Are you proud of your heritage ?
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Are you proud of your heritage ?
Are you proud of your own skin ? ...
are you proud of who you are ? ...
do you pretend to be someone else you're not ? ...
Well, something someone said in jive pad triggered a memory ... here's the story
Twas at my usual watering hole on a weekday late last week (you guys know which one) .... got talking to a mix group of ang mohs (okie, I confess, we were really aiming for the blonde and the redhead babes among them) ...
there were two singkie chinese chicks with them (our delightful and instantly recognizable accent), who right from the start, was obviously not happy with time sharing their ang moh friends with us .... best part was, they told us, that they were from somewhere else other than Singapore ....
well, up yours girl, I've seen enough of FBCs from my own time away, you can't take away the Singapore in you, as much as you pretend to, don't pretend to be a kantang eater when you've been eating rice with chopsticks for most of your life .... and it's not very bright to pretend to be from a place whose language you can't speak either .... never thought one of us would start babbling in french eh ... or pretend to be eurasian when you're clearly not .... you're no kristin kruek my dear, or even denise keller .... they are much prettier ....
it got pretty amusing for us afterwards, when we started winding ourselves up, and making those girls squirm .... I was Patrick Kombu, from Congo, my mates were Frank Neweke from Nigeria, and the coup de grace ... !Xbele (click man ! ... :lol:) from South Africa.... Chinese Africans ..... it was hilarious .... I wonder if the ang mohs really got the point of the real point .... I think the two girls certainly did .....
but I feel really sad for the girls, really, to suffer from this sort of identity crisis .... did they really think think themselves superior by hanging out with ang mohs ? .... why be ashamed of who they are ? ... this is the sort of people NUS produces nowadays ? .....
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dearie, i am Chinese hokkien, teochew peranakan & dunno what japanese parts.
I don speak english till i was primary four and I speak with a american twang from watching too many american tv. But that american twang comes with Uk grammer/or was it diction.
I do love kantang, sweet patotoe, tapioca & curry.
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i'm human.. ahahaha...
frankly, i came across as the most "unasian asian" to my australian friends in australia simply because.. i do whatever..
it's not particular to any nationality, creed, culture or whatever people want to segment me in...
not to say that i'm not influenced by anything.. rather, i have this personal code of conduct of sorts which i stick to...
heritage? tradition? culture?
okay..
ethnicity - chinese... do i behave like the people in PRC?
nationality - singaporean.. do i really have the same outlook as my fellow citizens?
heritage - apart from eating teochew and hokkien food, do i know much about anything?
tradition - should we follow them blindly? i know i question a whole lot of them...
so where does that place me?
am i beating my own path? some call me lazy.. because i "do not bother finding out my traditions, cultures and whatnots"...
maybe i am proud of my past and heritage, i look at them as lessons learnt the hard way by those in the past.. and then look to the future...
maybe.. we make and add on to whatever heritage we have by beating a new path?
let those later decide.. we'd be dead by then..
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reminds me of tis gal witih some angmoh friends at a club... they were way too close to us... and gosh, the gal talk like she have a "male hen" in her mouth >.<
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And its not just females who speak strangely.
I was at this bus stop last night when I hear a young boy speaks to his mother in "knn, tar nai nai de'; fcuk. the mother was speaking to him in perfect singapore english.
I actually wanted to ask the mother......whether her son is actually a retard, because he cant seem to say a sentence w/o those additive and his replies are never answering his mother. The boy was even trying to hop around and maybe pretend he is those cool black dudes in USA.
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i really wish you guys could have witnessed that "patrick kombu from congo and !Xebele from south africa act ... it was totally spontaneous, and just came out beautifully, despite the beers .....
okie, maybe what pissed me off was not about culture, not the heritage, not the tradition ....
but something even more elemental ..... the denial of one's roots ...
why be a fake someone else one can never be when one can be him/herself so much more easily ? ...
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definitely!!! I even ensure that my surname did not change when the stupid elites proposed hanyu for the surname. of course the lee or li didn't matter but mine did.
i even ensure that my children has a chinese name without a christen name.
Oh...did i told our the grin on my face when i was told my first child is a boy?
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this reminds me of some locally made channel 5 TV programmes I had the misfortune of watching years ago. the kind of english spoken in those programmes I've never heard spoken in any part of singapore!!
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remember rush hour, where the guys went to france?
or rencently in 'Hanccok', where 3 korean/vietnamese guys was shooting at folks and speaking in their native languguge pretending they dont understand 'hanccok'.
when after swinging those dudes around in the suv and telling the boys its because they ruin his sunglasses and one guy beg: "I am sorry, here, take my rayban."
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Originally posted by av98m:
this reminds me of some locally made channel 5 TV programmes I had the misfortune of watching years ago. the kind of english spoken in those programmes I've never heard spoken in any part of singapore!!
you mean Master of the seas? -
Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
you mean Master of the seas?
omfg that was one of them -
Originally posted by av98m:
omfg that was one of them
the 'i will crush u like the croackages that you are'. 'sayang sayang' was re-using the line for comic relief.tripple 9 was believable with Lim Yu Beng, but the subsequent additions to the show just make the show unbelievable....lets not mention VR Man.
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Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
remember rush hour, where the guys went to france?
or rencently in 'Hanccok', where 3 korean/vietnamese guys was shooting at folks and speaking in their native languguge pretending they dont understand 'hanccok'.
when after swinging those dudes around in the suv and telling the boys its because they ruin his sunglasses and one guy beg: "I am sorry, here, take my rayban."
'You're Asian, man.... stop humiliating yourself!!!'
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u all understand?
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Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
the 'i will crush u like the croackages that you are'. 'sayang sayang' was re-using the line for comic relief.tripple 9 was believable with Lim Yu Beng, but the subsequent additions to the show just make the show unbelievable....lets not mention VR Man.
Its not just the language....masters of the sea was just plain BAD.I actually enjoyed triple nine. Some of the new characters were quite cock, but I did like Inspector Herbert DeSouza.
I think James Lye still wakes up screaming in cold sweat once in a while after having nightmares related to his VR Man experience
The one saving grace of VR Man? Lisa Ang
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Perhaps those girls have an esteem issue.
When someone pretends to be someone else, they are in fact in denial and running away. Trying to impress people with the make believe. They cannot accept that they are better than they think, or who they are.
But seriously, sometimes I do like to be different. Something that makes me stand out from the crowd.... This explains the hairless ogre for a reason!
:D
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i hate my malay heritage.
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did I mention that one of the singkie chicks was quite a babe too ? .....
she looked like a spitting image of Rui En .....
pity that she chose to degrade herself that way ......
even if she has eyes for only ang mohs .... I think she can do better than her company that night .... one was a flabby, bespectacled ginger-haired kid, the other one looked like a fatter version of DJ Qualls, and one looked like he was about 16 ...... and none were taller than we were ....
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Damn, I wish I'd seen that!
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Originally posted by Kuali Baba:
Damn, I wish I'd seen that!
it happened the night after your pork knuckles ...
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mmm.. pork knuckles...
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Originally posted by the Bear:
mmm.. pork knuckles...
I can't remember if KB took pics that night .....
but the portion was HUGE ......
double of paulaner's ....
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Originally posted by Fatum:
I can't remember if KB took pics that night .....
but the portion was HUGE ......
double of paulaner's ....
damn.. i think our singapore heritage would be gluttony
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Here is the monster, and it dwarfs the fork and the knife next to it. I ate 3/4 of it before I asked to doggybag the rest.
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Originally posted by Kuali Baba:
Here is the monster, and it dwarfs the fork and the knife next to it.
!...........I want!!