CNY!!! I want it so much!!!
But still, i'm gonna miss it again this year.
Realised that i actually speak quite a lot Mandarin here, compare to the time while i was working at KL right after my graduation from UPM. In MU, we have my teacher, and another vocal teacher from Taiwan, and also another piano teacher from Hong Kong (which i can speak cantonese with). But very often that there is visitor that can and only speak Mandarin, which means i have to help to translate, in english (of course, my thai speaking is not that great yet!)
Therefore, i actually met quite a lot new friends here, that are chinese. haha. Like this week, the National Taiwan Normal School Wind Band, lead by Yeh Hsu Han will be here. I will have to, in sometime, not too much, help them little bit, while they arrive at MU for the rehearsal and concert. Is that good? yea, i can get to know more friend... but in someway, also kinda make me feel the cultural shock... Yes, that's true. Although i'm a chinese, but i'm now at Thailand, which is already different, and then face with another chinese from Taiwan or China, which sometime makes me feel like... am i a real chinese? We act different, think different, and have the different desire for better lifestyle.
Haha... i guess i'm getting confuse. But, still, if people ask, i will still say, i'm Chinese, Malaysian Chinese (though i prefer to say only Malaysian, but people still tends to say that i'm Malaysian Chinese...)
3 comments:
i think the reason people keep on stressing that we are Malaysian CHINESE is because we STILL practise the chinese tradition, culture and so on. People stil recognize the "chinese way" in our life style.
hmm, i wonder if one day we are "Malaysian-only", will we lose the "chinese-root"? if we ought to lose it, are we willing to let it go? Is the political environment in the country friendly enough for us to let go the chinese identity?
another point to ponder with... actually, by the time many of our ancestors came to Southeast Asia, CHINA this country havent exist yet. So... may be it's a mistake if we call ourselves as "Chinese"...may be we are just "Cantonese", 'Hokkien", etc.
haha, that's hard to tell also... like my grand parents are Teo chew, but then i grow up in a Hakka village, and as for most of us, we watched Hong kong drama since young, so we mainly speak cantonese... haha, this can be very confuse sometimes...
and i was talking with this Taiwan friend as well, and he also keep on saying that the Chinese word in China now is not the 'traditional'...like the simplified and traditional words. i know is different, but why people always want to say they are the right one for doing what they doing. hahaha...
haha, that's how unique Malaysian Chinese are...we learn a combination of all chinese sub-races' lifestyles. That's why we are different from Chinese from China, Taiwan, HK, etc.
Somemore, the developments in different chinese region also creats different mindset. Thus it enlarges further the gaps (in term of thought) between chinese.
simplified or traditional? haha, i think Malaysian Chinese are quite neutral in this matter (?)
China and Taiwan have their own reasons to do what they want...but their people just too love their own countries that it makes them somehow subjective (or narrow minded) over some issues
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