
i'm the #7 person with the best sense of humour between my friends in facebook!
yaay ! what a great success !
i wonder how much hilariously funny the #1 person is...
from pasir mas to japan. this is where i keep a record of my life, my experiences, my thoughts, my rants and my movie reviews! don't take it too seriously, because i won't! this is also the place where i could practice my deteriorating english, although i also write in malay, japanese and even a bit of kelantanese!
You wanna know what I’ve been up to lately?
I’m currently obsessed with brushing my teeth.
I brush my teeth all the time.
When I look into the mirror, I wanna see those pearls shiny.
And clean.
I like to lick my teeth too.
Then I’ll brush them clean.
After I brush my teeth, I always brush my tongue.
At least for 30 seconds.
I like my mouth to be clean.
And pristine.
As soon as I reached home, I want to take a quick nap but I can’t because the room was unbelievably messy and it stinks like my own piss during a cold winter’s morning. I gotta clean up; put some flowers in the room. Like rose. Red rose. Or tulips. Or maybe a HUGE poster of some 80’s Swedish pornstar, I don’t know.
Then I realized that I have no time to relax or clean my room because I got an exam in 3 hours, and I haven’t prepared anything. What a dumb move. Now I know, studying for an important exam when you’re extremely tired, in a messy + smelly room, is quite a challenge. I can’t focus at all.
3 hours felt like 5 minutes.
So I took the test, and unsurprisingly, I did poorly. I was so tired that I fell asleep while scribbling ‘something’ on the answer sheet. When I woke up and look at what I’ve written on the paper, I knew I have to slap my face hard, several times.
Instead of proper Japanese words, I’ve written Chinese characters that don’t exist. So I start over from the top; scrub off my scribbling, wipe off my drool and saliva left on the answer sheet and write something. Hopefully the correct answers.
Heh, who am I kidding here? Of course I flunked the paper, hard!
Anyways, I went to
There were too many people, I felt drowned in a sea of foreigners. I’m sweating heavily in my suit. It’s too hot, too loud and too many people.
I went to the
The menu for the buffet for the day is white rice (beras wangi
I went during lunch time, and they had two types of menu to choose from: a buffet or ala carte. I want to eat a lot so I choose the buffet (with dessert) for 1000 yen.
On the way out, I chatted with the two Chefs (one from Pengkalan Chepa and the other from Besut) and they told me about the the restaurant.
Jom Makan (the name of the restaurant), is the first restaurant in a newly announced government program: the Malaysian Kitchen program. The program aimed to place at least one Malaysian restaurant in each county around the world. That’s quite a big aim, and they hope to eventually put 1000 Malaysian restaurants under this program, scattering all over the world. Who knows, a franchise of government-sponsored Malaysian restaurants might work! Sounds really interesting too.
But I’m curious about one thing.
Being a fully halal restaurant approved by the Malaysian Embassy, having muslim chefs and a strong support from the Malaysian government; all these ‘strong points’ are unfortunately not that strong enough to keep the restaurant from being binded by the Japanese restaurants tradition: selling alcoholic beverages.
Majority of halal restaurants in japan sell alcoholic beverages, including Jom Makan.
So why is it so inevitable that it is a must for (even) a halal restaurant to adhere by the tradition and sell alcoholic beverages? The reasons are not many but one of the main reason for this shocking confusion is that the Japanese has a very strong drinking culture that no one would want to go eat at a place that don’t sell alcohol. Just ask other halal restaurant in
It seems like this is how things work in
So the one question that comes from my curiosity is this: Can it be considered OK to do this? I understand that they’re doing this to survive; this is how things work here. The alcoholic beverages were sold at a price that would NOT create profit, as a note.
Oh well, I’d rather be enjoying the rare authentic Malaysian food that I’m having in front of my eyes then to think about the issue; at least for the moment. So as I was enjoying my meal, I could hear the two Japanese customers sitting on the table in front of me talking about
Then one of them picked up a magazine about
Then I stopped chewing when I heard the customer said : え!マレーシアでも高速道路があるんだ。。。ふんん。。。[ wow, they have highways in
マレーシアでも超高層ビルあるんだ。。。知らなかった。。。[ they have skyscrapers too! I didn’t know this! ]
Wow. Is
いい年して、世間知らずで良くぞ生きて来られたね、ババ!もっと勉強しろ!
Well, I guess it cannot be helped. Probably the only source of information about
Anyways, it’s been a tiring trip and I just can’t imagine how more tiring and busier I’m going to be after this; I got more job-interviews, research projects, classes and exams.
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