Malay?? err...English can??

oh...i juz had one of the most difficult times juz now. mummie, kak ina and i attended some interfaith dialogue session held by darussalam mosque and the guest of honour was this anisa mehdi who produced a film regardin muslims. aunty faridah fetched us there. anyway, the lady's an american tv producer who's done fab works of documentary.


apparently there was some tv coverage done by CNA & i was asked by this kakak who's famous on suria for an interview on my thoughts and views. she's the deputy editor of detik. at first, i rejected cos i told her im not comfortable with the cam & stuff. then she assured me that it wouldn't be intimidatin cos i don't hav to look at the cam. juz look at her while answerin qns. all this while, she was speakin to me in english. so i comfortably assumed that it was gonna be done in english...but guess wat?? wen the cam started rollin...she asked me in malay!! i was goin...oh my gawd!! how on earth do i answer her?? i actually stopped the pdctn halfway cos i asked her if i could answer in english & she told me i couldn't cos ppl would hate me (like how??im not too sure) so anyway, i told her my answer in english, without the cam rollin of coz, & she translated for me in malay & i was supposed to reiterate that on screen, the super shortcut version of my answer cos i can't rem half the things she told me to say. boy...was it tuff. i've not spoken proper malay in like ages!! i was lucky i even passed my malay oral at a levels. & it was a 'pass' mind you. not even 'merit'. but i thanked god for that.


mie & gang were in the auditorium wen the kakak apprached me so she saw the interview goin on when she came out of the audi. told mie that she should hav interviewed her instead of me!! i can't speak for nuts!! mie juz laffed...she said her malay was karat too...she prob can't answer as well.haha!! can't help it lar...our malay very the broken cos we usually converse in english at home with a few malay words here & there. aunty faridah (who naturally can't speak malay cos she's chinese) said that the kakak prob assumed that i could speak malay naturally. haha...sure. if acap hears that, he'll laff his head off. i juz hope it's not aired. i sound sooo weird even to myself. oh well... & the kakak told me it was okay. don't worry bout it. she told me to brush up on my malay!! haha...


anyway, mie told me sth interestin. she sent me to the mosque once wen i was in nursery or kindergarten for some computer day course. but i remembered wat i wore cos i remembered feelin awkward in the mosque even tho it happened ages ago. wanna noe why?? cos i was dressed in a short, red, sleeveless dress that ended somewhere midthigh!! in a mosque!! don't blame me. mummie dressed me up then. haha!! we were talkin bout that in the car on the way to the mosque juz now. haha...we had a good laff cos mummie remembered wat she dressed me in too. haha!! luckily i was young then. it would hav been scandalous if i was old enuf!