Identity Crisis

シンガポール、お誕生日おめでとうございます！笑
わたしはチュゴク人です。でも、シンガポールで15年ぐらい住んでいます。わたしのたくさん友達シンガポール人です。でも、わたしの家族上海住んでいます。

It's quite frustrating sometimes to be at a position where you feel you don't belong exactly anywhere. It's like in Singapore, people know I'm from Shanghai. On the other hand, when I go back, they see me as a Chinese who knows nothing about China. They don't mean anything, but it just occurs naturally to them that when they see me, they gotta speak Chinese instead of our dialect, Shanghainese. It's not that I don't understand, just that I suck at speaking it.

And I know most Singaporeans find Chinese annoying in some way or another cos of their bad cultural habits. But I would say, not all Chinese are like that. Still, who's there to believe when that's not what they witnessed?

Yes, sometimes I do admit that I'm embarrassed by my own countrymen because of certain things they do. All the fake goods to fake FOOD and fake Apple shop in recent years. But China is so enormous, the government can't possibly oversee everything that's going on, unlike tiny Singapore. We gotta think it that way to be objective, isn't it? Again, who's there to care about being objective when our greatest talent here to is complain?

Can I just be an international citizen? I have a crush for Japan too. & my home country wouldn't approve. Shouldn't someone somewhere create a new passport already?


P/S typed this post out using my cell. You can imagine how bored I am at work. Hahaha.

P/P/S got my French module registered already!!! Can't wait to start lessons~ probably tmr! Gonna be tetragualism! LOL. :D 四语人才哦! 呵呵~

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Born on 6 November '92 in Shanghai, virgin trip on the airplane at the age of 3 when she moved to Singapore. First language was Shanghainese. Only child thanks to the one child policy back then. Sang in the Choir in Primary School, played the alto saxophone in the military band in Secondary School, then the tenor saxophone in the concert band in Junior College. Currently majoring in Linguistics & Multilingual Studies in NTU. Part time Beauty Advisor for Lancôme Paris. Tutor for Primary & Secondary School students.
Learnt some basic design sketching(fashion), yoga and modern jazz - and loved them. Loves travelling, beauty stuff, food, photography and languages. Learning 日本語, Française & la lingua italiana. Wants to learn German and play the cello.

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