Rich People Problems-Kwan 2017 (WWT)

The Dowager Sultana giggled like a schoolgirl. “Oh my goodness, I haven’t had this
much fun in a long time! That ridiculously formal way you were speaking to me—‘If I
might venture to ask’—hahahaha, you sounded like you were in a Jane Austen novel! I
was biting my lip to stop from laughing. And oh, and I have a horrible neck ache now
from wearing all those damn necklaces! I thought I was going to be strangled by
diamonds, heeheeheeheehee!”
“If you hadn’t been dressed like that, Kitty would not have been in such awe of you.
She’s been spoiled with jewels herself, so we really had to lay on the shock and awe.”
“Shock and awe indeed! Did you like what I had my guards chant before I made my
grand entrance into the room?”
“Oh my God, I almost peed in my pants! I was thinking, why are they chanting the
Singapore Children’s Day song?”
“Heeheehee! Remember when your mummy made you sing it to me one day when you
came home from school? You were so proud to sing a song in Malay. Now, did you like
my mention of China’s First Lady?”
“I did, I did. Very appropriate, Auntie Zarah.”
“I’ve never even met her, heeheeheehee!”
“You deserve an Oscar, Auntie Zarah. I owe you big-time.”
“Just send me a jar of those pineapple tarts that your cook makes, and we’ll call it
even.”
“Auntie Zarah, you’re going to get a whole crate of those pineapple tarts.”
“Alamak, no! Please don’t! I’m on a diet! I was so nervous during my performance, I ate
too many of those coconut puffs today, heeheeheehee. I have to force myself to go to my
granddaughter’s zoomba class in the ballroom now!”
* The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, or Agong for short, is the monarch of Malaysia. The Nine Malay states each have their
own hereditary rulers and royal families, and the Agong is elected from among these rulers every five years.