Sewaktu kau kirim senja jingga itu
ke pandangku
Aku terhantar ke deja vu
Pernahkah dulu kita bertemu?
Atau cuma khayalan melayarku
Ke tapak tanganmu?
Genggamlah virtual angan kita
Di ranjang senja nan jingga.
*Pehh! Ranjang okay? Explicit tu!
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My son(shine) came downstairs the other morning after his shower and announced, “Mommy! I handsome. I your handsome Monchie.” The announcement sent me terkedu for a few seconds, thinking…why! Goodness gracious! Just because I have been calling him my ‘handsome Monchie’ does not mean he can change his name from Edrick Karl Johnson to Handsome Monchie Johnson. What am I teaching my children?
It’s a very thin line between amour propre and high self-esteem, is it not?
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“I was at the mall the other day eating at the food court. I noticed an old man watching a teenager sitting next to him. The teenager had spiked hair in all different colors: green, red, orange, and blue.
The old man kept staring at him. The teenager would look and find the old man staring every time. When the teenager had enough, he sarcastically asked, “What’s the matter old man, never done anything wild in your life?”
The old man did not bat an eye in his response…
“Got drunk once and had sex with a peacock. I was just wondering if you were my son.””
*As copied and pasted from Fariz Abu Bakar’s Facebook notes.
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Anger moves people. I have just seen the proof. What started as just an anonymous noise about grammar has now turned into a personal attack. Sayangnya. It’s a shame, though, that people take things negatively much more easily. But then bagus juga ada yang terasa pedas sebab dia yang makan cili. Dan kadang-kadang sebab kita tau kita dibaca lah kita menulis, ye tak? Keep on writing. Keep on reading. And keep on assuming my noisy grammar entries are all about YOU. Yes, you…sir. (And yes, your editor and I have had lots of fun exchanging stories about how ‘langit-dan-bumi’ your blog is to your books! Wanna hire a blog-editor? Bah!)
p.s. Oh, by the way…Abang Ekhsan, ciguku bilang 3 dots jak cukup. 4-dots is only at the beginning of a sentence that is preceded by another (but omitted). But if too complicated, 3-dots is the most common. Nda mo lebih bah itu. Kasih.
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Looks like I have to buat siaran ulangan of the Garage Sale…on request and by ‘popular demand’. Quite a few friends called from their hometown last Monday, kechiwa tak dapat join in the fun. So, gentle ladies, gentle men (gentle ke?), cik kak, cik abang, cik adik sekalian…dengan ini diumumkan:
Garage Sale + Makan-Makan Ringan
1 February 2009 Sunday 1100-1700hrs
No. 28 Lot 203 Jalan Cinta Alam Country Heights Kajang
Datanglah beramai-ramai!
Please click on the map or here for driving directions.
By the way, I did make over a grand in less than 2 hours on Monday! That’s how much garbage I accumulated over the years. But no, I won’t call it Garbage Sale. Loi loi ngo tei hoi Garage Sale aaa!
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It has been a pleasure to have the time and to be able to cook for Mom lately.
Perhaps the only thing Mom and I have in common is our extreme village throat (direct translation of tekak kampung). Though to my siblings, my cooking style is mostly pretty Chinese, I can and definitely do cook and eat the hardcore kampung and exotic food. And that includes:
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rebung (pickled bamboo shoots)
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tempoyak (pickled durian)
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kulat taun (local mushroom)
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menung lengat (boiled/steamed salted fish)
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petai (pungent broad bean)
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bunga kantan/kantang (galangal/ginger flower or shoots)
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ulam raja (no translation)
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jantung pisang (banana flower)
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nangka muda (young jackfruit)
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sukun (breadfruit)
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pucuk limau purut (kaffir lime young leaves)
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pucuk pako (fern shoots)
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ikan pekasam (pickled fish)
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petis
Hmm…can you expand and extend the list to what is exotic to you?
Thank you. Em koi sai lei.
Thank you. Em koi sai lei.
p.s. Now that I mentioned pako, just remembered…I’m still waiting for kue pa ko my fantastic landlord is bringing home from Sitiawan.
Pictures:
Jasmine Rice
Singgang Ikan (Fish Soup)
Kerabu Kacang Kelisa (Four-Angled Beans Salad)
Enida’s Version of ‘Crazy Lazy Apple Pie’
In cup container is Sambal Kelapa Goreng Pedas (Spiced & Roasted Grated Coconut Sambal)
Singgang Ikan (Fish Soup)
Kerabu Kacang Kelisa (Four-Angled Beans Salad)
Enida’s Version of ‘Crazy Lazy Apple Pie’
In cup container is Sambal Kelapa Goreng Pedas (Spiced & Roasted Grated Coconut Sambal)
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Please click on the images below to view them in a larger size.
As this is also a Potluck Party, please feel free to bring a dish of sweet or savory whateverticklesyourfancylah. Fruit, finger food, hor d’oeuvres, healthy snacks, are all welcome. Even leftovers from your ‘makan-besar‘ can be packed and brought over. No worries. Of course I would be delighted to see a dish or better…a whole pot of showingoffmysignaturedishbebeh!
Come on over!
Driving directions:
1. From Kuala Lumpur city center, drive south-bound on E2 (Plus Highway KL-JB)
2. Exit to Kajang
3. After the Kajang toll, immediately keep left and take the first left turnoff
4. Pass the CIMB on your left to proceed to Security Post A
– please drive on the right lane for Visitors
5. Inform the security officers you are going to Lot 203 Jalan Cinta Alam
6. Make a left (9 o’clock) turn at the roundabout just after you check in at Security A.
7. Drive straight on Jalan Cinta Alam for 300 meters.
The Garage Sale + Potluck venue is at the Redbrick House you see on your right.
I look forward to seeing you on Monday January 26 between 1100 and 1700hrs.
Good luck and Welcome!
Gong Xi Fa Chai!
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I got a call from a blogger celebrity last night who initially thought I was a Brazillian. The call sent me feeling like a hot cappuchino all night long. Wooo! And I woke up this morning smelling the coffee like I never did before. Ay caramba!
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I am not sorry I caused the stir. I am not going to apologize for the shit that hit the fan (and hit that empty space right between your ears). I don’t mind if you don’t leave any ungrammatical comments in my Inbox. Good for you! Peace for me! In fact, I am glad you now read your own writing, check your own grammar, spelling and punctuations, and consciously feel that disgust brewing every time you write. Vain if you have to be with your PhD now. No worries…you own every little drop of blood, sweat and glory tears – the cost of your very own vanity.
Good for you, Dr. Quack.
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Suddenly I scared everybody!
From writing, sms-ing and especially from leaving a comment on me bloggies. Muahahaha! Baru gertak pasal grammar, dah termati segala pucuk untuk menulis dan mengomen. Well, actually I am the kind who is easily impressed. Enough if you send me short text messages spelling everything out, capitalizing the first word in every sentence. If your sms is shorter than 160 characters, tulis je lah in full. Guna je lah auto-speller ke, spell-checker ke, wood-pecker ke if you have to.
Instead of “Hw zt gng?” – supposedly a sentence that only takes 10 characters inclusive of spaces in between words, tulis je ler “How is it going?” Sama je bayor 12 sen Celcom rates 10 characters ke 160 ke. Plus the auto-speller will do it for you twice if not thrice as fast than ‘hw-zt-gng’ that makes me somehow think of Awang Goneng, Peter & Zanariah Gawan Taylor’s initials (PZGT) duduk atas gunung. (Funny how my brain works – I should have asked for a CT Brain Scan together with my mother at the Kecemasan Kritikal HUKM yesterday.)
Yes, I am very particular about writing it grammatically right with correct punctuations, spelling, grammar, you name it. But my kecerewetan hanya terbatas to those who are supposed to hold a very high standard of the language being written in. I enjoy looking up to rather than looking down on these so-called experts. And the language in question is konechno pa-ingliska (of course English) lah kan. Indaklah Kedazan Dusun bah!
My fussiness aside, what impressions would it leave you with if you see a sentence like below – knowing very well that it was written by a person who has his/her doctorate degrees in English?
“Did you went to the Syntax and Morphology conferrence at Seremban last two day?”
I might exaggerate this a bit, but trust me…I have seen worse! So please don’t get turned off and sengaja mematikan pucuk to write to me or leave comments if you:
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don’t have a PhD in English (yet)
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do have a PhD in English and feel like I have been back-stabbing you with an invisible red pen
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don’t teach English and don’t know any better grammar
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do teach English but know you’re as kerek as I am with grammar
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don’t care what I say because you’re in denial
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do care and would like to help me membasmi ungrammaticalism
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don’t care because your sole purpose in life is to leave comments no matter how ungrammatical
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deliberately enjoy getting me all worked up over grammaticality
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would like to get your grammar corrected by me
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have had enough of my perasan-bagus grammar
Sesudahlah Enida oi! Poei dongar gramophone rosak laei best. Bingit tingo dibuek eh.
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