What Does It Mean To Be Malaysian

It means...

nasi lemak for breakfast, banana leaf for lunch and pan mee for dinner...or

roti canai for breakfast, chicken rice for lunch and ramly burger for dinner...or

half-boiled eggs & porridge for breakfast, nasi kunyit rendang ayam for lunch and chapati for dinner...

It means...

never going hungry at 3a.m. thanks to the local mamak stall

It means...

having open houses at all religious festivals...

to see the "malays" and "indians" infesting a "chinese" house during chinese new year...

to see the "malays" and "chinese" infesting an "indian" house during deepavali...

to see the "chinese" and "indians" infesting a "malay" house during hari raya...

It means...

growing up with alan chan as my left neighbour and ahmad zaki as my right right neighbour...

running around with them in the field after school without bothering what colour their skin is...

It means...

having learnt english and bahasa malaysia in school...

yet my everyday sentences are filled with faitit, kaotim, sapede, tani, giddah, chakde and many others...

It means...

having a brotherhood that would kill and die for each other...

but is made up of "indians", "chinese" and "bidayuhs"...

It means...

standing together as one nation during elections to shout out loud in a voice by the actions of...

a "malay" voting for a "chinese", a "chinese" voting for an "indian" and an "indian" voting for a "malay"...

It means...

a "chinese" girl in a baju kebaya, a "malay" girl in a punjabi suit and an "indian" girl in a cheongsam...

a "chinese" dude in a jippa, a "malay" dude in a samfu and an "indian" dude in a baju melayu...

It means...

choosing to die for MALAYSIA...

not CHINA or INDIA or MALAYA...but MALAYSIA...

I was born in this blessed country...i was raised in this country...n i love this country...sure its not perfect...but can u tell me which country really is perfect?

"the perfect person does not exist and neither does the perfect nation. all that exists are perfect intentions"

p/s: all the races are in " " because in actual essence they are all Malaysian but are unfortunately classified by the home country of their ancestors...

Shut Down

this blog has been a place for me to post some of my most intimate thoughts...my views...my depression times...jst basicly my rants...

but lately i've been happy...no more drama in my life...n i plan to keep it dat way...

so as long as there is no more drama in my life...i really dun have much to post on...

as such...im temporarily shutting down my blog...

at least during this period of calm...before the next storm hits...n hit it will...sooner or later :)

Getting A Move Along

things are slowly moving on....getting adjusted to the new semester....time to start sitting down n doing sum work...

a lil update on things dat have been going on...

spent fri nite the the guys...pity not everyone could make it...but i had a great time nonetheless...it was really good...jst chilling...drinking with guys...playing pool and catching up with them...jst nice and easy u noe...we gotta do it again sum time soon....:D

then saturday took my sis to borneo ink to get her tattoo done...n surprise surprise i got another small piece to balance off my rat tattoo on my right shoulder...got the word karma in tibetan on my left shoulder....same colour as the rat tattoo...

sunday i spent it attending a basics to motorbikes course...yeah...finally getting my license for the big bikes...unfortunate actually getting the bike is gonna have to wait cz apparently my mum is dead against me getting those cruiser bikes or any bikes for that matter while im still studying...which sucks...all these prejudices against bikers that they have against these small bikes is getting in d way of me actually getting my big bike...sigh...

well...dats abt it....

Time And Strength

d more time passes by...the stronger u get...

sumtimes u get strong enough that u believe if u cud go bk in time n fight a particular battle u lost before...then maybe at ur current strength u cud win d battle...not mayb...u noe u wud wni the battle...

but then again...time is a one way street...

whats past is past...it cant come bk...it wont come bk...so there really is no point looking bk is there?

oh well....

So Much For Updating

haha...yes yes i noe i sed i'd update n put pictures n all dat...but all of us are fully aware of wut an absolute lazy bum i am...

having sed dat...even though i took a lot of pics on my travels im jst too bloody lazy to upload ANY of them...yes...dats how bloody lazy i am...

so 1st off i went to melaka for fiesta st pedro...its a portugese festival...but dats not all we did...we also went to jonker street...the pink church and the fort next to it as well as the ship museum...n finally at nite we went to the festival...

overall...as a 2d1n trip...we did loads and i had loads of fun n brought back loads of memories...incl of course rubens mums cooking...dat was by far the best dish we had in melaka...although the portugese food and the baba n nyonya food were pretty damn good as well...though hugo n rushir din really share our feelings...hehe

next up was pulai springs, johor...was there on a job under an even management company...now even though i say it was a job...it really was more like a paid holiday for us...transport was provided...so was accommodation in suites that fit 4 ppl in each suite and they din stuff extra ppl in the suites...oh...did i mention we also had buffet breakfast,lunch n dinner?

we got to wake up relatively late considering we were working...n also slept relatively early....i mean like sleep by 12+ 1...wake up arnd 8+...of course we did sum work...put up sum canopies...manned a few games stalls during the 2nd afternoon team building games...carry sum stuff here n there....

but we also got to relax and enjoy as well as even swim in d pool...where thanks to varuns persuasion, i tried the twirly twirly slide...all went well until the twirly part came and...yup...u guessed it...my fat ass got stuck...roflol...but it was still a good experience....gotta lose sum weight now...haha

n now its bk to uni...final year...got sum interestin lecturers...sum interesting subjects...but part of me just isnt 100% sure if this really is d course for me...but until i can figure sumthing else out...ill jst stick to it n follow the path...

well...dats all for now...