Disclaimer: pure imagination gathered from random stories told/read. If it happens, it is purely coindicent. (Those legal disclaimer terms you saw before the start of any drama series)
What I gathered after reading an article from www.jeffooi.com entitled "[url=http://www.jeffooi.com/archiv...]Police's new scoreboard[/url] " It's in typical malay slang, so those who doesnt know Bahasa Melayu, I apologise, I am not a good samaritan. You can learn it from me though :P
case 1-
POLIS: "Oh, (looking at sticker) kerja kat SM TMN XXX, you sudah hampir 60km/j, lain kali slow sikit, tau?"
DREBAR PROTON: "Ya, tuan"
case 2-
POLIS: "You tadi sudah cross divider, tau tak? Ini salah tau?" (expecting you to plead)
DREBAR MERCZ: "Sorry la tuan, tolong la. Saya kali pertama datang sini, tak tau mar."
POLIS: "Tak boleh. Sekarang manyak susah. Mana lesen?" (a stern-looking face)
DREBAR MERCZ: "Tolong la, saya betul betul tak tau mar..." (giving him your license)
POLIS: "You sign kat bawah ni." (hand you a small clip board with empty papers)
DREBAR MERCZ: "Belakang sini?" (flipping to the next page, put a few red color notes, put the first paper back on top)
POLIS: "Ya, kat sana." (smile)
POLIS: "Lain kali jangan buat lagi, tau? Bawak cam ni banyak bahaya." (return you your license)
case 3-
POLIS: "You tadi bawak manyak laju, you tau tak?" (stern-looking face)
DREBAR FIAT: "Tau, apa you mau? saman sama gua kah?" (buat muka dirt)
POLIS: "Ya la, I saman you $300." (taking out the ticketing book)
DREBAR FIAT: "Saman saman la, gua bayar nanti."
POLIS: "You mampu kah? nanti kena tunggu kat balai, manyak susah oh.." (stop writing...as if he's written something before that)
DREABAR FIAT: "Apa maksud?"
POLIS: "Tak mau I tolong?"
DREBAR FIAT: "Tolong macam mana?"
POLIS: "$100 I tolong you settle."
DREBAR FIAT: "$50! You saman sama gua pun boleh."
POLIS: "OK. OK. $50 pun boleh la..." (cursing your line of ancestors)
case 4-
POLIS: "You tadi bawak manyak laju, you tau tak?" (monster looking face)
DREBAR FIAT2: "Oh ya kah, sorry la tuan."
POLIS: "Ya la, semua orang bawak laju pun tak rasa punya. macam ni boleh kena saman tau?." (taking out the ticketing book)
DREBAR FIAT2: "Wah, I budak sekolah, tak mampu bayar wor. Tolong sikit boleh, bang?" (muka 50 sen)
POLIS: "You sekolah mana punya?" (stop writing as if...he's written something before that)
DREBAR FIAT2: "Tu Kolej XXX, dekat sana saja." (pointing at random building)
POLIS: "Betul betul budak sekolah?"
DREBAR FIAT2: "Betul, betul punya." (pretend to look for student ID)
POLIS "OK lah, you kali pertama, $100 saja la. Mana lesen?" (Hand you his ticketing book.)
DREBAR FIAT2: "OK." (Put 2 $50 notes under the license, return them together with his book)
POLIS: "Lain kali jangan buat lagi!"
DREBAR FIAT2: "Ya, bang."
Later you found out that your friend DREBAR FIAT1 just paid $50 and you drove back to the police officer.
DREBAR FIAT2: "Bang, tadi itu FIAT kena $50 saja la. Boleh kasi balik kah?"
POLIS: "Mana you tau?"
DREBAR FIAT2: "Itu bawak Fiat kawan I mar."
POLIS: "Ish...malang betul." (return one of your $50 bill)
Case 5-
POLIS: "Mana lesen?" (smart uniform with visible name tag and ID number)
DREBAR KANCIL: "Cilaka, ACA!" (cursing the whole PDRM as you saw 4 other officer with a van and flasing lights)
POLIS: "Apa you cakap?"
DREBAR KANCIL: "tara pa pa." (continue cursing silently)
Malaysia vs Thailand. Dilemma: If we lose to Thailand we'll fight Japan/England (easy cake) and then S Korea, without top double players and then proceed to semis and say hi to China/Indonesia. Else, we move on to Quaters and meet China/Indonesia, earlier by one round. By the way, Thailand is also thinking of the same thing. I bet Misbun and Kim Hock may want to play strategy instead of bull force in the end. But I really dont know what's in their mind. Their options includes rest top players, have singles playing doubles and vice versa, worst scratch pairs or pure FORCE.
More Info: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2004/5/9/sports /7945270&sec=sports" title="http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2004/5/9/sports /7945270&sec=sports" target="_blank"http://thestar.com.my/news/st...
The game in a few hours time may just be the most boring and dissapointing game. Thomas Cup is a world class game and we have to resolve to trick and bend the rules so much, not even to win but to get into semis. By doing so, we are hoping that someone may just accidentally do us a favor by slaying either the dragons or the local cock-fighter (judging from the potential assasins, chances is nil!!). Looking at the bright side, we are trying hard to prolong our short lifespan in the court. As someone put it also, next year round they would announce XXX, 2004 Thomas Cup semi-finalist. Good for your resume. What more, semis will means more $$ in pocket too. Despite the bad names, the perks are quite3 attractive.
Still, I believe one should play with pride and with sportmenship. Players are representing their countries and however style they choose to play, they are showing the character of his countries. Their strokes speaks of their personalities and of their pride. They carry the name of the nations. We cheer as they win and felt pain when they lost. (Not to mention cursing and swearing and other violent improper behavior.) I recall me and my housemates++ thrashed a national traitor when he supported China 2000 semis. But we didnt do anything when he again cheered for Indonesia. Indon became the champion. Anyway, lucky for the players that their job is just to play well and the coaches are the mafia leaders conspiring.
The coach will definitely be under scrutiny if they fail against Korea. If our boys are down by China or Indonesia, I think it is less of a crime than by Korea. Especially with Park Joo Bong on the other camp right now, there is a certain risk if we choose to play against Korea. So, why not we just play the best and be the Group champion? As Misbun promised, we are prepared to meet any teams and wouldnt runaway. We are going to meet them anyway so why dont we just go? Look at it this way, we could slay them and boost our morale and go all the way to grab the Cup. Even better if we crush the Indons in their homeground. That would be the ultimate pain that they wont forget for decades. I think that would be the best experience eventhough we dont grap the Cup. I wonder how many would feel the same?
Sports are different from business. There is this sportmenship element involves in every games. Playing by the rules is one matter but bending it too much would qualify one to be coward. I would say, just go and dont worry, be it China or Indon.
Malaysia Boleh!
PS: The ends justify the means...maybe I was wrong...
(Updates May 09 11:35am-- As expected, they fielded the denatured team-Roslin Hashim S1, Lee Chong Wei S2, Lee Tsuen Seng S3, Koo Kien Keat-Chew Choon Eng D1, Wong Choon Hann-Chan Chong Ming D2.)
"The end result, as far as the BA of Malaysia and team management are concerned, may justify the decision to ‘lose’ against Thailand, but in terms of morale and sportsmanship, not to mention reputation, it will defeat all purposes."
[i]And God said unto Noah, This [is] the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that [is] upon the earth. ~Genesis 9:17[/i]
"Thanks. I'll give you a treat after this event, anytime at your call." How many times have you made a promise to anybody and how many you actually managed to keep? I promise to treat my friend to a meal after cutting my hair but I almost forgot it if she didnt reminded me. She postphoned it for some emergency to attend to and I manage to keep that amount of money for a little longer. This time I made a promise to another guy that cut my hair and I hope I dont have to give him a treat in England. (He's a transfer student, duh)
"I told you it's not that hard. You want a demo? OK..." And there's another promise to play Fur Elise to a friend and two weeks ago she asked me to play it...now that was out of the blue and I couldnt recall it. Give me a break, the last time I touched a piano was 2 years ago! OK, I lied, I played somewhat song sometime half a year ago. But before that I barely touch a piano and I lost most of my touch...maybe I am not born a pianist. However, As a gentleman, as long as I am reminded, I will pay back. But I really dont know how to repay this one. Now that I missed it, when would I see her again? The next time if she asked me to play it, would what happened to me two weeks ago happened again? Would my very unlikely potential girlfriend get jealous and request and enchore? (I'll be really DEAD then)
"Hey, this will be my last time emailing you. Good luck and Bon Voyage." What about the indirect promise? Those that you said you would do but the other party never asked you to? Should I keep to that promise? It sounds stupid because he never ask you to do so. But you have stated it already, and chinese proverbs says,一言 082;出；Ƌ 43;马难 1; which translated means once spoken, even horses cant chase it back. It never says you have to follow it unless others agree to it. But my strong Confucious education background indirectly asking me to abide by whatever that comes from my mouth. Other proverbs are 一诺千& #37329;, 好马不& #21507;回头&# 33609;...what a confused education I got.
"OK xxx, I'll go tomorrow." I recall too, that so many promises I made to God, the obvious and most ambitious one would be to go to church everyweek. Hmm, if He keeps track of my church attandence, I would have failed that class. Why I didnt go to church? I dont know. Most of the time is pure laziness. I thank my RA sometimes to wake me up from my sweet dream and asked me to go to church or not. Well, that's when I would shake my head and continue to seek happiness in Dreamland. But If really want to go, I would be awake, showered, ready by 1000. Oh I forgot, even if I miss the bus service, I would walk to church.
"Lord, I will change. I will." Other "Godly" contract would be not to chat too much in messenger, be more involved in church, read my bible at least once a day, read over the entire bible in a year...man, without realising, I promised too much. I think I even promise to read the Quran just to compare the similarities of the Old Testment. Scary isnt it. If God has a debt squad, I would be stripped naked my soul and even that I couldnt clear my debt. I think I have the passion of Peter, who would promise things that I cant imagine the magnitude. That is really bad.
So, now, I choose to keep at least one promise. I promised a friend (maybe two...oh well...I forgot) not to chat on messenger until Finals are over. So I am not going to respond to any of (his/her/their) message popped up calling for attention. If you feel like you are the victim of my AIM/MSN/YAHOO/ICQ ignorance list, I apologize. Maybe I'll call you soon. (Update: I broke this promise 4 hrs later)
