on sunday, the 28th of june, after attending my Basic Life Support (BLS) course (which will be explained later), i decided to go and check out the perlis book fair... if u noe me well enuff, u'll noe that i'm an absolute book addict (as long as it's novels! lol). the MAIN reason was to see if i can find an english novel in Perlis... yes ppl, believe it or not, there are no english novels sold on this land called perlis~~ the only thing english is magazines and newspapers and we wonder why ppl from here don't speak english very well rite? (some, not all) but lo and behold... it's a book fair with no english books except school books!!LAME~~~
okay.. back to my story... i was walking with aireena when near the exit we were stopped by this "boy-man" (lets call him "S") trying to sell us Linguaphone. the following is the closest i can get to the actual conversation...
S : kak... saya nak pinjam 5 minit masa kak boleh?
A : ummmm... tak payah la.... takpe....
S : kak, saya nak tanya sikit je... seberapa confident kak dengan bahasa english?
A : *smiles* saya confident sangat
S : oh ye ke? kenapa boleh confident sangat ni?
A : saya confident je la...
S : kalau macam tu, saya nak test akak boleh?
A : huh? oookaaaayyyy....
S : whatsurname?
A : *silence*
S : whatsurname?
A : Aniza
S : kata pandai bahasa english tapi jawab soalan macam tu.... orang tanya penuh, jawab pun penuh la. whatsurname?
A : my name is aniza
S : hah.. kan dah salah tu!
A : huh? tak mungkin lah saya salah... betul lah... jawapan dia my name is aniza.
S : SALAH! dalam bahasa inggris, mana ada my name is.... kena jawab my names
A : HUH? tak mungkin lah... mana ada my names...
S : iyaaa.... takde my name is, jawapan betul dia my names ....
A : tak mungkin lah... saya confident jawapan saya betul.
S : okay... kak ada amik MUET tak?
A : ada
S : dapat band berapa?
A : dapat band 5
S : *smirks* band 5? saya pun dapat band 5 gak, saya belajar kat UITM amik commercial marketing (or something sounding like that la i x dgr). saya tak percaya kak nyer MUET band 5... menurut saya, kak band 2!
A : BAND 2??!! TAK MUNGKIN!!
S : kalau menurut saya kak band 2 je... kalo orang yang band 5, vocabulary kena ada 2000 kata... kak rasa kak ada 2000 kata x?
A : adalah!!!
suddenly he asks me to duduk kat 1 of the tables.... took a paper and pen and wrote the word police....
S : camner nak sebut ni?
Ai : police (cara malaysian cakap la... po-lis.. normal right?)
A : puh-lease (remembering he's trying to be perfect!)
S : so macam mana nie... 1 jawab polis, 1 lagi puhlease....
A : jawaban dia puh-lease...
S : baru betul...
i still x puas hati pasal the names thing.... so i asked him to write it down... he wrote down names as in my names aniza!
A : ni tak mungkin sangat ni...
S : kenapa tak mungkin... betul la.. tak percaya pulak!
A : saya confident gila ini salah... kalo ada 's mungkin tapi kalo names camni x mungkinla
S : kenapa kak confident sangat ni?
A : saya confidentla.... english is my first language, so i'm very confident about something so very basic
S : kak ni orang apa?
A : orang melayu
S : habis tu kenapa first language english pulak?
A : kenapa tak boleh? tapi apa pun saya confident gila nie salah...
calls a friend (T) over
S : tengok ni, diaorang x percaya names tu camni?
A : bukan saya x percaya bang... tapi kalo eja camni memang salah, kalo ada 's saya masih boleh terima lagi la
T : oh... memang ada 's
A : *with smug look on face* hah... kan i dah cakap!!
S : ohhhh *kerek look on face*
the rest of the conversation was meaningless... he probably x puas hati i proved him wrong so he ejek my penggunaan of "lah"... WTF??!
at the end of the debate, he suddenly...
S : boleh bagi saya phone no. x? saya nak testing english u lagi on the phone~~
A : * OMG please! like i'm going to cari gaduh lagi!* x payah la yer.... no!
then another colleague (B) came by and ask....
B : camner english diaorg..
S : oh... english diaorang PERFECT!
A : OH... I never said perfect!... whatever...
and then we left!!
okay.... u can insult just about everything about me but my english???? HELLOOOOOO!!
not bragging or bangga diri but my english is 1 of the things that makes me.. me!! quote gowri " if i don't have english, what do i have... i'm not good at anything else!"... i can speak proper english but there has to be occasion.. if not manglish all the way like every normal bilingual msian!!
safe to say a was pretty pissed off!! seriously if ur trying to sell ppl product like that, u don't go around insulting ur customers rite? ridiculous!
but revenge was sweet!!! nurul met the dude (based on aireena's description!) in alor setar.... story for another day~~ lol
what would u do?? i mean i was in a good mood that day just passing my BLS course.... so i malas wanna retaliate.... but isn't this a WTF kinda stories???
1 comments:
Definitely wtf! those lingua'whatever' salesman always bug ppl wherever they go...it's like a universal understanding to sell the stuff annoyingly.hihi
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