3 days to JLPT
Maybe I should have signed up for level 2 after all?
Going for an interview with Gwen tmr...Tangs has no vacancies so it's Seiyu as a sales/retail assistant,or at some other company in Suntec in telemarketing/promotions.
Wanna get the book TOKIO by Higashino Keigo.But It'd cost over $40 *weeps*, so I'll have to wait till Kino offers their 20% discount again. But it's a hardcover!
Still in the middle opf reading "Ao no Honoo".
I'm going crazy. I like reading fiction in Japanese more than in English lol.
I feel that young Singaporeans in general are losing their Asian identity...getting too Westernised...especially Singaporean Chinese. They cling on, albeit reluctantly, to their Asian identity only with one thread: That of the Chinese language. But so many of them can't wait to let go of that thread, to be free to roam in the 'Western' world.
But what is Singapore's identity anyway? It's ambiguous. We don't really have any cultural identity of our own, our history is too short. We're a country with immigrant ancestry, and we haven't had enough time to forge a true blue 'Singaporean' identity. The closest we have is the Peranakan culture, but how many of us are Peranakan?
It's going to have to be us, the current Singaporeans, who play a part in shaping our country's culture and identity--our OWN identity, not some copied one from America/Britain/China/Malaysia/India/the Middle East. It'll take time, and many many generations. But if everyone were to 'quit' the country and move to another, citing 'lack of own culture' as a reason, what people will there be left to build the Singapore identity? If you want something, you work for it. That's what I believe.
It's one thing to have a bit of influence of another culture in your own. It's another to copy completely and pretend to be what you're not, which is what I feel many people are doing. Yes, that goes to the Jpop fans who pretend to be Japanese too, to the extent of taking Japanese names and using in in place of their own.
~~~~~why must Singapore's representative in World Idol definitely have to be WESTERNISED? That's colonial mentality again. I hate that. We're an asian country. We're in Asia. If you tried to uproot the entire land mass of Singapore and its surrounding islands and move it to, say, America, I doubt you'd succeed.
Reasons someone would say 'Hi' to a friend:
1. Hey, it's a friend! :)
Reasons someone would say hi to someone who's NOT a friend:
1. To laugh at her at the same time
2. To intimidate her.
3. To show off: "Hah, see, I'm so (insert positive adjective here) and look at you u're so far from that today).
4. Cuz the other person said hi and u're just returning the greeting.
C'mon, let's just face it, a greeting is just what you say when u acknoledge someone's presence. Whatever effect it has on the other party...is open to interpretation.
Good riddance. Maybe I should start wearing my buddhist amulet to ward off evil.
*Did I hear someone say "And same to you too"?*