nyaris kena "myocardial infarction"

heart attack daaa.....

during Oral quiz last week.

Me: what do you usually do on weekends?

Student: first-first, i go eat-eat with friend-friend. Then go walk-walk with friend-friend round-round shopping complex. Then see movie.

ter-takashima (terkesima... hehehe) pun ye, nak tergelak pun ye.....

anyway, once we're done, i did correct her mistakes and inform her not to simply direct translate from BM to English.

bahasa SMS

i do use 'bahasa SMS' but only the ones yg have been 'universally' accepted. so imagine my shock when i received this SMS from a student:

'ms, ass bl kn anta?'

'ass'???

i only know 2 'ass'-es. The keldai and the pungkoq.

but instead of asking the meaning of her 'ass', i replied:
"kamu cakap bahasa alien mana ni?"

hehehe.... baru le dia hantar ayat yg elok sket...

i don't know about ejin, but i do have students yg when writing essays, somehow tak leh lari dari writing 'u' instead of 'you', 'b4' instead of 'before' so on so forth.

what did i do? aku kata, "1 bahasa sms korang guna, sengaja atau tak, aku tolak 5 markah". ngeh ngeh ngeh... that seems to get their attention... 5 markah oiii... banyak tu. nak-nak plak if markah yg diorang dapat, is already low to begin with.

Lahabau kau...

ramai tanye aku, knape orang melaka suke nau guna 'lahabau' when greeting people.

hehehe... it's not a 'rude' word, actually it means 'lama nye takde berita dari kamu'...

you see, lahabau is actually a 'twisted' form of "la khabar", an Arabic phrase for 'why no news?'. Zaman dulu kan Melaka pusat perdagangan... so ramai saudagar Arab berniaga...

Pak Arab ni bila jumpe kengkawan yg dah lama tak jumpe, diorang cakap 'la khabar?'

orang melaka pulak, kami ni kan if ujung 'r' jadik 'u'... maka jadik le 'la khabar' tu... 'la khabau'...

and after many-many-many-many years... it becomes 'lahabau'.

dan memang sebenar nye penggunaan 'lahabau' tu untuk menyapa those yg dah lama kita tak jumpe, bukan untuk menyumpah. cume orang luar je yg guna 'lahabau' as a rude word....

Amali Sembelihan

Date: 10 April 2010 (Sabtu)
Venue: KPM Ayer Molek

It's a 3-in-1 program. Gotong-royong 'Gempur Pembiakan Aedes' followed by the 'Sembelihan' and finally "Pengurusan Jenazah". Petang and malam plak ada BBQ.

Ayam 40 ekor, kambing sekor.

Masa sembelihan tu le akan tau sapa yg nampak je berani tapi sebenar nye idok and sapa yg nampak je 'fragile' but actually very the berani one.... hehehe....

all in all, i had fun last Saturday. dah abis program, went for lunch at Resepi Rahsia... hehehe... lasagna and then tapau blackforest cheesecake. yummy-licious!