Sep 19 2006
A Jerk???
American Heritage Dictionary define jerk as ‘ a foolish, rude, or contemptible person’. Dalam Bahasa Melayu, kita panggil ‘orang yang teruk’ kot. I quote part of a sentence from Shahrill’s blog entitled Back To Basic (Part II) : Pyjama & Pillow Boulevard stated that ‘people like me DON’T mingle with jerks!’
It seems like this people who we call jerks exist everywhere. But sometimes I wonder, as I am calling the other people as a jerk, who is calling me with the same name?
Back in 1990s where I wasn’t 172cm but my BMI is better than now, I cross a scene of my friends saying bad about me. I am jerk on their eyes. Was I innocent back then, or I was already guilty from the very beginning?
Different Culture
Living in a different culture may change us a little bit. Hari tu waktu balik kg, aku gi pasar malam. Tengah bawak motor, tetiba ada asap datang dari mana tah. Jadi, aku kaih2 depan hidung aku seperti gaya ‘eu, gross’ yang banyak dalam cerita-cerita remaja dari barat. Muzaini tegur, ‘jangan buat macam tu kat sini’. I got his point of saying that. It’s just to avoid me being looked by the other people as weirdo or simply a jerk. Not to be seen as a village guy who just live in city of Penang for few years but when I came back to the village, I cannot stand a little bit of smoke caused by open-fire flame.
Culture is something which alter human perspective. Imagine a boy raised up by a very strict family won’t be able to accept such people who break the rule easily. In his eyes, that kind of people is a jerk, and the same thing happen to him.
In a culture which people tend to talk freely (mulut tak bertapis), the local might find it very usual but people from different state feel offended. Dah melangkah usia 22 tahun, genapla 11 tahun aku tinggal kat Kedah selepas 11 tahun duk kat Perak dulu. I was brought into Kedah at the age of 12. And one of my perspective which remains up until now is Kedah people is more root in compare to the place I lived before. I know that this is not statistically right. Maybe wrong at all. And maybe I cannot just judge like that.
But the reason I came up with this idea is because I ‘was’ irritated with some people before. To look back what had happen, I realise that they are not totally jerk. I was the one who cannot adapt with them.
… [finish abruptly because I have finish downloading Amazing Race 10, first episode from computer lab, and it so cold here, and I need to prepare for my short so-called vacation tomorrow to KL for visa application and asking some question in Putrajaya. Chow]
