Cerita-cerita Zainur

Gooday mate!

How are we? Alhamdulillah, I'm feeling much more better. I was down with fever, cough and flu for the past 2 weeks. I guess it's because of the changing of weather (from hot to cold season), lack of rest and double stress! Tehehe... PhD without stress is not a PhD ey? o_O

Anyway, I had a blast week last week! =) We had a visitor from Malaysia who is my hubby's ex-colleague and his wife. Even though I was sick and busy but alhamdulillah we manage to entertain them. Thanks to hubby for all his help and effort. Hopefully our guest enjoyed their stay with us. And thanks a lot for bringing us 'ole-ole' from Malaysia especially budu! Our budu stock has finished months ago and we're so happy to have them back! weeee \(^_^)/

While our guest were here with us, we managed to take them to one of the must visit place in Sydney. It's Three Sisters at Blue Mountain, Katoomba. According to science the Three Sisters is an unusual rock formation but according to the Aboriginal legend, they represent three sisters (Meehni, Wimlah and Gunnedoo) who were turned to stone!

There are many version of the legends though. I guess the famous version was that the 3 sisters had fallen in love with the 3 brothers from different tribe and yet the tribal law forbade them to marry. The brothers were not happy to accept this law and so decided to use force to capture the three sisters causing a major tribal battle. As the lives of the three sisters were seriously in danger, a witchdoctor from the Katoomba tribe took it upon himself to turn the three sisters into stone to protect them from any harm. He had intended to reverse the spell when the battle was over. However, the witchdoctor himself was killed. As only he could reverse the spell, the sisters remain as stone. What a sad story! T_T

So, if you visit Sydney, don't miss a chance to visit the echo point lookout. It has the most magnificent and breathtaking view! Alternatively, you can go to Sceniworld to discover and experience the nature world in Katoomba. Plus, you could enjoy the sky-ride, cable-ride, the steepest rail-ride or even enjoy your walk throughout ancient rainforest. It's worth the pay! Pheww... scenicworld should pay me for promoting them or at least give me some special discount! tehehe... ;P

I know, a story without pictures is boring! Tehehe... So, here are some more pictures I would like to share with you guys. Enjoy and thank you for reading!

Hola!

When I was young and just about to learn to speak in English I used to say, "Ma, can you open the TV please". Mom would definitely laugh and said, "You don't say 'open' but you say 'switch on' ". That's because I directly translate from Malay to English word. Mom is so damn good at English and so does my grandpa. He used to work with British a long time ago and he also can speak a little bit of Japanese. Whereas me, I always mix up between Malay and English. Yeah, most Malaysian people speak "Mang-lish" and so do I. We even add "lah" at the end of sentence. For example: "You should try to read this book 'lah'. It's good!"

Even sometimes I accidentally use words like "lah", "kan" and "aah" while talking to my international friends. It just blurt out from my 'Malay tongue' mouth! Can't help it. Hee hee hee...

And yesterday, I came across Maria Elena's blog who post on "Oh, My English" a new TV shows that will first premier on 20 May 2012 at Astro TVIQ. Yaww! I immediately fall in love after watching some of their videos. I think it's a great show to learn how to speak English correctly. But too bad we don't have Astro channel in Ausie... Sob sob sob. I hope somebody will upload this show on the internet so that I can watch it later. *finger cross*

Well, let's watch and laugh at some of the common mistakes WE Malaysian always do!



psst: I laughed when I see watch the "chop" video. I think I did that most of the times and I'm so glad that the 'mat saleh' who work at the EEC didn't really 'CHOP' my form. Haha-

psst: In Malays, the 'chop or cop' is actually refer to stamp.

psst: And I'm also glad to have Kel, Pet, Bob and others international friends who have help me a lot in improving my English. Love you guys so much!