Biligual Problem

I finally Google the opposite of Lazy.

and I am disappointed. 

I mean, I duno what I was expecting but definitely not 'active' or 'energetic'. I expect too much.

Kan dalam bahasa melayu, Malas (lazy) tu, oppositenya, Rajin. and Rajin is not active nor energetic. I don't think. 🤔

Wait, lets Google translater Malay to English. 

SEE!? its not active nor energetic!

but in the sentence 'Do your due diligent' isn't talking about kerajinan. it's more of doing your assigned job with correct procedures or steps.

Then I went a little further:

I thought 'Tekun' is Focus.

I guess not.

Then, I checked Focus.

but isn't 'Fokus' is just English word spelled in Malay?  

I tried Concentrate lagi. coz to concentrate is to focus, right?  

whaaaaaa 😲

Ok. enough. 

Point is, I don't know English as well as I thought. 😅

#bilingualproblem You know the word but you aren't able to explain it.

I have a headache.

 . . .

I think I annoyed people

not that I'm not annoying on a daily basis,

but

that last KL trip, I think i offend a couple of sales person. :S

I swear I didn't do it on purpose.

I'm just realizing that I tend to speak English when I'm nervous. 

Now, I'm not trying to justify myself after offending people, but hear me out.

Kalau di Brunei, sanang lah, i usually just trying to 'blend in', 'mix with the crowd', 'speak your lingo', etc when I speak to new people. Cakap Brunei is so sanang. coz my language, kan. nervous2 ku pun, I can still talk.

I'm speaking from my experience at the office when we have mix group of people from different departments and branches during Training.

Kalau di luar negeri, macam Miri lah, from experience, selalunya i just ask/answer in English. because in Miri mostly they speak Kucing or English. but of course, sometimes I forgot that I was in Miri, and speak my malay. LOL nasib Miri people are so accustomed to Brunei Malay.

this is why, time di KL I speak English. 

NOT BECAUSE my English is amajing like Prince Mateen's but because I don't know how to speak in bahasa semenanjung (i think it means bahasa melayu KL?). 

I used to, back when I was 13 and had Bahasa Melayu oral exam and I fooled the examiner into thinking that I'm half Malaysian. LOL I am not, Ma'am. pure Bruneian at heart. :P 

point is, I can't. I mean, i blurt it out a few times on that trip but then I got embarrass and stopped.

2 sales person, I notice, looked annoyed, when I speak English with them. Kira macam aku tu inda pandai cakap melayu lah ah. Bukan inda pandai, sis, different accent/dialek. 

Plus I don't want people to know that I'm Bruneian. for safety reason.

For so many years, people had the wrong idea yg we Bruneians are rich people and when we travel, we must have a lot of money on us. So, we got 'mugged' 'tipu' a lot.

That is why, for pre-cautionary measure, when taxi driver asked where we come from, we lie and tell them we are from KK (Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia), because some people think we have similar dialek.

So, that is why I speak English. 

1. to stop making myself looking like a fool trying to speak the semananjung dialek

2. to stop myself from being targeted tourist

I think this is why I have anxiety about travelling alone to KL. :S

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Serious question: How do you spell Dialek? LOL

Japan Trip Day 1.1

Lets sub-title this post as 'Lost'

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As soon as we landed, we both looked for toilet first.
coz our body wasn't cooperating well with us.
hahahah
Once that settled, we both were tired and all our plans actually thrown out of the window.
seriously.

we were looking for the Japan Railway office/counter to exchange our passes when we were approached by the airport police officer.
kami dua tarus nebes
coz we both pakai tudung
maybe ia pikir kami terrorist!

but he said it was just a random security check and we tried to be calm. we ended up asking him where the JR counter was and he helped us.

We did the exchange, and since we were sorta given a free hotspot wifi password thingy, we forgot our intention to buy the data line at the airport.
so basically, we left the airport, board a JR train that would bring us to our hotel, 'blindly'.


(sorry buzz, but I don't have train picture on the first day. ^_^v)


I said 'blindly' because, once we were on the train, the internet was not at all stable (coz, durh! its a moving train) and we couldn't get proper map to our hotel.

and of course, once we arrived at our next station (supposedly 5 mins walk from that station to our hotel) and we were extremely lost.
both tired. both hangry (hungry and angry HAHAHAH).
We first asked help from 7eleven employee. he showed a map, but that was not much help coz we don't know Japan, let alone their local map.
sekali, one last resort, literally dragging our tired feet, cBuzz decided to tanya hawker Machi selling cold drinks. I waited for her in front of a parking area where it was limbu (sheltered from direct sunlight) coz Japan weather was still hot when we got there. like, if Brunei is hot, Japan is hotter. I got sunburn. 
anyway, while I waited, this paci, the parking carer (i think), approached me and tried to help. we both don't speak each other's languages, but what touches me at that moment was how nice he was trying to help eventhough we couldn't really communicate.
a few minutes into it, then came a passersby, we called him 'Uncle' (coz he was a lot younger looking than the paci), and the paci asked him for help too. Lucky for us this uncle know English!
thus, the uncle helped next. he followed the map the 7eleven gave us at first, but after we got lost again, cBuzz suggested he called the hotel and asked for direction. He called, and found out the map was wrongly given to us and very kindly, he helped us walked to our hotel!
We were just thankful! and said thank you to him a lots of time! nasib kami tau cana cakap 'thank you' in Japanese. LOL

At this point, we already regretting our neglect of buying the data line at the airport.
INTERNET IS IMPORTANT PEOPLE!
especially tempat baru.
Lesson Learn no. 1; bali data line before anything else!

. . .

WHAT. THE. WHAT.

I mean, WHAT. THE. WHAT.

take a look at this!!

do you wana know what it means?

I'll tell ya what it means.

It means *JO.SE. TIN. BI. BO. REL. CHO. HA. HAE* in another word (I don't know what it means exactly but, roughly it means) *Justin Bieber. Like* (Ok fine! I googled it and it means *I Like Justin Bieber*)

just what. the. fuck. is (whomsoever yg meng-edit!) think (whomsoever yg meng-edit) doing?! THAT'S NOT EVEN HANJA IS IT?

but hey, I was just being silly. and trying to show off yg I can actually read Hangul. :P LOL (key point: read but not quite understand)

ah well. they probably thought it'd be a laugh.

and it made me laugh.

Ha ha ha ha.

just!

WHAT. THE. WHAT.


. . .

*Gasp!*

GASP!!

Ottokae?
I havent study anything these school holiday.
Study apa, you said?

Study Korean.

blajar plang; thru drama and songs' lyrics. mostly dari lagu lah. ahaha jadi th ah. dari pada nada langsung. xP

my new year's Resolution? I shall not skip Korean Class if it's not necessary.

LOL.


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