I *heart* Malaysia Part 4
Anyways.... Continuing on with why I still *heart* Malaysia despite all the 'goblokness' and the trashing of bloggers by monkeys up there. Hmmm....
19. Eating loads and loads of local fruits picked with your own hands. My rotation group went for a visit to a small-time duck farm, passed by the university's neglected rambutan orchard and ended up doing 'fruit' rotation by picking up (with the lecturer and his post-graduate Utopian student again!!! WAHAHHAHAHA) 8 filled-to-the-brim plastic bags of rambutans. Not only that, we went cempedak (jack fruit) picking again! Wohohoho... And after savouring these, we opened up durians in the carpark next to the forestry faculty and immediately after that, eating up mangosteens my rotation mate brought in her car. The only fruits missing are the longans and buah mata kucings. Man.. I love Malaysian fruits... Oh wait, did I mentioned Malaysian fruits in my previous post?
18. I love Malaysia's version of the Domestic Short Hair cats. At least their tempers are not as evil as those pure-breeds (especially Persians.. Oh the horror!). And their tails curled up into little balls or the ends looked like a little hook. Like my little Mimi...
17. Ipoh White Coffee. Never had enough of it, especially that lingering taste on your tongue. Remembered I kept pestering Ah Teh to bring me back packets of iced White Coffee from Ipoh while doing my poultry practical in Dinding's Breeder Broiler Farm. Though ended up being the faithful visitor to the toilet due to the extremely efficient diuretic effect of caffeine...
16. Maggie Mee. The ever faithful instant mee in my box especially when pockets are empty but with a few beetles and tissue in it (memang student life la). Can even buy one packet for 60 cents! Plus the culinary variety you can add to a simple instant mee. Mamak-style maggie goreng la, curry mee with egg and fried tofu, mi bandung with the simple mixture of tomato sauce, etc.. It's Malaysian made rite? Even the ones imported to Britain still have their Malay instructions!
15. Lekors, pisang goreng, cempedak goreng. Yammm..... Stomach fillers especially when studying or having group discussions in the afternoon in faculty. Can even bring to the wards too! (though illegally and hush hush la)
14. Driving through the kampongs and rural areas and seeing delicous kangkongs growing wildly by the stream or rivers. And thinking how to cook them; belacan, sambal or oyster sauce?
I've been posting too much about food. Have... to... change... topic...
13. Like the U.S. with their Social Security Number, we have our IC numbers, and plus got MyKad again. Unique mah...
12. Despite the dryness and the extreme boringness of the Sejarah subject (self-professed Sejarah 5-years snorer here!), I find Malaysia's history abit intriguing and unique, especially when it comes to policy making and the factors that influence it. And how it ended up in our laws, culture and society today. And the factors and historical incidences that are not included in today's Sejarah SPM or PMR books. So sedih to think of people not bothering to look back in the past and scrutinize the reasons for the existence of certain policies or statements by the past leaders like the late Tunku and making a fool of themselves today.
11. Farni local telcos adverts. Not enough with the global stalking, now there's even training camps for stalkers?!? (refering to Digi yellow-man adverts la)
10. Local nursery songs together with those imported from the English. Like 'Tip tap tip tap, hujan dah turun' or 'Dayung, dayung sampan' or 'Burung kakak tua'. Not forgetting some of the songs in native languages and dendangan pantuns. Remembered hearing old pantuns played on one local Sarawak radio station every late Saturday night and my dad will be hearing and writing down the lyrics...
9 more to go! Going into the home stretch aredi!
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