thanks a lot to DNAS who was kind of reminded me about this book honk! if you're a malaysian by lydia teh. after i read D's post, i knew i heard about the book somewhere. then i thought to myself that i should get one for myself too. thus when we went to ipoh last weekend, i make sure that i grabbed the opportunity to get my copy of the book too from mph kinta city. fyi people, whenever we go there, mph is our must-stop. as some of you may know, i am actually still reading gypsy masala at the moment. but since i found the honk! book very interesting from the reviews of many others, i temporarily stopped reading gypsy masala. i quickly glance through and started reading honk! that night after we came back from ipoh. up till now, i am reading the 16th essays if i'm not mistaken. i would read it whenever i have the time. the book really describes about us malaysian.
here's something happened to me recently—i attended an official opening at a friend's place in gunung semanggol last thursday. the function supposed to start at 9am. i, as one of the task force was the first one to reach there by 8am i tell you. even our AM arrived around 9 (?). so as usual lor... dily dely here and there... at last it only started around 10.15am grr... lydia, MRT (malaysian rubber time) huh?!!
here's another that happened quite some time ago in klang valley—marvin, a chindian friend was waiting for some friends including me at mcD in subang parade during fasting month. since he was early and rather hungry, he bought the big mac value meal. once seated, he unwrap the burger. when he was about to open his mouth, he saw many eyes looking at him especially malays. those malays already got their food placed in front of them but they were waiting for break fast time. wa lau ley... they thought marvin was malay rotfl... marvin really looks like a malay guy ler, tan skin. he was shocked indeed when he saw almost everyone were looking at him. then what he did next was he held the burger in one hand, and he took-out his cross-necklace that he was wearing but hid inside his shirt, with his other hand. he smiled at them. then only they do their own thing. malaysians no matter what race, do kind of key-poh-chee ;)
alright what else? oh yea... the 'leng chai' thingy—experienced that, done that! lol... ;)
i also recommended this to my local friend Mr T. i would lend him mine of course after i finished reading it. in fact he came to my office the other day. so he asked me to have a look at the book for a while. he already laughed, when he flipped-through the book—he's a fast reader i tell you. he assured me to pass the book to him after i read it. next in line would be puteri. she just told me this morning that she also wants to read the book. i'll make sure that she write her own review in her blog.
all-in-all, i could say honk! really provided an open-eye to every malaysians. i would say that everyone (yes, everyone) should read this. go and get a copy now from your nearest mph bookstore. maybe next time the publisher could print it in other languages too—malay, chinese and tamil version; so that really everyone could read this. what do you think?
kuE's note:
1. i simply took pic of the back cover of the book though as people always showed the front cover—juz wanna do something different. cool... huh?!!
2. do visit lydia teh's blog and enter a contest that could win you some of her books + some books from her book shelf.
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