Malaysia- cockroach

1.20 am, we had a visitor---cockroach!

Speaking of that, in my entire life in North China, I had never ever saw a cockroach. I heard about its name a lot when I talked to friends living in South part of China. However once I landed in Malaysia, cockroach is just another often visited friend.

"Mum, cockroach here can fly!" first time I saw it and called back home to report the news.

From screaming toward cockroach to managing to kill them, that's a huge step in X girl's life. Just as what I did that night with house mate, by using mosquito sprays and all kinds of other tools we could find by hands, officially and successfully we killed a cockroach!

Female friends, lesson learned, we can be much stronger when guys are not around!

Malaysia-Shopping Mall in the Weekend

I love shopping in Malaysia, but going to a shopping center on the weekend here is just a nightmare!

I really thought only China has the human resource to make a shopping mall crowed, apparently Malaysia has the same power too. Going to the huge shopping centers like: One Utama, KLCC, Pavilion on weekend is just another way to stress you out, or at least stress me out.

I found people here walking very slow when they are shopping, and no one would like to walk on side of road or stand on the left side of the elevator, so other people who are in hurry can actually pass by. In short, the result of that is you have to really fight with human bodies to get where you want.

Another thing I don't really understand is: why do you bring your kids to the shopping mall? Kids here, I am speaking of those small babies. Personally I don't think it's very hygiene for them in such public places, and they are spending most of their time sleeping. what's the big fun for them? they probably think: hey, I am sleeping! can't you people be quiet? Zzzz...

My personal guess is that it's hard to find babe sitters or it's simply a family time here; on the other hand in China, children are left to the grandparents to take care of during the weekend, Chinese grandparents love to be part of the third generation in any way possible, so it's not often to see many babes in the shopping malls back China, I also hope it won't be more in the future either.

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Malaysia-leg or feet?

To my dear Malaysian Mandarin speakers:

Whether you know notice it or not, there is a huge difference between leg and foot, not only physically, but also literally.

In Chinese, we have two words to say them:

leg-we call it "tui"-腿

foot-we call it "jiao"-脚

so you can imagine how hard for me to figure out what you mean when you say "oh, her foot is so long" when you actually mean " her leg is so long"

Same story, when we say someone is huge in size, we don't use " da zhi"-大只，because the word "只" is a measure word for animals, for example: chicken, duck, bird etc. (check a dictionary, and you will find it out) Can you imagine how funny for me when I hear that?

Please do not say: "oh, that's Malaysian Chinese!", unfortunately there is not a language called 'Malaysian Chinese' ! all you need is to get on with more vocabularies, or at least to get it right.

Kind regards

X

Malaysia- Inter-racial Marriage

Walking around KLCC, you would very soon realize that there are lots of inter-racial couples in Malaysia. The most popular ones are Caucasian and Asian, but we also have Chinese with India, Chinese with Malay...It sounds like we Chinese are very flexible in this area.

Caucasian with Asian is usually Caucasian male with Asian female, and between them there will be a huge age gap. The first thing comes into your mind would be: Money!

I guess that's very true! at least 90% is true. I am also sure there are cases that they are really deeply in love. However, except the exceptions, here comes the typical story you can hear for hundred times: a gorgeous young Philippine girl got married with an old rich Caucasian guy, and usually the marriage was being reached by getting pregnant, the wedding has to be held in Philippe, or the legal papers are from there. then after one year or two, one day when the guy got back home, the house was empty. House, cars, child are now all belong to the Philippine girl, not mention it might also include your half of other net assets, and if you are stupid enough, you may also buy her family a house in Philippine. It's the oldest grandma story ever, but still, it's happening every day.

Not being bias to Philippine, it might also happen to Thailand girl, China girl, or any other nationality. my question is: if we all know that the girl comes after the money, or most likely for the money, why those guys are still making the same mistakes again and again?

I think there is a paper called "prenuptial agreement", guys, sign it! nothing is for sure. if she tells you that this agreement does not represent true love, tell her that's exactly the way to represent true love: unconditionally accept who you are not what you have.

Sign it, but also make sure you sign the Iron one, not the one can be brought to the court to be argued at the end of day.

Good luck!