A product of an inter-marriage amidst a multi-ethnic
society in Malaysia, I grew up a bilingual of both
the Malay and English languages. Most Malaysians
mother tongue is the language of their respective
races, whilst their national language is Bahasa
Melayu. So, English language comes in second to all
the languages they are familiar with; in other words
their L2. Out of my love for both the languages, I
developed an accute fascination for their figurative
expressions. I observed these expressions tend to
maintain the identity of their languages intact for
the expressions are not...