Here are some excerpts of my random Eid 2009/1430H conversations (Warning: highly localized content):
Mum’s comment on my oversized Tod’s hobo: Can we fit in a batu lesung in there? I hate to use your Mak Long’s to make sambal belacan, it’s so small…
8-year-old niece posing a colloquial riddle:
Her: Kapalalu di mana? (Depending on your interpretation it could mean “where is your head?” or “where does the ship pass?”)
Me: This is that one riddle where any answers are invalid is that so?
Her: YOU’RE OLD & NO FUN!
Me & Mum inspecting a suspiciously-shaped cookie:
Me: Ma, this cookie looks like a foot wearing a sock...
Mum: A foot with gout...
My 15-year-old brother-in-law and I eavesdropping on a conversation between Azry & a friend:
Friend: … so we went to buy the pirated DVDs…
Azry: What movies?
Friend: Well we got Public Enemy, but nothing else in mind…
Me: GET DISTRICT 9!
Me: … or perhaps Inglorious Bastards…
Brother-in-law: (looked at me in disbelief & sported this “whoa you’re so cool” look, and after that tagged me around for days)
(A Britney’s ‘Womanizer’ cover was playing on radio)
Me: Adik, who covered this? Weezer?
Him: You … know Weezer? No no, it was All American Rejects. (And tagged us around the Eid visits for days)
Random aunt 1 at some relatives’ house:
Aunt: Well, your sister-in-law’s expecting, when will be your turn?
Me: Well, technically I could still be excused since she’s 30 and the husband’s 42, and me and my husband, we are in our mid-20’s so let’s do the Math… And I’m expecting a Macbook Pro soon…
Aunt: Dah makan mi kari makcik dah? (Have you eaten my curry noodles?)
Random aunt 2 at some relatives’ house:
Aunt: Dah berisi ke? (Colloquially in context it would either mean, “have you gained weight?” or “are you pregnant?” but in this case she meant the latter)
Me: DAHH. Ini dalam perut ada ketupat, rendang, nasi impit, kuah kacang…
Aunt: *smacks me on my back* (but I think I deserved it)
Eid this year was, for me, challenging. The amount of people questioning my fertility increased also thanks to my sister-in-law's recent pregnancy. I was told that I didn’t sound Malay, also been told that I look like a typical URTV-reading, Scoin-listening, minah kilang look until I speak. And for the first time I cried asking for forgiveness from my parents (partly due to this incident where Dad had heart attack), and also there was this someone who could have been our greatest Eid gift ever this year, but I guess it wasn’t just meant to be.
Other than that, so far so good. How did your Eid go? (Azah, here's your long-awaited post. You'd better comment something nice.)
1 comments:
I was in the office, browsing but no update from you that's why la I had to make comment like that last Fri.
Awww honey, those tears over the someone - does it mean what I think it means? Am so sorry to hear it. But wishes all the more fun in trying..
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