Carcosa Seri Negara
Grand Marquee
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Port Lincoln oysters: yumSo I had a wonderful dinner at Seri Carcosa last nite.It was hosted by South Australian Government and Australian Malaysia Business Council (SA) Inc. We had fresh oysters specially flown from Port Lincoln in South Australia...Oooooo...luckyyyyy....then semuanya dari Ozzie except the violinists and I was impressed.Sedap betul music dia and they were Malaysians (one of them was my daughter's former violin teacher).
When they served steaks,I tak berapa yakin it's halal and budak Filipino attending us tu pulak tak pandai cakap English sangat so when I asked, she brought me vegetarian meal.Haha.Nasib I dah kenyang makan bass (hmm, yum) and lotsa buns. Now, this is the issue I wanna raise (belly dancer tu kejap lagi).
WHY DO WE EMPLOY FOREIGN WORKERS IN EVERY INDUSTRY???? We should just employ in areas yang orang2 kita tak boleh nak buat kerja.Imagine if I were served by a local, he/she would understand my query and I would not be denied nice Australian steaks (walaupun I tak lapar but had I been hungry, how? Only goats suka sayur!)
At the petrol station pun..kalau nak tanya apa-apa direction ke..punyalah susah (I get lost quite often when travelling by myself).Bayangkan if it's orang local.We save time and being progressive is all about how much time we can save.
Anyway, I had a nice time at Carcosa yah? The local chaps were very nice when we (Noriah and I.Nik had another dinner elsewhere) asked for tempat sembahyang. He found us a room and we got into a Carcosa room and perasan we were Queen of England. :)) One Dato pun berebut2 nak sembahyang (yang lain tu buat blur jelah) and it gave us a feeling of brotherhood and sisterhood dalam kekalutan mengejar masa.
Now the belly dancer...Zul went to see (on Sunday I told him of the do at MPO Hall).He didn't waste time.Semalam pun dia pulun.Maklumlah orang seni.He is also a dancer.Pagi buta dah text-ed.I pun kata pasal pulak we allowed half naked woman macam tu? Kalau locals buat gelek dangdut pun dah bising (memang patut bising.Prof Z says in Indonesia, it's started by the pros).Tiba2 ini kat MPO Hall pulak. Even in Istanbul, belly dancing is done in nite clubs -- private space, you want, you pay. Why are we like this? MPO Hall ni konon a classy and elitist space. Is it a case of if you wanna perform whatever, asal foreigner, tak mengapa?
It's like if you have a Malaysian passport, expect the worst in your own country.
Can we have some respect some where, in our own land?
When they served steaks,I tak berapa yakin it's halal and budak Filipino attending us tu pulak tak pandai cakap English sangat so when I asked, she brought me vegetarian meal.Haha.Nasib I dah kenyang makan bass (hmm, yum) and lotsa buns. Now, this is the issue I wanna raise (belly dancer tu kejap lagi).
WHY DO WE EMPLOY FOREIGN WORKERS IN EVERY INDUSTRY???? We should just employ in areas yang orang2 kita tak boleh nak buat kerja.Imagine if I were served by a local, he/she would understand my query and I would not be denied nice Australian steaks (walaupun I tak lapar but had I been hungry, how? Only goats suka sayur!)
At the petrol station pun..kalau nak tanya apa-apa direction ke..punyalah susah (I get lost quite often when travelling by myself).Bayangkan if it's orang local.We save time and being progressive is all about how much time we can save.
Anyway, I had a nice time at Carcosa yah? The local chaps were very nice when we (Noriah and I.Nik had another dinner elsewhere) asked for tempat sembahyang. He found us a room and we got into a Carcosa room and perasan we were Queen of England. :)) One Dato pun berebut2 nak sembahyang (yang lain tu buat blur jelah) and it gave us a feeling of brotherhood and sisterhood dalam kekalutan mengejar masa.
Now the belly dancer...Zul went to see (on Sunday I told him of the do at MPO Hall).He didn't waste time.Semalam pun dia pulun.Maklumlah orang seni.He is also a dancer.Pagi buta dah text-ed.I pun kata pasal pulak we allowed half naked woman macam tu? Kalau locals buat gelek dangdut pun dah bising (memang patut bising.Prof Z says in Indonesia, it's started by the pros).Tiba2 ini kat MPO Hall pulak. Even in Istanbul, belly dancing is done in nite clubs -- private space, you want, you pay. Why are we like this? MPO Hall ni konon a classy and elitist space. Is it a case of if you wanna perform whatever, asal foreigner, tak mengapa?
It's like if you have a Malaysian passport, expect the worst in your own country.
Can we have some respect some where, in our own land?
7 comments:
1) It's blatant on MAS-- stewards/es prefer foreigners (esp white-skinned) to locals.
2) A friend has businesses in Africa & some other Asian countries, not in Malaysia-- the 'competition' here is terrible. He's competing with cronies who r willing to suck up to those who pull the strings. Even if the pakatan comes into power, I doubt this malady will cease.;)
3) I suppose in unis as well -- academicians who graduated from unheard of unis are given better treatment (allowances/ children's schooling) than the locals.
Jooli, memang betul.My relative was dating a mat salleh guy for a while. She said kalau pi dine kat hotel..wahhh...sambutannya lain from the time she went out with a local, kulit cokelat guy.
Inferiority complex or superiority complex?
Yang sah, bukan shopping complex! (which some of us have bila malls kita ada sales) :))
Dr. Faridah ...
Benda biasa nih ... selalu kita kata kita ni dah bebas dr penjajah .. tapi sikap2 memandang yg foreign tu supra than local masih di mana2 ...
Lagi satu, masalah orang kita ni, suka berbangga tak 'ketahuan hala' ... Miss America yg dok di Florida tu kita banggakan sebagai pencapaian anak Malaysia, walhal dia balik M'sia pun jarang2 (nenek dia org Johor) ... Dah baca "New Malaysian Essay 1" by Amir Muhammad? Brian Yap's piece on this was so brilliant and hillarious, too.
Pasal belly dancing tu ... cenggini je lah Dr ... anggaplah condemnation on artis dangdung tu sebagai nak memelihara penghormatan wanita2 kita .. (-_-) hehehe ...
tapi masih tak menyelesaikan wanita gelek tu, Fisha.Just becos' a grp of women are saved, another is allowed to gelek2..masih tak membawa kita menuju puncak... (beat Akademi Fantasia)
Cuba you google declining belly dancing in Egypt.Getek tak? So, for whoever who said it's an art..satu seni...I'd say podah.
Kalau buat sorang2 kat rumah, takpa (one way to lose weight, I'm told).
Oh well.
love that scene in carcosa, seri carcosa, bunyi macam kuih ape2 yang ada pulut! marquee tu re-designed by my friend Jaya Ibrahim from Indonesia, you could see his wonderful house in Bogor in Java Style book
hanya wanita melayu yang baik2, padahal kalau pegi lorong haji taib dan lorong yang sewaktu dengannya ada ramai wanita melayu atau kulit melayu yang menunggu pelanggan, ada yang macam pekerja kerajaan atau tok bidan atau jiran dekat rumah rupanya! wanita lain semua tak baik! tarp yang peliknya mat salleh ni suka wanita melayu yang kulitnya krasap dan ada rupa orang asli, tapi itu pemerhatian kasarla ye
Zubin: masa I dalam khemah kawan you tu, terasa macam khemah kat padang pasir.Tapi exotic juga rasanya.
Yalah, I pun perasan mat salleh suka gals yang kulit gelap (esp. those from Europe belah2 Scandinavian countries).Macam gals kita le suka lelaki kulit putih sebab rare breed (baunya pun rare gamaknya)
Sekali tu I terserempak one Thai woman..punyalah tak lawa (bukan nak hina but muka dia betul2 scary) tapi suami dia punya la hensem.Mungkin org melihat the inner beauty, kan? Kita je yang kalut.
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