naming a place
*this is what happened when 2 guys with poor knowledge of “sejarah” get together… happened last Saturday..
As Lorraine rolls into the street of Melaka, Ronnie quipped to me :
“Parameswara dude. You remember that name ?”
“Yeah, the guy who founded Melaka”
“Pada suatu hari….Parameswara makan pisang. hahah ! kanneh !”
[I made the pisang part out, I actually forgot what Ronnie said]
“He named it after the tree which he was resting under…” - I told Ronnie.
“Melaka tree huh ?”
“Yep, a Melaka tree. Damn stupid I tell you”
“No doubt a very ridiculous way to name a place”
“I wonder if it would still be Melaka if he happened to sit beside a big cactus plant instead…”
“Hahah… no, the state would be named as Kaktus”
“Hahahah… no shit…”
“Selamat Datang ke Kaktus !”
And we proceeded to purge our tears and phlegm laughing out loud… nearly black out.
Come to think of it, if a person names a place after the object he sits under, there’s could be many unimaginable consequences …
Under a durian tree = Negeri Durian
Under a lamp post = Negeri Tiang Lampu
Under a skirt = Negeri Seluar Dalam / Apom Bulu
We’re lucky there weren’t many variety of objects back then.
ROTFLOL!!!!
LMAO!!!
If I ain’t mistaken, another reason the name is choosen because the place is like a market and the name Melaka derived from Melakat, which stands for market.
Oh damn, better stop now to relieve the old times. Younger generation usually don’t listen to an old timer like me…
jase - what young people ? even old people like me also wouldn’t want to listen to that type of shit ! hahahh
i couldn’t have cared less.
Under a shitting elephant = Negeri @#$%!@#!!!
Looking at the names of places, I can only thank heaven that nobody sat under a shitting elephant.
what ? negeri taik gajah ?heheh
i like P.Ramlee’s naming of states in his movies. anyone remember Negeri Pasir Berdenggung?
i also remember Mr Para met a kancil kick a dog right?
then why not negeri kancil??
fuiyoh…. then the official state car is KANCIL
tht time, KK can hav his sweet time slaughtering all of them
if so happen the first thing the founder go is to “lepas”…. then…
negeri jamban?
muahahahahaha Negeri Bulu Apom… if he sat under a guy.. then will it be Negeri Dua Bola?! (was thinking about ‘nuts’.. but dunno how to say in BM.. kacang?? Negeri Dua Kacang?? hahahaha…)
buaya69 - nope. never watched P.Ramlee movie except orang minyak … which is kinda cool.
zbjernak - it’s not called a ‘kancil’ back then. It’s called ‘pelanduk’. Negeri Pelanduk.
elphine - guys don’t wear skirt, ok ? But then, in case it does happen, you can name the state as Negeri Kotek.
mike, guys DO wear skirts, at least during Troy period la…. remember Brad Pitt in skirts in the movie Troy?
ashotiwoth - you are right. guys do wear skirts. we usually call them tranvestite, or pondan.
I’ve got issues with this Parameswara guy. What makes him think that before he ate under that melaka tree, that place didn’t already have a name? I’m sure there must have been someone living there and they would have already had a name for that place. Heck he could have even been tresspassing into someones backyard!
I think I’ll get down to the KLCC park, sit down under one of those trees, do my business, and declare that area homer-land!
homer - we all know the sumatrans are not native here … the original name of Melaka is actually $%^&%*%^*&^(^&(*^%%$^$%^^&&
*that’s some type of orang asli language that nobody could understand.
well if parameswara sat under the tree and a bird decided to shit on his head.. mebbe it wouldve been called ‘Negeri mela - mahai! wtf?!’
Existing places in malaysia have baffling names.
There is Batang Benar (True Dick) in Negri….and Batang Kali (Multiplied Dick) in Selangor. Others I forgot…
there’s a Jalan Pisang Awak in Kampung Melayu, Penang….
(Your Banana’s Road)