Tuesday, September 05, 2006

A stumble upon a Bangladeshi selling chestnut

Last week, a conversation with a Bangladeshi worker selling chestnut oppostite Jusco supermarket in 1-Utama made me think of a few things. The conversation was something like below:

Chestnut Seller : Malaysia good... very good... economy also good... prime minister good... goverment very good...
Me : Really?

CS : Um... Um... very good.... * giving me the thumbs up *
Me : So you like staying here?

CS : Um... Um... Yes, here is good...
Me : I see... where is your hometown?

CS : Oh... I come from Bangladesh!
Me : Oh I see...

They are happy indeed to be able to come to work in Malaysia even with the lowest pay. And now i doubt that their low wages. I wish that i could say something good and be positive like them about my current pay...

Me : ... ayo ayo... maciam mana mau baik... petrol naik harga... roti naik harga... air naik harga... tapi itu pay ar... tarak naik harga... apa pun tarak baik... itu blardy LDP toll pun mau naik harrrga... makan pasirrr kali ini... tarrrrak baik ... tarrrrak baik... pay mesti naik... tak naik... tarak naik... tarak baikk...
(in translation, it means how can it be good when petrol price is up, bread price is up, water price is up but my pay there is no increment... then everything is no good... and even blardy LDP toll price plan to go up... eat sand this time... no good... no good... my pay must increase... no increase... no good)

Garment : Anda mesti jimat... baik untuk anda...
(in translation, it means you've to say and its good for you)

is sky the limit... A Bangladeshi and A Malaysian...

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thats the problem la, you see petrol naik, twice somemore ... then rokok naik, elektrik naik, apa pun naik, tapi gaji saja tarak naik naik ... nasib baik kukujiao boleh naik lagi, tapi kau harga lain masih lagi mau naik, takut kukujiao nanti tak boleh naik ...

william wilstroth said...

garment to earl-ku : Mari... Mari... Vaigraa... RM5 satu.... mari mari... manyak murah... beli satu dapat satu...


hahahahhahahahah....

Anonymous said...

haha seeing such a problem, the gomen put up a new program that is subsidising the people Viagra purchase like petrol la ... hahahah