sorry...mind is shutting down...can't comment on your poem.
Selamat tengamalam kepada Putri Cassi. Eh pantun2 tu
bukanlah gua punya usaha, tu dipetiklah daripada buku yang gua
bacha pada lalukala saja.
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Standard Malay pantuns has their beauty, what more can come out
from Baba Malay dialect sayings? Thus I extract some here
from "Mas Sepuloh" - Baba dialect sayings - the book title
can be found here: http://books.google.com.sg/books/about/Mas_sepuloh.html?id=rs0XAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y &
let's enjoy the gems of our own local Singapore sayings
- Means: "Times have
changed"
- Usage: Jangan sikit heran
dia ni jam sua sombong, bukankah orang sua
chakap lain
ulu lain parang, lain dulu lain sekarang.
- Trans.: Do not be surprised
if, of late, he has become rather conceited for times have
changed.
- Means: "State of wealth is
only proven at death"
- Usage: Kita maknusia idop di
dunia selagi paku empat batang belom
bunyi belom tau kita mia kaya sampay
mana.
- Trans.: As human beings, it is only at our deaths that we
can prove how wealthy we have been in life.
- Means: "The grass is
greener in one's own backyard"
- Usage: Buatpa lu mo pi
tinggair kat lain negeri, ujan mas di-negeri orang, ujan batu
negeri seniri.
- Trans.: There is no need for
you to migrate afar when the grass is greener in your own
backyarrd.
- Means: "Misfortune usually
comes quickly but goes away slowly"
- Usage: Sumua penyaket
bila dia mo
datang macham ribot, mo pergi macham
semot.
- Trans.: All sickness come
quickly but go away slowly.
- Means: "To sever a
relationship completely"
- Usage: Gua mia prangi kalu
sua putus abis sekali, macham orang
chakap putus menang boleh di-sambong putus
arang takleh di-sambong.
- Trans.: My temperament is such
that once I break up a relationship, there is no chance of a
reconciliation.
- Means: "Fortune seems to
smile on the well-to-do"
- Usage: Bini orang kaya tu,
sudahlah kaya buang sebelah, asa main judi siak misti menang,
macham orang chakap di-mana tanah lekok di-situ ayer
bergelandong.
- Trans.: That lady who is a
rich man's wife always wins when she gambles. It seems that fortune
smiles on the well-to-do.
- Means: "Nobody is
irreplaceable in love"
- Usage: Dia sua takmo lu,
lu toksa takot. Bunga bukan sekuntum, kumbang bukan
sekor.
- Trans.: Do not worry that you
have been rejected (or jilted). In love, nobody is
irreplaceable.
- Means: "To earn just enough
to make ends meet"
- Usage: Gua ni bukan kaya
chuma macham ayam charek pagi makan petang, charek
petang makan malam.
- Trans.: I am not wealthy but
earn just enough to make ends meet.
- Means: "The decision lies
with the individual"
- Usage: Saja dia mo sama
takmo, duri
di utan sapa tajamkan, dia tajam seniri.
- Trans.: The decision is
entirely up to him.
- Means: "A new found state
of wealth that has adversely affected a person's
behaivour"
- Usage: Ini orang kaya
baru, buta
baru menchelek, kudong baru mendapat.
- Trans.: Her new-found wealth
has affected her behaivour adversely.
- Means: "To judge others
according to one's yardstick"
- Usage: Lu chakap gua
sedap-sedap lu gunting baju ukor
di-badan lu taulah!
- Trans.: Whatever remarks you
have passed about me, it must have been based on your personal
experience.
- Means: "Who knows the heart
of men?"
- Usage: Dia berapa nampak
baik kita takleh berchaya, rambot sama itam ati orang mana
sama.
- Trans.: In spite of his
sincere looks one should not be too trusting, for who knows the
heart of men?
- Means: "The closest of
relationships have their differences"
- Usage: Sedangkan pinggan sama mangkok lagik
terketok apa lagik kawan rapat tak
berkelai.
- Trans.: It is not surprising
that close colleagues quarrel since even the closest of
relationships will have their moments of differences.
- Means: "A business venture
that is likely to fail"
- Usage: Kalu dia meniaga
gua tak pikir boleh untong, macham orang chakap naik kuda kasap, charek untong modal
resap.
- Means: "Procrastinate until
the last desperate moment"
- Usage: Bukan kata
siang-siang mo bikin tu kreja, lu tunggu
sampay mo
berak baru charek jamban.
- Trans.: Instead of completing
the job quickly, you waited and procrastinated until the last
desperate hour.
- Means: "Difficulty in
making a decision"
- Usage: Kalu mo salahkan
dia pun tak patot, dia serba salah genggam takot mati lepair takot
trebang.
- Trans.: It is not fair to
blame him because it was not easy for him to come to the
decision.
- Means: "One is able to
achieve an objective even without any assistance"
- Usage: Jangan lu pikir
kalu lu tak tolong siak gua tak rupa bikin tu
kreja, ayam
tak kokok ari pun siang jugak.
- Trans.: Do not have the
impression that I will not be able to tackle the task without your
help.
- Means: "One foot in the
graveyard; about to die"
- Usage: Sampay kubor pangge mari rumah kata
nanti pun prangi dia takleh berubah.
- Trans.: Even when his foot is
already in the graveyard, he still will not change his
temperament.
- Means: "Nothing is
secret"
- Usage: Sapa boleh dapat
simpan rusia sedangkan telor macham rapatpun boleh tau
temelang kah ta'ah.
- Trans.: Who can even keep a
secret when nothing is secret.
- Means: "An unsolicited
response"
- Usage: Orang sua tak suka
lu, jangan lu idong tak manchong pipi tersorong
sorong.
- Trans.: Do not try to push
yourself when you are no longer popular.
- Means: "Give an inch and he
will demand a yard"
- Usage: Tengok sua tolong
dia, naik terlebeh-lebeh pulak, kasi satu jengkal mo satu
asta.
- Trans.: Look! After helping
him, he is demanding for more.
- Means: "There's many a slip
'twixt the cup and the lips"
- Usage: Kalu ari kahwen
jaoh lagik, buatpa siang-siang mo buat
ibor? Entah
padi entah dedak entah jadi entah tidak.
- Trans.: Since the wedding day
is far in the future, there is no need to get excited over it
because there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lips.
- Means: "To follow up on
others' actions"
- Usage: Pasair kaypoh dia
panday, tak salah orang kata orang terkentot dia
terchirik.
- Trans.: She is a busybody who
gets herself involved in other people's affairs.
- Means: "Do not take on
other people's problems for it will be a thankless
act"
- Usage: Tengok gua tolong
dia macham manyak dia tak kenair gua, tak salah orang
chakap kain
basah orang jangan keringkan.
- Trans.: After all my help, he
has chosen to forget me. The people were right when they said that
taking on other people's problems is a thankless act.
- Means: "A relationship that
can never be severed"
- Usage: Dia anak beranak
berkelai kita jangan champor pasair, apa macham
pun ayer
di-tetak takleh putus.
- Trans.: We should not
interfere in a family quarrel, for in the long run, their
relationship will endure.
- Means: "A gossiper who
causes friction between other parties"
- Usage: Pasair hai orang
berkelai dia panday sair, orang sambong ayam dia sambong
orang.
- Trans.: He is adept at causing
friction to develop between parties with his gossip.
- Means: "To yearn for the
impossible"
- Usage: Gua pratikan lu ni
ada rindukan budak prompuan tu sama ponggok rindukan
bulan.
- Trans.: I notice that you are
mooning over the girl who is beyond your reach.
- Means: "Of immense
wealth"
- Usage: Dulu dia betol
senang, kapal di-laot gedong
di-darat, ni jam tengok apa dia sua
jadi!
- Trans.: At one time he was a
very wealthy man. Now look at what he has become!
- Means: "Guilty
feelings"
- Usage: Bila gua chakap gua
tak sebut nama lu, buatpa lu marah? Sapa makan chili dia rasa
pedair.
- Trans.: I did not mention your
name in my statement so you should not be annoyed if you are not
guilty.
- Means: "Pretend to be
innocent"
- Usage: Pasair dia satu
rumah tangga luan tapi dia entam batu semunyet
tangan.
- Trans.: He is the cause of all
the troubles in the household but he pretends to be
innocent.
- Means: "To own an eternal
debt (for kindness received)"
- Usage: Dia mia budi manyak
sama gua sampay takleh terbayair, utang mas boleh di-bayair, utang budi
di-bawak mati.
- Trans.: I am unable to repay
his many kindness to me, indeed I owe him an eternal debt for
them.
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(Ref: The last chakapan is of the
same origin as the corresponding ungkapan of pantun of "Rasa
Sayang", both from the same origin)
Pisang emas dibawa berlayar,
Masak
sebiji di atas peti,
Hutang emas boleh
dibayar,
Hutang budi dibawa mati,
