Been mostly home yesterday until at night that is. I went to UM for me weekly AIESEC meeting. Todays topic was time management. Unfortunately the speaker couldn’t make it because of a schedule clash. I guess I don’t need to mention the irony.

So we discussed about other stuff. Got into smaller groups and talked about “is it okay to date within an organization ?” , “does long-distance relationship work?” and “why do cows have brown patches?”. Okay we didn’t discuss the third one.

After the meeting, I went to college seven (that’s the busiest part of UM) for some chinese new year festival. I don’t know whats it called, I know I’m chinese but I think I’m losing my culture. So there I was watching the whole show. Some of the mini plays were really funny. Well, I guess it was funny cause everyone was laughing. I didn’t understand the mandarin thats why.

The term for that would be banana. Yellow on the outside (some people think chinese are yellow skinned) and white on the inside. I think in my case it’s not just the language. I’ve been brought up on television and in my school, most of them speak english. Heck , my parents speak english to me. At least now I speak cantonese to my aunt.

Well you see, most chinese in UM speak mandarin, and IF I actually studied there I would be a minority. First I would be subjected to some ragging and then mostly ignored. I kid… I kid. My friends were good enough to try and translate what’s going on. At least I understood the English and Cantonese bits. Imagine a play that has three languages in it. I don’t know how the malay felt watching the whole thing.

Barring language problems, I enjoyed last night. I really should learn to speak mandarin.