Psst.. Wanna win RM 10K just by taking pictures?
The Terengganu State Government launched a photography competition called “Wajah-wajah Terengganu” (literally translated as “Faces of Terengganu”) and they’re offering very attractive prizes:
1st Prize — 1 x RM 10,000 + Plaque/Certificate
2nd Prize — 1 x RM 5,000 + Plaque/Certificate
3rd Prize — 1 x RM 3,000 + Plaque/Certificate
Consolation Prizes — 10 x RM 500 + Plaque/Certificate
Those of you who have big-a$$ DSLRs, what are you waiting for? Hurry up! Click here to download the brochure (report broken link). The competition deadline is 31st July 2007.
P/S: Don’t ask me why they will only give either a plaque or a certificate. I have no idea.
P/S/S: Have you heard? Kuala Terengganu will be elevated to a city next year. Why am I not excited?
And this one says, “Terengganu Lening”.
*rolls eyes*
You know, I’ve been staying in Terengganu for more than half a decade now but I don’t seem to pick up the local language as fast as I’d like to. But of course, over the course of six years, I haven’t been communicating MUCH with the local Malays, but that’s another story.
The Terengganu Malay language is a funny one. I don’t know, maybe it’s because I don’t grow up here and that’s why I see everything unfamiliar as funny. I mean, where else do you pronounce “ayam” as “ayang” and “ikan” and “ikang”?? For example, if you’re at the wet market and you want to buy a chicken and a fish, you tell the lady, “Mek, nok beli ayang dan ikang” and she tells you, “Spuluh yah”, meaning ten ringgit.
And, where else can you see a HUGE billboard with sentences you don’t understand? Terengganu kekgi??!! Ke arah generasi ulul albab?! What the fish is ulul albab anyway?!
And where else can you find a Chinese New Year banner, sponsored by the MP to the residents, but there isn’t a single Chinese character in it?
Ouh, and by the way, we need another BIG banner to inform everybody that KUSTEM is now officially UMT..
Hip, hip, hooray!
