Name Calling

We like to put certain names to relatives, friends, distant relatives in order for us to remember them. My late grandma is brilliant labeling her "blood" relations. For example - her cousin was called "Eepoh Burung Koci". Its a noisy bird ( Copsychus saularis ) What is awesome is...there is a fler given the name of "Inspector Gadget" - Will ask tons of personal stuffs, such a busybody.


Our family TV Repair man was called Donald Duck - go figure. Lately in a meeting, one of my pal labelled someone Mohawk as he got this strange hairstyle which doesnt look like one, but its hillarious. Rather than trying hard to remember his name - we refer him MOHAWK.

My late grandma is so good, he will label the useless male as Bodek Gayung. ( lousy big testicles ).


For us, its damn completely normal, associating something with someone. Those days, we are laidback and able to accept it with a pinch of salt, my discipline teacher will associate our behaviors with our race. Basically our classroom is right next to his office - having 40 plus 17 year old boys can be annoying as we like to fill the class with tons of nonsense. So he got pissed off, stormed into our room.

Teacher
 Hah.....semua bising, Melaka ada apa? Nothing....Keling amik Tanjung, Bukit...Cina amik - Melayu ada apa? 

( as his eyes wondered around, he spotted a liquid paper graffiti on a table )

Teacher 
kau tengok, suruh belajar - pergi conteng - apa kau tulis.....
SEX IS FUN

The whole class erupted in laughter.

In sports and society interaction - we will always bet on the Indians as they can run pretty damn fast. If anything goes missing, we will suspect them.The Malays will go for footballs while the stiff Chinese will good in maths, doesnt know how to enjoy life, likes to compare and making nothing except money like Mr Crab in Spongebob universe.

We will label all the Chinese speaking ones Ah Beng ( male ) and Ah Lian ( female ). The Chinese who cant speak any chinese language to save their life will be labelled as bananas. ( yellow outside - white inside ) or labelled as OCBC ( which is a bank but it stands for Orang Cina Bukan Cina )


Anyway every race have their own role and we enjoy the diversity of it because we are living in a multicultural society - learning their culture, idiosyncrasies, and enjoying their festive seasonal food.Plus certain innocent animals too will get involved with our "insults" such as pigs and cows thrown in adding colors. And mind you our vocabs is colorful. In the end of the day, we laughed like shit. Name calling and cursing is perfectly normal, its just weird when people now is damn sensitive - because its all true. 

ironic eh?


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