Malaysia

 Have you    heard about Malaysia?

                Malaysia has 3 main races, there are Malay, Chinese, Indian and other races. We live harmoniously since we were kids. We learn about others cultures, we visit each others' houses when they get married; when they deliver a baby; When they celebrate New Year; even when they celebrate birthday.
           
                 In Malaysia, we celebrate Chinese New Year, Hari Raya, Deepavali, Moon Cake Festival, Wesak..and etc. Malaysians like to eat hot and spicy food, like curry chicken, curry beef, nasi lemak (oil rice), rojak(mixture of noodles, vegetables, and peanuts sauce)...etc. Some of them can't even have their meal without chili.

                 Malaysians can speak various languages, we can speak Chinese, Malay, English, some even speak Tamil. Sometimes you may meet Malay or India who can speak fluently in Chinese, or you will be surprised to see Chinese who can speak Tamil.
           
                In Malaysia, almost everybody likes durian,  I like durian very much, I can finish  3 durians by myself. However, some of my foreign friends don't like durian. Durian has many thorns, and it has a strong smell. Durian is the " King of fruits" in Malaysia. We like durian very much, some of them can eat durian for their lunch. We use durian to make cake, biscuits and "dodol"(famous durian stick)              

                Beside durian, Malaysians also like mangosteen, banana, papaya, dragon fruit and etc......
     
                3/4 of Malaysia is surrounded by sea, it has many islands here such as Redang, Pangkor, Langkawi, Kukup Island which are very famous Islands. Malaysia has many unique city  like Melacca, Kuala Lumpur, and Penang. Genting Highland is a place that you can't miss, a place where you must go if you come to Malaysia.

                Malaysians are friendly. They are willing to answer and offer help whenever you need help. Malaysian are not that materialistic. Malaysians like to travel to other countries and they like to visit places within Malaysia.  Different of  races in Malaysia live in harmony with each other, they work closely with each other, and they help each other and they like each other very much,  many Malays have had married Chinese women and their grandchildren look like Chinese, this happened even before Malaysia independent. They practice even until today. Marriedge among Malays,  Indians and Chinese is normal here. 

                In Malaysia, We always get cheaper kinds of stuff because the shopping center here always on sale! They offer great discounts, sometimes can goes up to  50%  !

                In Malaysia, you can eat a variety of foods. You may try Malay , Chinese , Indian cooking style food. There are "satay lulut", "O jien"(fried oyster with egg) in Melacca; Penang Laksa, "Penang Cha Kui Tiao" in Penang; you may also take other foods like Nasi Lemak, Roti Canai, "Ba Good Teh", Squid Noodles, Hakka Noddles and etc in most of the Hawker stalls.

             
                In Malaysia, you will experience a relaxing life,  you can eat delicious foods at the same time enjoying talking to friendly Malaysian!

TRIP TO KUKUP ISLAND IN MALAYSIA马来西亚景点龟咯岛一游~~大热天日光浴

                                                 

                         

       前天，我们一家人与爸妈一起到龟咯岛去游玩，星期六早上起程，在那逗留了一夜。這两个月里，天天都是大熱天，我们偏偏就选了与水有关的旅游胜地。九月中才去了吉隆坡Desa Petaling 的水上乐园，十月初又去邦咯 岛，前天则参加了龟咯岛二天一夜游。

       

       从水上乐园回来，已把我粉红的脸额, 晒成红黑色了，也多亏涂抹了防晒霜，不然肯定变成一条＂换皮＂蛇。看着上次晒黑的两条腿像穿着丝袜的＂晒伤＂印，唉，都快两个多月了，还没恢愎原来的肤色，这下又再到两个岛去暴晒，没办法，必须＂跟大队＂！在那怎样也避不开阳光的普照....回来后皮肤超干，现在正在抢救期间。更报效了许多美容营养霜。

     现在家中堆满了尤鱼丝，虾饼，虾米，咸鱼等海产及豆沙饼，＂鸡子饼＂，香饼之类的当地土产，蛮有满足感的! 没办法，当你看到別人大包小包的买时，自己也忍不住要买一些，但最后也演变成跟着团友拎着大包小包的往巴士上塞。

     今天又接到二妹的电话提议说要去马六甲的水上乐园玩水，walao喂! 该怎样才能逃过這一刧呢? 今年有＂晒黑刧＂!!  逃不了......

儿时趣事（1）尿床

                                                    尿床    

            ＂婆婆...我要进来...婆...我要进来和你睡..＂婆婆和妈妈心里准说：＂又来了。＂睡到一半的我跑到婆婆房门外敲门。＂婆...＂我妈也闻声起床了，就是婆婆不着声。＂怎么又跑出来了，回房睡觉去。婆婆睡觉了，别吵婆婆。＂＂我要跟婆婆睡，我要..我要＂半梦半醒的我不肯回房。＂婆婆，开门....我要跟婆婆睡，妈妈看起来有点为难却又没有办法哄我进房，婆婆嘛，还是不作声的，没开门也没＂动静＂。闹了数十分钟，婆婆终于打开房，还没等她开口说话，我己掀开门帘躜进房里去了。我也不知道过后她们怎样，说了些什么，因为我已上床睡着了。

              差不多每个晚上都这样，就算妈妈哄我在自己的床睡着了，过后我还是会起床换房间睡。我在想原因有二：（一）跟妈妈睡时，我常常会被叫起床＂wee wee"而婆婆没吵我，让我一觉睡到天亮。（二）我常尿床在婆婆床上，也许是偏爱或习惯了那味道以容易进入梦乡吧!?

             然后第二天早上，我就会看到婆婆和公公扛着我刚睡的"mattress"出屋外晒太阳，婆婆说可以＂擗臭＂。我问：＂不会嗅呀，我睡过了。＂不过看到湿湿一大片的。我想：＂Wow，是我作的吗?我忘记了，也许吧，因为不可能是婆婆作的。＂

             现在想起来，有洁癖的婆婆怎么能＂顶得顺＂（忍得）我这怪癖的小孙子呢?也许因为有爱吧，因为有爰变得什么都能忍了!!是这样吗，婆婆? 我要高声喊：＂万岁!婆婆万岁!＂

              所幸的，我在八岁就不再尿床了！却好怀念那张＂mattress"哦!  早知提醒妈不要丢掉.........。

儿时趣事（3）小弟，小妹

                             童年

           童年到少年时期，即7岁到16岁的那段日子，与妹妹们有什么就说什么，根本没秘密，就连被追求、男朋友A、B等话题都说出来讨论，参考与寻求她们的意见，总愛把心里的话和感受，与她们分享。关系好的不得了，5人挤1间房，从2人share1张床到4人share1 张床的日子，的确是段难以忘怀的的日子！

            记得小时候，我带着平（2妹）到处撒野，翻山越岭，捉鱼爬树，jungle tracking，因她和我年龄相近，她成了我儿时同伴。

            

            有好事(福)我会找她一起同享，有难（苦嘛），则自己扛，我从小就得帮家人洗衣，帮5个弟妹洗鞋。＂跑街鞋＂，读书鞋，1人2双加起来都有24双，幸好她们都不是同一时间出世，和同一时间穿！哈哈！

            

            所有撒野的时间都是我＂㨈＂出来的，因为一有空我就会带着2妹去找＂其他儿时玩伴＂在附近adventure, 当听到mom用超高的嗓音喊：＂阿Quan 啊!＂我就得飞驰跑回家出现在她面前，因为要让她认为我没走远。妈妈叫我回家是要我帮忙洗衣，晒衣，收晾干了的衣服，摘菜，扫地抹地，一直到洗碗我都要帮忙做。但奇怪我还有时间去玩，也有时间去朋友（邻居）家看漫画，我是漫画fan, 我的目标是看完她大＂箱头＂里的千本漫画.... Yahoe! 可惜我没成功，只看了＂箱头＂里一半的书。

           过了几年， 妹妹 陆续冒了出来，抽不出时间来玩了，忙碌的时间来临了，被骂和罚的机会相对也多了。我的工作性质变了。要学抱baby, 学冲奶喂奶，学换尿布，学照顾baby，喂吃粥，要参鱼肉吃，鱼肉要先剝骨，挑细细的魚骨，＂难度超高！喂食时还得用追的，追在追在，追前又追后，难度更高！任务做的不好，还要被骂被罚。还记得有一次让 一岁多小弟从开着门的 baby 床掉了下来，'起了楼'（肿了一粒），被妈罚站门口到半夜。

          大姑总笑我说：＂你好像母鸡带小鸡，去那都抱着弟弟妹妹。＂唉，抱着他她们那能跑得远? 整天都必须要斜着站，你说累不累? （因为要＂托＂着或＂顶＂着弟妹的身体，不让他们滑下来），抱着他们坐在我的大腿时，还得做摇摇脚的动作(为了要哄还是baby的弟妹，务必要让他们乖乖的坐着，不让她他们到处跑) 弟妹长大了，不用坐在我大腿摇后，发现脚竟自己搖起来了，久久也改不了这搖脚的习惯!

            君（3妹 ）小时老爱唱反调，叫她别做的，她全都做了。害我被妈责备最多就是这小淘气。玲（4妹）是最勤劳的，但做东西超慢，妈却老爱叫她帮忙做家务。5妹，雯嘛，最不喜欢看医生，生病宁愿睡觉，迫她去看医生要用哄的，用拉的，甚至用拖的。老厶，6弟祥，小时最爱睏，老是睡到9点多才起牀。他是好好男孩，baby face, 我们之中最随和的一个，是个蛮孝顺的孩子。

            我们的衣服，鞋子，衣柜，床，不是share共用, 就是我用了传给2妹，2妹用了，传給3妹，一直传下去直到老五用了才丢弃。5妹最多衣服穿但是全都是旧衣。弟弟最小却什么都是新的。

         
            虽说现在小弟小妹都长大成人，也都成家立业了，时间也过了三十年。但曾经发生过的事却𤞏如刚发生。尤其是看照片的时候，所有的回忆都出来了，有空闲时拿照片出来回味回味，是我空闲时常做的一件事。希望我们感情永远都一样的好，一样的坚固.....

God Miracle and Testimony（1） - Break-In

                                                                 
                                  God's Miracles and Testimony

            One day, something happens when I was going to fetch my girl home. after locking the door, I saw something very strange, my neighbour's door was opened. I felt suspicious. I then drove my car out of the house,  I tried to find out what was going on? I saw the neighbour's gate was locked, their car doesn't seem there, I walked near their gate and tried to look inside from the door which was unlocked. Unfortunately, I can't see anything. Then I looked at my watch, oh, my god! I was late, I had to rush to the kindergarten. I had to go immediately without further delay. But how? I can't leave this without doing something, in fact, I didn't have my neighbour's phone number.
             After I got into the car, I felt confusing. How could I contact them? I also felt a bit reluctant.
My neighbours were two women who shared the house. They were spinsters, they were about 50 years old. They were very "bossy"(proud) sort of persons, whenever you wanted to greet them or say hello, you would not have chances, because they would turn their heads to the opposite side and pretended not to see you. After several years, what we could do is, said "Nevermind-lah" to ourselves and just ignored it. We seldom talk to each other.

            While I was driving, I began to pray to Lord, I talked to God "Lord, you teach me to love others, including our neighbours, but they are so terrible, they don't even want to say hello, I don't like them, but you always teach us to love and to forgive, ok-lah, I listen to you." After I choose to forgive them, I decided to call another neighbour, auntie Pan to get their contact number in order to call them.

             After then, I intended to take lunch at Jaya Jusco with my kid after fetching her. When we reached there, something very strange happened again. We had gone to Jusco so many many times, we never met any neighbours there even once. suddenly I saw her, my next-door neighbour walking out of the crowd, and just walked away in front of me. My church member, sister Rose told me her testimony that whenever you promised God to forgive someone, God might make two of you meet together, where God wanted to see whether you would forgive them and talk to them or you did promise but later had forgotten what you had promised. 

             It really happened here, because Jusco was so big, it has four entrances, I would not call this a coincidence because sometimes my family members came here for shopping, we could not find each other, we have to call them to meet somewhere.

              at the moment I saw her, my neighbour was bordering by a salesperson who was chased after her and tried to promote something to her. She was trying to ignore the salesperson. I saw her passing in front of me, then I tried to chase her, but she didn't look back and kept on moving forward. I chased her up to about 200 meters, only then I could catch her and talk to her.
         
             She seemed not expecting my appearance, I told her I suspected someone had broken into her house and asked her to go home quickly and to check it out by herself. But she replied to me that maybe so and so was at home. "I still feel worried, I think you better go home, I scared something had happened," I said. She said, "Ok."Then we dismissed.
       
              That day, I went back about 6 o'clock in the evening. I saw her came out of her house and walked toward me. "You are right, they have broken into my house. When I reached home, my gate was opened widely, I think they almost here to shift things out of my house, maybe they saw me and this made their mission failed. I have reported to the police, They just left. The thieves probably with a van or lorry, they intended to carry away things from my house. Luckily you told me and I quickly came back."
 
              For me, although she didn't say thank you, as long as she shows her appreciation, that was enough... That night, she asked another housemate to come approaching me, she is a secondary teacher, She talked to us, she said "Thanks, but anyway, my house has nothings valuable for them to steals." "Oh, dear, I didn't expect any appreciations or thank you from them, and I  didn't expect she could say things like that. If reluctant, just kept it. 

             They didn't tell anything about the broke-in case to other neighbours. I guessed they didn't want to mention it because they scared they need to change their attitudes toward us after this incident. They rather choose to assume nothing have happened.

              I did all this because of God, from this incident, I felt God and I experienced God. God was so real and so great, it was a miracle for me... God is always with us, God listened to us and reacted to it, God will surprise us with all the miracles.

My Dear Grandma

Not Again!        

     "Bobo ...Bobo...open the door.........""Bo, I want to come in....""Bo......"  

              
     "Oh, not again! "My mom and grandma would say. 
              
       Mom quickly went out of the bedroom.
      
      "Sweetheart, come we go to bed now, Bobo slept already, don't disturb Bo, come!" "umm...I don't want......Bo..."But  Bobo's room so quiet, she must be still sleeping."Bo... I want to sleep with you...Bobo..." "Grace, enough, come...""...Bobo...open the door, I want to sleep with you...open the door.."
        Suddenly the door opened, grandma hasn't come out, I had already slipped into her room, I didn't know what they said,  I had fallen asleep after lying in Bobo's bed..........

                    
        The next day, I saw Gong(grandpa) and Bo(grandma) carried out the mattress dried under the sunlight, Bo said can get rid of the bad smell. I said," I slept before, there was no bad smell."  But I saw two-thirds of the bed was wet."Wow, Who did this to Bobo, is it me? Maybe, but I have forgotten, could it be Bobo herself.....?"I thought deeply.

         I think I knew why I preferred  to sleep with grandma, there have 2 reasons:

(1) Mom used to wake me up to go to the toilet so that I would not "wee wee" on the bed, but Grandma would not wake me up until the next day.

(2) Bobo's bed smells "better" than mom's bed.

        I wondered how can Bobo stand for all these things, she was so concerned about cleanliness, I finally understand the power of love. Thank you, Lord, for giving me a Bobo who never scold me when I was overreacted or even when I have made mistake. I appreciated such Bobo who had great tolerance to stayed with a trouble-making grandchild, that's me.

       Suddenly I missed Bobo so so much and also the bed that had a 'good' smell, I should have asked mom to keep the bed......

Old Fashioned Thinking "Ah Gong and Ah Bo"(Grandpa and Grandma)儿时趣事（2）。 公公和婆婆

Old Fashioned Thinking "Ah Gong and Ah Bo"(Grandpa and Grandma)儿时趣事（2）          

5 daughters and 1 son

   I  was the first child and the first grandchild who stayed with grandpa and grandma. Grandma doesn't seem to like mom, she used to ordered mum to do this and that. She would scold mom if she saw rubbish on the floor, scolded mom for late cooking and etc. I used to step forward and explained to her for my mom, I sometimes even fight back impolitely. So bad, right? Although grandma loves my aunt's daughter and their whole family better than us, luckily, she also loves me. She never scolds me when I fight back. 

               My 4 sisters and I  were blamed for this. Chinese like sons more than daughters, they wish to get sons to inherit to the next generation, by carrying their surname. The daughter won't carry or use the family's surname when naming their children but follow the husband's surname, then the "originate" family surname will break once deliver a girl.

             I still remember the day when my mom about to deliver a baby, my grandparents waited long for my dad who had accompanied my mom to the hospital and should have to bring back good news. After the nurse brought out the newborn baby and informed dad, daddy had to call back to informed grandpa and grandma who are waiting anxiously in front of the door where my dad needs to go back to inform them. when they saw dad arrived, they ran out and asked: "Boy or girl? "This question had been asked about 5 times. Dad also had answered "girls" for 5 times."Girl again...Si Bon For" Then they went into the house disappointingly.

               I asked mom what does it means by "Si Bon For ", why were Gong(grandpa) and Bo (grandma) so concerned about gender, mom told me"This is Hakka direct, Gong (grandpa) have old fashioned thinking where he believed to deliver a girl is  a loss."

            

               Grandma had 2 sons, they are my daddy and uncle, daddy got all 5 daughters but uncle got all 4 sons, Grandpa went to visit his grandsons twice a week or more. Grandpa also bought many presents for them. Just because they were boys, and never buy for us, just because we were girls.

               Mom still did not want to give up, she planned to have another baby, she believed the next baby would be a boy. Mom was made the right decision. Finally, she got a baby boy. That day our whole family cheered for the newborn baby boy. I wonder why mom didn't continue pregnant,  she might have two or three more sons follow after my 6th brother.....who knows....?? It might happen if my mom tried...

               

儿时趣事（2）~两头跑的爺爺

                     

                                   五女一男  

         身 为长女的我，深受公公婆婆的疼爱，因我是和他们一起住的第一个家孙。我小时候还蛮习蛮，小小年纪不知从那里学来扙义勇为的精神，老爱替妈＂出头＂。每每看到婆婆责备她的媳妇，即妈妈时，我总爱插口帮妈解围或说好话。有时＂过火＂了变成顶撞，幸好婆婆不曾生我的气。想起来，还真不敢相信自己当时只不过是个七、八岁的孩子。

          公公婆婆有着很传统的思想--重男轻女, 尤其是公公。公公有两个儿子，一个是我爸，一个是我的伯伯。伯母生了4个男儿而妈妈却生了5个女儿。每次妈快要生的那一刻，是全家最紧张的一刻。开始是爸爸在病房外等侯，孩儿生出来后就得马上打电话回家告知公公婆婆，他们第一句话就是问：＂是男是女?＂。不料答案都是：＂女＂。同样的问题问了5次，爸爸也回答了同样的答案5次了。＂唉，又係＂吃本货!＂（客家话），这话也听了5次。以前不知道是什么意思，但每次妈添了个妹妹时都会听到这话，好奇的问妈后才知道原来公公在计算，觉得生女儿是亐本，觉得女儿奍大了最终还不是要嫁出去，送给外家，生的孩子都跟外家姓。。可见他们有多渴望有个男孙，偏偏伯伯家就全是男丁，＂青一色的＂，公公看得眼花潦乱，三天两天就往伯伯家跑，去逗他的男孙玩了，还时而买这买那的拧去伯伯家。唉，只叹我们不是男儿身  !

          生了5胎都是女儿的妈妈，当然还不死心，决定再＂博＂一次，她深信下一胎一定是个男儿，妈妈这次可真是如愿以偿了。  公公终于能很自豪的拿出族谱，找了找到了个＂祥＂字，想了一会儿便告诉爸说：＂就叫信祥吧!＂他把这名字用客家话唸了几遍后，又去抱起小孙子说道：＂信祥A，信祥...＂＂就这么决定吧!＂公公抱完小弟后又轮到婆婆抱。这小信祥真的替妈争回了一口气，也给我们家增添了不少欢乐气氛!公公就这样结束了十年＂兩头跑＂的生涯。可以在自己的家里逗孙子玩了。
             我说啊，妈妈早该＂博＂多几胎，可能小弟＂好脚头＂，会带来好几个小小弟也说不定!!? 你说是不是?