Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Khew-fabulous tendency...

One life skill I acquired at sixteen was that if you're as broke as a bad joke, but still obsessed with owning things just for the heck of owing them, or if your desire to show up in every new pair of Jordans, Louis Vuitton, or every latest Nike or Adidas apparel lures you to forgo things of sufficient worth, you'll one day place your things in pawn, or go to the Black Market in Serrekunda to sell everything and still supplement your proceeds to take care of indispensable necessities.

But I ain't judging no one; the fact that I once bought a basketball with my Tobaski allowance makes my take herein a thing of attitudinal semantics. People are different; I guess there are some who are just 'khew-fabulous,' and by that I mean being concerned with flamboyant spending than working on getting an enhanced living condition. By the way, "khew" is Wolof word for anything in accordance with the latest trend, fashion or hype.

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