Blog ni berabuk or what? Nasib baik aku tak amek sponsors, or else dah kena suruh bungkus agaknya. Yeah well, I'm Malay, I do things for fun, because I like it, because I'm passionate about it and yes you are wrong, it's not just because I am lazy to work a little bit harder for the moolah.

Duit mana mana boleh cari beb. Tapi love, and sanity, lies deep within.
Fuh, deep keperrr.

So for everyone and anyone who has been bugging me on MSN or when they see me, asking me apasal dah lama aku tak blog, terlupa password ke and mostly, mana aku menghilang..

( Here's my answer! )

For the more elite Minahs, who would like to add double punch to their replies, just answer the above, which relates to where, and double it with a who factor.

Tak faham? Ok, example.

( Bla bla bla.. )

So yeah, see you when I see you. Kirim salam peluk cium mak bapak nenek atuk kakak abang adik sedara and pakcik sebelah rumah punya burung tiung.

xoxo
Eli

Giler is 'gila', misspelled because in school we practise bahasa baku and Minahspeak is generally bahasa pasar. Some spell it as 'gile' but I don't think it looks as nice without the 'r' and a five-letter word would mean you need to drag the second syllable a bit longer than the first. If you don't get what I mean, spell it however it makes you happy ok.

( The usage of giler. Shouldn't be new to you, really. )

Note that excessive use of this word is irritating giler. It might also result in you getting a postfix suffix (is that the opposite of prefix? terima kasih ohmydella !) to your name, especially if your name is as common as Ain or Hafiz. I have friends we call Ain Giler and Hafiz Giler. Ain because, well, she's kinda wacky crazy, and Hafiz because everything to him is 'baik giler', 'bodoh giler', 'mepek giler' or 'giler babi'.

Raya this weekend peeps, sesiapa yang masih terkial-kial nak gantung langsir, cat rumah atau baru start bikin kuih, benda last minit ni semua kerja giler la gang.

xoxo
Eli The Minah

Raya preps must already have started for most, if not already in full swing. Today at iftar, my mother reminded me that Raya is 10 days away. I think she's hinting that my chocolate chip cookies need to start being baked, if I ever want to score points with guests who have hot, single and available sons.

Nak jual minyak ajer aku nih.

Jual minyak: The act of selling yourself via heavy (sometimes shameless) flirting. Similar to the very Makcikfied act of selling balms (like minyak bam, minyak lintah, minyak bubut etc) or perfumes (minyak wangi dari Avon dan brand-brand sewaktu dengannya), thus coining this amazingly huh-worthy phrase for the non-minahspeaking.

But the logic is there, sales is sales - you need to throw your product into your customer's face, and do everything it takes to sell it. Just that in this case, you're selling yourself!

Anyway friends, selling yourself is not difficult, really. Come, let me share some tips.

( Top Ten Tips for Minahs yang nak Jual Minyak )

On an entirely different note, korang dah jejak bazaar di Geylang Serai lum? (Sebab kalo aku ckp Geylang jer nanti lain pulak korang fikir kan.) It's not massively crowded like maybe compared to last year, but I still get that feel good feeling walking among all them Mats&Minahs.

Then again, maybe it's just me. :D

xoxo
Eli The Minah

I got this comment on my previous entry.



( Kalau yang marah kena jual, yang banyak soal aku cincang buat inti samosa boleh? )

As for the biskot phrase, it's from the Chipsmore (yes the cookie) advert on TV back in the 90s. "Skejap ada, skejap takder!" said the kid after gobbling up the cookie (if my memory serves me correctly haha!). It was to illustrate that Chipsmore is so good, it's there a second and gone another (gobbled up by more of those naughty comot kids).

With that, it has been established that anything that was once there, and then not anymore in a blink of the eye, shall be remembered after the Chipsmore cookie. (cookie = biskot)

And you know what best describes perangai macam biskot?

When someone has bad internet connection and keeps getting signed in and out automatically (or not) on MSN. Irritating to the max keper.

MSN chatted with BBLove, who is still far far away in another land, working hard to bring home the moolah so I can have my dream white wedding by the beach (kidding! white weddings by the beach dreams are all the rage with Minahs).

Anyway, I cannot imagine how anything can stay white by the beach.

( Don't worry, nothing mushy here. )

I'm headed to Geylang tonight loves.
Have a smashing rest of the weekend!

xoxo
Eli The Minah

This phrase, I find that the Abang Abangs like to use. Why, because Abang Abangs are the breed of Mats that have surpassed the 'step cool' level and have reached 'aku memang cool'. Which just means that they are licensed to be as lazy as they want, getting their girlfriends/ fiancees/ wives/ chick-of-the-week to do things for them while they sit back and besarkan perut.

Some Minahs, like me, we loooooove these Abang Abang types. (Ok wait, I'm digressing.)

So today a couple of my Abang Abang friends called me up and asked me if I wanted to iftar with them. I suspect it was only because one of them would be taking his new girlfriend out and needed me around to equalize the number of Minahs against Mats, but I had to decline anyway, because I was headed home to prepare for buka and have promised my mum that I'd make bagedils! :DDD

( And for today's phrase of the day! )

xoxo
Eli The Minah

Hello hello kopi dan milo.. Sekian lama saya tak update page saya ni eh.. Rindu tak? Hehehe.

So my Mat's been outstationed for a bit, and I've been pretty much occupied with a few projects at work, which is why kesian la sangat page aku ni tak gerak gerak (tapi korang ada beli t-shirt aku takkkk?). Lesser on the myopic meetups also because I've been so busy and really not in the mood to the antics of strange Mats.

Bulan puasa draws near (start besok la kan), and therefore Raya soon. Is it just me or Raya got boring because I don't get $ anymore? :P

A few at work are planning for a short and budget trip after the festivities (seeing that our bank accounts will very much be deflated by then). When discussing destinations, a couple of MACAM PAHAM colleagues of mine threw in, Cherating.

They went on gushing that they just went a couple of months ago and that place is so beautiful, so simple, so serene, so cheap, free of commercial tourists and bla bla bla roti beras gula cili belachan dan daun pandan.

Uh, time lambat la gang.

Gua sua naik Cherating wayyyyyy before korang semua baru nak feeling feeling budget holiday. No eh, aku tak gi ngan makbapak aku - aku gi ngan ex-Mat aku, pasal kita feeling globe trotting, cuma kita selalu tak cukup sen hurhur.

I remember, we took a bus up to KL, to meet up with our Malaysian friend, and then drove up to Cherating in his car. We spent 3 awesome days there, just 3 of us, in a dirt cheap hut with no TV, just beds, a fan and an attached bathroom. A destination yet to get raped by commercialism (soon la soon eh, the Macam Pahams are sweeping in at an alarming rate). Walaupun kita tak belanja beribu-ribu dollar/ringgit, it was a trip worth the memories.

*bursts out of happy bubble*

I digress. Phrase of the day today: Time lambat. Lagging. Slow. Behind in trends. Ketinggalan zaman.

( You know what else is time lambat? )

Peace out y'all.
Selamat berpuasa!

xoxo
Eli The Minah

Here they are, a first, Minahspeak tees!

As mentioned in the update sent via Minahspeak@LJ fanpage on Facebook, these tees are truly limited edition tees (and very tongue-in-cheek right? :P) - because there are only 50 of them!

That's right, FIFTY. Lima-puluh sahaja. They come in 3 sizes, all in lady-cut.
20 in S
15 in M
15 in L

( Tunggu apa lagi ni?!? )

Lincah gang, siapa lembab tak dapat!

xoxo
Team Minahspeak

Satu benda yang I don't quite like at a wedding, ialah orang yang disrespect dress code. Kau Melayu correct? Kau datang Malay Wedding betul? Then kenapa kau tak dress macam Melayu? Macam-macam alasan aku dah dengar dah. Yang paling popular - PANAS.

( Dah mabuk jemputan nihhh.. )

Keep note jer la folks, a wedding is a joyous occasion, a celebration. Janganlah datang berpakaian macam nak turun bawah gi kedai beli rokok skejap.

Love & many wet kishes
Minah Kahwin-Kahwin

So before anyone thinks I'm some katak stuck bawah manhole, I am fully aware of these fan pages on Facebook;

a) Anti Minahs & Kenings 2.0 (pasal version 1 kena shut down)
b) Boycott Arshanti Blogs & Anti Minah & Kening 2.0 (pasal there's 2 sides to every argument, or else why would there be an argument la kan)

( My take. )

It is regardless siapa betul atau siapa salah, because at the end of the day, all these are opinions, personal views and in the end terpulang kepada individu dan/atau matlamat masing-masing. In the meantime, kepada sesiapa yang nak learn how to draw/pluck kening, here's a useful link. ( Click here. )

xoxo
Eli

What happens when a Minah overworks herself? She falls sick.

Tapi tak guna tau kalo kau nak mintak kesian ngan Mamats semua. Okay, here's an imaginary conversation;

Mat: B, kenapa ngan u ni? (I realise that this will never happen. HURHUR)
Minah: I sakit ar B.
Mat: You sakit ehhh..*
Minah: Tak sedap badan ar. I rasa nak demam.
Mat: Ohhhh sakit tuh, I ingatkan apa.. Makan ubat la k B?**

( Entry rated: M18 (But who cares.) )

That said, get what I mean when I say it's no use looking for sympathy when you fall sick?

But then right, you know what to do say when you need a quick fix right? *wink wink*

I'm fascinated by this whole Nenek Keropok fiasco. Because I absolutely LOVE keropok. I'll buy keropok from anyone who'd sell it to me, especially keropok ikan. Fried, not fried, or even lekor. Second is keropok udang, with the pink border, or the ones that become very large after frying.

I fry keropok all the time, for me to much while Facebooking, to bring to work and eat with my packed rice during lunch (cannot eat while working because whole office will HEAR the chewing and will SMELL the keropok and then might ask me for some) and for when there are visitors and there's nothing else to serve them other then tea or air sedap.

I haven't had the time to do thorough research on Nenek Keropok, for I have been very very busy. With work, and the back to back weddings in my family. My friends are terrified of Nenek Keropok, refusing to talk about her and even if it's mentioned, they'd get so scared for days after. My family on the other hand, I'm guessing it's because of our love for keropok, we actually get quite excited when the topic comes up.

This morning (Sunday morning - for I realised that it's already Monday), dad woke me up and asked me to head to my grandma's place. My uncle's wedding was yesterday (Saturday) and we need to collect our buffet set and tables from grandma's place. I wasn't properly awake, so I told them I'd head over with my sis a little later in the afternoon.

My mum as she left, "Mak tak kunci gate tau! Beware Nenek Keropok eh Ina, dia suka anakdara bangun lambat tau!" Pandai kan So typical makcik-makcik kan mak aku, pakai urban legend to try and wake me up. Suspect kuat dia part of the committee yang made the Nenek Keropok story up.

I did get an SMS on the Nenek Keropok actually. From my Mat, who sent it to me one fine afternoon, weeks ago. I remember receiving the SMS when I was in the car with my cousins, and telling them aloud that it's funny how my Mat is sending me an SMS in English. Didn't really cross my mind that it will become this sensational.

Then today, when my parents came back from grandma's place (I ended up not going pasal my sister sort of made a disappearance and thus I had no ride and was too malas to go public), my mum was excitedly trying to tell me something about the Nenek Keropok. See, when my mum gets excited, she can't quite tell a story straight. Ah memang, mak aku weird makcik like that. So my brother told me the story.

( Nenek Keropok last seen in.. )

Right now, all this thinking about Nenek Keropok is making me hungry. Gonna go fry some now and eat with chilli sauce. Have a great week ahead all, stay safe, wake up early and make sure you lock your gate.

For an interesting number of Minahs, Saturday morning can be Ikut My Mat To Kedai Motor Day. Kita sanggup tau, bangun pagi pagi, sometimes even earlier then normal, or even after all that Friday night partying, because, I cannot exactly explain why, a trip to the bike workshop is kinda boring, but fun.

Boring because there's nothing to do.
Fun because ada other Mats to look at! HEHE.

Once I ever got to know a Mat at the bike shop, because my Mat had to draw more cash, so his friend gave him a lift, and I had to wait by myself at the workshop. Why rot, make friends la! I remember getting to know this Abang DRZ, who later we figured that we were on each other's Tagged friend list.

Okay, so today, I'm talking about bikes because I remembered someone asking me about 'wancheng'. (Pronounced like the Imbuhan, 'meng'.)

I remember, asking my Mat about this word, and he, feeling feeling College Boy, said, rather confidently, "It means, 'fabulous'." This, coming from the same darling Mat of mine who called me up when he was at work the other day, trying to fill in a medical claim, "You, busy tak?" Me, "Nope, wassup B?". Him, "'Reimbursement' to apa ar? I nak fill in apa ni kat form ni?". But I digress.

( The correct use of Wancheng. )

Got it?

The following conversation happened at the table last night when I was out with some random friends. Random pasal I was out with a friend, then his friend came to join us, followed by another friend, and continue this cycle 3 more times. I shall not come to the part that actually one way or another, everyone knew each other before this - that is a different story altogether, but generally we know that the MatMinah community is pretty small la kan.

Mat Friend: Eh, kakak kau dah tak kerja per? Aku selalu hantar documents pat office dia, dah tak nampak dia lagi jer.
Minah Friend: A'ah, contract dia dah habis abeh dorang tak renew.
Mat Friend: Abeh skarang dia buat apa?
Minah Friend: Duduk rumah jual anggur jer ar. Nak beli?

LOL. This one is simple: Menganggur means unemployed. However, seeing that 'meng' is an Imbuhan, we can derive that the kata dasar is 'anggur'. Anggur is grapes, which you if you think about it, to 'menganggur' can mean, 'to grape'. To what the grape?? To sell grapes la!

Please don't ask me why you can't grow grapes, juice grapes or even eat grapes. Why must sell grapes eh? Duhhhh, because back the the original context, menganggur is when you do not have a job, so.. start a business and sell grapes! (NO, NOT REALLY.)

Fuh, boleh tahan merepek kerepek jugak eh aku ni.

But here's a crude version, which has nothing to do with grapes.

( -_- )

A few Saturdays ago, I went on yet another Myopic Meetup (at this rate I should write a book on Myopic Meetups) with a younger Mat. How much younger, I won't say laaaaa, but he was distinctively younger because he's a year younger than my brother and a year older than my sister. He's still serving NS (this part all my friends slapped their foreheads to) and there was part of our conversation where he was babbling about "infantry battalion regimental blah blah blah" to which my dear darling Mat gave me a very long (and extra loud) 'HAHAHAHAHAHAHA' over the phone when I was telling him about it.

Moment of digression: If you are wondering how is it that my Mat lets me go on all these Myopic Meetups, well wonder no more, because I'm just going to tell you that my Mat and I, we have sort of a strange kind of relationship like that. Hahahaha there was one day while I was in the cab, on the way to a meeting, I called him up for a chit chat. 10mins of me conversing in complete English, while he replied in Malay all the way. Then I think he couldn't stand it anymore, so he went, "Apasal hari ni you College Girl habis ni?". HAHAHAHAHAHA I love teasing him like that.

Ok, moment over. ( Continue story here.. )

So there you go, "Bercinta siak tunggu ni lift/bas/pompuan!" and "Alamak dekni kalo nak siap siap bercinta tul ar!" should start to make sense to you right? (In case it never did before.)

Oh and the Little Mat, he texted me again a few days later, asking me if I'll be free the following Saturday so he can take me out again. Gave him the raincheck (sampai today hahahaha) pasal actually his bike gave me a buttache (sorry I am made for big bikes jer HAHAHAHA) for the next 2 days so kirakan aku dah serik gitu. So cute. I should ask him to accompany me to a wedding or sth HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Okay I know I am a day late with this entry, but in my defense, I am a Minah and there is such a thing as Janji Melayu. Not familiar with Janji Melayu? Well, it's that thing that happens with all Minahs and Mats when they set a time to meet: Agree at 4 but everyone arrives at 5 (or 6, or 7, or 11 HAHAHA).

So common a phenomenon, sampaikan dah ada term sendiri.
But I digress.

( Spot the Dog was a pop-up children's book series. )

Ok this is random, tapi aku nak tahu, siapa still say Control Station and Farecard? Itu hari siapa entah gi spot aku, pasal now it's Passenger Service Centre (or something) and ez-link respectively.

There's a few variations to this one, but the concept remains. You're eating, and somehow you've got some food where it's not supposed to be - your cheek, you chin, your upper lip, and for extreme cases, maybe you hair. The food in question could be anything, but the most common would be a grain of rice. The rebellious rice that probably doesn't want to be consumed hahaha.


Photo courtesy of .thalia. on flickr.

( Comot. )

xoxo
Eli The Minah

A day's leave put to good use. It's wedding season my friends, and I've been booked left, right and center for all things wedding related. Two out of my closest extended family members will be holding theirs a week after the other and boy oh boy things are in full swing already, with me and cousin Ashlyn caught in the middle of it, mostly with Layan Nenek Duties hurhur.

(Sidenote: Cousin aku feeling tau - nama dia actually Azlin, tapi dia kata, "Ina kalo kau nak blog pasal aku, kau kena refer aku as 'Ashlyn'," HAHAHAHAHA)

Last weekend it was last minit kain shopping and tempahan for Nenek's kebaya, followed by trip to JB with Nenek to collect the kad jemputan from the printers. Ok, Nenek doesn't have anything to do with the kad jemputan printing, but my uncle thought it'd be a good time for grandma-grandaughter(s) bond.

Hey, bukan aku atau Ashlyn *coughs* yang nak kahwin k! Tapi ok ok uh, I like hanging out with my nenek and Ashlyn *coughs again* (allergic ar ngan nama ni HAHAHA). Plus nenek ada many stories to tell, like for example how dulu dulu masa dia muda, dia suka pakai kasut tinggi tinggi and arwah Atok likes to buy them for her. Then there's the part where arwah Atok rode a big German military bike, and they'd go out with friends to the beach.

So skarang korang faham apasal aku suka sangat ngan Abang Motor Besar? Ni semua darah keturunan beb. Nenek gua the original Minah. *chuckles*

All in all, my weekend started early, because I was clearing leave from Thursday through today, but hell yeah it was kecoh. It's like time whizzed passed and suddenly, eh dah Monday - besok kerja arghhhhhhh!

( Kecoh per. )

So on the next Saturday your friend asks you out to town but you don't want to go because hellooooo, town on Saturday is jam-packed with people (high risk of H1N1 tuh) you say, "Kecoh ar Town, turun Teh Tarik St 44 jer ar."

Anyway, kecoh jugak nak cari baju to wear to town kan.

I thought this one would be apt, after the circus act that came around and entertained most of us yesterday.

Mintak: To ask for or seek something.
Paiseh: (Is this one Hokkien or Mandarin?) To be embarrassed about something you have done, or is happening to you.

So then why would you ask to be embarrassed?
Pretty silly ain't it?

Well, to mintak paiseh basically means that you are embarrassed, and you'd like to seek an apology.

Yes you may be more familiar with paiseh being used in such an instance; "Eh alamak paiseh ar aku lupa nak bawak kau nyer DVD nak pass kau balik." It's similar, but closer along the lines of mintak paiseh being more complete and therefore, more, urm.. polite?

"Kawan aku dah mabuk la actually, dia tak tahu dia bual apa. Mintak paiseh eh guys."
or
"Abeh pasal kawan luar I dah gaduh among each other, terpaksa la I mintak paiseh ngan my kawan kerja, pasal nak gi handle dorang nyer hal." (My Mat - who else hurhurhur - telling me about why he hates going clubbing with 2 different groups of friends)

( Disclaimer: PLEASE READ )

In summary, it's 'Sorry, I am ashamed of what has happened/is going on, please forgive me/us/them' all rolled into 2 words.

Semalam dah aku Tweet pasal menegakkan benang yang basah, yang bermaksud, 'menahan sesuatu perkara yang sebenarnya tidak dapat dipertahankan lagi'. Ini dalam Senarai Peribahasa Menengah 3. Jadi hari ini aku backtrack sikit la eh, bagi satu dari Senarai Peribahasa Menegah 2 pulak: Air yang dingin juga yang dapat memadam api - Perkataan yang lembut juga yang dapat mendinginkan hati orang yang sedang marah.

So, kepada sesiapa yang harus memintak paiseh, tolong buat dengan cara ikhlas.