"Darling, don't you go and cut your hair..."

You know that things are bad when the hijras stop making an effort.
What's happened to them? I thought transvestites would care about how they look considering that their whole existence depends on how they look. But lately I've been seeing so many that think that they're hijras just because they throw a scarf around their neck and prance around, swinging their hips.
I saw one yesterday on the way home from tuitions and he was pretty much the laziest cross-dresser I have ever seen. Just a man in normal, manly, white shalwar kameez with a black flimsy dupatta and a plain ol' black sack of a handbag. Seriously? Dude, don't squeak, "Baby, paisay de do na" at me if you're not even going to grow your hair and wear decent shoes. No self-respecting hijra would even try on those awful chapals.
Either it's the economy dying that's resulted in this- like when the Japanese geishas didn't look like geishas no more (surely someone must agree with me that the hijras are like our geishas? They dance too!)- or it's because of the Taliban problem. You know, like if they come around one can just ditch the dupatta and fling away the purse and instantly turn into a inconspicious man.
But it's quite concerning.

And just for the record the best hijras are at Khadda Market.

Java Update

I made my first mug of coffee for CIE 2009 last night.
For a child, I am grossly dependent on caffeine.