I Am Legend Chinese

Wow. Unique visitors count doubled today. Ahah.

Okay so now I'm a little apprehensive about telling people my TER.

From the looks of my last post, I sound like I did so well hor, um no la it's nothing stellar.

Now that excitement wore off, I realize it's no big deal. No biggie at all.

Sorry, was just so excited at that time, because.

Well, because my internal assesments sucked like vacuum cleaner. You cannot expect much from a B's, C's and D's sort of person.




Anyway, moving on!



Will Smith is ice cold ("cooler than being cool")!

I mean, think about it la, have you ever watched a bad Will Smith movie? No.

He's like Johnny Depp, only a lot less QuirkyEccentric and has more Tough Guy roles.

And my point is?

I Am Legend is an ice cold movie, you really should watch it.

Prepare a packet of tissues also la, you might need it.

Watch watch watch!

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Here. Did you know Wang Lee-Hom plays over 10 musical instruments, had a perfect 1600 SAT score, and studied at Williams College (which is the like Harvard of liberal arts colleges)?

I had no idea, until just now. I Wikipedia-ed him.

(Oh, see? 'Wikipedia' is a verb now! Just like 'Google'! As in, "Why you Google youself so tak tau malu?!")

Book smart, musical genius, pretty good eye candy also!

And he's multilingual. Wah that totally tops it.

So I watched 'I Not Stupid Too' again the other day, and you know those unbelievably irritating students that cannot speak Chinese?

It made me feel so guilty for not even attempting to improve my mandarin.

My bro's mandarin is BAD, that if you put him in primary school he'd still have a hard time during chinese classes.

But he used to say, "So what? I can speak I can understand, good enough already la!"

I can speak, I can definitely understand, and I can read (albeit a lot of effort is needed, so much so that I get lazy and not bother most times), but I wish I could write like Chuan Ling and ZiHui and LiAnn in their blogs.

I used to wonder just how did they find chinese phrases like the ones they used. Then I realized, they don't "find" the phrases, they came up with those themselves.

So poetic, you know?

That's the thing about mandarin. If you can compose in mandarin, then you cannot help but be poetic.

Unless you talk crap la, like the messages Ling left in my Bahasa Cina Form 5 textbook I lent her.

And I think it's so cool if you go off to some foreign land, and people ask if you can speak Chinese (being Chinese yourself), and you go, "OF COURSE!" and start word-swishing away in that Orang-Cina toned mandarin.

As opposed to being ask if you can speak Chinese, and you apprehensively go, "Err yeahh.." and start speaking in an ahpek toned mandarin.

(But then again, them being foreign-land people, they probably don't know mandarin, so you can pretty much simply insert Ming Ju Jing Hua, and no one would know if you were wrong.)

Speaking of which, Chuan Ling laughed at a Cheng Yu I used wrongly. Embarrassing as heck.
Just so you know, Chuan Ling you are so not helping!

I used to think it's so weird, 'cause I'm not entirely Orang Banana, 'cause I've had -counts- 11 years of chinese classes. Eleven! But I'm not good at it enough to stop constantly having to ask my friends what they mean when they use slightly more advanced mandarin.

But ah, I am SO grateful that my parents ultimately decided to send me to a chinese medium school! My dad wanted me to go national school initially.

I think it puts us to shame, when American kids at American colleges go for Chinese classes, and end up being better Chinese speakers / writers than us. (And by us, I mean only some of us la.)

But I am trying.

[Did you know I once won the Zui Jia Zuo Wen (err, best essay?) prize back in primary school?
I must've took the wrong turn at the junction to end up here!]

Zi Hui I read every single Chinese post on your blog!







And here, I go off to sleep. Night!


[Added: Oh I just read Chew Woon's blog. Wah coincidence! LOL.]