Koya
Koya – a Kelantanese derogatory term to describe a person who has insensible, unrealistic, nonsensical yet romantic ideas about stuff in life. It might come from an Arabic word Khayal, meaning preoccupation and intoxication. The closest Malay equivalence should be Perasan or Berangan.
In Kelantan, when a person says, “Koya nyo mung nih!”, it is always said with slight contempt and dismissal (though some might say it in a subtle, polite and joking manner). Anyway, my little sister always claims that I am a koya person, which hurts me a little. But I suspect, she’s always been right about me. I have in fact always been a koya man, being surrounded by novel ideas from dry books and pathetic love songs, being driven by cloudy mindsets because of too much involvement with handsome lakes and pretty Mother nature, and being alone with stupid ideas most of the time.
Standing in the middle of the road and staring blankly at these sad, dead, dry leaves, I have to admit that I’m really a koya fool. If not, I wouldn’t be here now on a foreign land. Doing my lunatic PhD.
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haha
no offence but abah always said that PhD holders are crazy – and I know he was referring to my uncle who got his PhD at his very young age.
but be it, i think I’m crazy enough to go for my PhD soon!
……..and koya? hehe… semua oghe pon koya kot!
bey mie, how long have u been studying in Melbourne?
Thanks for the encouragement. I’m still sane and, of course, koya.
oh! Look at the date when this article was written!
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of course, will be in Melbourne for the next two years!
ala..cian kne pggl koya..xpe la..bisela pompuan suke ckp lepas pggl org koya..pompuan tu lg koya dari lelaki…hahah..
Noted.