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Malaysia, the land of many lands..
ready, steady, go!...land below the wind...land of the white elephant..land of the hornbills...
pit stop, go!..land of Che Siti Wan Kembang..land of nine states...land of grace...
cruise on!...land of dreams..land of the jokers...
ok stop! what was the last one?...land of jokers??...who the hell are you talking nonsense playing the smart-arse here?...

ok kids, let me insult your intelligent...
have you ever heard of singgang?...nope?...owh! that's ok...
Tok Imam Lapar, ring a bell?..nah! i bet you have no idea...
how about ghudung-ghadang?...don't sweat...i know it's a tough one...
hmm..this is going nowhere...here's what's what...land of the jokers == Terengganu...or Teghanung in Terengganuspeak..surprised?

lemme explain...sit tight, put on your helmet and buckle up...it's for your mind's safety...you really don't wanna lose it :D..

if you travelled accross Teghanung, you could see many smiling faces all over the place if not laughing out loud...
at kedai kopi, wet-markets, on the staircases(yup! we despise escalators up until recently :D)...
men, women, she-males(who said there're only 2 genders wandering around Teghanung? :D)...
fishermen, dentists, bank-robbers, taxi pullers(you called it tri-shaw, we named it taxi...in your face, strangers :D)...
huh! you should get the idea by now...we're the bunch of happy people for a good reason...jokes..

the legend has it, orang Teghanung are the direct decendents of the greatest ancient quipsters...we're born to laugh and make jokes...it's in our blood...do you really think we chosed a clownfish as the SUKMA 2008 mascot for nothing?...think again...haha

we've got a building with a hell lot of sense of humour right here at the very heart of Kuala Terengganu too!..ask any Trengganese about a legendary building called KT Mall and ask how many years it took to build that monument..10 bloody years!!...we had managed to salvage the ancient art of pyramid making from the tomb of King Tut ibni an-Khamen, applied its theory of Snail Speed Construction and named the buiding after him...we proudly present you *drum rolls* the King Tut Mall (KT Mall)...
ok! that isn't funny at all for non-Teghanung folks...but hey, we could pull every jokes out of that buidling...the name, the look, the location, how many workers to construct KT Mall, the area with respect to the time taken to build it...just name it..KT Mall, the only building which could tell jokes...hah!

and we're the only creeping creatures with flippers who could play football...note that it's FOOTball and we've got flippers!!...because of the speed constraint, we're the master of peteh...can you imagine, 11 sea turtles all dressed up in football attire flapping the ball around crawling all over the pitch tackling anything that's moving?...isn't it hillarious?...heh! we really live by the line "football is fun"...

but being a joker isn't always a pleasant path...everybody tend to expect you to joke around, perpetually making fool out of yourselves...so when you tired of it and you wanna call it a day, they will pull a joke on you hoping for more mirths...that's what federal government did!...
"here's your choo-choo train...not!"...so Trengganese, always in happy spirits, laughed...
"we're thinking of constructing a railroad network in Terengganu...not!"...again, we laughed at the grim joke...
but the thing is, it isn't funny anymore after 52 years getting the same 'ol joke...

so there you go...
did i mentioned we're also known as "the land of surprises"?...

maybe i sounded like i was making a gibe about my own beloved state..nay! i was merely looking to the other side of the coin, save that i flipped the coin far too hard it fell a mile away from making any sense...wahaha

//Teghanung identity is on the wane...that's kind of what i'm getting at