Banana People
Minishorts says: Guest blogging in place of Vince today is Jolene Lai, who runs her own blog at this site. We all know Jolene for her first-person reviews of the National Service camps, and of course, the mad, mad sets of photographs that accompany her lengthy posts. Today, Jolene goes bananas with, urm, bananas.
So my thick faced application for self-invited nut got through. Many thanks to Minishorts who graciously allowed me to contaminate her blog with my endless mumblings. She told me that I could blog about anything and that I can include photos (which my blog is overflowing with) which made me very happy! I NEARLY wanted to blog about cadavers again with photographs(yay!) but she pantang wor. I would not want to have her blog cursed by the souls of the unclaimed bodies from India anyway. So you'll just have to make do with what I've decided to spew forth.
Just a few days ago, I went to buy bread for my housemate from the Chinese coffee shop near my hostel. The towkei of the shop packed the bread for me and said, "Yi kuai Jiu!" and I had to turn to my housemate, "What ah? How much ah?" Feeling very pai seh, my housemate replied, "He said RM1.90 la.."
The towkei was slightly amused and wondered where I'm from since I can't understand Chinese. My housemate then explained to him that I am English educated (cheh wah, like very gaya like that) and can't read or write Chinese. The kindly old towkei nodded and smiled understandingly.
Not wanting to appear as un-chinese as I have already seemed to him, I said, "Ngo sek gong guongdong wah lah!" (I can speak Cantonese). "Ngo sek gong siu siu wah yi tan hai ng sek gong fu kin wah. Soh yu tau sin ngo ng meng pak lei gong mee yeah loh." (I know a little mandarin but do not know any Hokkien. That is why I did not understand what you said just now).
The towkei looked at me blankly. His 13 year old son replied for his father, "Ngo ah pa ng sek gong guongdong wah geh. Tan hai hui tau sin hai gong gan wah yi, ng hai fu kin wah," (My father doesn’t speak Cantonese. But he was speaking mandarin just now, not hokkien.).
The little boy then gave me a disgusted look, clearly wondering what kind of Chinese species I am if I don't even know mandarin. I was so peeved!!
I was looked down upon! Discriminated by my own race!
Maybe it's time to form another race of my own: Bananas.
For those who do not know, Banana is a term given to Chinese people who cannot speak Chinese. Just like a banana, they are yellow on the outside but white on the inside. We originate from a bunch of Chinese people whose parents sent them to English schools set up by the British and most of the time, for the past three generations, not a single family member would know how to write Chinese. Most of the bananas' greatest command of Chinese would be the Hokkien and Cantonese vulgarities though.
Banana people(xiang jiao ren/kung chiu yan) have adopted manglish as their traditional language. Majority of the bananas can speak their own dialect but they can not read or write Chinese. Bananas celebrate Christmas(we like presents!) and Chinese new year(money is always good). Now, this has nothing to do with religion but we just like to celebrate for the slightest reasons.
Banana people shake their heads at other Chinese with extremely bad grammar. "May I friendster you?" makes banana girls want to drive a stake through the skulls of those lala chais. Perhaps banana people may be a little egoistical in the sense that they think just because they are westernized and are more proficient in English means they are better educated. I used to hold true to that belief but I have changed my views as I have come to realize the extreme difference between two types of Chinese educated Chinese.
Most of the top students in Malaysia are those from Chinese schools. They can get the highest grades and scare you with their studious attitude.(read: nerd.) Of course I respect them, I need to copy their notes. These top students are also one of the more creative people around and perhaps it's the chinese school upbringing, they are usually very talented.
Then, during my national service stint, I didn’t know that there are so many uneducated young Chinese Malaysians. Those who are a year older than the actual age for this year's intake are the educated ones. When I say educated I mean that they went for remove classes and have completed their form five. Almost all those who are 18 this year are drop outs. Do you know that none of them will speak to me in English?
On the first day, I introduced myself, "Hi, I am Jolene! What’s your name?"
The reply? "Mou tong ngo kong ying man, ngo ng sek geh." (Don’t speak to me in English, I don’t know one.).
Damn cha tou.
I’ve come to realize that it is true that bananas are a minority in our society. You can differentiate a banana from a Chinese-educated Chinese(Chinese Ed) from the way they speak. I don’t know how to describe to you in words but you can just tell from listening. Perhaps there is a difference in accent? A Chinese-ed's English is not smooth and you can hear the slightest hint of doubt in their choice of words or pronunciation. I’m not saying that the bananas' English is grammatical error-free but bananas speak faster.
What I am saying is that there's definitely a difference in accent.
But it does suck to not know much any mandarin. Gossips have to be repeated to me in Cantonese and my housemates have taken to calling me kepo.
Also, with a good grasp of mandarin, I would not have to succumb myself to embarrassing incidents like the time my friend asked me in mandarin, "Ji dian le?"(What time is it?) It was two o'clock and I replied confidently with a bright smile, "Er shi kuai!" (20 bucks!)…needless to say it has become a long standing joke.
With a better knowledge of mandarin, I don’t have to mumble, "Zhen de ma? Dui bu dui?"(Really? Yes or not…) repeatedly when sales assistants try to entice me with their wares.
But once a banana, and such an old one too(far past the entry age for Chinese primary schools), I will always be deemed weird by my fellow chinesemen for needing a translater when I am conversing with them.
I thought it’d be nice to pose with some bananas to go with my post. Bought two combs of bananas for RM0.50
(what a bargain!) for the occasion and decided to get trigger happy. Couldn’t find nice big long bananas …but hey, Pisang Emas is Malaysian and that’s what we should all be about: Malaysian. In our lands, big bananas are not common. So we make do with pisang emas even though they are not that satisfying. 
Can be used as pompoms.
Can be used as chinese dancing fans.
Can be used as a bikini top.
Can be used as a cigar.
Mickey Mouse!!
I know I'm disgusting, no need to tell me leh.
I can fit four bananas!!!
Yes, I know this looks disturbing. Deal with it.
I feel happy when I have sliced bananas on my face!
But sometimes I can get quite shy…
I had fun taking those photos and had intense tummy aches after a few minutes due to too many bananas. See, the things I do for the sake of blogging.
October 31st, 2005 at 9:18 am
o.m.g.w.t.f.b.b.q!!
October 31st, 2005 at 9:29 am
i had the shock of my life seeing those photos you know… had to call the girl to ask her if she really wanted them up.
October 31st, 2005 at 9:31 am
spiked the monday blues + deepavali’s eve.
October 31st, 2005 at 9:42 am
Wah! What bout those Chinese-ed but speak English at home kinda ppl like me ler? R we deemed 2b the lost tribe since we can’t fit in any normal stereotypes? AIYAH! NOOOOOOOOO!!!
- Jacky ~_~ -
October 31st, 2005 at 9:58 am
Holy crap!
step aside furong jie jie
here comes xiang jiao jie jie!!!!
I’m the only ‘banana’ in my family..
October 31st, 2005 at 10:38 am
Once, I attempted to tell my college friends in Mandarin that I wanted to go to the toilet. Attempted, because what apparently came out of my mouth was “HEY GUYS, I WANT TO EAT TOILET!”
Thus, Eat Toilet Man was born.
October 31st, 2005 at 10:49 am
First thing on halloween morning and i see those pic! *LOL* Gosh…very disturbing… ( i meant the bananas and how they were used as “props”, not the person)
Anyways, back to the main point - yeah, I’m a banana, too and proud of it. Sure, not being proficient in mandarin does have its disadvantages, but if i could turn back the clock, i wouldn’t change a single thing cos bananas rocks!
October 31st, 2005 at 10:54 am
oh. while you guys are at it, i have to remind you that I can both write and read chinese characters and was schooled in an utterly pro-chinese-education institution all the way to Form 6.
so if you guys will, try not to get carried away if and when the discussion gets to dissing any one from the chinese educated community, or the english educated community.
THANK YOU.
October 31st, 2005 at 11:19 am
Sunday blog on chocalate
Today blog on banana
Tomorrow can somebody blog on Ice Cream la
October 31st, 2005 at 11:29 am
i’m malay-ed, but speak mandarin at home. don’t know how to read and write chinese characters, but can speak mandarin well
not sure why some people who went to sekolah kebangsaan or sekolah rendah kebangsaan but proudly pronounces themselves as english-ed. we’re actually malay-ed :). did i hit a few nerves there?
October 31st, 2005 at 11:30 am
Eh, minishorts is showing off liao…
hehehe.. kidding.
Yeah,hope noone gonna start a ‘war’ here coz banana or not, we are still chinese at heart. (only applies to chinese of course, don’t know if other races have this term or not.)
October 31st, 2005 at 11:40 am
You will be surprised how well some of the Chinese educated Malaysians’ English is. Both spoken and written.
October 31st, 2005 at 11:55 am
The last few photos just looked… wrong. Okay, it must be my evil, evil, tainted soul,
I’m not a banana though. I’m what they call, a Melayu Celup. A Dipped Malay, literally translated. Granted, I do know how to speak Malay, fluently, tapi you see me speaking and using English more often.
Not because I’m trying to show off, but because I’m on the net like, 10 hours a day, and you know what that means, right? And I’m also called that probably because I’m not a “strict” Malay in the full sense of the word, heh.
October 31st, 2005 at 12:37 pm
Precisely, with the existence of ‘banana Chinsese’ and ‘melayu celup’ (as Wan Zafran terms it), there is no place for the strict, irreconcialiable racial distinction that purports to define one race over or against another. Is a Chinese ‘cina’ because he/she speaks Chinese and holds to certain values and beliefs? The same goes for Malays and Indians for that matter.
This multilingual and multicultural situation is the very ‘rojakness’ that makes our society vibrant, but sadly enough there are racial ideologues out there who try to hijack this and espouse deterministic and oppositional racial identity and thinking. Let us not fall into this trap and mindset.
Oops, talk too much, sorry everybody.
Jolene, thx for these rather ‘wild’ pose(st).
October 31st, 2005 at 1:41 pm
the 4-bananas-in-my-mouth got subliminal msg wei..
slaps forehead
October 31st, 2005 at 2:14 pm
*applauds*
Now THAT’s entertainment.
October 31st, 2005 at 2:50 pm
urm…. imo, jolene need to seek help with her photowhorin issues… common… which normal person could think of so many ways to pose with 2 combs of bananas…
nevertheless it’s quite a funny post
October 31st, 2005 at 3:00 pm
not true not true.. i was chinese educated in primary sch wat… but owes is speaking england at d home… my england still bery bery BENG leh… how can u say dat ppl who go in chinese ed england no as gud as u?!?! HAHhahHAhHAhA!! ok ok .. kidding… but yea… i spent 6 yrs in Pri sch… HATED d WHOLE six years of it… but now… it’s js so WOW… SO nice noeing SO MANY languages u noe… it’s a real real + point!! like if u go overseas rite… n no m’sians around.. but got many many chinese ppl around… n u find it a lil hard 2 fit in wif d ang mos (which happens to HEAPS of my frens)… then it’s so so gud that u noe chinese… well.. that’s js ONE example la.. true 1… i dun cheat u 1.. HEhE… now learning a lil bit of spanish … wanna learn d 3 most widely spoken/used languages in the world… chinese (mandarin), english & spanish… SyOK!
October 31st, 2005 at 3:44 pm
Do you have any idea how hard I had to concentrate to keep my mind from bengkoking here ah????
October 31st, 2005 at 4:22 pm
I’ve been proudly banana for years, despite taking mandarin lessons throughout primary school (despite *intense* concentration on my part during class while folding paper planes, the intricacies of the chinese language continue to elude me). Now I’m studying in Melbourne and the weird thing is I really wish I knew Chinese! Nothing as cultural and shared as our own language to unite the Chinese who are abroad. Bleh, it’s ok cos I consider Manglish a foreign language
so that plus my rapidly failing grasp of BM makes me tri-lingual! Mwahahaha
October 31st, 2005 at 4:40 pm
Born a banana and proud of it.
That is why we love her so much.
October 31st, 2005 at 5:18 pm
so if i am half chinese and can’t speak chinese (i know a bit lah… not fluent at all)… does that make me half a nana?
btw, jolene you are friggin nuts (or shall i say, bananas)… and i absolutely love it!
October 31st, 2005 at 5:19 pm
That was hilarious!
I started to learn Mandarin about 10 years ago.
I remember this funny incident vividly: There was once when I wanted to buy Nescafe with a lot of ice, I told the hawker I wanted a lot of “blood” instead (I thought “shuet” means the same thing in Cantonese and Mandarin)! Good thing the lady knew what I wanted
October 31st, 2005 at 5:24 pm
i was never in a chinese school. spent most of my early childhood in english medium schools. i can’t read or write chinese. everyone thinks i’m a banana. BUT. i speak fluent mandarin. cool huh? i wonder if there are other semi-bananas like me out there…muahahahahaha.
October 31st, 2005 at 6:05 pm
I’m also a “Melayu Celup” (if you can call it that) like Wan Zafran. I speak, read and write English and Malay well, but use English more often even at home with parents and siblings. As a Muslim, I read and write Arabic too (the language of Quran), but not that well, and can’t speak Arabic. I can’t read and write Thai although my late great grandparents are Thai (I wish I could learn from my Malay-Thai uncle who’s fluent in Thai and Mandarin, besides English and Malay, but he’s forever busy). I hope to brush up on my French and learn Spanish someday.
October 31st, 2005 at 6:08 pm
I’m also a “Melayu Celup” (if you can call it that) like Wan Zafran. I speak, read and write English and Malay well, but use English more often even at home with parents and siblings. As a Muslim, I read and write Arabic too (the language of Quran), but not that well, and can’t speak Arabic. I can’t read and write Thai although my late great grandparents are Thai (I wish I could learn from my Malay-Thai uncle who’s fluent in Thai and Mandarin, besides English and Malay, but he’s forever busy). I hope to brush up on my French and learn Spanish someday. I get stares from other Malays especially in my hometown when I speak English with my siblings. They may think it’s a ’show-off’, but that isn’t my intention. Anyways, I don’t give two hoots what they think.
October 31st, 2005 at 6:10 pm
Oh, and I understand some Cantonese words and phrases too.
October 31st, 2005 at 7:25 pm
minishorts: I actually happen to come from the very same pro-chinese-education institution you attended (where you lived your life as a KFC product), a year behind, but I can’t read or write Mandarin for the life of me. As far as I could tell, I was the only banana in the entire school — even the two angmoh brothers and the malay guys could speak fluent orange– I mean, mandarin.
It’s a miracle I got in. Or not.
So, what does that make me? Chinese Ed minus the Chinese?
October 31st, 2005 at 9:09 pm
i used to be arrogant because i couldnt read or write mandarin. i thought being a banana was like another way of saying i am an ‘elite’. and then this few years when i start to really grow up, i realize hor, not knowing your mothertongue is actually quite pai seh (embarrassing in hokkien). now i am no longer ashamed of the fact that i can speak and understand mandarin and cantonese. been learning how to read as well but quite susah la..
sigh regret regret.. i doodled away shamelessly during my P.O.L. classes. POL stands for Pupil’s Own Langauge. Serious!
October 31st, 2005 at 9:13 pm
do you think ppl studying in national-type schools can be considered as english-ed? i dont think so, malay-ed would be more suitable, english-eds are those learning all subjects in english before 1970.There is a difference.
October 31st, 2005 at 9:27 pm
urm* Jolene: P seeing so many bananas jus remind me of banana split: D
October 31st, 2005 at 9:45 pm
oh.gosh
i think i fit under that category
scary.
and so are those photos
October 31st, 2005 at 10:47 pm
okie i feel like alien now…chinese ed ppl assume i am banana…n sometimes my frenz gimme dis look
when i start speaking mandrin if i bump into my primary skool mates…or i read out the chinese menu to them…
sighz…i am a crossbred (hrm…hybrid sounds betta i tink)can ar not? >.
November 1st, 2005 at 12:06 am
been out the whole day and didn’t get to hang around thanking commentors throughout the day on my virgin post in minishorts’ blog:D
suanie: Apa tu bbq??:D
minishorts: ahaha, what, very embarrassing meh..
lol. thanks for the space yea!!
frostier: glad it did:) feeling down?
Jacky: cross-breed lah. ahhaa, kidding. even my bf is like that..speaks english at home but chinese ed. i happen to know a few who do. they sound like bananas..but are from chinese ed.
the other kenny: ahah.. so from now on I have to be posing with bananas huh?
kurt: Whaahahaha.. another mandarin booboo.
jeremy C: ahah.. it’s not that great seriously. it’s better to know abit of mandarin…
minishorts: Welcome!! …psst, then ur one of the top students in msia who are chinese ed.
93~94: i’m sure minishort’s still accepting self invited nuts applicants..
ryuu: no nerves..no worries. yeah, my friend just said it like that, i didn’t say i was english ed… i’m from your typical government school. bahasa baku and all that shit back in primary. malay-ed, yala:)
abi: I’m not surprised. look at minishort’s english? I know a few other chinese-ed kids who speak and write good english. We must highlight the word “some” here.
wan zafran: i think they call it melayu baru also issit? or is that some term Lat coined that i have misused..? hm
dreamer idiot: that was beautiful!! so u see, we have some grey areas as well. not three distinct types of people. Suddenly Venn diagrams that intersects come into my head. But yeah, bananas are chinese who are malay-fied. Bananas use more Malay words in their conversations. etc.etc.
cyber-red: let ur imagination run wild..:D
ms.bloom: thank you..:) *bows*
saikua: ahahha, my “issues” will worsen after today. no, not because of this entry. but another stimulus from elsewhere. AND I’M LOVING IT!!
edison: ah, it’s true tht it’s great to be multilingual:) would love that opportunity. i know abit of canto. can click with Hongkee’s kua?
lainie: haha.. it only goes to show that you are normal. I know the many things that can be related with bananas, so I knew where those photos were leading to. Heee!
mel: lol, you’re a product of the rojaking of Malaysians.
Yeah, sometimes it’s fun to see the expression of other people when they go, “What? you don’t know chinese?” and u can open your eyes wider as if to challenge them to go on and make a fuss about it.
giant sotong: ahaha.. eh not proud of it. just so happen i’m a banana.. i’m learning..leaaaarrning;D
rijac: HAHAHA What the hell is half a nana? .. no you are forgiven because your parents are of different heritage. Assuming you’re chindian, i have this one to share with you. An Indian who doesn’t know Tamil is called Oreo. No racist jokes here, but they really call each other that back in my school.
pelf: UGHH BLOOD..reminds me of some nasty incidents with satay kuah in Kajang.
nevermind, we’ll try to learn the mandarin language in time to come.
lishun: i have a classmate just like you:) you’re not alone.
amber: u can’t help it if you’re from the city..
it’s always the area that you grew up in that plays a role in your choice of language. however, what amazing heritage u have! interesting..my greatgreat grandmother is thai too! ..but as u can see, the blood got diluted along the way.*points at small eyes and flat nose*
cheneilie: I KNOW!!! i damn pai seh now also… it’s not that great being a banana.. very shy one.
berry: i did not say that I am english-ed.. my friend did. I myself would have said that I am from malay school(free education, yay!) if he asked me directly. unless i am from some private internation school then that’s different lorh. But if I came from those schools, I’d be a different person. My self-value would be far higher and I wouldn’t be doing silly things like putting up photos of myself being stupid online. Private school kids tend to pentingkan their reputation more. Don’t you think?
gee: i know Swensens serve the loveliest banana splits!
eel: hope you didn’t see them at night:)
gutsygal: then u must be one of those who speak english at home hor?
November 1st, 2005 at 1:18 am
aiks..MSguests was me.
November 1st, 2005 at 1:19 am
what the hell is wrong with this..anyway, MSguests is me.
November 1st, 2005 at 1:25 am
Oh i see…you have to log out from wordpress. Sorry for the multiple comments.
November 1st, 2005 at 2:01 am
thank you. now i know that i am actually a banana flavoured oreo….
November 1st, 2005 at 3:38 am
I had a friend who was 100% a purely authentic Bananian and he often mispronounced his words in Mandarin. One fine day at a food stall, he decided to show off with his newly improvised Mandarin by attempting to communicate with a hawker in the dialect itself. All he wanted to tell this hawker so badly was to put extra chili in his noodles. And so this was what he said, “Uncle ar Keh yi put ee dien Lan Jiao(supposedly Lat Jiao) in my de noodles mah?” The uncle hawker was so disgusted till he gave a WTF look to my friend. I didn’t bother much in asking if he knew what does a Lan Jiao means to him as I was too preoccupied by laughing hysterically. So much for his brief stint in speaking Mandarin. Oh well, at least he tried.
November 1st, 2005 at 4:36 am
Wah lao eh … o.O
November 1st, 2005 at 9:59 am
Jolene, you got go for your Bahasa Ibunda classes last time or not?!
November 1st, 2005 at 4:08 pm
hmm…interesting post.
yea, some bananas do think too highly of themselves and make a grand deal out of it, when padahal, i find it quite embarassing not being able to even string simple phrases together in your own mother tongue.
November 1st, 2005 at 6:34 pm
I really enjoyed that post. Thanks Jolene. Was cool.
Was very interesting to read the comments too.
When I was in Europe, my room mate was a guy named Andrew (we called him Rewboy … or Rooboi depending on how 133t you are). He was from Malaysia and I was very impressed by the fact that he could speak English REALLY well (actually, most of the Malaysian I was with in Europe spoke it really well), but he was also fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese, Malaysian (as I assume he should be, as he was Malaysian), as well as Hokkein and a heap of other languages.
(I’m still not sure why he convinced the girl from Communist China to teach me to say ‘Wo Ai Ni’ … there was nothing wrong with my knees! She was a little peed off when I asked why I needed to learn that!!!)
Actually, when I was in Europe I got the nickname ‘Saffron’ as I only date Asian girls.
That being said, It’s just good to be human, and all bananas, Malaysians, Chinese, Indians, Ang Moh’s, half dipped, etc etc should celebrate the greatness in being a race other than those friggin’ aliens who keep visiting me … woops, now who sounds like they’ve gone bananas???
November 1st, 2005 at 10:42 pm
Dabido: ..I think you mean that Rooboi spoke “Malay”, as in short for “Bahasa Malaysia”.
November 2nd, 2005 at 1:33 am
rijac: welcome;D hahah.. shud sell well, that.
anthraxxxx: OMFG that’s damn embarrassing wei…. does he still eat there?!
liz: haha..
kuzco: got!! 5 year old once.. but that time learn songs and colours only.. then 9 years old learn std1 chinese…. then stop. then form1 learn std1 chinese again..then stop. so basically i’m stuck at one stage only lah. now learning bad words lor.:)
baga: i also find it embarrassinglor..
dabido: hahahah @ wo ai ni part. lol… so what is it that u like about asian girls?:) yeah… of all the names derived for many categories of people, we’re still people.
November 2nd, 2005 at 1:33 am
Damn double sweat man. =.=’
November 2nd, 2005 at 10:33 am
[...] Banana People - firstly, the guest blogger (Jolene Lai) mentions being discriminated by her own race. I think she’s wrong there - she should say fellow Malaysian. Bananas as she describes, celebrate Christmas and Chinese New Year - she forgot to mention that they’re also new-fangled Christians, and if you celebrate the birth of Christ, you don’t do CNY. But we’ll save that for another blog. All in all, more and more folk are going to be speaking English (its inevitable), so this issue of being a banana because you can’t speak all dialects of Chinese, is silly (send a Malaysian Mandarin speaking person to China, and they’ll still look at you funny). Visit the post, if for anything, you’re after a girl holding and playing with bananas. [...]
November 2nd, 2005 at 2:22 pm
Jayelle: He does but whenever I’m around with him, I do the ordering. Save all the trouble and every one went home happily ever after. Not sure how he cope when I’m not around though hehe.
November 2nd, 2005 at 3:50 pm
btw, jolene, those photos were…scary. to say the least.
November 2nd, 2005 at 7:09 pm
Minishorts probably has banana and cream in the mornings (and maybe at night too). It’s why she’s so happy and her skin’s so shiny.
November 2nd, 2005 at 7:18 pm
Lainie - My apologies. I should be more knowledgable in terminology for Malaysia (the country), but in this case I failed.
It’s actually correct English to call it Malaysian (as that’s what we also call the Malay language in English - dictionary link included to show that I’m not making that up), but as I’m on a Malaysian site which is populated with a lot of Malaysian people I should have been more familiar with the correct Malay terminology.
So thanks for picking that up. I’ll try to remember it in future (and please remind me if I call it Malaysian again. Like I said though, if I fail you’ll know it’s because it’s correct in English to call it Malaysian - but I will try to get it write when speaking to Malaysians [the people] in future).
So my apologies, wasn’t meaning to offend or get the terminology incorrect on this site.
Cheers. Much appreciated!
[And before anyone intervenes and says, 'Hey wait, Dabido, you proved you were using correct English with that dictionary link', I will defend Lainie, as I think it is worth me knowing what to call the language when speaking to people from Malaysia - because that's what it's called over there ... even if I am over here ... but Swiftie is also here ... what do you call it Swiftie when you are in Australia ... which you are????]
Hope that makes sense.
Jayelle - Hmmm, what do I like about Asian girls? Um … er … why do some girls prefer Brad Pitt, and others would prefer Tom Cruise? Comes down to a personal preference I guess … but I’ve always been partial to black hair, nice eyes … okay, some asian girls I’ve meet drink too much and have red blood shot eyes … but that could be anyone from any race … um …
I like they way they look … most are very nice … but then again, so are a lot of girls from a lot of different races.
So, I guess I can’t answer that question really. It’s probably just a preference of mine. It migh tbe genetic - I have a Vietnames cousin on my fathers side, a Chinese Cousin on my mother’s side, so maybe it’s also hereditary … we keep marrying asian girls … and we have blakc in the family, so maybe we like blacks too … and lots of white … maybe we’re all just as horny as anything and need a good bonk with any girl that comes along …
But my preference is Asian girls. I like them … though if I get even more into my prefences, then Japanese girls would be my first prefence, though there hve been some absolute STUNNING Chinese girls I’ve met and the occassional Malaysian, Philipina and Thai girls who weere absloute knock outs.
And Vicki Zhao Wei is probably my dream girl … *sigh* … and yeah, I do see the irony in a guy who’s prefence is for Japanese girls who’s dream girl is Chinese …
BUT, somehow, no matter how many asian girls I chase and no matter how many I date, I still end up with some blonde girl!!! I have no idea how it happens (except to say I do get chased by blondes for some reason … I have no idea way … actually, that’s not always true … but they seem to be able to catch me easier!)
now I’ve raved on a lot just to really say ‘I have no idea - it’s just a prefence’.
Sorry minishorts … what a long comment I’ve just made … but everyone is used to it … right?
[p.s. please send more single asian girls to Perth]
November 3rd, 2005 at 10:58 pm
Trust me, it’s heaps worst when you don’t know any dialects and when your parents are both chinese and you’ve been educated in Malaysia for 9 years..
That’s me… All I know is manglish and malay (which I suck at)…
When I came to aussie, I had to go for English as a Second Language because English was too hard…
Aaaaah… how gay is that???
December 7th, 2005 at 4:48 am
my gosh.
same case here!!
i went to NS,
asked a chinese girl something on the 1st day, and she just stared blurly back at me..
haha. banana indeed.
your write up is SO true
April 15th, 2006 at 12:16 am
“wah yi”? it’s “wah yu.” and “hui”? it’s “kui.” Are you really pronouncing those words like the way you’ve written them?
I believe that most people in malaysia are educated in malay and not english. but a lot of people would say they are either chinese ed or english ed. as opposed to malay ed. Well, I think we should be more accurate when describing our educational background.
September 12th, 2006 at 4:57 am
You can open your mouth pretty wide. Maby I can see how far down your throat my schlong would go.
November 12th, 2006 at 6:44 pm
ROFL! banana abuse! >_
March 5th, 2007 at 6:37 am
I think that that was the most unpleasant set of pictures that I have ever seen, but it must have taken lots of guts to do that. I have a sister who is pretty much a bannana. She looks to the bright side if she is feeling low. She is 17 and she knows at least one song from every disney movie ever made. Her favorite is “The little Mermaid” where Ariel sings that song in her cavern about her thing-a-mabobs. She has a wonderful voice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =) She is very looney,too.
May 12th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Here’s my take on clarifying the use of English Ed rather Malay Ed. It’s really a reference to the kid’s family/linguistic background rather than the language their educated in. Their parents are typically English/dialect speaking or english educated, usually illiterate in chinese. It is quite common to find a number (in fact alot) who can speak/read Chinese. Ultimately, chinese literacy is the acid test. There are some who can do all, but they are the exception, rather than the rule.
June 15th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
wow!
entertainment!
thoes thing you do for others to be entertain,are simply NOBLE!
(i dont know what the heck i’m talking,just wanted to say thats very entertaining.)
December 28th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
Hey this is a cool website and i enjoted every bit of the ‘bananas’ issues u were talking about. id like to keep in touch with u.i am from sabah,malaysia. i came back from Aus for almost a month now and i like to be frends with ppl who are Westernized….
my email is tommy-mercy@hotmail.com
August 21st, 2008 at 2:46 pm
nice post!! being a banana myself, i think that your facts are kinda true.. lol..
August 21st, 2008 at 2:49 pm
by the way, i think you should really create a new race : Bananas.. and i’ll be the first to join.. XD
August 23rd, 2008 at 2:15 am
I understand ur feeling !!!
So sad when i read ur blog course i am also a banana !!!!!!!
People like us are difficult to live wif other chinese people !
The worst part i don’t know any cantonese or hokien !!!!
Haiz