MALAYSIANS

Good Afternoon honourable judges, teachers and fellow friends.

We are here today to enlighten you with the most sarcastic, hilarious and interesting poem on Earth,
if not on Mars, MALAYSIANS
As citizens of Malaysia,
We are friendly, helpful, caring .
Thats the image we try our best to portray,
Especially to the tourist,
For example,
Excuse me, where is Jalan Ipoh?
Just walk along this road and turn right.
Thank you!
Oh.. my pleasure.
But then,
It would be slightly different story
If a fellow Malaysian were to ask another.
Hey, you know the road to Jalan Ipoh, aaaa?
Just walk straight down this road-lah!
Get what we mean?
We Malaysian should be thankful
That there are so many public holidays.
Due to festivals like
Chinese New Year, Hari Raya, Deepavali, Christmas, etc, etc, etc.
Malaysian seem to have an equation that goes
Festival equals to food, plus fireworks, plus open houses, plus red,
green and purple angpows.
We got money.
Great food. mmmmMMMMmmmmm.
What about Christmas?
Christmas is a season where a big fat man
With a long beard and protruding belly,
Comes flying down.

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SAALENI MURUGIAH/ENG7L2
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Unfortunately. (eeekkk, crash, boom, bang, neno neno neno)

Cars on the road go round
Crashing into each other in record numbers.
Now, whenever this happens
The road will definitely be jammed.
Here the Malaysian society is divided into 3 categories;
One, the helpful ones,
Two, the typical busybodies,
And three, the one whos indulged with the empat ekor craze (KUDATOTO, MAGNUM ).
Of course we have our BMWs, Bas Mini Wilayah.
Spacious, comfortable, luxurious, even, NOT!
The reality. Hot, cramp, SARDIN!
Only 60 cent for a death defying roller coaster ride.
Malaysian abide by the motto
The later, the better
Isnt it typical Malaysian style?
The invitation card for a Chinese Wedding Dinner states 7.30 p.m.
But the dinner beautifully starts at 8.30 p.m.
The growling of our stomach
Are drowned by the enthusiastic cries of
YAM SENG!
Next in line,
Every Malaysians favourite fruit
Well, almost every one, the king of fruit.
Watch yourself!
The ultimate stink ball!
Its a very common sight to see
Malaysians squatting by the roadside
Savouring their D24s.
Mommy wants me to be like DR. SHEIKH MUZZAFAR when I grow up.
But I dont want to grow up. I want to be a Toy R Us kid!
Yes, we are proud of our local heroes.
No! Not Superman, Ultraman or the mighty (tut, tut) Power Rangers!
We mean, Hang Tuah, our food ambassador Chef Wan, Sudirman.
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Po-po once told me that if I dont finish all my food on my plate, my future husband will have big,
big, pimples all over his face, you know!
Instead, my Amma sonangga not to cut my nails at night or the
boogyman will come and catch me!
Ye ke? My Mak said that I cannot sing in the kitchen, unless I want to
marry an old man.
Superstitious, different beliefs,
They all influence the Malaysian way of life.
Malaysians are instantly identified all over the world.
How?
Just listen for typical Malaysian speech patterns.
Waaa. So expensive laaaaaa!
You know-lah. Shes always like that one-lah. Everything also this-lah,
that-lah, mine-lah, yours-lah. Aiyah I dont know-lah.
In nearly every sentence we use,
There is bound to be lah at the end.
No, we dont intend to join the national choir
Or the future opera singer.
Its just a habit that has seeded firmly
In our everyday speech.
Doesnt all this sound familiar?
Doesnt it remind you of you, me, us, we, MALAYSIANS?
Proud of our culture, our heritage,
And of course, our people.
Through the years we have learnt to tolerate
And to except each other as who and what we are.
We are MALAYSIANS.
And we stay MALAYSIANS.

SERI UTAMA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

SAALENI MURUGIAH/ENG7L2
CHORAL SPEAKING SCRIPT (REVERSED COPY)