388????? Can turn an ugly duckling to a swan??? Like fairy tale...

As always, the story ( sad one OK! ) starts like that....Once upon a time, not so long ago, in a small humble home in Puchong Jaya, lived a duckling. I would not call her ugly,beauty-challenged is a more politically correct word...

This humble duckling was a very hard working and she was famously known as Dr Quack. Dr Quack was famous for her voice, she was also made famous by one of her favorite song. The children would sing, "Old MacDonald had a farm, eee iii, eee ii ooo. And and his farm he has a duck, eee iii, eee iii oooo. She quack quack here and quack quack there..." , you got the picture la..

Though Dr Quack possessed all the quality of a duck could ever have, her heart always wished that she could look better. For all the kindness, the quackiness, the jovial self, she could not get over the fact that she was not good looking. Although she kept telling herself that inner beauty is far more important than outer look, she couldn't help thinking that who was the #$%*@=# person who invented the saying, knowing well it was a cover up for self-inadequacy.

She tried Estee Lauder, Max, ICI paints but still she looked..hmmm....beauty-challenged. Finally some nice church- going friends ( wonder how they always managed to appear when things were rough), asked her to pray...

Kneeling down with a broken heart, she prayed out loud."Quack....quaaaaaccckkkk.....quak,quak,.......quaaack......qqqquuuaaaeeekkkkkk!!!!!" Translated version: " Dear God, please help me to look good for a day. I promise never to ask people to eat chicken anymore ( get the joke??? ). Pleaasseeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!". As she got tired, she went to bed.

In her dreams, an angel appeared before her. "Dr Quack..God send me to tell you these. He loves you and here are the clues for your wish- 388 and frogs". She asked," Can't He just tell me????" The angel replied, " Like that no fun...go and guess!! Wuahahahahahaha!!!"

Dr Q woke up and had a splitting headache. Waaaaa...a visit from an angel felt like bad hangover!!!! So, she kept thinking and thinking. 388? 4 Ekor? Kuda? Magnum? What does it mean??? 38- sam pat?? Who is so kepo??? Frogs somemore? Turn frog into prince charming? Tin Kai Jok ( frog porridge)?? What??? What???

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Then it clicked!! Or should I say, she started to click on internet? She went to the search engine and type: 388+frog.....and walau eh...something did turn up. It was a RM388 promotional photoshoot by fingeronshutter.com.!!!! She could not believe her big big eyes...

So she went into their website and click somemore...geng!!! They could turn people into beautiful things...walau eh...could make women look like movie stars....but sometimes vertically-challenged people still remain a challenged lo...but then in her heart, she felt a glow, a warmth..and immediately she knew she has hope!!!

She wrote to the author, who turns out to be a frog and pleaded with him. Please make me beautiful for a day..And kamkuey said, hmmm...hmmm.....hmm.....how to turn duckling into swan??? Soft lens ?? Still can see the ugly ( ooppss beauty-challenged) beak. Only shoot the feet?? Wa...web feet somemore....but then, a sprinkle from heaven ( it was actually the saliva from Dr Quack) woken him up...This is charity....must help her. Although I did not turn out to be prince charming, I can help this poor duckling turn into a swan.

He called his gang...the hair dresser with powderful iron cast (from besi buruk), the make-up artist with plenty of ICI paints ( sponsored by Jusco), the fashion designer from Ikea curtain session and of course the photographer who agreed to break few lens ( purposely one to make the 'crack effect' )and arranged for a RM388 complimentary photoshoot....

At last...as the stories end, the beauty-challanged duckling , for a day in her quacky life, turn into swan....Thank you fingeronshutter.com....thank you for making a dream come true.....

"Qauuckkkk....qeuuukkkk, qquuaaackkkk...." Translated version: "Thank you, God Bless!!"

p.s: Dr Quack was shot shortly after that....someone needed new cloths for OSCAR...

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