Chinese T-shirt
Calling all readers who can read chinese characters! Your assistance is kindly requested.
Okay, enough with the formalities. I just bought a T-shirt from sunway pyramid today. Cheap too, less than RM20. But that wasn't the reason for my purchase. The T-shirt was not so fancy, just some chinese text in front. The shop assistant said that the characters meant "Sarawak". Feeling super patriotic and proud of my home state (we have Starbucks you know), I bought it before you could say "Cehh, Stabakks only at airport nia le..."
Wait, I can almost read it...is that two "huos" on top of that thingamajid for the second character?
So, does it really say Sarawak? Or were they trying be funny and fooled this poor banana into wearing a shirt that said "lala leng zai studmeister" or "Me love u long time"(I'm getting paranoid here)
For all I know, it could mean "No.125-Roast Pork Belly"
The lesson here is, I must learn how to read Chinese. Past kindergarten level I mean. Hats off to you if you could confirm this with me!
3 comments:
Yes, to put your mind at ease, it does say "Sarawak". But Rm20 for it?! You were ripped off man.
Chinese being Chinese, who can't standardise anything, there are many ways to write Sarawak, because it is transliterated. There aer 4 ways to transliterating "Sarawak". Add in the fact there are 2 ways of writing (traditional and simplified script), and there a bit more combinations than one might think.
Just for the record, it is written in the traditional script. Under the Simplified script, its 砂劳越. Note the difference in the second character.
there is a "yue" (moon) at the word 劳.
u got the first n last character right!
Proud to be a Sarawakian too.
Next time u shud get a 古晋@kuching shirt!
P/s I taught my japanese tutor the most common word in Malaysia
"tapao"
Gambare Chris!
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