what has ethnicity got to do with language?---a rhetorical question posed by suchen christine lim


Nothing! she answered.

the lecture theatre erupted in approving appluase.

why is this so?

what is my answer to her question?

this topis is deserving of me doing my university thesis on.

i have strong feelings and mixed and confused ideas about this issue of language and sense of identity as a person, as a member of the national/ethnis/social community. but they shall remian unarticulated until i develop my ability and stamina to do it.for now it shall remain as something i hold a monologue with my mum about.

gutter

one day i will live in a gutter just for fun.

money is money is money.

落 花 有 意 ， 流 水 无 情 。

我 是 落 花 还 是流 水 呢 ？

从 前 有 一 粒 蛋 。

它 虽 然 是 鸡 蛋 ， 可 却 从 来 叶 不 忌 惮 被 人 类 吃 掉 。
那 一 天 ， 他 面 不 改 色 ， 壮 烈 地 被 牺 牲 了 。

flesh

my one and only yiyi had a miscarriage.it is her 3rd.maybe it is her 4th.

hmm.

what do you think of miscarriages?

i love her and wish her all the best

in anticipation of a greener tinge to my skin and a colder shade of brown for the skin under my eyes

hello tomorrow is service learning day and it is 12.53AM now.why am i not in bed yet? since it is not as if i don't have to wake early tomorrow.well, look at my title.i am sitting here on the cold blue perforated metal chair,aimlessly typing away, listening to the clicking of my keyboard.hello to myself.i like the feeling of imagining that im writing something.while actually im not.haha i read blogs often and seeing a whole chunk of words,long paragraghs intermitted with shorter ones and some pictures...they look so impressive.like their owners have got submerged ink swirling around in their stomaches while keeping up a more childish and "shallow" persona which you had assume is all they have to offer.

hello.i feel that i cannot even construct nice flowing COMPLETE sentences in English.yet all the subjects i am taking require me to write well.how?my english is not beautiful at all!it may even be arkwardly constructed.


let me tell you a secret which is i think, everybody's: i like to think that i am different from the others.however, i have realised that im not.i guess under all the different ways we express oursleves, what we want is essentially the same.we want the sense of security provided by friends, we want to be happy, we want to be valued.we want to feel important.we want to be liked.

we want bad haircuts too.


watch!!! http://youtube.com/watch?v=7BtNN6M97q8

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DMhf2azGW90

for people with base humour like me=)....

i want chinese new year to last forever.
i want to remain 17 forever and live on forever with my loved ones.
i want it to shrink.
i want to carry caixin.
i want to squeeze her too.
i want qm to love me forever.
i want qm to like me more and more.
i want popo to be healthier and happier.
i want ah gong to laugh more and be happier too.
i want to sleep late and wake up late.
i want to grow taller.
i want to grow taller!!!
i want all exams to be in multiple chioce questions format.
i want to erase my dark eye circles.
i want to be highly intelligent.
i want to be very very ______
i want want want
i demand
i ask to receive all my wants
i want yiyi's baby to be healthy and for pregnancy to be a smooth one.
i love my mama
i love my sister too
i love my mama more
i want it to be sharper
i want to slap anyone who displeases me
i want to have the invisble crowds transporter