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Almost all my frens married. I must get married

hengger — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 22:38:12 +0800

Times flying very fast. Already graduated only 3 years but i found almost all my frens get married already. They are busy with kids and wife. No wonder i feel bored. They no layan me anymore. I am suppose to get married in april but due to Covid-19 we have postponed to december. This time i dont care Covid-19 or not must get married and finally can piap.

I cant wait Datuk Ayob Khan to become IGP.

hengger — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 21:20:52 +0800

This Datuk ayob Khan where ever he was placed he can carry out his duty efficiently. The place will clean from under world gengster, from drug, from bribery, from prostitution, from illegal gambling etc.

He is clean and very strict person. Most importantly he has no mercy to criminal. Johor contingent was known as the most difficult place for police but once he was there easily he clean up the.police internally and also the crime in that state.

I beleive after out current IGP retired very soon he will replace him. May our country clean from crime especially organize crime soon.

Do you agree PM age should be 50 years old max ?

hengger — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 12:52:36 +0800

Boomers really bring down this country with their old idea keep recycling. No good and fresh idea. Even if youngsters try to propose the new idea they just meh and ignore it. We should make it law MP, Senators and PM age max 50 years only. Only that way we can develop fast. Ok or not?

How Thais can demo for weeks and months nonstop?

hengger — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 18:04:03 +0800

They not working meh?

If senator can become PM, Tok Mat is the best PM

hengger — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 15:01:06 +0800

Can senator become PM?

If can Tok Mat is the best candidate for PM.

He is smart, moderate and clean.

WTF Shopee..Now no more ask TAC code?

hengger — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 21:17:48 +0800

Just now order at shopee. Straight away proceed the payment from my Credit card without getting TAC from me first. Since when like this?

No security at all. Damn dangerous weh.

How come Sabah PRN got 3 Bebas win seats?

hengger — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:23:58 +0800

Many calon bebas win in Sabah PRN. How come like that? Very easy for Bebas candidate can win? If in Malaya, dont dream Bebas can win.

So this is the Musang King Co. that people talking

hengger — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 15:31:39 +0800

Why FB dont have page 4 whistleblower upload video

hengger — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 23:17:31 +0800

Citizen or bawang army should help authority by taking video of illegal business place and upload it into FB page date dedicated for this purpose. Make this as a hobby when have free.time.

We always hear police and majlis bandaran asked Public to give info about this illegal business operation.

Therefore public and bawang army should help.this way to get instant action.

what u think?

My place suddenly kedai wukong and massat kolos

hengger — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 17:09:20 +0800

They said kolos for 1 month because angin banyak kuat mau mari. Your place same ?

You still trust politician wont songlap?

hengger — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 15:22:25 +0800

BN songlap. Dap also songlap. All same shit with different names. Democracy not good la. Politicians songlap to buy votes. Thats why songlap everywhere. All root to get money to buy votes and to get supporters.

Hokkien on its last legs, warns linguist.

hengger — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 17:29:40 +0800

GEORGE TOWN: A linguist has warned of the impending extinction of Hokkien, popularly regarded as one of Penang’s official languages along with Malay and English.

The linguist, Sim Tze Wei, said Hokkien had been endangered by Han Chinese nationalism, which advocates the use of Mandarin above other Chinese tongues.

He told FMT the nationalism had spread to Malaysia and young Malaysians would hardly ever use Hokkien nowadays.

Sim, an expert in the study of endangered languages, is president of the Hokkien Language Association of Penang. He is currently hosting an exhibition billed as The Death and Life of Hokkien: How an Ideology Wiped Out Your Language.

Sim and some of his exhibits.

The exhibition, held at the Cheah Kongsi in Beach Street, is open from 9am to 5pm. It ends on Oct 25.

He said Mandarin, a language with origins in Beijing, was being pushed to be used as a medium of instruction in schools and day-to-day interactions.

“It’s as good as denying one’s right to speak in one’s mother tongue,” he said.

Sim explaining Hokkien’s roots.

‘Hokkien is not a dialect but a language’

“Chinese schools in Malaysia discouraged the use of anything besides Mandarin. Propagandists see Hokkien and other Chinese languages as dialects or corrupt versions of Mandarin.”

He was vehement in his disagreement with such a view. “Hokkien is not a dialect of Mandarin,” he said. “This is a big fallacy that needs to be corrected.”

He said Hokkien had roots in the Fujian province and noted that it is the lingua franca in many places in Southeast Asia. It has its own written script, a modified version of the Sinitic script, the same source from which written Mandarin is derived.

A page from the oldest book written in Hokkien, Tale of the Lychee Mirror.

According to Sim, many words in the book are unrecognisable by Mandarin readers as it is written in Hokkien and Teochew.

The idea that all Chinese share the same written language is not true, he says.

He described classical Chinese as the mother script which Mandarin speakers, Hokkiens, Cantonese, Japanese, Cuengh, Vietnamese etc. had adapted in producing their own written languages.

He said Han nationalists had falsely created the impression that all Chinese people descended from one common ancestor who spoke the same language. That was not accurate.

“The narrative is that Mandarin is the real Chinese and the rest are ‘dialects’. That is simply not true,” he said.

‘As different as English and German’

“In fact, if you look at the words ‘Hanyu Pinyin’, the term for romanised Mandarin, you’ll see the term implies that Mandarin is equivalent to Han Chinese and the rest are ‘dialects’.” He pointed out that “Hanyu” simply means “Han language”.

The difference between Hokkien and Mandarin is greater than English and German. Why is Hokkien a ‘dialect’ but German is a language?

A tree of Chinese languages divided into seven branches, all with roots in Sinitic.

In essence, Mandarin had been enforced at the expense of other Chinese languages. “It is time for us to do some soul searching, to connect ourselves to our mother tongues and pick them up again.”

He said Han Chinese nationalism provided an ideological basis for the promotion of Mandarin. Without it, Mandarin would be just a foreign language to Malaysia.

He said there was a concerted effort in Malaysia and Singapore in the 1980s to discourage the use of Hokkien through the Speak Mandarin campaign. “Things became worse when Mandarin schools punished us for speaking our mother tongues,” he said.

Speaking of ways to save Hokkien from extinction, he said parents should speak the language to their children and efforts must be made to restart the Hokkien school system, which thrived in Penang in the 1920s.

But Sim knows that this would be a tough battle as most Chinese have been indoctrinated to believe that Mandarin is the only Chinese language to use.

But he is not daunted. “We have close to 40,000 supporters on Facebook and have been running this awareness campaign since 2014. We are confident that we can prevent a complete wipe-out of our culture.

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