Or cucur pisang as we call it in our country. To me, it is a yummy snack. To my students, it's freakin' funny. Not just ha,ha, ha funny but funny as in whoop-whoop-you'll -be -falling -on- your -ass kind of funny.
T: What is the meaning of recycling in Malay?
S: Pisang panas!
And the other students laugh till they get tears in their eyes. The fact that I never get the joke makes them laugh even more.
T: How do you spell rubbish?
S: Pisang panas!
Ss: Ha, ha, ha!
S: Kan tekamih ku eh (I feel like pissing)
T: What do you need to make compost?
S: Aaaa...nius-pehpir (newspaper) in...... (and) *long pause to add suspense* pisang panas!
Ss: Ha, ha, ha!
No, these dialogues did not happen in three separate lessons but in one. Every question I ask or word I say, the "pisang panas boy" will find opportunities to say "pisang panas" which drives his friends into fits of laughter and me up the wall.
I had a lesson with the "pisang panas" class. Before I started the lesson, the boys were bragging about how they were going to spend the afternoon watching a match at an English speaking school.
S: Lawa-lawa kali ah bini bini nya cheeecher!
Finally, I told myself, here's my chance to say something clever.
T: And what are you going to say? All you say in class is pisang panas!
Yeah! I hit the bull's eye. He's never, ever going to say pisang panas anymore!
S: Hello beautiful. You want......*long pause* hot bananas?
Ss: Ha, ha, ha!
So now it's not pisang panas anymore. Oh well, at least now he's speaking in English.
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