Malaysian English Vocabulary

A :

ABC - Air Batu Campur (ice blended with melted sugar, beans, corn and Cendol
Aci - elderly Indian woman
Ah Long /Along - loan shark, , from Cantonese, 阿隆
Ahmad/Ahmed - common name for Muslim Malay, but use to denote hired driver
aiyoo/aiyah - to express frustration. The former's from Indian, the latter Chinese, from Mandarin-哎哟/哎呀.
amoi/amoy - Chinese girlfriend, from Hakka-阿妹.
apartment - a medium-cost and high-cost flat with veranda/balcony
apek - elderly Chinese man, from Hokkien-阿伯
apa kes - What's up? or when spoken in an angry tone "What's wrong with you?"
aqua/ah kua - Derogatory term for transsexuals
ATM -Automated teller machine
awek - Malay girlfriend
aisey man - "I'll say, man." Used to express frustration.
angau - lovesick, in love
angmor - [omit the r sound when pronounce] westerner, from Hokkien-红毛
angpau - red packet with money to be given on Chinese New Year or during some occasion like wedding, birthday party and so on as a wishes to the receiver, from Hokkien-红包

(* something i found out from Wikipedia ! Will add more on days to come)

Training 41 and 42

Canceled due to field repair ..

MATCH 9 Evergreen United 5-1 MCU

We are approaching middle of the season and is not going into second rounds of the matches we've played before. Firstly we've played MCU before this and were lost surprisingly in a 2-1 score and were doomed by lack of finishing.

This time its the other way around, as we scored our second win in 9 games, and both our wins are in big margin, this time, its 5-1 for us.

We started the game in a 8 vs 8 game as both we and MCU were down on players who were unavailable for the game. The pitch was in bad shape, so bad, that the ref actually gave us option on forfeiting the game and have it played on a later day after the tournament, and that's not a confirmed suggestion, and if the re-match cannot be arranged, its down on penalties! Without taking any risk, we decided to play on.

As first half started we converted one goal in through BQ which was starting striker today and with the assists of a new player who was Man of the Match today, Logan. Logan was instrumental today in the win, with 3 assists and 1 goal from him through the left side of the pitch. MCU wasn't a threat at all for 80% of the whole game and was left 3 goals down when Jonathan add another on just before half time.

Second half started, and as MCU stepped their game up abit and is not pushing their defense and possessions onto the our half of the pitch, and had one or two shots on us but that was it, untill a dreaded corner come crossing in, their player got a head on, and i somehow, just somehow, under my subconscious, push the ball upwards instead of grabbing it, although i later resort that it was beyond my comfortable reach and i would not undertake a risk where i need to perform a save or take that is uncomfortable for me, and risk doing it wrongly and end up as a goal. But nevertheless, the header comes in, and the ball fly spiraling towards me and as i parry it, it was still dropping in on goal line, but i manage to get it almost half a meter from goal line and MCU's striker come and pushes me into the goal net. Almost certain that it was a foul, the ref awarded the goal !

Furious i got robbed by my clean sheet....i keep away from further dispute with the referee and play on, and with 老杨 and 雪飞 each got one for the team, we ended up 5-1.

Furious....mad...>

IF THIS IS THE VOICE OF YOUR YOUNGER GENERATION IN MALAYSIA , YOU WILL BE BLESSED.

This is a very good article from a younger generation and a great granddaughter of Tunku Abdul Rahman. A very well expressed opinion of how all Malaysians should be treated.

IF THIS IS THE VOICE OF YOUR YOUNGER GENERATION IN MALAYSIA , YOU WILL BE BLESSED.

Sharyn completed her Diploma in Advertising from Taylor's College, and then left motherland to pursue her BA degree majoring in Media Studies and Anthropology at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. While waiting for her graduation in May 08, she interned briefly at M&C Saatchi Wellington, a global advertising firm. Upon returning to Malaysia, jobless and relieved of rent payments, Sharyn stumbled upon Wild Asia through The Star which sparked her interest to learn more about nature and environmental causes. Armed with a communications background, Sharyn works on the Wild Asia website and editorial, translating geek terms into laymen language, easily accessed and understood by visitors regardless of their backgrounds, be it scientific, business, the arts or just plain interested.
By The Tunku's Great Granddaughter

This is a great piece. She has all the qualities of her great grandfather. Tunku has reason to be proud of her!

Tunku Abdul Rahman's great granddaughter

Sharyn Lisa Shufiyan, 24, Conservationist

Both my parents are Malay. My mum's heritage includes Chinese, Thai and Arab, while my dad is Minangkabau. Due to my skin colour, I am often mistaken for a Chinese.

I'm happy that I don't have the typical Malay look but I do get annoyed when people call me Ah Moi or ask me straight up "Are you Chinese or Malay"

Like, why does it matter? Before I used to answer "Malay" but now I'm trying to consciously answer Malaysian instead.

There's this incident from primary school that I remember till today. Someone told me that I will be called last during Judgement Day because I don't have a Muslim name. Of course, I was scared then but now that I'm older, I realise that a name is just a name. It doesn't define you as a good or bad person and there is definitely no such thing as a Muslim name. You can be named Rashid or Ali and still be a Christian.

I've heard of the 1Malaysia concept, but I think we don't need to be told to be united. We've come such a long way that it should already be embedded in our hearts and minds that we are united. Unfortunately, you can still see racial discrimination and polarisation. There is still this ethno-centric view that the Malays are the dominant group and their rights must be protected, and non Malays are forever the outsiders.

For the concept to succeed, I think the government should stop with the race politics. It's tiring, really. We grew up with application forms asking us to tick our race. We should stop painting a negative image of the other races, stop thinking about 'us' and 'them' and focus on 'we', 'our' and 'Malaysians'.

No one should be made uncomfortable in their own home. A dear Chinese friend of mine said to me once, "I don't feel patriotic because I am not made to feel like Malaysia is my home, and I don't feel an affinity to China because I have never lived there.

I know some baby Nyonya friends who can trace their lineage back hundreds of years. I'm a fourth generation Malaysian. If I am Bumiputra, why can't they be, too? Clearly I have issues with the term.

I think the main reason why we still can't achieve total unity is because of this 'Malay rights' concept. I'd rather 'Malay rights' be replaced by human rights. So unless we get rid of this Bumiputra status, or reform our views and policies on rights, we will never achieve unity.

For my merdeka wish, I'd like for Malaysians to have more voice, to be respected and heard. I wish that the government would uphold the true essence of parliamentary democracy. I wish for the people to no longer fear and discriminate against each other, to see that we are one and the same.

I wish that Malaysia would truly live up to the tourism spin of Malaysia truly Asia. Malaysians to lead - whatever their ethnic background. Only ONE NATIONALITY MALAYSIAN. No Malays, No Chinese, No Indians - ONLY MALAYSIANS. Choose whatever religion one is comfortable with.

Remember it was Dr M & UMNO who destroyed Tunku's Malaysia.

MERDEKA
MERDEKA
MERDEKA

(*taken from Facebook)

Automotive Pornography at its Finest~

Remember~

MATCH 8 Evergreen United vs Syndal Spurs

Result 0-0.......alot of chances were created but unable to score past the keeper.....Syndal basically got lucky this time as possessions are almost 70-30, with 70 for us......

Maybe should put one more player in the midfield?

Training 42

Training 40 marks the first training after a long month of absence, and it wasn't a pleasant one....

We start of training with raining weather and cold wind, with temperatures (im not joking) about 4 to 5 degrees, and im wearing....summer apparels for football =.=.......

It was as cold as hell, my hand was all numb i could't even get into my gloves, my knee is still hurting from a injury from playing in Msia (shit turf...), my knees are all pain, literally my whole leg is at pain due to the coldness of the weather. To be honest, if u ask my personal point of view, playing in hot weather, is better than playing in the cold weather. It is much harder to cope with freezing environment then playing in a blistering hot weather, in hot weather u can sweat, but in cold weather, its very hard to focus and keep ur A-game on, u find ways to cope with the pain (yes, pain!) from the cold weather, one touch with ur feet, one step with ur feet, all translate into pain, and ur hand, all numb up, couldn't even move or literally function to grab, not to mention slamming your body on the ground with that much pain going on......but nonetheless, if your gonna be the best your gonna have to strive past now do u...

One dissatisfaction is that we have a drill, 2 person on each, one person start out with the ball towards the other person, and have to use their imagination and creativeness to 'Ronaldo' pass the other player...... I MA KEEPER WAT AM I DOING THIS FOR ?!

Its not like im gonna dribble past a player, and if i do anyway im just get scold for a typical goalkeeper no-no..........

Melbourne Zoo ~ Pt 2

Continue back with the Japanese Theme Garden















I want this lamp post on my future house!! And the rock !! And the plant!!!















A cute little girl holding her doll seal ~















The red-butt monkey















A Red Panda!! God they're beautiful...















A hippo..















Noe what this is?? U guys stil remember in Ice Age movies there's a squirrel
that always hunts for the acorn but always fail? This is it~















The acorns















Katherine always holds the two handle upwards when we push her in the cart, so cuteee















Caution~HATI-HATI?!















This is still Australia i swear...
hmm?!






























hahaha 10 Menit~ apparently cuz the elephants here are brought in from Thailand, and as Malay language are one of thai as well, they try to implement them into here to giv people a sense of Thai-Malay culture..















Giraffe, they are HUGE~






























a pair of Ostrich















Zebras~















and finally, to conclude, a Malayan Tapir.....















Sorry for the lack of pics and lack of elephant pictures as my phone was low....well then that gives you guys a reason to stop by urself now isn't it ? ^^

Melbourne Zoo – General Enquiries
Elliott Avenue
Parkville Victoria 3052
Tel: (03) 9285 9300
Fax: (03) 9285 9267

Victoria Market and 55 Webb St

Fast forward for awhile i would like to share with u guys the famous Queen Victoria Market~~

Queen Victoria Market is one of the main tourist attraction point of Melbourne, known for its wide selection of stuffs u can find there, from shirts, to snacks, to artistic stuffs, to people doing live portrait drawing, to people selling toys, all at a affordable price and great deals, example 5 sets of key chains pack (1 pack have 6) cost 5 dollar.....and things like this ^^ i manage to get something well extraordinary from there as well ^^















For breakfast we had a nice meal just on the row of cafes near the market, with Uncle John joining us for it, sadly we're too hungry to remember to take pics and therefore sorry Uncle John when you read this (and i know you do~thanks for that ^^) and thanks alot for buying us that lovely breakfast and a lovely dinner beforehand~~ Pictured here is my all time favorite, Egg Benedict, well that specific cafe serves a not-so-generous portion of Egg Benedict, they usually comes in the form like this plus 2 toasted bread with baked potato and some side salad as well, but, let me explain wat this is, its basically, two poached eggs, each serve on top of a toasted bread and served with Hollandaise sauce which is like a creamy soury sauce, that is like mayonnaise, but with more flavor and fragrance in it.....a poached egg is prepared by boiling a pot of water, put a big spoon in it first, then crack the egg onto it, and then proceed to wait for it to cook about 70 percent, or if the egg is in room temp, about 2 minute 30 to 40 seconds, and then use the spoon to scoop it up, it should have a solid egg white but a runny yolk in it.....















The market, it looks exactly like a pasar malam, but without the foul smell and the hotness from the sun~














































Theres even a wine tasting booth and u can purchase their homemade wine as well, seen here is the wine barrel~















Back at Collingwood, come across this buggy~wont it felt cool driving this in normal road?















And then proceed to the house that we spend our remaining holiday in, its a normal house that the landlord, which lives opposite, rents out to visitors or backpackers, its located in 55, Webb St, Collingwood, and following is the pictures from doorstep, to bathroom..































A nice artistic spiral stairs greets u while u stepped in....and dun u just love those floors!!















The living hall, with kitchen, plates, pans, kitchenware and cutlery, fridge, oven, u name it ! Its there!















From the spiraling stairs lead to the 2nd floor, and theres 1 Double Bed just after the staircase finish~















Dad going to the backyard quick to have his tobacco session~















On 2nd floor, dun seem to have this kinda design in Msia huh???















A Queen Bed in a warm and cozy room after the Double Bed, still remember the electric bed heater?? Its present for the Queen Bed, but not the Double Bed unfortunately...















Bathroom is mint!!!! (mint means in the best condition ever in Aussie sland..)














































42 inch TV for World Cup what could possibly be better than this?!?!?!















Kitchen..














The backyard..















Noe wats this? This is a barbecue stove, BBQ-ready this house is....^^















Dad relaxing in the fine weather of Melb..















A pigeon house??















And to let u guys noe my favorite chocolate in Australia...















They're call Turkish Delight, but basically its chocolate, with raspberry jelly in it !!!!














































Dad having been there with a mission of trying the different kinds of beer that Melb has, and he tried alot of variety, VB, Fosters, Carlton Draught, Budweiser, and so on, and this one, Sapporo, is from Japan actually, its the oldest brand in Japan apparently~~















Since 1870......















But strangely....its Made in Canada..=.="















Saw a GTR R35 blitz past.....
















The house, is a joy to stay in, with everthing u could possibly dream of its there, u can plug ur iPod, if u have on, to a radio or player compatible with iPod, its amazingly artistic, and everything is in top shape~! Juzzzz one small thing.......there's no Wifi connection...well there is, but the landlord say the electric guy did something to the cables in that area and the wifi became unstable due to that...but it will be fixed...i hope....it cost us 1200AUD for 8 days of staying, and judging from the state of the house, and the position of it (its just 1 minute away from Smith St, which is the liveliest, crowded street in Collingwood....i say its worth the price, yes it is almost RM4000 for 8 days of staying, but when ur traveling to a country that has 3 times the currency of RM, u are prepared to spend dun u.....and 55 Webb St is a sure choice to be recommended.....

55, Webb St Guesthouse
55, Webb St, Fitzroy, 3065, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Phone number: 03 9417 7876