Saturday, March 12, 2005
MWAHAHAHAHA. finally. here comes my hols.
common test was an absolute BOO. stayed up late at nights but the tests still suck as much. didnt know where my efforts went. or did i?? haha "wa lau. since he says he says its gotta be so hard then why waste your time studying so much? dont study lah" (thats supposed to be my trademark. according to jojo that is.)
oh yesterday i did a good deed. an old auntie approached me at the entrance of bugis mrt station and complained that she was having knee problems. so being the kind me, i helped her with her bags and helped her across the road. she was speaking in a mixture of chinese and dialect.. which luckily its Cantonese not Hokkien or else i wont be able to understand it. so i was actually forced to speak to her in some Cantonese cuz she cant seem to understand the chinese that i speak.. come to think of it.. i only know the simplest basics of Khek(which happens to be my dialect group) and yes, i am ASHAMED about not being able to speak. nono, not just because Fann Wong knows it and i dont. can you imagine what will happen when my child ask me this in the future? " mummy, can you speak your dialect?" to me, i think that it is a language that you can share with your parents or your grandparents or what i'll call it, your family language. my mum says many Kheks refuse to admit that they are because of some reasons, but i beg to differ. i am a Khek and proud of it. Kheks are quite a minority in singapore and so they are special! i am now trying learn by communicating with my grandma in Khek. haha. you all shall wait and see, one day i will scold people in Khek and no one will understand what i've said.