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My TestDaF Experience

On Wednesday, 18.05.2022 I took the TestDaF at the Goethe-Institut Malaysia. In Malaysia there are only two places you can take TestDaF, eit...

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Their Hearts Have Ghosts: Sam Jung Yau Gwai 心中有鬼 Hati Mereka Ada Hantu

"Hati mereka ada hantu," said the despised Hee Yit Foong in Bahasa at a press conference recently.

Now that's a literal translation from the Chinese idiom 心中有鬼 (Mandarin: xīn zhōng yǒu guǐ; Cantonese: sam jung yau gwai). In English, it means "to have bad intentions". Directly translated it comes out as "their hearts have ghosts".

What a joke. This Hee fella better get hold of a mirror and gaze into it herself. Tee hee hee. Ha ha ha.

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