No, I’m not going to type Bahasa Melayu here, but I have things to tell about Bahasa and us, as Chinese-Malaysian.

It has been quite a long time since I step into church. I came here to Medan and started to attend church again on the weekend. The funny thing was, I attending Bahasa Indonesia language, which is still ok for me, understandable. Consider how many times I come to Medan and approach numerous time by agents about health insurance leads and bla bla bla on complex

However, today I was luckier, some Penangites came to the church and start sharing the experience or sort. However, this Chinese-Malaysian has difficulty on speaking Bahasa Melayu (the Malaysia one), on the opposite, all Chinese-Indonesian can speak rather fluent Bahasa Indonesia. How pathetic Chinese-Malaysian to be a Malaysian, we don’t speak our own nation language well.

In order to help 1Malaysia going, I believe nation language also the key? While a lot of my friends came and tell me it is useless to learn Bahasa since it’s going to be used only in Malaysia or maybe a little bit in Indonesia. But I’ll say, to know your nation language is to become a nation of its country, unless, of course, you’re not Malaysian.

P/S: I have to start learning Bahasa also now…