I *heart* Malaysia Part 1
Spurred by Life's Legalities challenge on finding what makes Malaysia home despite all the hoohahs going on around here (link) . So here it goes! I'll just put it randomly har...
50. Well, we literally have "summer" throughout the whole year, with the occasional monsoon, haze and fruit season :) . So no need to fork out extra RMs just to buy more jumpers or go to tanning saloons since we can do so here for free!
49. The number one undisputable Kuching KOLO MEE! A whiff of it is enough to make me cry for more, especially the ones with the red pork sauce. Slurrrpz... Add soup, and you have a nice hot bowl of Kolo mee soup!
48. Sarawak Laksa especially the one from the chinese kopitiam near my house. The aunty make it super duper harum and so fresh worrr. Never failed to tapau it back to KL at the end of holidays. Don't challenge me with the crap that Penang or Johor Laksa is better. Sarawak's one is one of a kind, you will never be able to compare it with other laksas.
47. The land of the Durians, Rambutans, Buah Mata Kucing and (confined to Sarawak) Dabais. There's the processed products again...durian dodol, rambutan drink, durian ice cream. Yammm.... Oh, for those who do not know, Dabai is a black-skinned fruit smaller than Ciku and can be found during certain seasons. I never tried eating the whitish content of it (usually people here eat it with salt), but I usually go pick and eat the contents of the seed. Once you taste it, you'll never let go of it.
46. Can you find sago worms anywhere except here? Enuff said. Yeah, they look freaky, but they taste like fish.
45. The constant free buffets and kenduris everywhere. You can even barge in (dengan muka tidak malu) and load up your plate to the fullest and not having to pay a cent for it! Yeah, we Malaysians are food-lovers.
44. Kuching, the land (not cats!) of mega roundabouts the size of a football field with a name that even the 2 metre signboard couldn't fit. Where else can you find a roundabout anywhere around the world with the name "Bulatan Datuk Patinggi Abang Haji Abdillah Bin Datuk Bandar Abang Haji Mohammad Kassim"? (ilham Kenny Sia)
43. Scrunching away on kuaci (sunflower seed) while watching your favourite movie or Chinese/Indian/Malay soap operas on tv.
42. Waking up in the morning hearing to the beautiful tunes of a wild common mynah or occasionally oreoles outside your window sitting on tree tops.
41. Peace. Being able to walk around without worrying of being shot for being different (legally la).
40. How we always to manage to end our sentences with the lahs, kahs, kans, bahs, bohs, wor, or the occassional mixture of other languages. I mean, where else can you hear someone conversing halfway in English and suddenly mix it with a little of Iban, Malay and Cantonese?
next 40 reasons, coming up in the next post.
50. Well, we literally have "summer" throughout the whole year, with the occasional monsoon, haze and fruit season :) . So no need to fork out extra RMs just to buy more jumpers or go to tanning saloons since we can do so here for free!
49. The number one undisputable Kuching KOLO MEE! A whiff of it is enough to make me cry for more, especially the ones with the red pork sauce. Slurrrpz... Add soup, and you have a nice hot bowl of Kolo mee soup!
48. Sarawak Laksa especially the one from the chinese kopitiam near my house. The aunty make it super duper harum and so fresh worrr. Never failed to tapau it back to KL at the end of holidays. Don't challenge me with the crap that Penang or Johor Laksa is better. Sarawak's one is one of a kind, you will never be able to compare it with other laksas.
47. The land of the Durians, Rambutans, Buah Mata Kucing and (confined to Sarawak) Dabais. There's the processed products again...durian dodol, rambutan drink, durian ice cream. Yammm.... Oh, for those who do not know, Dabai is a black-skinned fruit smaller than Ciku and can be found during certain seasons. I never tried eating the whitish content of it (usually people here eat it with salt), but I usually go pick and eat the contents of the seed. Once you taste it, you'll never let go of it.
46. Can you find sago worms anywhere except here? Enuff said. Yeah, they look freaky, but they taste like fish.
45. The constant free buffets and kenduris everywhere. You can even barge in (dengan muka tidak malu) and load up your plate to the fullest and not having to pay a cent for it! Yeah, we Malaysians are food-lovers.
44. Kuching, the land (not cats!) of mega roundabouts the size of a football field with a name that even the 2 metre signboard couldn't fit. Where else can you find a roundabout anywhere around the world with the name "Bulatan Datuk Patinggi Abang Haji Abdillah Bin Datuk Bandar Abang Haji Mohammad Kassim"? (ilham Kenny Sia)
43. Scrunching away on kuaci (sunflower seed) while watching your favourite movie or Chinese/Indian/Malay soap operas on tv.
42. Waking up in the morning hearing to the beautiful tunes of a wild common mynah or occasionally oreoles outside your window sitting on tree tops.
41. Peace. Being able to walk around without worrying of being shot for being different (legally la).
40. How we always to manage to end our sentences with the lahs, kahs, kans, bahs, bohs, wor, or the occassional mixture of other languages. I mean, where else can you hear someone conversing halfway in English and suddenly mix it with a little of Iban, Malay and Cantonese?
next 40 reasons, coming up in the next post.
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