Thursday, June 28, 2007

You Only Miss It When It's Not There



I LOVE JALAPENOS IN MY SANDWICH! :D
I can just imagine my parents saying...
"that's our daughter. She has to be different compare to the rest!" shake heard

I seem to be a very late 'bloomer' when it comes to picking up a certain thing from a culture. I still find it a weird phenomenon within myself.

For example:

1. I couldn't speak Sabah Malay for more than 3 minutes with my friends until I unconsciously start talking in English back again when I was a kid living in Sabah. Weirdest thing was, the first thing that came out of my mouth when I tried to speak in Malay when I moved to Semenanjung (Peninsular) Malaysia, my sabahan accent and slang came out naturally.

2. I could only speak in Sabah Malay when I was in KL and Johor, but after awhile, I started to talk in malay, in KL accent only once after I left KL and lived in Johor.

3. Everybody close to me knows I hate eating chillies as I don't believe in spoiling the taste of the food with too much spice to the point that you can't taste your food properly. The point is, I used to take only (which is very mild) maggie brand chilli sauce. It is so mild that I believe even a 6 year old can take it. I refused to take anything spicier than that. Now that I'm overseas, tis funny how I have recently been craving for something spicy. I can't get the maggie brand for chillie sauce, so I have been eating the Lingham's brand instead.

Currently, I Love jalapeno in my sandwich. Just the thought of it makes me salivate. Haha. The best sandwich with jalapeno that I've tried so far is from Quiznos, which is just below my apartment. Nyum Nyum! :D

Darn! it's already 11pm at night and just the thought of it is making me hungry all over again.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your Sabah accent is soo yummy to my ears! Kinda missed that a lot. Come back for good Rad.

JazMan said...

Whoa!! Can still have our imported Lingam's brand of chili sauce there as well.

Yeah. Late-bloomer is the word. By the way, the Sabah accent is by no means something to make a big deal out of. Trust me when I was that somehow I lost that accent quite a lot since I've been home for only short stints.

bosing said...

Ask my mother,
you can even get minyak kapak and ipoh white coffee here. :P

Y'know what jazman? Methinks when I come back, we can expand our weekend/monthly baking cookies/brownies to include cooking something for lunch/dinner.
As long as we don't have to feed the rest of the clan. :)

Come to think of it, need to drag ladyplump into the picture to make the krispy kreme recipe too.