#226
Me: Shorts! Wanna go for Nuffnang movie screening next Tuesday?
Shorty: What movie?
Me: Pacific Rim.
Shorty: What’s it about?
Me: It’s about robots fighting aliens.
Shorty: Whaaaaaattttt…. dowan lahh…. (Shorty hates action movies or most science fiction movies)
Me: Whatttt the trailer looks damn good. Maybe it’s because I over-simplified the plot for you. Ok let me explain the plot in detail to you. In the future, while we always think that aliens come from the sky, aliens actually come from the deepest parts of the ocean. Then they come up and destroy cities and kill people….
Shorty: Wow how original.
Me: But the US government has a secret weapon to fight this threat…
Shorty: Now where have I heard this before? *rubs chin*
Me: You know what… we’re watching this anyway.
#227
Shorty and I went back to Penang over the weekend.
I had to go back for my late uncle’s wake and Shorty being the wonderful wife she is decided to follow me back (I think she was still recovering from withdrawal symptoms from my Australia trip). Shorty is already about 6 and a half months pregnant and when we were checking in on our flight we saw a sign that said that pregnant women should declare themselves. It was my first time traveling with a pregnant Shorty so I thought that it was so the airline can take special care of a pregnant lady. I was wrong though. Right after we declared Shorty was pregnant the customer service officer gave us a long legal document that required us to waive our rights to sue them for anything in case anything happened to Shorty on the flight. This I later learned is really normal procedure for airlines but being naive and all…I took it badly and I kinda scolded the guy.
Later on at the airport though….
Me: Haih… Ya I think I’m in the wrong there. Totally ignorant about this in the first place and the guy at the counter was just doing his job. Haih… I feel bad.
Shorty: Yah… when we first saw him he was a bit cheerful. But after kena scolding already you can see he was pissed off also.
Me: Thanks for making me feel worse Shorty.
Shorty: HAHAHA…
Me: You think I should go back to apologize to him?
Shorty: Well… I think it would make his day again.
Me: Ahh fine…. Kempen Sopan Santun. That means not only should we call out people when they’re rude in public but since I was rude I should go back and apologize to him.
Shorty: Ok lets go.
Me: *starts walking* Ohhh man… this is going to be a long walk….
Shorty: Haha…
Me: I don’t know how I’m going to do this. Do I wait in line for him to serve other customers first or what?
Shorty: I guess so.
Me: When he sees me again he’ll probably me like “Fuk la… this China man fella again. What does he want now? Declare that HE is pregnant?”.
Shorty: Hahaha no Fatty… he was speaking Malay. More likely it’ll be “Puki mak budak ini!”. *
Me: Yeah… he’ll be like “CELAKA BUDAK CINA INI MARI LAGI…. NAK APE LAGGII????” **
Shorty: “Apa lagi Cina mahu???” ***
Me: …… HAHAHAHAHA… good one good one.
In the end I went back to apologize to him. Shorty said he looked kinda stunned… but it brought a smile back to his face.
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For my non-Malaysian readers here is the translation of some of the lines that were in Malay:
*(Translation: <Malay Curse word> this kid)
**(Translation: <Malay Curse Word again> this Chinese kid come again… what else does he want?)
***(Translation: What more do the Chinese want? (The headline of a major newspaper in Malaysia after elections this year when it was found more ethnic Chinese in Malaysia voted for the opposition. That headline later on trended on Twitter.)
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space