Proud of My BM

I came back to Malacca today. I spent my Merdeka day at Ikea with my sister and her bf, who was looking for some lamps for his new home. There were crazy amount of people in Ikea and most of them were there to just have a look around (we bought something ok). The restaurant in Ikea was packed with people but we managed to find a table, actually half a table, to sit at. I had salmon with chives sauce and it cost just RM 11.90. I mean that's cheap for salmon, hence the word "just" in the previous sentence. We had to leave early because we had to attend an uncle's wedding dinner. To be honest, i've never met this uncle of mine before. I went only because i was representing my granduncle who is in Hong Kong.

During the course of the dinner, the emcee for the night started saying some stuff in Cantonese. My uncle migrated to Australia (i think) but he's now living in the UK (i think) and the emcee then reminded him not to forget his Cantonese. Then, i waited for the emcee to say the same thing about his Bahasa Malaysia but sadly the advise didnt come. Why no advise about his BM? Then i started thinking of a common question i always ask myself, why is it when a Malaysian of Chinese descent starts speaking to another Malaysian of Chinese descent in BM, the person who is speaking will, more often than not, receive a weird look by the person listening? Is it because BM is a foreign language to him/her? Did he/she skip all the classes conducted in BM during school?

I speak BM very often. I speak it to my family and my relatives. I speak it to my friends, regardless of race and i think it's great. However, it's not great when i get weird looks because i'm speaking in BM. My sister spoke to some uncle in BM and he asked her why is she speaking to him in BM. Why? Is she speaking in a foreign language? Is BM a foreign language in Malaysia? If it is and you cant bloody understand her, please get the hell out of my country, you prick! I look forward to the day when i can speak BM to any other Malaysian without getting weird looks staring back at me as if i'm some foreigner asking for directions in a foreign tongue.