3rd Concert looms....

Finally we got to hear Ekin cakap the Brunei dialect when she was talking to the mum on the phone during the 1st Diari today. She was in between mumbling and in tears so its pretty hard to catch what she was saying. But I think she said something like this ;

"Behapa kan kemari bulan 7 kalau tekeluar minggu ani?" I guess you guys can guess 'behapa' means buat apa. I'm assuming that maybe the mum or a close relative is planning to go in July to watch the concert to which she replied that it would be useless to do so if she gets voted out tomorrow, which is really a slim chance of that happening.

And then there was also that bit "Payah baikon atu, luan sajuk tesumbat idung, kan suruh damiti inda dapat". Payah = susah, baikon = beraircon, tesumbat = blocked and idung = hidung. The word 'luan' is usually used to emphasize on something, its the same as "too". And 'damiti' in direct translation would be to minimise but here it means kurangkan & 'inda' means 'no'. So in standard malay shes saying "Aircon terlampau sejuk, nak kurangkan tak boleh". Also I think she mentioned 'penyangat damit', damit = small and penyangat is a bee. Hehe... macam sehari sepatah kata plak huh? Anyway, I must say her Bruneian accent is so thick that if I didnt know she was from labuan, I couldnt probably tell she doesnt live in Brunei. One of these days I'm gonna write in bahasa Brunei, lets see if you guys can make something out of it or not.

Other fun bits were the English class clips. I was laughing in tears looking at their antics, being asked to act out old P Ramlee movies - Ibu Mertuaku & Hang Tuah - but conversing in english was just hilarious! Its a must watch, the most entertaining Diari so far for me.

The second Diari started out with the boys apologising about that "confidential" result paper that was used to "jerat" them. They explained that they actually approached Asrul after that session we saw them denying it all infornt of the girls. The reason they gave was that they didnt wanna create curiosity and make the girls all worried. I guess thats logical, if the girls knew about it, they would have wanted to see it too. And as the guys said, some would probably cry if they see where their standings are. Clever reply guys. Pheewwww! But then again I think some of them are worrying about their standings still.

Most of the Diari was taken by the students performing infront of the tenaga pengajar, it doesnt look so organised because probabaly most are just tired and maybe just scared or nervous. I dont want to comment about it too much really as its nothing I wanna predict or assumed about. Lets just watch and see how it goes tomorrow night. Hope ya'll have fun watching it! Cya!