Sayang? Cinta? Love?

Drizzle, Paul Anka, meeting with the powers-that-be, an hour early, hungry, sleepy, brain drain... It's a melancholic beginning for me.

Playing in my mind was the word sayang, or how they say it in English, love, or is it care about?

Hmm I love you in Bahasa is Aku/Saya/I Cinta Kamu

I sayang dia is... I love her? Is it?

I sayang you sounded like an accurate translation that I sayang dia.

If so, how to translate I sayang dia correctly without losing the essence of the word sayang into English?

Sayang is definitely not love
And love is obviously not sayang

So what is sayang then?

My feelings towards you, yes, YOU