In Arabic, you just say your family member's first name if its your brothers/close cousins. Older people who clearly…
That's actually really interesting. But what about say, in context of schools or workplaces though? How do they refer to the woman? Or is it because schools and workplaces are also segregated by gender? I noticed when I went for Umrah that staff in nearby shops are usually of one particular gender and if you want to order food, there are separate queues for each gender. So I'm guessing that's the standard for most, if not all workplaces?
I think the whole calling non-family members by family term thing is a really Asian thing in general. I think no matter which part of Asia you're from you'll probably experience this. I'm from Southeast Asia and honestly we call every single random elderly male / female on the street as aunty or uncle.
And in the Malay language, if the person is younger, perhaps in their 20s to middle-aged (and older than you) then maybe we'll call them kak (shorter form of kakak, meaning older sister) or bang (shorter form of abang, meaning older brother). If the person you're calling is younger than you, then typically you'll call them as dik (shorter form of adik, meaning younger sibling). We do this towards like random strangers on the street, the sales woman, the waitress or whatever.
I think Southeast Asians generally aren't very strict in social hierarchy like the Koreans are so sometimes you don't really call people older than you (that you know personally) abang / kakak if the age gap is not that big. Like with Koreans, you can pretty much never address a person by first name basis only as long as they're older than you (born in a different year). So say if your friend is born in december of 1990 and you were born march 1991, although age gap is not big, but because you were born in different years, you gotta call your friend oppa / hyung / nuna / eonnie. But with Southeast Asians, because the gap is not that big, it's not really a big deal, and you can like just call that person by their first name.
Also another interesting thing, married Malay women typically call their husband...WAIT FOR IT.....abang. Yes, they call their husband Abang, which literally means older brother but in this context, it's actually just a form of respect because calling your spouse by their first name is apparently not very respectful. It doesn't, in any way means that the wife sees the husband as some sort of older brother figure lol but it's just a way of showing respect.
IMO, 3 Idiots was overrated, story felt flat to me and I didn't laugh once, I don't know why, I love Dangal, PK,…
Well said. I think the movie was able to touch on the aspects of the education system not just in India but other Asian countries as well. It shows how the education system is not really so much about gaining knowledge but just force feeding us with textbook definitions, making us memorise what is in the textbooks and vomiting it back out in examinations instead of actually making us think critically and actually learn.
It's very relatable to a lot of us Asian students who face lots of pressure not just from our parents but also from the tough education system which is just so overly competitive.
ooh I love Queen! It's been a while I want to watch that movie again. And the 3 Idiots will forever be my favourite. I've heard about Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo many times but was never interested in it. But now that I know that it's similar to Dangal, I will definitely give it a try!
I personally think the supportive and strict parents are the best. Strict parents might seem a little too overbearing sometimes and they don't give you as much freedom but at the end of the day, you know that what they do is because they want the best for you and will always be there to support you.
Okay so I actually grew up watching mainly Malay dramas although I did watch a little bit of Indonesian dramas cause that's what my grandma watches every time I go over to her house. I've been watching Malay dramas ever since I was a kid and with (Malaysian) Malay dramas, the stories get really repetitive. It's always the same old stories over and over again. Same story lines, same kinds of characters even the titles of the dramas are always of the same cringey formats. At some point or the other, you'll get sick and tired of them. But I guess the dramas these days are getting somewhat better...although progress is slow. The cliche dramas are kind of a guilty pleasure for me tho >.< Singaporean Malay dramas though tend to have more original, better story lines. They're definitely way more interesting because they're less predictable.
I also used to watch Korean dramas as a kid. My mum used to watch K-dramas and I usually just watch whatever she watches. So I've been watching Korean dramas since I was in like kindergarten. But back then I was just a casual watcher. The dramas that I watched though were like super long so over the course of many years, I only actually watched a handful of K-dramas. After the last drama that I watched with my mum a couple of years ago, we didn't watch any other dramas after that.
Then, in 2018, that's when I started watching Chinese dramas. 2018 was the year I would be graduating from secondary school, which meant that I would also be sitting for my national exams. I took Chinese as a third language back in secondary school. I was doing pretty well the first 2 years. But in my third year, I felt like I hadn't made any progress and I was feeling extremely demotivated, I even considered dropping Chinese as a subject altogether. But I didn't want the past 3 years worth of effort to go to waste (Chinese was the one subject I spent the MOST effort on during my entire secondary school life). So I decided to go on with it. Then one day in 2018 during Chinese class, my classmate asked our teacher for Chinese drama recommendations so that we can improve our Chinese by watching dramas. My teacher recommended TMOPB and Love 020 saying that those were the dramas that were popular amongst youngsters then. I took them down although I wasn't really intending to watch them. A couple of weeks later though, I decided to just give it a try because I thought "you know what, I don't really have anything to lose. Besides, my Chinese could do with some improving". And lo and behold after watching those 2 dramas, I was HOOKED. I literally could not stop watching Chinese dramas. It was literally one drama after the other. It was kinda hard trying to be self-disciplined and telling myself to limit the time watching c-dramas because I need to study for national exams since I kept telling myself that watching c-dramas is me studying Chinese and not me having fun XD but I did try to put a hold to watching dramas when exams were coming. (I did ended up getting a distinction for Chinese in my national exams tho :) )
After I was done with my national exams, after graduating from secondary school though, I was like "I need to take a break from Chinese dramas. I HAVE to because I've watched way too many". So what did I do? I started watching Korean dramas instead!! *facepalm* such logic. But yes, that's how I got back to watching Korean dramas and the rest is history.
I personally don't understand why this has such a low rating, I loved the CGI and the OST of this movie and I…
I personally feel like 7.2 is a really high rating for such a badly planned and executed drama. Yes the CGI was nice, even better than that of the drama I would say. (Can't remember much about the OST). The costumes were nice, the set was beautiful. But the movie itself was just terrible.
They just took all the major events that took place in the drama and plopped it into the movie. Which is to be expected since a movie can only be so long, but even that wasn't done properly. It felt like they were just jumping from one scene to another, the flow wasn't smooth at all, it was extremely choppy. The characters also weren't properly introduced in the movie. Literally the only reason I could understand what was going on and who the characters were was because I'd seen the drama. Anyone watching this movie without having watched the drama or read the book would have been very lost and very unlikely to have even been able to understand what was going on.
Also, I personally wasn't a fan of the leads in this one. After having watched TMOPB the leads in the movie don't seem to be able to portray the characters half as well as Yang Mi and Mark Chao did.
This drama is focusing on Feng Jiu and Dong Hua Di Jun's story so Ye Hua probably won't appear. I heard Bai Qian might be appearing in some parts though
I like cheesy and fluffy, those some pretty unrealistic romcoms. But at least a little conflict between the couple.…
The couple in Love O2O were definitely way too perfect but I found it refreshing instead of boring because if they weren't that way then there would definitely be some conflict between the couple. And that conflict is almost always the same thing over and over again, portrayed in so many dramas that I was pretty relieved it wasn't the case in this drama.
so is his name Jin Han or Kim Jin ? cause many people call him Jin Han
In Chinese, his surname (金) is pronounced Jin. Kim is just a variant / different pronunciation of 金 since the Korean surname Kim is derived from the same character. So basically his name is Jin Han
And in the Malay language, if the person is younger, perhaps in their 20s to middle-aged (and older than you) then maybe we'll call them kak (shorter form of kakak, meaning older sister) or bang (shorter form of abang, meaning older brother). If the person you're calling is younger than you, then typically you'll call them as dik (shorter form of adik, meaning younger sibling). We do this towards like random strangers on the street, the sales woman, the waitress or whatever.
I think Southeast Asians generally aren't very strict in social hierarchy like the Koreans are so sometimes you don't really call people older than you (that you know personally) abang / kakak if the age gap is not that big. Like with Koreans, you can pretty much never address a person by first name basis only as long as they're older than you (born in a different year). So say if your friend is born in december of 1990 and you were born march 1991, although age gap is not big, but because you were born in different years, you gotta call your friend oppa / hyung / nuna / eonnie. But with Southeast Asians, because the gap is not that big, it's not really a big deal, and you can like just call that person by their first name.
Also another interesting thing, married Malay women typically call their husband...WAIT FOR IT.....abang. Yes, they call their husband Abang, which literally means older brother but in this context, it's actually just a form of respect because calling your spouse by their first name is apparently not very respectful. It doesn't, in any way means that the wife sees the husband as some sort of older brother figure lol but it's just a way of showing respect.
It's very relatable to a lot of us Asian students who face lots of pressure not just from our parents but also from the tough education system which is just so overly competitive.
I personally think the supportive and strict parents are the best. Strict parents might seem a little too overbearing sometimes and they don't give you as much freedom but at the end of the day, you know that what they do is because they want the best for you and will always be there to support you.
Okay so I actually grew up watching mainly Malay dramas although I did watch a little bit of Indonesian dramas cause that's what my grandma watches every time I go over to her house. I've been watching Malay dramas ever since I was a kid and with (Malaysian) Malay dramas, the stories get really repetitive. It's always the same old stories over and over again. Same story lines, same kinds of characters even the titles of the dramas are always of the same cringey formats. At some point or the other, you'll get sick and tired of them. But I guess the dramas these days are getting somewhat better...although progress is slow. The cliche dramas are kind of a guilty pleasure for me tho >.< Singaporean Malay dramas though tend to have more original, better story lines. They're definitely way more interesting because they're less predictable.
I also used to watch Korean dramas as a kid. My mum used to watch K-dramas and I usually just watch whatever she watches. So I've been watching Korean dramas since I was in like kindergarten. But back then I was just a casual watcher. The dramas that I watched though were like super long so over the course of many years, I only actually watched a handful of K-dramas. After the last drama that I watched with my mum a couple of years ago, we didn't watch any other dramas after that.
Then, in 2018, that's when I started watching Chinese dramas. 2018 was the year I would be graduating from secondary school, which meant that I would also be sitting for my national exams. I took Chinese as a third language back in secondary school. I was doing pretty well the first 2 years. But in my third year, I felt like I hadn't made any progress and I was feeling extremely demotivated, I even considered dropping Chinese as a subject altogether. But I didn't want the past 3 years worth of effort to go to waste (Chinese was the one subject I spent the MOST effort on during my entire secondary school life). So I decided to go on with it. Then one day in 2018 during Chinese class, my classmate asked our teacher for Chinese drama recommendations so that we can improve our Chinese by watching dramas. My teacher recommended TMOPB and Love 020 saying that those were the dramas that were popular amongst youngsters then. I took them down although I wasn't really intending to watch them. A couple of weeks later though, I decided to just give it a try because I thought "you know what, I don't really have anything to lose. Besides, my Chinese could do with some improving". And lo and behold after watching those 2 dramas, I was HOOKED. I literally could not stop watching Chinese dramas. It was literally one drama after the other. It was kinda hard trying to be self-disciplined and telling myself to limit the time watching c-dramas because I need to study for national exams since I kept telling myself that watching c-dramas is me studying Chinese and not me having fun XD but I did try to put a hold to watching dramas when exams were coming. (I did ended up getting a distinction for Chinese in my national exams tho :) )
After I was done with my national exams, after graduating from secondary school though, I was like "I need to take a break from Chinese dramas. I HAVE to because I've watched way too many". So what did I do? I started watching Korean dramas instead!! *facepalm* such logic. But yes, that's how I got back to watching Korean dramas and the rest is history.
They just took all the major events that took place in the drama and plopped it into the movie. Which is to be expected since a movie can only be so long, but even that wasn't done properly. It felt like they were just jumping from one scene to another, the flow wasn't smooth at all, it was extremely choppy. The characters also weren't properly introduced in the movie. Literally the only reason I could understand what was going on and who the characters were was because I'd seen the drama. Anyone watching this movie without having watched the drama or read the book would have been very lost and very unlikely to have even been able to understand what was going on.
Also, I personally wasn't a fan of the leads in this one. After having watched TMOPB the leads in the movie don't seem to be able to portray the characters half as well as Yang Mi and Mark Chao did.