our Manglish is fun yet funny. why hail to the Queen?

everyone wants to improve their English. they will be very happy if their daughter, boyfriend, girlfriends, son, wife, mates, scandals are good in English. parents start to send the children to a language centre at the early age so their children will be speaking like the 6-year-old British/American boy. teenagers start to listen to some crap music of Bieber, Gaga or even Yuna in the name of learning words like baby, telephone or rocket. ptff.

here are some thoughts of it.

with accent or without accent, it should not be an issue. even the whites have clearly stated that accent is merely a way of pronunciation. accent is an indicator of your identity, ethnicity, region and culture. i don't think one should feel ashamed of his mispronunciation or funny accent because that differs us all. hence, embrace your accent, be proud of our funny Manglish because that is what we are, the 'funny Malaysian'.

our people are overly worshiped the English and this might due to the old colonised mindset that never seem to demise. we can learn the language, we can be good at it, but do not forget our mother tongue. i am cutting of my finger, boldly saying that in future, there will be lesser young who can use Bahasa in a right manner. the unpolluted Malay and the non-shorted version of Bahasa will be so rare and there will be lesser who can sort words into beautiful rhymed of 'pantun'.

say whatever. some might think i have no right to preach about the importance of Bahasa because i should be writing this post in Bahasa if i love the language so much. English is merely my business, the road that i have chosen that leads my future. i have nothing else to utilize, i had left math and sciences years ago. i don't have the machinery skills of technology and gadgets and so i have to use the knowledge of this language to the max with hope that it will be able to promise me some fancy comfy position in the future.

in a normal day (non-academic day), i use about 70% of Bahasa, and leave the other 30% for watching movies, listening to music, and writing my blog.

in my heart, i am still a girl who is awe-stricken by Haji Muhamad Salleh's 5-minute-made of pantun.