Speaker A
Yo! Apa khabar Kuala Lumpur?
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Speaker A
That's as much Malay you'll get from me, lah.
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Thank you for coming out here, it's a 3:30, 3:30 p.m. and you still made it.
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So good on you, and it's a very diverse audience, I know you guys can't see from upstairs, but there's one, two, three bald guys, like four.
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It's, it's a very inclusive audience, you know.
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Let go.
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This is crazy.
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I just moved to Malaysia.
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Yeah.
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And, yeah, and, um, this is a very bald-friendly country.
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It is.
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It caters very well to the bald man because I get my head shaved every three days.
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At a South Indian barber.
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Yeah.
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And the South Indian barbers in Malaysia, it's a uniquely Malaysian experience for a bald man.
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If you have hair, you have no idea how good it feels to feel the South Indian blade just scrape through your scalp.
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The scra, scra.
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And then the massage afterwards.
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I don't know if he's angry at me or not, he's just slapping my head.
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Just, pak, pak, pak.
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Bodoh punya.
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Nice.
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But can I just say it's like low-key, low-key, like a gay experience.
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Quite gay, quite gay.
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And this is when I know that it felt a bit gay.
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Cause he was shaving my beard, he was like shaving, and then like he tried to get this part here.
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And then like he moved my loot to the side, like that.
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And then our eyes met.
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And that's not even the gay part, you know, it's our eyes met, he immediately went.
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So like instinctively, I grabbed the back of his neck, you know.
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So now we are both in this weird embrace, I'm here, he's here, I'm like that.
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And then he slowly moves the blade to my neck, I say, let go, child.
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Oh, sorry, sorry.
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Sorry.
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I thought we were sharing a moment.
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Sorry.
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My bad, my bad, my bad.
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Um, yes, I've moved, I've moved back to Malaysia.
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Um, I was here when in secondary school growing up, but now I'm back here in Malaysia.
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And I feel like I have to reconnect with my cultural roots.
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And, you know, reconnect with the people in Malaysia.
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Uh, and because of that, I choose to just live the humble life, you know.
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And I chose to live a humble life in Mont Kiara.
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I mean, okay, I know you guys are looking at me a little strange.
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But, but get this, okay.
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I grew up in Masjid Tanah, Melaka, that was a very rough neighborhood.
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But then I moved to Singapore for about 14, 15 years.
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I've officially been softened and domesticated already.
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If you want to move me back to Malaysia, you, yeah, Mont Kiara is the right place.
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You cannot just throw me to Shah Alam, bro.
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You cannot.
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I have to re-assimilate, you understand?
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All I'm saying is slowly, slowly, slowly.
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We'll move out after a while.
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I drive a Malaysian plate now, and can I just say that when you drive a Malaysian plate,
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compared to a Singapore plate, which is what I used to drive back then,
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my life now has been significantly better.
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On the road.
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Like significantly better.
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When you drive a Singapore car on the roads of Kuala Lumpur,
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you don't have to tell me that you don't like me.
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I can feel it.
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From inside the car, I can feel it, you know.
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Like there's no room for error.
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The moment I go like, should I take this U-turn or should I not take it?
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Peh!
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Bodoh Singapore!
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Okay, sorry, sorry, sorry.
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I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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Shit.
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Every time I'm at the petrol station, you know, everyone.
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Which one?
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Which one?
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Ha!
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Which one?
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Now I drive a Melaka car, I can be in between two lanes.
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The car behind me just goes, ah, we all make mistakes.
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Kita jaga kita, eh.
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It's great.
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My life's been all right.
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It's my dad's car, and even though he can't drive it anymore, he told me that he wants to keep it the way it is.
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So I know it means a lot to him, so I kept it the way it is.
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It's a very Malay uncle car.
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Okay, it has a compartment where you keep the songkok.
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Right?
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And the songkok is still there.
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I kept it there.
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There is a porcelain vase.
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I don't know why.
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Malay people love porcelain vases.
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And then at the back, there is a decal that says, Alhamdulillah.
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But the A is the Avengers A.
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Yeah.
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Ori, bro.
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Which is that.
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I drive that car now.
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And can I just say that it is a roadblock-proof car.
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I have never been stopped at a roadblock driving that car.
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That, that is the best, right?
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Every time I see there's a roadblock, I'm like, oh, shit, roadblock.
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Okay, stand by, songkok.
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Right.
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Check.
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Alhamdulillah.
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Time to turn on some Maher Zain.
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As we approach the police, Inshallah.
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Inshallah.
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Inshallah.
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And when I see the police officer, we don't even exchange words.
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We just exchange Malay sounds.
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Have you seen two Malay people not exchange words?
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Just Malay sounds.
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Right?
