Chanel Designer or the Romans?