We drove up from KL to Alor Setar, Sungai Petani and Penang, and then back down again to Johor Baharu, so yeah, pretty much been on the western side of West Malaysia....haven't been back to Malaysia since I came to Australia 5 years ago, so meh, but as for languages, it's really everything, ummm Malaysia speaks English, Tamil and assorted Indian languages, Bahasa Melayu, Chinese--not to sure about the areas but from what I know.....Cantonese in KL, Hokkien up north, Mandarin everywhere I guess, Hakka also up north, there's some Teochew which I'm not too sure about but I think East Malaysians particularly around Kuching and Sibu speak--dunno, Malaysian Chinese speak a bit of everything I guess--I know my parents can! Also Fuchow in Kuching I believe, but dunno what the KK and Sabah people speak.
As for Singapore, English--or rather,
Singlish , Chinese (mainly Cantonese and Mandarin)....yeah. Singapore is SO clean it's not funny--so don't attempt to litter there at all or you'll be publicly humiliated as a punishment....I read about it in a newspaper article sometime ago--I think it was they force you to pick up rubbish in the streets wearing a sign saying 'LITTERBUG!' or something like that.
sidenote: I was really good at geography when I was younger, so I used to be the map reader for our journeys anywhere, so I memorised all the states of Malaysia
when we drove up and down the length of Western Malaysia....lemme see:
- Penang--Georgetown & Butterworth --> ahhh...the bridge....also plenty of whitewashed houses there
- Kedah--Alor Setar & Sungai Petani
- ...--Ipoh --> limestone cliffs!
- Wilayah Persekutuan--KL --> remembered eating ma ku teh there! mmmm....
- Selangor--is that a state? Never got the difference between it and KL
- Malacca--Malacca
- Negri Sembilan--Sembilan (?) --> was sooooo clean!
- Johor--Johor Baharu
- Sabah (East Malaysia)--KK, Sandakan
- Sarawak (East Malaysia)--Kuching, Miri, Sibu
- Terranggenu (?!--never knew the spelling of it)--remembered it as the place that always flooded in monsoon season
And I think at least a good three to five other states which I've totally forgotten about.
seremify basically has the lowdown on it all, but yeah....memories *dreams*