Aisyah Marrisa Effendy

Few years ago, when I was in Bayswater, in the city of Westminster, it always felt like I was at home. Many people from home who’ve been there may know the reason why Bayswater feels like home. Bayswater is a town where many Malaysians, precisely, Malaysian students are familiar with. It’s where our Education Malaysia London, also popularly known as Malaysian Hall, located at. Many Malaysian students reside in Bayswater too. There’s even a student accommodation under MARA nearby. There are lots of restaurants there, that offer Malaysian cuisines too, hence the reason why there are many Malaysians in Bayswater. There is a high possibility for you to find at least a Malaysian in that town, at any time of the year. I don’t really remember exactly when this was, maybe during winter 2017 or maybe around spring 2018. We just got back from our trip, either from Germany-Austria trip or Paris trip. Me and my Malaysian friends went for a late night stroll around Bayswater for a breather while at...

Few years ago, there was one time when Zico, Ferron and I just left Tukdin (a Malaysian restaurant in London) and had a walk around London for sightviewing. We were all from different nationalities and knew quite a few simple phrases of other languages. When we were casually strolling along a street, there were only us and a man walking in front of us. Being the usual us, we spoke and messed around with each other using multiple languages at a time. Most of the time, the languages we used were English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai, Malay, Korean, Japanese, Spanish. We were talking quite loud at that time. I remember us saying "sumimasen". To our surprise, the man who walked in front of us suddenly turned around facing us, with a face saying, "yes?". It turned out the man was a Japanese guy! He heard us clearly saying "sumimasen" and thought that we were actually trying to talk to him! We were all very surprised and we said sorry multiple times to the man for ...