Guess I'm a Malaysian after all!

Adapted from: What Makes a Malaysian a Malaysian.
Edited by: Hui Chi Lee

1. We can name all the players from the English Premier League, but when we are required to name one football player from Malaysia, we are not capable to do so.

This is so, so true! Everyone knows MU's winger Cristiano Ronaldo, Liverpool's striker Fernando Torres and Joe Cole of Chelsea- just to name a few.

But who knows about Ahmad bin XXX, Tan YYY or Shonan s/o ZZZ of Malaysian soccer team?

2. When toll prices increase, we grumble. When petrol price soar, we protest. When we go to Starbucks for a mug of RM12 coffee, we’ve got NO COMPLAINTS.

HAHAHA! Spot on!

3. We are always not on time. And the excuses we tend to give when we're late are always either:
(a) traffic jams
(b) no transport, or
(c) cannot find parking.

4. We have parents who force us to enrol into science stream in high school, study engineering in university, but when we graduate, they ask us to forget everything we learnt and be a businessman/woman.

Haha! This is quite true!! I was in the Science stream in secondary school but decided to drop these subjects in college to study commerce-related subjects.

Let me clarify. The reason I chose to take up sciences in high school is not due to the fact that my parents forced me to but because of myself- part of self image and for the sake of knowledge. And now, as I intend to be an Accountant, why should I waste my time and energy on non-commerce correlated subjects? :)

5. We know someone who can specially develop a Caucasian accent when speaking to an American / British / Australian.

Well, it’s an inevitable fact that we Malaysians are so good at faking dialects. In fact, we tend to pick up angmohs’ accents when we are at overseas for a long period of time. No?

6. When we pay RM10 for something that costs merely RM1, we blame the avaricious Chinese taukes; when government services are too time-consuming, we put the blame on the Malay officers; when buildings are unstable and collapsed, we blame the Indian contractors.

HAHA! Truly true!!

7. When a Chinese student got a scholarship, you say 'Wah! Very clever hor?' ; but when a Malay student obtained a scholarship, you say 'Aiya! Of course lah! He is a Malay mah!'

Haha. No comments. xp

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3 down, 2 to go!!! Economics was pretty okay today. Thank God I managed to finish the 2 essays on time. I chose essay questions 4 and 5. High five, anyone? My right hand sore after roughly 9 pages of writings! :(

Up next, Specialist Mathematics, 14 Nov, 7.00 am. Continue to lift me up in prayers!

so, till then.
huichi