WHAT MAKES A MALAYSIAN?

Every time when it's MERDEKA month, I just concentrate on talking about Malaysians. I don't know why either, maybe it's in the gene.

Anyway, today's topic is as simple as it read: what makes a Malaysian? In other words, what is the true essence of being a Malaysian - sort of, when you are not doing/experiencing all these typical Malaysians thingy, sorry to say, a Malaysian you are not! LOL... gotcha!

Those lists here are biased to the more negative sides of Malaysians, but hey, face it folks, that's the reality and in retrospection we should not linger. Here we go...



1. Malaysians are popular with sweet stuff (food & beverage)- when I mentioned sweet, it does tasted bloody-hell swwweeeeeeeet. I can recall that the last time I have my Teh Tarik kurang, kuraaaaang manis - as I ordered & expected it to be - was 2 years back. Don't be mistaken, by doing so, I'm not going to abundant such a bliss - they said ample sweet stuff accelerates mind performance though! (an excuse of course) I'm just in a league of adding up colors & sweetness to something far greater than food intake; LIFE! & you should too folks.





2. Some of the crucial elements one to remember in associating Malaysians are the fact that Mamak comes in handy with Lemak! Only in mamak stalls did you find all sorts of variation from nasi lemak and masak lemak up to orang ber-lemak. Surprisingly, everything's under one roof! From my observation, people has this tendency of mamak+ing; whenever you feel like filling up your tummy, you go mamak. Whenever there's a soccer match, people go mamak @ worse still, even whenever you have nothing to do, mamak is one's finite choice - what to expect, mamak stalls operating 24/7 & that's really makes a difference. It's just habit. Nothing much can be done about it. What's boggles me is the fact that we are having in abundance - sometimes more - while someone somewhere is scavenging, somehow. Truly ironic life is.



3. Each society happened to has their uniqueness and this includes Malaysians. For instance, The Japanese are very well known for their punctuality while The Americans are popular with their so-called American Dreams. Like it @ not, Malaysia has its very own talent too - Manglish! Manglish is an abbreviation of Malaysian English; the addition of suffixes like 'la' and 'ar' - which are unnecessary - is normal day to day conversation understood only by Malaysians. So, British back off. Frankly, I kinda like Manglish, it's simply adorable, straight-forward and polite if compared to, let say, Australian English. You know, "it's a good day (dye) to day (die)" Yup, I like Manglish because I'm Malaysian - not some standoffish you-know-who type of Malaysians who accidentally, out of no-where forget their Mother Tongue.





4. Also, since time immemorial, queuing & time are some 2 greatest challenge in our society. To presume that we are all too laid back and selectively dynamic is quite unfair because there's only a portion of those who really are time mangers. Here is the link to my previous article discussing about Malaysian time. Click.

Other than these, we are just typical Malaysians who like our counterparts from developed nation; hunger for the technology and yet-to-come future breakthrough in every aspects of life.

Being Malaysians is everything when you know something is not right happening by doing things! So, with this upcoming 53rd Independence Day celebration, lets make it a plight in ourselves that both you and me are going to change for the better echoing the very true spirit of being a Malaysian & being proud to be one! Adieu.