I *heart* Malaysia Part 3
29. Adult children still exercise filial piety to their parents, upholding our Eastern values despite all the westernization lah, globalization lah, glocal thingy lah. I irk whenever I hear my ang-moh friends calling their parents or older relatives by their first names when I was in Britain. I don't believe in putting your parents on the same level with you since they makan garam lebih dahulu, they deserve more respect since after all, in God's Ten Commandments, we must obey (and thus respect) our parents. Heck, even my dad gave up his beloved 20-year old Mitsubishi so that my late granpa can use it for his hospital trips back in my kampung. People who stepped over their parents, are in for that thing called 'tulah' or bad luck and bad reputation for the rest of their lives.
28. Most taxi drivers here (except for the few ceke~k darah wan) are pretty talkative and easy to talk to. I just got to know this afternoon about a glimpse of the life of one who was an ex-cop, has a son who's an officer in the Health Ministry and constantly brings his parents to East M'sia, admires pretty Sabahan sino girls and likes to eat seafood in KK and the foodstall areas in Satok, Kuching. All that in just a 20-minute drive from South City Plaza to my flat! A good customer service rapport lei for Visit Malaysia 2007.
27. Sarawak Rainforest Music Festival! Dammit! After 10 years, I finally got the money to go, but no time to do so! Shouldn't have come back to uni last week... *cries buckets and buckets*
26. We have Seekers, Friday nites in NTV7. Freaky in a way especially when you mix an overreactive imagination and reactions by the 'victim' that sometimes goes overboard. Something like seeing the progress of hysteria or real-life local exorcisms on t.v. though most of the time it was quite lame la especially when they have the host resembling a 'hantu pocong'.
25. I *hearrt* x 1000000000000~~~~ Cameron Highlands especially when travelling in a not-so-big group of vet friends, on a low budget and manage to pull some strings to stay in one of the Boh tea plantations! Especially with all the crazy stuff we did up there. Like driving through that steep beside-the-hill roads going up to our hostel in the dark (! dangerous you know...we only realize how far down they go the next morning), 'professional' photoshoots among the tea bushes, pretending to be tea-pluckers by borrowing their scissor-like collector thingy or go eating strawberries with hot dripping chocolate! Warhhhhhhhhhh....
24. Kancils that super-modifiable (not ah bengs wan!) and healthy on low-income pockets. And also easy to weave through traffic and park in tight spots. Plus it's Malaysian-produced with their own Perodua centers! So easy lah to get spare parts or cheap repairs from these trusted sources.
23. Cheap oil palm cooking oil! Better than spending loads on butter or olive oil just to cook sayur goreng compared to other parts of the world.
22. Never underestimate jungle vegetables. For example 'midin', or also known as Paku Bidayuh which can only be found in the wild especially in secondary jungles. Everytime I try to explain that this plant resembles fern leaves here in Peninsular Malaysia, I always get this weird reaction saying 'You eat ferns?'. But this plant itself could save you from starvation okay. When I was a kid, I like to watch in awe seeing the aunties that went into the small jungle next to my old house carrying empty weaved baskets and coming out around 3-4 hours later with small bundles of 'midin' rolled within banana leaves and tied with strings of roots from a tree. Sedap to cook either with belacan or oyster sauce. The ones in Peninsular are hmmph...how to say...too hard and 'stick'-y, not as soft and gooey like the ones in the East Malaysia.
21. We have gases in tongs instead of gas pipelines like the ones I've seen in Britain. Felt it's more safer since we won't have more risk of leaked gas or exploding homes(unless your rubber stove pipes are faulty la) and easier to control.
20. Raptor watching at that time of the year! Cool-eh, especially when you get to watch up close birds of prey like the Japanese Sparrowhawk at Port Dickson since that place is the closest to Sumatra compared to other points of the country.
Another 19 more to go! Sorry la...busy with the begining of the semester. What to do...final year mah... :D
28. Most taxi drivers here (except for the few ceke~k darah wan) are pretty talkative and easy to talk to. I just got to know this afternoon about a glimpse of the life of one who was an ex-cop, has a son who's an officer in the Health Ministry and constantly brings his parents to East M'sia, admires pretty Sabahan sino girls and likes to eat seafood in KK and the foodstall areas in Satok, Kuching. All that in just a 20-minute drive from South City Plaza to my flat! A good customer service rapport lei for Visit Malaysia 2007.
27. Sarawak Rainforest Music Festival! Dammit! After 10 years, I finally got the money to go, but no time to do so! Shouldn't have come back to uni last week... *cries buckets and buckets*
26. We have Seekers, Friday nites in NTV7. Freaky in a way especially when you mix an overreactive imagination and reactions by the 'victim' that sometimes goes overboard. Something like seeing the progress of hysteria or real-life local exorcisms on t.v. though most of the time it was quite lame la especially when they have the host resembling a 'hantu pocong'.
25. I *hearrt* x 1000000000000~~~~ Cameron Highlands especially when travelling in a not-so-big group of vet friends, on a low budget and manage to pull some strings to stay in one of the Boh tea plantations! Especially with all the crazy stuff we did up there. Like driving through that steep beside-the-hill roads going up to our hostel in the dark (! dangerous you know...we only realize how far down they go the next morning), 'professional' photoshoots among the tea bushes, pretending to be tea-pluckers by borrowing their scissor-like collector thingy or go eating strawberries with hot dripping chocolate! Warhhhhhhhhhh....
24. Kancils that super-modifiable (not ah bengs wan!) and healthy on low-income pockets. And also easy to weave through traffic and park in tight spots. Plus it's Malaysian-produced with their own Perodua centers! So easy lah to get spare parts or cheap repairs from these trusted sources.
23. Cheap oil palm cooking oil! Better than spending loads on butter or olive oil just to cook sayur goreng compared to other parts of the world.
22. Never underestimate jungle vegetables. For example 'midin', or also known as Paku Bidayuh which can only be found in the wild especially in secondary jungles. Everytime I try to explain that this plant resembles fern leaves here in Peninsular Malaysia, I always get this weird reaction saying 'You eat ferns?'. But this plant itself could save you from starvation okay. When I was a kid, I like to watch in awe seeing the aunties that went into the small jungle next to my old house carrying empty weaved baskets and coming out around 3-4 hours later with small bundles of 'midin' rolled within banana leaves and tied with strings of roots from a tree. Sedap to cook either with belacan or oyster sauce. The ones in Peninsular are hmmph...how to say...too hard and 'stick'-y, not as soft and gooey like the ones in the East Malaysia.
21. We have gases in tongs instead of gas pipelines like the ones I've seen in Britain. Felt it's more safer since we won't have more risk of leaked gas or exploding homes(unless your rubber stove pipes are faulty la) and easier to control.
20. Raptor watching at that time of the year! Cool-eh, especially when you get to watch up close birds of prey like the Japanese Sparrowhawk at Port Dickson since that place is the closest to Sumatra compared to other points of the country.
Another 19 more to go! Sorry la...busy with the begining of the semester. What to do...final year mah... :D
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