In search of halia...

I know... I know... it's been... A LOOOOOOONG WHILE since I last posted.

Was SO tied up with work for the past couple of months that I had no more energy left to erm... entertain you guys. (I SO perasan kan... as if lah I have that many readers...)

Okay, okay, let me just tell you guys a story about this Sabahan friend of mine, who went to Giant in search of ginger. I couldn't stop laughing when she told us this story so let's hope I can tell this story online equally well.

Here goes....

My friend, let's call her Miss A, she went to a Giant hypermarket somewhere in the Klang Valley one day in search of ginger.

She searched and searched and search, but couldn't find the damn things.

Finally, Miss A went up to one of the employees at the hypermarket for assistance.

She asked (in her undisguised Sabahan accent): "Excuse me kak, mana halia?"

(For the uninformed, halia is the Malay word for ginger).

The lady employee, without batting an eye, replied in a Semenanjung accent: "Ah? Oh die tak kerje la hari ni." (Ah? Oh she's not working today).

I think my friend didn't know whether to laugh or cry at that moment.

If you think about it, it IS kinda funny how the Giant employee mistook "halia" for her colleague's name... Aliya maybe?

Heheh... the things we Sabahans go through in the peninsula... :-)