Cowboy Caleb the liberal arts, grown-up stuff & random mischief

Let Us Learn Malay

Note: This may be my most bizarre post yet

Let us learn the malay language by translating the popular malay song (circa 1998) Fantasia Bulan Madu by Search into english. The dude above is Amy of Search. He sang this song.

First download the song.

In fact I will be translating the words literally! Let us have a laugh. Obviously the meaning of the song gets lost in translation!

This may be hard to believe, but in the Malay language, it’s actually very poetic. The symbolism only makes sense in Malay though.

Malay is a lot like Japanese - the subject comes before the predicate as opposed to the other way round in English. So ‘book shop’ becomes ’shop book’.

Fantasia Bulan Madu by Search

Demi cintaku pada mu (Because of my love for you)
Ke mana saja kan ku bawa (Anywhere, I will bring you)
Ku hujung dunia ke bintang (The end of the world, the stars)
Kejora

Demi cintaku padamu (Because of my love for you)
Kukorbankan jiwa dan raga (I’ll sacrifice my soul and mind)
Biar pun harus ku telan (Even if I have to swallow)
Lautan bara (An ocean of fire)

Bulan madu di awan biru (Honeymoon in a blue cloud)
Tiada yang menggangu (Nobody will disturb us)
Bulan madu di atas pelangi (Honeymoon atop a rainbow)
Hanya kita berdua (There’s just us both)
Mengecap nikmat cinta (Enjoying the ecstasy of love)
Yang putih tak terbendung (whiter then the infinite)
Sesuci embun pagi (Purer then dew)

Andai dipisah (Should we seperate)
Laut dan pantai (The ocean and the shore)
Musnahlah ilham (Destroyed will be my soul)
Hilang pedoman (Lost will be my guide)

Andai dipisah (Should we seperate)
Cahaya dan bulan (Light and the moon)
Gelap gulita (Pitch black darkness)
Musnah asmara (Destroyed is our love/sex)

sorry but i find the lyrics really funny!! ahahhahaa.

asmara is sex?

………………

asmara is a polite way to say make love

can u read chinese?

no i cannot.

*lol*

only you can think of these type of crappy hilarious stuff

Amy is a guy’s name? Malay rockers don’t look good in long bad hair. Why don’t they get it?

ping is a racialist

1) Amy is short for Suhaimi
2) Most ppl apart from Angmo look rotten in long hair as well
3) Most malay rockers are damn good

I’m not okkk.. I’m not mean like you. Maybe they’re good, but they seldom look good.

Slander.

racialist!

:P nvr liked Amy…he reminds me of the bug in the cartoon ‘Maya the Bee’

well maybe tomorrow I’ll post Isabella and we’ll see if he can sing better then he looks?

LOL I have no idea how one would pronounce this.

i invented it