desis.

. so we were in the car and mama saw a singaporean number plate.

'why are there so many singaporean cars in our condo now? SAA 4571 HETCH.'

she was trying to say H.

. last night, papa and i were watching KBC. there was a name in the options of the question in question (see what i did there?), Charles Wilkes. papa pronounced it as charles weelcase.

. every sunday, we go for majlis, or talim as we call it, to this house in kampung baru. they read hadith and discuss in urdu, so we attend it and take part as well. there's malay talim as well, but we dont usually sit in for that because we dont understand anything. the people who conduct the urdu majlis are from fiji, so they can speak perfect urdu, but they speak it in their own way. so after some time when we were done reading the hadith, the malay people came out to call out the fijian aunty so that she'd do abit of the discussion in english and theyd translate it into malay. unfortunately, i couldnt hold my giggles when she pronounced martyr matire and purity punity. i feel so bad.

. the person who's home this is held at is a lovely lovely person called aunty norma. shes got the biggest heart and the best hugs. we speak to her in broken malay and she to us in broken english. shes so full of love and care it just warms my heart. every sunday i go up to her, hug her and say i love you. we're leaving soon, and just as we were about to leave, she hugged me and said  i love you. then she got all teary-eyed. that has to be the best hug ive received in a while.

. mama gets very annoyed when i refer to her as amma, because she's like 'do i look south indian to you?' anyway. i think it sounds cute, so i call her that (+ i like to annoy her). so she's talking to norma aunty, and she's like akka. and im like, are you south indian? and shes like, no, but the malay way of pronouncing sister sounds similar to this. to which i jogged her memory and told her that its kakak. so mama then, being mama, calls her kaKKa, in the process sounding EVEN more south indian. and i was like hello, what's WRONG with you? and shes like ugggh, i dont know! and im like aha. anyway, then she decides to take a more malay turn and address aunty norma as mrs norma. mama goes, 'so encik norma, i want to ask you one question'. i spat some of my tea out and corrected her. its supposed to be puan norma.