After having read about Malaysians from The Edge Malaysia recently, I edited some and came up with this edition on ways to identify a Malaysian. As the author puts it, "there is a wise saying that goes like this --" You can take a man/woman out of Malaysia , but you can never take Malaysia out of him/her ."
This is really true because it is not hard to identify a fellow Malaysian in another country.So, what makes a Malaysian?Here's the list.
- We cannot function without Malaysian food
- We eat everything that the pasar malam offers
- We always complain about Singaporeans but our best friend is Phua Chu Kang(may be because rumour has it that he is actually from JB)
- We like to stop our cars at accident scenes even if it worsens traffic jams .If a truck filled with durians over-turns, we have no qualms about getting out of our cars to pick up the durians that have spilled on the road
- Not only do we love our lahs and mahs to bits, but we are also the only people in the universe that understands the word " gostan"
- We only have one forte-- whalloping durians without pinching our noses
- We observe Malaysian time religiously
- We are especially nationalistic if our national shuttler wins a medal or gets into the Olympics badminton finals
- We slam on the gas pedal when the traffic light turns yellow while others in other countries slam on the brakes
- We like to start new projects but never to see them through for a long time
1 comment:
Hello Mei Ling,
Yes, how Malaysian are we? You would think that with all our squabbles over race and religion that we are a divided lot. But when one is overseas, all that business is thrown to the wind. Whether we are Malay, Chinese or Indian, we are Malaysian overseas and proud of it. We have Malaysian student clubs, we have annual varsity games (yes inter-malaysian clubs)we celebrate National Day and we get together for all festivals. And we talk the same language and eat the same food. I remember my wonderful two years in the States with all my Malaysian friends and their families. Alas, once back in Malaysia, we find little time to connect and instead get caught in the vicious cycle of colour and race. What a pity! I pray the next Prime Minister will sincerely look into this before it gets worse. It is not that people fail to understand, they do not want to understand and they choose to believe otherwise, the negative side of things instead of contributing positively to the goodness of man and society. Wake up, my fellow Malaysians before we destroy all that we have worked for together for so long. Viva la Malaysia.
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