Peninsular folk embrace Sabah


Ahmad Shahirman, his wife and her cousin at a relative’s wedding.

WHEN Kelantan native Ahmad Shahirman Zuni was first sent to Sabah to work, the thought going through his mind was – “I am the only one from Peninsular Malaysia in this office”.

He never had any Sabahan friends before, and could not quite grasp the local Malay dialect.

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