Umno oh umno

Is this what we stand for?

What a bloody disgrace these lot.

And that includes that rascist up north in bukit bendera.

Should kick the whole lot out of the party!

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Kuittho

This is just ridiculous!

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Manglish

The follow are the other "non-sensical" translations which a friend of mine alerted me earlier.

1. Captain jack sparrow ( pirates of the caribbean )

Translated: kapitan jack pipit ?????

2. "I'm leaving u . Period." (From a movie)

Translated: "saya tinggal kan awak. Haid."

Malaysia oh malaysia..

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Tandas tidak bekerja

Recently, I had the pleasure of travelling down to jb on train.I have always loved travelling on trains, going back to my fosis days when after my morning law classes, I wud then take the train to travel up and down the country to train young budding muslims to be involved in uk student politics, only to return back to nottingham by late evening, and sometime in the wee hours of the winter mornings. Those were really the best of days (sigh..)



I took this picture in one of the carriages. Malaysians (translators) has always been known for either their bad english, or bad malay.



In this case, I'm betting that the translator must have been one of those pj boys/girls who had gone through a more anglophilic education, hence the notorious malay translation.



For the benefit of my british muslim friends who are reading this, the malay translation given on the picture for wc out of order is translated in malay as "wc is off work today".



There was this another joke in town, when u go to the movies to watch cowboy movies or a movie involving a shooting scene, the translation in malay wud sometime include words such as "itik!" Why? "itik" is the malay word for duck, as in the donald duck.



But instead of translating duck into "tunduk", which is the true meaning of take cover, so everytime the guy shoots at the villain, the word "itik" comes out.



I wonder sometimes whether those translator do even watch those movies that they are translating.



Ps: to my sime darby friends, I notice that those adverts that sd are putting up as translation to "sime darby- building sustainable futures" is also wrong. They are now put up as sime darby- membina masa depan yang "mampan", but this is incorrect, because sustainable should be translated as mapan without the m in the middle.



Mampan means kukuh or strong.unless of course u meant a strong future, which I don't think you do.



Selamat berpuasa everyone!







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Confidence crisis

This years merdeka celebration has come and go without much fanfare. Many feels that this has probably been one of the worst merdeka celebration in recent times. In contrast to last years extravagant and lavish celebration, this year has been really quiet.

It was almost as if that the whole malaysian nation has decided to cooperate in not putting up as many jalur gemilang as possible, and none of those ridiculous "kek jalur gemilang terpanjang didunia" attempts as well.

On the one hand, it is a positive thing that we encourage a less lavish merdeka celebration, for it is a after all a remembrance of those who has sacrificed for the indepence of this nation.

Nevertheless, it is almost a general consensus that there is a feeling amongst many malaysians, a feeling of despair, a feeling of uncertainty, and a feeling of dissatisfaction towards a many things which has happened and still happening in this country.

Politics, and the economy.

I think I'm tired of commenting on the political state of this country.

But it is a worrying concern to me though, that each day, the economic situation in this country seems to get worse.

I thought the budget was quite good.certainly more goodies than last year albeit the fact that borneo received a whole chunk of it, but really, they deserve it after being ignored for a long long time now.

It is a concern though that again, this is a deficit budget.that means we are spending more than what we are earning.

Its like using the american express lah, no money also can budget to spend.

The vistage-mier ceo confidence index showed that the confidence index in the country amongst its top corporate people are at the lowest ever. It is even 41 points lower than it was at the same time last year.

It has identified the following items as upcoming challenges:

1. Current and expected economic conditions to worsen

2.Lower revenue and lower growth expectations

3.Higher oil prices

4. Political uncertainty

5. Dissatisfaction with broadband service

6. Efficiency of public service

7. Rising living cost

I think we are now living in a very challenging period. interest rate being capped at the current level, will only leave us all guessing, at what point really is the inflation now. The official figure was something like 6 percent or something, but then again we are such a protected/subsidized economy that it is almost impossible to really identify how inflated the economy is at the moment.

A report by a foreign research house says that malaysia will face a recession by 3rd quarter next year, and it may be worse than 1997.

I guess the cycle is back at the bottom now.

Hang on to your seats.fasten the seatbelts!






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Imam Masjid klcc

The imam of the masjid was talking abt prophet yousuf

And how he had to go through the tribulations of being accused of committing adultery with another woman

At the end of his ceramah, the imam goes

" You see , prophet yousuf was accused of adultery at that time because he is not yet married (single)

Now imagine if he s a married man with a family, he ll probably be accused of sodomy instead . sekian assalamualaikum"

And then he stopped his ceramah on that note!

I , like many others, was left stumped by such surprising anecdotal remark!

I could hear murmurs and some small laughters echoing around the prayer hall

There and then I thought to myself, barisan has certainly got a long way to go vis a vis the anwar saga part 2.

I mean hey, if we can't convince the imam how do we convince the ma'mums?

And the real joke is, the bloody trial has not even started yet!

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