You know you’re a 100% Malaysian when you actually do these 10 things.
Being Malaysian is a pretty special thing. You could say we’re one of a kind – with our quirky lingo, customs and habits. Want to find out if you’re a true blue Malaysian? If the points below apply to you, you definitely are...
1. Your hand has magical powers
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Just by holding it up and in front of you, you can stop incoming car traffic – no matter how fast and intimidating. Car, van, or lorry – they all obey the hand. Also, raising your hand gets you past security guards in residential areas. It’s a short, powerful, Malaysian way of communicating the "I come in peace" message.
2. You call everyone "boss"
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You don’t work for any of them. Your lawyer, your barber, the guy serving you at the mamak – they’re all your “boss”. For example, we might say, “Boss, kuah lebih sikit!” to a waiter. It makes no sense at all, but it’s friendly and respectful. In Malaysia, we’re all bosses and that’s the way we like it.
4. You hope for a public holiday whenever we win at sports
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Whether it’s our badminton stars at the Thomas Cup, our football team at the AFF Suzuki Cup, or our athletes at the Olympic games – you hope for a public holiday if we do well. When Lee Chong Wei won in the recent Thomas Cup Final, Malaysians jumped joyously in their living rooms, believing a public holiday would follow. A sports victory is a big deal and the nation should celebrate it by being allowed to… sleep in.
6. You’re willing to travel for good food. When you travel abroad, you crave the nasi, the mee, the curry, the kuih, the roti, the...
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Food is so important to us that we’re willing to travel great lengths for it. A 4-hour drive to Penang for some authentic nasi kandar? No problem, man! To us, life is like a journey, and at the end of that journey, we eat. Even when we travel abroad, we start craving for Malaysian food after a few days – home is where our stomach is.
7. You feel something is missing if your food isn't spicy enough
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To us, throwing pepper on something doesn’t qualify as ‘spicy’. Spicy means bringing in the big guns - sambal belacan, cili potong, cili padi. We like chilli on everything we eat! This isn’t just limited to local food. Whether when eating chicken wings or pizzas, we always like an extra helping of chilli sauce or chilli flakes. We like our food as tough, dramatic, and sweat-inducing as a wrestling match. We’re not bland and our food shouldn’t be either.
9. You've developed a habit to feed your phone before you feed yourself
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We take pictures of everything we eat for our friends to see on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. We've got skills arranging the roti canai to look fluffiest, the fried chicken thigh to look extra juicy and the lemon cheesecake to look like it was sliced out of a magazine. Today, posting food photos on social media has become the best way of documenting and sharing our every day lives.
lain2 sy setuju kecuali no. 9 tu...rs nyer x semua kot... since ada smartphone je jd gitu ;-)
BalasPadamno 10 tu betol . sometimes its like "yaa, tengah pakai tudung , nak keluar dah ni " yg sbenarnye tengah kelek toletries baru nak pergi mandi . its happen in front of me . errggg
BalasPadamhe he he, it is true indeed...
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