Ari
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10:39:41 am on April 18, 2006 | # |
“My Malay is not so good!”
I can still remember how Sujadi Siswo (did I get his name right?) convincingly said that quote from many of our kind, the younger generation rather, when asked why we, Malays, are not conversing in our Bahasa Melayu in our daily conversations, in ‘Detik’, a Suria Channel TV programme that discusses about current affairs and issues with regards to our community.
What I noticed and discussed before with several debate-mates made my thoughts ponder deeper about our people. Don’t ask me why I like to write about ourselves (meaning, Malays). I just have this agitated-self-destructive-mode when it comes to “Issues of the Malays!” heheh… I love to hate us and I love being us at the same time.
Coming back to my reflection on our more infamous rather than famous, let alone popular, small and unacknowledged race internationally, I have spotted a few interesting short-comings about ourselves. Mainly on Singaporean Malays obviously. So if this is a letter, it would start like this; “Dear Malays,”…
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We (Malays) are a very adaptive bunch!
When we speak to other races, we tend to speak like them. For example, when communicating with Chinese market vendors and they start speaking to you in Malay, “Berapa lu mau beli ni balang?”
Automatically without planning, your verbal device transforms its style and repond,“Gua mau beli ni balang satu aja! Belapa ah?”. And to my surprise, Pertuturan Bahasa Baku that is emphasised strongly in media and mandatory in schools was executed brilliantly when in actual fact, we do not speak baku with our fellow Malay citizens.
Another example would be when encountered with tourists from Indonesia or when we are in Indonesia communicating with their people. Yes, we are in general bearing the same race name but there is this slight difference. They do not talk our lingo of Bahasa Melayu. We would be the suddenly “intelligent” linguists who would speak Bahasa Indonesia in order for them to understand us, we thought.
I even came across many times and most of those times, when speaking to a westerner, usually caucasian, be it an expat, PR or tourist, we would have that British or American accent, ready-to-use-in-case-of-emergency, within reach! All of a sudden we could sound like as if we are American/ English-born or at least try to sound like them. And of course, majority of us sounded like shit! Stop trying too hard…
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What is wrong with our Malay accent?
You’ve heard Mahathir, ex-Malaysian Prime Minister, speak. You’ve also heard Abdullah Tarmugi or Sidek Saniff speak. What do you think of the way they speak English? They sounded intellectual, that’s what I thought. They didn’t try too hard to sound British or American and they can still speak GOOD ENGLISH.
But why some of us are mocking the way we speak english? Does our accent really sound funny? Is it too much of an effort and a false front when we try to sound, pardon my language, “Ang Moh!”? Or is it because of us sounding too mat & minah or Pakcik & Makcik when English sentences poured out of our mouths? Some of us even made fun of how Malaysian Malays speak english! Could it be the case of the kettle calling the pot, black?
But… Why didn’t we make fun of how the French speaks english? The Germans speak like as if their mouths contain a gallon full of saliva when they speak english. The Italians sounded Spanish when they spoke english. Hell… Sometimes I can’t even make out what the Hong Kong-ers are saying. And the Filipinos… I thought they were speaking Thai or javanese! But the main idea here is, we can accept other nationality’s english accent but WHY CAN”T WE ACCEPT OUR OWN?
We think highly of the French when they breathed poetic expressions to their Locally-Made Sarong Party Girlfriends (SPG), don’t we? Our hearts just melt when we hear a spanish or italian hunk saying sweet english nothings with their sing-a-long-with-me accent even if the sentence was “You smell like a goat dipped in shit!” or the sentence has no meaning at all, actually.
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We are in-born music critics.
I understand the downright fact that our music has no actual roots and almost every beat we have is an adaptation from various traditional music genres, namely Indian, Spanish just to name a few.
Not many of us younger Malays would love to listen to the hardcore keroncong, zapin or ghazal. Even dangdut is a sore to the eardrums to many of us. But the irony of some who don’t like ghazal but love the Arabian beat, no dangdut for them but they are an ardent fan of the hindustani songs, Sopranos are the classy ones in comparison with the chinese opera… *Okay I am digressing to the chinese pulak, sorry!*
Why that kind of preference when the actual fact is that the music being compared above (minus the soprano and chinese opera, of course) have the obvious similarities? Is it because they (ghazal, zapin) are sung in our mother tongue and sometimes in native malay dialect? Our people, as claimed, can’t match others’ talents hence our language, ignored?
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Ugly since birth?
- “You are so pretty! Are you mixed?” asked a malay friend to another.
- “For a Malay, he is handsome,” claimed another on a different occasion.
- “Eeee… I don’t like him. Looks very wak-wak!” a lady friend expressing her taste when asked to comment about a Malay celebrity.Are we Malays really that bad? Come on, those kind of remarks are often heard. I understand and realise that we as humans have our own preferences when it comes to beauty as beauty is indeed subjective.
Some of my guy friends go for Chinese girls not because Chinese girls are better but the common reason would be they do not like Malay girls as they are not as pretty, to them when compared to the afore-mentioned race. Hence, pardon my language again, the “Yellows” are preferred. They have the oriental look! Heck! Even Indians have a classification, which is, the exotic look! What do we have? The Mat and Minah look? Oh pleasee… You wouldn’t want to be called that, would you?
And don’t deny this, most of us have always preferred someone with a gently sharp little nose, fair and flawless skin, coloured eyes, yada yada yada… Well, I wouldn’t want to track back into history to how and from where our ethnic group’s looks originated but most people wouldn’t prefer flat noses, non-deep set eyes topped with not so sexy dark eyes and sadly, that is how we classify the looks of a Malay.
Ok, there are good looking Malays out there, you may add, but there will always be this question if encountered with one of those rare Malay species,”Sure got (insert other race here) blood, one!” In the first place, we don’t even say, there are good looking (insert other race here, again), for others.
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Just a personal observation – My views
Just my centless worth of nothing really. It does not make a difference other than time taken on your part to read the whole lot of this
I do say “Oh ya hor!“, “Finish liao“, “Wah Lau eh“, I do ‘talk down’ to others at times, if needed, I don’t deny that I spoke to Indons like how they choose to speak to me but I definitely do not have an American or British accent and I don’t even try to have it, really. I listen to almost anything except for irritating tunes. I really do! You can ask my close ones if you don’t believe what I claim myself to be. As for my personal preference on beauty, I do not have any list but I sure can identify beauty when I see one!
Talking about “My Malay is not so good!”, this entry is in English and it is because of the simple reason being,”I bitch blog as I please!” And thank you for reading this repost. My English also ‘koyak’, I know!
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Ari 10:44 am on April 18, 2006 | # |
Author’s note: Major bottle neck effect resulting in apparent mind block. Enjoy this repost.
zeela 10:59 am on April 18, 2006 | # |
Agree with you on the point if a malay look good ,”Sure got (insert other race here) blood, one!”
That happen two weekend ago when a somebody ask my frens whether their very very cute , fair and big eyes baby have mixed (eurasian) blood.
My fren had to repeat a few times that the baby is pure malay.
lunacy 1:57 pm on April 18, 2006 | # |
whenever the nyonyas told me “wah lu banyiak cantik ar.. putih macam cina” i said “no lah antie im 100% malay”. Macam ler melayu nih semua itam kan?
Chuang Shyue Chou 4:30 pm on April 18, 2006 | # |
The funny thing is when people have an affected British or American accent, it would be so mixed up. It would be a mixture of Scottish, American, Texan, you name it. Just listen to some of those awful DJs or show hosts and you know what I mean. Hilarious!
Chuang Shyue Chou 4:36 pm on April 18, 2006 | # |
“Ugly since birth?” Do Malays really think that way? I am surprised. From what I see, a lot of them know how to gloom and dress. My good friend is Malay and she is very cute. I see many cute Malay women out there. I am surprised that there is such a perception within the Malay community.
MAGG 5:54 pm on April 18, 2006 | # |
Clap clap.. Another ‘deep n powderful’ anecdote.. Very well writen wif ya an added trademark of humour…
LadyMephis 8:32 pm on April 18, 2006 | # |
Are you Malay? Err..no. I’m 5% Caucasian, 10% Chinese, 25% Punjabi and 60% Javanese. They said Malay means “fleeing” or “migrating”. Am I Malay? Since my ancestors had fled from Java in the early days, regardless whether I’m a Javanese, Boyanese or Bugis, I’ll still be considered as the Malays in Singapore isn’t it? So again, am I Malay? Ermm generally yes. And I do speak Malay, with a lil bit of English and Mandarin to spice things up plus a touch of Punjabi(Indian) accent. So dey~ is my Malay bagus or not? I can’t decide. Sian le.
annur 10:34 pm on April 18, 2006 | # |
You don’t judge a person from one’s capability of articulating oneself in English. That’s just not right. You can have an individual yakking away in English with a cool accent, BUT all they yak about is crap and bullshite, that meaning, they have said nothing significant or nothing profound from their conversations, no matter how polished their English might be…
On the other side of things, you can have another individual who devoids the ability to express himself/herself well in English BUT their inputs, perspectives and strong sense of self on their views of issues brought up in the conversations, can inspire, aspire and overweigh their weakness of the language…
So yeh, I think, no one should judge intellect or anything else based on the flawless usage of English language. Irregardless what race one is, or what accent one has with them, what matter is the potrayal of the strong self of an individual has with them which should surpass any language or ethicity (wrong spelling, my bad).
ps: every individual is beautiful in their own individual way, I know this sound cheesy but it’s just so shallow to me to read the bit where malays are not born beautiful? That’s not right dude… Irregardless whether one is a chinese, malay, indian, european or whatever, each one of us do possess our own individual beauty because we owe it to ourselves to feel beautiful. :)
Lady Hackwrench 1:05 am on April 19, 2006 | # |
my exact sentiments exactly. one of those factors tt makin me leave sg for gd actually..malays are often associated with mats n minahs..even though we come from a high educational backgrd..sickenin rite?
PS: hah my melayu oso dah start rabaks..need to practice more!
tokdalang 1:35 am on April 19, 2006 | # |
hear hear! not malay but malaysian and can pass off for malay, nepalese, thai, filipino and what-have-you, but share your sentiments.
by the way, malay girls are babes. and am missing a wedding of a babe in singapore this weekend.
salams,… errrrr, old chap!
I'm a Malaysian Chinese 2:37 am on April 19, 2006 | # |
“Ugly since birth?”…you are so wrong dude. I know so many Malay girls (including few of my secondary teachers… hehehe) who are absolute gorgeous. Although the religion might stop me from dating a Malay girl, but I’m absolutely impressed with the Malay babes nowadays.
Chuang Shyue Chou 10:30 am on April 19, 2006 | # |
By the way, Ari, have a look at Jared Diamond’s ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’. Check out the chapter on South East Asia. It has something on the Malay migration to this part of the world, displacing the original aborigines. It’s quite interesting.
awan 12:43 pm on April 19, 2006 | # |
yes Ari, we love to hate us and love being us at the same time. we should see and love people individuality and uniqueness too. baru canteks kan.
Doink 1:57 pm on April 19, 2006 | # |
english aku rabak tapi aku tetap dapat komen that I have american sleng bila bebwal dalam talipon even though aku rasa aku bebwal orang putih macam biasa yang aku bebwal. aku rasa telinga dorang torek agaknya atau sememangnya aku ni melayu adaptive macam kau cakap. but i swear, that is the english that i have speakong since i schooling days one even though i’m 100% bawean.
Ari 2:08 pm on April 19, 2006 | # |
zeela:
And I still don't know why. But I cannot deny that chinese do receive that kind of query too whenever they have bigger eyes especially… true?
lunacy:
Because nyonya only see white as beauty and dark needs whitening lotion.
Chuang Shyue Chou:
Ya man! Forced accent as what you hear on tv and radio is very very irritating. So unnatural.
As for how we malays would think prior to beauty, it is like that. Mostly. I don't deny we have sense of fashion but you are lucky that what you saw are not the victims of fashion. Or perhaps it is just subjective to individual tastes.
MAGG:
Clapbangkisskiss!
LadyMephis:
In general. Many of us are mixed up here and there with ratio of 2:3:5:1:6:7 of other races. Basically I am referring to the general malay community here in Singapore.
annur:
Wah so long!
I don't judge intellect through how they sound when speaking english. I am writing about how funny they sound and thought they could sound smart by speaking with adopted accents.
It was also on how people made fun of our original accent. Similar to how the indian accent was ridiculed which I didn't include for fear of major digression.
Irregardless? I thought there is only such a thing called regardless… hehe ok I am disturbing you only on this one!
Back to 'born ugly'. I didn't say we are born ugly as in a statement to tell you we are ugly. I explained in the paragraph on how people associated our looks to be unoriginal whenever it looked more presentable than typical. It was a question to why is it like that rather than a statement.
And don't call me dude.
Lady Hackwrench:
Others' perception of our Mats & Minahs is not an excuse to forget your mother tongue. And high educational background does not make or determine a person's intellect or personality.
tokdalang:
old chap? you know me?
Anyway, any girl can be a babe if she is to one's taste. Ditto for guys to hunks.
I'm a Malaysian Chinese:
What made you think my question is wrong? Questions do not have right or wrong answers.
As I've mentioned to tokdalang, any girl can be a babe if she is to one's taste.
And do not call me dude.
Chuang Shyue Chou:
I heard of that title before. Maybe I'll keep that in mind. Thanks!
awan:
You are absolutely correct. With individual's unique personality, we can find that beauty. Be it good or bad, beauty doesn't have a positive or negative genre.
doink:
Maybe you do sounded foreign? Who knows? I haven't get the chance to hear you speak on the phone or perhaps I shall make an anonymous call to your office one day. hehe…
steelrage 3:56 pm on April 19, 2006 | # |
I’m mix… and when i tell people that i am.. they go ” wow u must be good looking” that happens until they they actually meet me… then they go.. “oh… you look more malay”… what the heck does THAT MEAN!?
hehe
mixednuts 5:14 pm on April 19, 2006 | # |
The concept that beautiful people are of mixed blood pervades the Asian culture. In the Philippines, for example, a girl is considered beautiful if she has all the features that indicate mixed heritage. Whitening soaps are all the rage here, in fact. Everyone wants to look “white”. It says truckloads about the self-esteem of a race when their concept of beauty is totally reliant on another’s.
On to the accent… I sometimes resent the fact that when foreigners visit the Philippines, Filipinos scramble to speak their tongue instead of their native Tagalog. Why can’t the foreigners do the scrambling? My professor backpacked through Spain once and she was impressed. She said that the Spanish have a deeply-ingrained sense of nationalism. They refuse to speak English to tourists even if they could.
It’s even worse in the workplace. People with very western accents are considered “intelligent” people. Go figure!
Rachel_SeaEyez 5:35 pm on April 19, 2006 | # |
I think if you don’t bother about these petty little things, you’ll be more at peace. I personally have no problemo whatsoever if my Malay friend want to speak in Brit/American accent, or whatever. I have some European friends who sound a little like American, even they’ve never been to America. Malays should stop bothering about petty little things like this, instead move on to more bigger things that will make improvement in life. We adapt to other people’s way of talking, so what? Is that a sin? We talk with an accent? So what, you can’t understand it? I wonder why we Malays are so conscious about ‘identity’. It’s not a matter of pride, to me it makes things easier. I don’t know why, whenever I talk to my Western counterpart, I will adapt to them – but it makes our communication easier. If I talk to a Brit, keluarlah a Brit accent (yelah sikit) or American, I talk like Rachel from Friends. Nothing wrong with it. It’s what you talk about that’s important. And with Chinese, yeah you said it – keluarlah perkataan mah, lah, r jadik l and vice-versa. But they understand me better. So, why not? About beauty, hmmm… I’ve been told many times I look like Paula Malai Ali (sorry, not a compliment, I don’t find her pretty AT ALL!!!), and I am pure Malay. Just because I am a bit on the fair side, and I have ’softer’ features than most Malays (thin lips, sharper nose, high cheekbones). It’s nice to be an anomalie. I guess, people’s perception of Malay is dark-caramel skin, flat nose, a little slanted eyes… but beauty is subjective, like people’s tastes in food. Anyway, your article is a good fun to read. I won’t take it seriously, though.
jalansutera 5:44 pm on April 19, 2006 | # |
Penutur Bahasa Melayu dan Bahasa Indonesia tampaknya mempunyai kelenturan (flexibility) yang tinggi. Kami di Indonesia juga sering mencampuradukkan (mixing) berbagai bahasa dalam percakapan. Saya pikir ini sangat alamiah.
Silencers 7:00 pm on April 19, 2006 | # |
I can’t help but laugh at how undeniably true this post is. It’s a shame that such stereotypes occur really. It’s amusing to reflect upon this issue but really, is there anything we can do about it?
Society doesn’t just change with only an opinion or two.
nora 7:04 pm on April 19, 2006 | # |
thats life..most malays are never satisfied thay they are born malay .(malay are known muslims and known also as pembersih)To me all races/ religions are neutral..what ever races they are in,they are just normal human beings and every1 is unique & beautiful in their own ways and sesungguhnyer aku bersyukur bahawa aku sihat and cukup sifat ..tak gitu ? ckp lah gitu gitu..
annur 10:07 pm on April 19, 2006 | # |
alright,shall not call ya dude.
Frank&Honest 11:11 pm on April 19, 2006 | # |
Hi
Love your blog. Very entertaining and very refreshing.
Your piece on “My Malay is not so good” is humorus. I love it.
You know something. Self deprecation is a fine art of the best of comics. Jewish comedians are well known for that eg Seinfeld, etc. Singapore Phua Chu Kang series is one example too, making fun the way Malaysian/Singaporean Chinese speak English and behave.
There is no harm done to our cultural or social values when we say things we aren’t too proud of ourselves if we do it with humor and with a touch of grace and class.
You have done very well in this aspect
Have place your link in my favourites.
Thanks for the enjoyment of reading your piece.
sukhi 11:25 pm on April 19, 2006 | # |
Heck, I thot speaking in the other’s language was a Kannadiga trait. Maybe we should put a Kannadiga and a Malay together and see which language they speak. Or maybe they’d just fall back on English.
Em 1:14 am on April 20, 2006 | # |
Olas & Salaams
I am what I am that is a Muslim Malay…Btw I loike dis post keep it goin bro…
chian 9:52 am on April 20, 2006 | # |
Funny post. I learned Malay language for >10 years back in my primary and secondary school.
but now I’ve totally lost in Malay tatabahasa.
awan 11:54 am on April 20, 2006 | # |
to jalansutera,
dalam berbahasa dan meniti arus modenisasi perbendaharaan kata, kita perlu sentiasa cermat dan waspada dengan pencemarannya. bukan semua entiti bahasa campur-aduk itu wajar.
kadangkala kita terlalu mengutamakan bahasa asing hingga menganaktirikan bahasa sendiri. sedih kan.
julianME 3:47 pm on April 20, 2006 | # |
Oddly enough I’m mixed and most people think I’m malay.
:)
*lynne* 9:34 pm on April 20, 2006 | # |
hi, got pointed here by MackZul :-)
I’m one of those who considers herself MalaySIAN first and foremost – nationality over race! But can’t run away from people wanting to korek my “mixture” :p wonder when, if ever, Malaysians can look beyond racial lines…
btw I’m one of those who adapts way too easily to others’ accents/speaking style : with one friend I’m totally Manglish speaking, with another I’m very “cultured” cos *she* is th eone with the “accent”, then with the mamak it’s totally bahasa baku, LOL!
mOsh 12:52 am on April 21, 2006 | # |
entry yang best! insightful.
Tepak Sireh 8:39 am on April 21, 2006 | # |
I’m listening to the hardcore keroncong, dance to the zapin beat, singing along with the ghazal tune….. and main kompang as well… but I’m 1/4 Thai, 1/4 Indian, 1/4 Javanese, 1/8 Banjar and 1/8 Arab…..But I’m Malay, very much Malay, speaks Malay, have Malay look if in Malaysia, speaks perfect Indonesian whenever in Indonesia, they called me Pinoy in Phillipines, Thai boy look in Bangkok…. wonder if they will consider me their relatives if I’m in Nepal, Myanmar, Colombia or even Mongolia????? that is the uniqueness of “Malay”…. we derives from everywhere (Nusantara Archipelago mostlty), we are extremely adaptive to almost everything… culture, socio-environment, geography etc. Nice writing Ari! Kelako pun ada… Melayu hidung penyek… but not me!
Ari 12:23 pm on April 25, 2006 | # |
steelrage:
hehe that’s a cute one but reality does bite hard, doesn’t it?
mixednuts:
I have already figured. I guess it’s just asians that could get or realise the fact that the more they try to adapt to westerners, the more backward and inferior they’ll become to them westerners.
Rachel_SeaEyez:
You won’t take it seriously because you just don’t get it and you couldn’t be bothered with upholding our own identity.
jalansutera:
Campur aduk untuk keselesaan, boleh. Campur aduk untuk kebiasaan, mungkin akan rosak asal-usulnya.
Silencers:
An opinion when agreed and spread can be as powerful as valid votes in an election.
nora:
What has it got to do with pembersih?
annur:
Thank you so much!
Frank&Honest:
Thank you for liking it. It was just how I feel and what I have observed, really. So are you Frank and Honest as in 2 people or just a person who is frank and honest?
sukhi:
I bet with you the malays, WE malays, will relent to yours.
Em:
Thank you!
chian:
How about peribahasa?
awan:
Betul kata awan. Seandainya orang kita bangga dengan bahasa kita, mungkin kita akan lebih diikhtiraf di antarabangsa.
julianME:
What mix are you, may I know?
*lynne*:
And I find it weird when people assume I am from Malaysia. Although I would prefer and love to be one…
mOsh:
Thank you!
Tepak Sireh:
I also not penyek but I don’t like society stereotyping the fact that only sharp features are beautiful. Beyonce is beautiful…
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Anonymous 8:15 pm on July 4, 2006 | # |
Quote:
““You are so pretty! Are you mixed?” asked a malay friend to another.
- “For a Malay, he is handsome,” claimed another on a different occasion.
- “Eeee… I don’t like him. Looks very wak-wak!” a lady friend expressing her taste when asked to comment about a Malay celebrity.
Are we Malays really that bad? Come on, those kind of remarks are often heard. I understand and realise that we as humans have our own preferences when it comes to beauty as beauty is indeed subjective.
Some of my guy friends go for Chinese girls not because Chinese girls are better but the common reason would be they do not like Malay girls as they are not as pretty, to them when compared to the afore-mentioned race. Hence, pardon my language again, the “Yellows” are preferred. They have the oriental look! Heck! Even Indians have a classification, which is, the exotic look! What do we have? The Mat and Minah look? Oh pleasee… You wouldn’t want to be called that, would you?”
=> This comment comes as a funny thing to me because as a Malaysian Chinese, my bunch of friends and I feel that Malay girls generally have a better complexion than Chinese or Indian ones. The preference depends on the group of people consulted. Some like to compare the beauty of races objectively while others just want to assert the superiority of their race and see other ethnicities as not good enough.
However, I do notice that Singaporean Malays tend to look a little tired. ( I’ve been in NUS for a year). I may be wrong, as I’ve yet to visit the areas where the majority of people are Malays. The Malays in NUS are quite good-looking too.
About pretty Malay gals, I suggest you come over to KL, to the modern parts( Bangsar, Damansara, etc). The Malay girls there look very exotic.
By the way, saya masih boleh bertutur dalam Bahasa Melayu, walaupun kurang orang yang menggunakannya.
Anonimes 10:20 am on July 5, 2006 | # |
Apa yang exotic sangat? Sama aje semua. Dah berzaman, berkurun, berabad aku turun KL. Sama je. KLCC? Bangsar? Damansara? Pompan semua sama ngan budak pompan singapore. No difference. AKu tak minat melayu. Aku nak kahwin dengan minah salleh, lagi bagus kalau dari mediterannean nations. haha.
sue 12:36 pm on July 21, 2006 | # |
this is my first time reading your blog. i think malay girls are beautiful, but some dress trashy, so their natural beauty does not show. i also think many mat moto need to take care of their skin. sensitive skin + polluted air = loss of natural beauty
Johnson ala Boomba 4:41 pm on July 21, 2006 | # |
Nampak sah si Sue ni skodeng mat moto sak~! To me, mat moto yang ingatkan dorang sume kool and funky pasal dorang in a group of riders club yang tak mendatangkan faedah all suck big time. Mcm mana punya bags jer…
Anyway, before anything, the key word for the mat moto is “tak mendatangkan faedah”. I also ride. With a club and do travelling and community work without showing off and wooing off girls out of nothing.
Ari 6:18 pm on July 21, 2006 | # |
Hi Sue… welcome to this space of moojik.
I think malay girls are beautiful too but many make themselves not so beautiful but beauty fooled!
J.A.B:
Relaks lah brudder. Go easy on the new visitor can? Maybe she meant it innocently and sincerely.
Zali 11:10 pm on August 23, 2006 | # |
Walau dalam kehidupan seharian, aku terpaksa bertutur dalam bahasa Inggeris, namun mengalir dalam darahku darah Melayu dan itulah jatidiriku. Jadi orang lain mungkin mengatakan aku mempunyai pendapat yang tak seimbang bila aku katakan bahasa Melayu adalah bahasa yang terindah di dunia hingga menusuk jiwa. Walau fasih dalam bahasa Inggeris, tahu sedikit perancis dan sedang belajar mandarin, bahasa Melayu mempunyai tempat teristimewa buatku seperti uri dan janin tidak dapat dipisahkan dalam rahim dunia.
Kak Lis 11:28 am on August 24, 2006 | # |
Ini dia .. si jali jali…
Sorry Ari, digress.. alamak ter-english lah pulak…
Ari 10:03 pm on August 24, 2006 | # |
Digress lah asalkan kamu berbahagia berdigress…
Ini dia si jali-jali…
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keep up the good work
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nice layout but prefer the previous ones hehehe
sylv 11:54 am on March 10, 2007 | # |
haha. i wonder if the adaptable thing also applies to indonesian chinese.. (or chinese indonesian. whatever.) I really feel I’m very adaptable too. When I just moved to Singapore, it only took me about 2 weeks or so to speak singlish. ha ha ha.
weennii 11:49 pm on April 13, 2007 | # |
wow! my malay also bad man how can i improve?
Sha 5:14 pm on April 28, 2007 | # |
Heyyy…
In response to not making fun of other peoples accents but our own: who said?
I continuously make fun of the french/italian/german/polish/ozzy/british/hillbilly/arab and whatever else accent i could think of for the day.
Fun stuff since they can make anything rediculous sound excessively ludicrous.
Regards,
M’sian 3CK, Sha.
Btw, excellent musings.
*thumbs up*
abdul jamil osman 5:56 pm on May 15, 2007 | # |
you tengok melayu yang mana satu,cuba tengok zaiton,saadiah, latifah omar,rosnani,sarimah,roseyatimah,
errra fazira,maya karin ,fasha fanda,jins shamsuddin ,mustafa maarof ,nordin ahmad,ahmad mahmud(masa depa muda lah)
eman manan,mustafa kamal,yusof haslam.Hang tuah pun depa kata handsome sampai perawan dan mak perawan majapahit terintai-terintai celah dinding,celah tingkap ,celah pintu untuk melihat ketampanan Hang tuah.
pahlawan aku 2:29 am on July 30, 2007 | # |
ur insights r very good..ur blog is a very enjoyable read. minus the gossips n the bitchin ..its all gerek
I Am A Malaysian Malay 3:17 am on February 4, 2008 | # |
well, i’ve noticed about the “we speak to indonesians and chinese like how they speak to us” before and since then tried to just speak like how we speak malay when talking to them. it’s because i’ve heard british people speak english in their own accent while they’re in the US talking to the americans over here (i’m a student studying in the US, btw).
but you might be shocked to know that i’ve also heard a british girl saying that she doesn’t like her accent, and this girl was saying this to an american. on the other hand, some americans also think british accent is just more classy and elegant.. so, i mean, what the heck? it happens in all cultures.. it only differs in what ways and on the extent it goes to..
btw, the english accent, i myself speak english with a little bit of american accent but at the same time don’t think that i’m trying too hard whatsoever.. and if i’m talking to my british professor (who has his own accent) i’d just stick to the kind-of-american way of english i’m used to talk with.. i also have indonesian, arab and korean friends who were not born in the US and yet speak like americans and they don’t look like they’re trying too hard either… so, my opinion is this, if it sounds funny, then you know you’re trying too hard.. but if you still sound okay, then you should be fine..
anyways, do we malays even have our own malay-english accent? my 2 cents is this – i don’t think we really do have (a popular, or widely used one) so that’s why we often find some malays using this accent and some with that accent… to me, we’re just a mixed bunch…
and to see this accent-thing more positively, we can also say that we malays have a more flexible tounge than other races.. and that’s probably why we can read the quran just like how the arabs do it… now, isn’t that a good thing for us to have?
cheers…
p/s: i do believe there are good looking malay girls out there… like, lots of them, really… and comparing a regular malay and a regular minah salleh? i say no to minah salleh… hey, they have lots of ugly ones too, alright? lol
Ari 8:45 pm on February 5, 2008 | # |
So big deal is it studying in the US?
And about the accent that you have, that is only your opinion…
Mia 2:57 am on March 16, 2008 | # |
my third brother and I have always got comments frm people saying that we don’t look malay,we look arabic. just bcs we have big eyes and sharp nose and chin.
“You’re lying.Are you pure malay?”
WTF??they think they;re giving us compliments, but heck no!!I \We think it’s an insult.
We always end up saying”Y?cse if we say we r, ur gng to call us fuglies?”
Malays are mix bunch already. There is no such thing as a typical,generic “look”. Get ur history straight.
There are squinty eyed malay,big eyes malay,brown eyed, fair as milk,yellow,brown,curly haired,straight.,etc…
I think we are more diversed than any other race here in msia……
To I’m a malaysian malay:
Kudos to you;accent really matters not. It’s how comfortable and efficient you deliver your words that counts.Lol.
raydern 1:47 pm on December 15, 2008 | # |
tru.. but the one thing that so tru this Q only play during 1yrs-40yrs old. When above 50yrs, people don’t play with that Q anymore. peace~ beauty is just a skin fair~~~
Aksi Anak Melayu Boleh 4:56 am on April 20, 2009 | # |
tidak akan melayu hilang didunia