Monday, March 12, 2007
in the school library now.
dad says he'd get to my laptop..soon enough.
hah!
but
procrastination wins,
as always.
heh.
hm.
it's finally the annual march holidays.
and my last one as a secondary school student.
and it's gonna be spent productively, cause i say so.
haha.
i've had a good, albeit a not so productive start to my holidays.
heh.
yeahyeah. i'll start being productive after this post.
sat
had a girls night out with anna lyd and megan.
started with a visit to st luke's hospital in the morning.
and gosh, i've nv felt so inadequate before.
all the hokkien teochew cantonese speaking old folks.
i was so relieved whenever they could speak mandarin.
makes me feel so, ashamed that i can't even speak my own dialect properly.
actually, scrap that.
i can't even speak mandarin fluently.
dang!
so much for higher chinese.
then anna and i headed to church.
hah.
don't ask me why, don't even start.
strictly spur of the moment decision.
mhm.all i can say is that they've changed, so much.
somehow, going back, it feels so familiar yet so unfamiliar.
you wanna be part of it, yet don't want to.
it's strange.
but again, we just din fit in.
nor feel welcome.
ah, it just din feel church-y, homely.
unfortunately.
but fear not, as yeni always does, she had some fun of her own there.
hah!
after that, we headed over to town where we met lydia and megan.
went to kino and yoshinoya.
ah, kino.
it's so overwhelmingly, nice to be in there.
and god, books are expensive.
especially books without stains and dog-earred pages.
just the way it should be.
then we went to
clarke quay.
i liked it.
the river walk, quaint cake shops, the new mall, ambience.
everything.
haha.and we had a hilarious time.
and the look on lydia's face when she saw the flight of stairs at the mrt station.
it was priceless.
she called four flights of stairs a "mountain" and the next floor the "summit".
haha! you need some exercise babes.
so that night, it was
megan the emo goth chick.
lydia the da xiao jie
anna the big sister.hahhah.
and yeni the, i duno. fill in the blanks yourself.
haha.
i had a blast.
sun
woke up EARLY.
maama and daddy brought us to suntec area.
ate at billy bombers, oh god. the portions are, HUGE.
shopped ard.
then headed to the conventiona hall.
2006 IT fair.
it was positively swarming with people.
flooding if you may.
ah, the hazards of being short.
you get pushed, your feet gets stepped on repeatedly, and it gets hard to breathe after awhile.
sigh.
tell me why i hate crowds again.
BUT, for all that.
i got my new camera.
ah, its b-e-a-uuuutiful.
mama was feeling all generous and spent 500 whopping bucks on my Canon Ixus i7, in sepia.
heh.
i stayed up till abt 2plus playing ard with it.
at first, i swear.
i almost hyperventilated when i saw all the parts that came with the camera.
be it the USB card reader, the compact power adaptor or somply the memory card.
i had no idea.
haha.but after jase, sammie and the trusty manual's help.
im good.
haha.
oh.
caught the local film "just follow law" with my family.
i enjoyed it, alot actually.
one word that probably describes it best would be that it is very Singaporean.
i duno, it probably sounds lame to some of you.
but no, im not ashamed to say that i actually liked it, a lot.
just like i enjoyed "i not stupid" and "i not stupid too".
you know, the thing about some people, is that,
they find it embarrassing to be Singaporean.
they deem local productions inferior to foreign ones.
less marketable, yes.
to a certain extent, dialect Singlish and all.
and strangely, it's probably the same group of people who think Chinese is uncool.
they'd probably give anything to be white.
saddening really, cause i for one, am proud of my roots.
i feel ashamed that i can't speak mandarin or cantonese well, enough.
mhm.this issue has been weighing on my mind a fair bit
don't ask me why though.
okay.
i do not encourage Singlish.
i try not to do "lah"s and "lor"s and i don't do "sia"s and "worxxx"s.
hah, God forbid.
i'm all for proper English.
but really, it's a double-edged sword.
why is it that we can adapt to "cool", "rocks", "sucks".
what is it that makes "sian", "sabo", "shiok" hard to adapt for others?
cos it's not english perhaps?
sigh.
but eradicating all these slangs from local films would probably make it less personal to Singaporeans.
guess it all depends on what group of people the film is targeting at.
AHH,
at teh end of these jottings of my senseless musing,
i still haven't come up with a conclusion!
this is bad.
okay.
1) i'm still equally, outraged?disappointed? at the lack of support from Singaporeans for local productions.
i mean. i say i just watched "just follow law" or "i not stupid too" and people can actually say it's LAME or DUMB without actually watching it.
it's so annoying really.
2) i still feel it isn't inferior. BUT improvements can be made.
ultimately, i believe a good film is one that is personal, one that you can relate to.
though the type of humour they use can be a little crude, perhaps low-class even.
but ah, who says everything must be irony and puns and wit and whatnot.
sometimes, we do need some hokkien jokes and butt-scratching.
esp if it's done by Fann Wong.
eh?
hahaha.
3) Chinese is NOT uncool.
really, it isn't. not to be at least.
though i'm bad at it verbally, i'd get all the words in a cheng yu but i'd end up permutating everything ard.haha!
but i'd LOVE to be able to speak like anna.
ah.really.
alrighty.
enough
senseless ranting.
oh yeah.
if you do have anything to say abt this, go leave a tag.
i'd love to hear what you have to say.
at least, if i come up with a conclusion soon enough, my mind would stop whirring.
gah!
yeni posted at 2:50 PM â¢
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