Sarawakian Blues

This one goes out to all my Sarawakian people out there.

Being the only Sarawakian among a group of 26 scholars is not easy. Well, for most part, it is because the boys here are evil and like enjoy love LIVE to make fun of me. They take the little itsy-bitsy things that I do or say, and add their own version or rendition to it.

For example, zomg this is so sighening... in Sarawak, burit is known as the backside. But refer to your ass as burit over here, and people will laugh their burits butts off at you. Why is this so? Well, over here in Semenanjung Msia, burit is known as the front part, and the backside is known as buntut, or however it is spelt around here.

ZOMG I shall never hear the end of this!! This is Alep's fault!! Garn... A few weeks ago while getting into a cab, I accidentally erm, bumped into Alep's hips when I slid into the cab, and the stupid Daun just HAD to cry out in "agony", "Owh my burit sakit!!"

Pfft!! If you think it accidentally spilled out from his lips, then you are W-R-O-N-G.

Look at his picture. Does he look like someone who does this kinda thing by accident??

Oh no no, this picture is just too cute and innocent

Ah ha! This is the right one. Look at the devilish look in his face!! Look!! Look!!

It is this guy's fault that the other guys are teasing me like there is no tomorrow. Noooooooo...

*clears throat*

Apart from the whole burit thing, we have sort of a punch line here, but only used by a few of us. Guess what the punch line is.

It is: Ulululululu!!!

How did this come about??

Well, one night, Zul was telling us about the movie, The Gods Must Be Crazy, and I cannot remember how it led on to our native tribes in Sarawak.

Zul, "I saw this video once of the Orang Penan. They went out hunting and when they bring food back, all the women in the village would celebrate the men's success by shouting ULULULULULULU *waves his hands in the air like a demented person*."

Owh that is mine and Alep's cue to faint! ZOMG that sounds so African la!! Ululu pulak...

Peer into the face of Ulu-evilness

So thanks to Zul, anytime the guys want to tease me or make fun of me, Ulululu will be part of their sentences, like water is to fish, like yvonne is to her brand new heels huhuhu

So you think that that is the end of my Sarawakian misery?? Oh no, that is just the beginning.

I tend to get a lot of super weird and sometimes degrading questions from the people here. Hmm but I seriously do NOT know if they are being serious and curious, or if they are just asking me that question for the sake of seeing me freak out and shout set them straight about how Kuching is.

"Kuching got airport right??"

"What is your house like?? You stay in rumah panjang ka??"

"Kuching got mall or not??"

Blah blah blah... ZOMG please la, you think I just came out of a forest ka???

Lolz sometimes I have to watch what I say and the manner of how I present my statement or answer.

Chemistry class last Friday:
With absolutely NO emotion in my face and in a moody tone I told my friends, "I came all the way here in a sampan."

One of my friends sincerely and honestly answered my statement by saying, "Ya ka????"

*faints*

Yeah like I can cross the South China Sea in a sampan. If I managed that, shouldn't I be awarded some kind of medal or have my name written in the book of records or something??

Haha ok, I have to admit that I sometimes enjoy receiving all this super insane and weird questions that makes absolutely NO sense at all.

That is not it. Oh no no no... There is more.

Last week we had a meeting with the seniors for the MCS club thingy, and the seniors were telling us that they need some materials and props for the Gala Night on 29th August. It was as though they purposely wanted to aide the boys in making my life here as painful as possible.

During the meeting, the words BULUH and SUMPIT came up.

ZOMG the moment I heard those words, I quickly looked down and tried to hide my Sarawakian face!

And when I looked up for a brief moment, I was right. I knew it!! The stupoooooooid boys were giving me cheeky looks and they had Ulululu written all over their faces!! And they were pointing their skinny evil fingers at me!!!

Woe is me...

AND AND AND....

Owh before I proceed with my endless rantings, all my Kuching friends, do you know that we Sarawakians have, apparently, our own accent?? Hmm, ok, its actually a slang, but lets just call it accent to make ourselves sound cooler. LOLZ

Anyway, they love to tease me everytime I speak BM to them, because of my "Sarawakian Acceent". Alep was the first to tell me that I had a Sarawakian accent, but I shrugged it off as I seriously DID NOT and still DO NOT see the difference between mine and theirs.

Then as the days turned to weeks, more and more people kept pointing out my accent. So I gave into the "reality" that I, Sherene Jawing from Kuching Sarawak, have a Sarawakian accent. Coolness (???)

There was one time when I kantoi-ed on the spot when one of the seniors was listening to our conversation one day, and she straight away asked if I was from Sarawak because of the way I spoke.

This is a very shocking discovery for me! Ok fine, it is actually partially my fault due to me being oblivious to some of the things that Suria has been telling me. Maybe I should pay attention more. Hehe sorry woman...

So there was this unfateful day after classes ended, I said a line in BM aloud and in anguish (they were bullying me again!!!!), and from that day on, it turned into another punch line. AND they like to mimic the accent whenever they are in their saddist mood.

"Aku tak tauuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

"Aku tak mauuuuuuuuuuuuu"

Hoho you think that the guys are the only ones in on this act?? Yuuuuuuvonne Ulululu me sometimes too.

The very moment the mention the word Sarawak, I will look at them with bulging eyes. That is where they got the idea of turning Sarawak into a swear word.

So instead of saying F--- you!!!, they will opt to say SARAWAK YOU!!!
LOLZ but it has not started yet, and hopefully will NEVER catch on.

So yeah. Poor little Sarawakian girl who gets bullied by four Selangor boys and a Sabahan too.

ZOMG this is a very long post and I am hungry now. haha makan time...

Ciao babes!!

-shereno mentello-

PS: we are giving each other italian names because we have absolutely NOTHING better to do!!!