little things today that triggered it off.
sometimes, i seriously feel like a foreigner in my own homeland. its a really stupid feeling, & if you felt it before, you'll know that it sucks.
even sales assistants, waiters, cashers are foreigners. nono, i'm fine with foreigners in our land. but for everyone's sake. go learn some frickin' english. i don't need perfect english, just those that it'll be alright to communicate with ? GOSH.
walking into a store,
dad : do you have book shelves ?
sales assistant : she meh ?
dad : (looks at sales assistant weirdly) nevermind.
(i just laughed, cause papa's chinese is worse than mine)
eating at a JAPANESE restaurant,
dad : i'll have this set. . .
waitress : ni yao chicken hai shi beef ?
dad : chicken.
dad : (to us) seeing china people makes me lose my appitite.
(no, its not in the racist way, but its just wrong. english anyone ?)
paying at giant,
casher : zhe shi chong nah li lai de ? mei you 'price tag' (idk what it is i chinese)
(fuck ?)
dad : (obvious pissed off look) idk, you're the one working here.
(& she took her time to stroll there, & still looking at batteries or something along the way. . .)
& when she came back,
casher : mei you ah. . .
(HAHA, mind you, my sis hates the china accent)
sis : (scolds her off in english)
casher : (blur)
sis : fuck, (& scolds her off in chinese)
(its stupid, but its a piss off)
yes, we need foreigners to function, cause we need people to take the jobs right ? but ain't there many unemployed singaporeans ? okay, maybe not enough education people could learn alittle more. & those with pride issue(like, "i can't work that job, its too low class") should shove its aside, cause low class job beats no job.
the foreigners that come to singapore should seriously learn some english. like i said, no excellent english is required, but enough to do your duties in your jobs ? its not only those from china, there's also some from indonesia & malaysia. i'm not racist please, i just really don't like feeling like a foreigner in my own country.
i'm alright with singapore being multi-racial, & multi-lanuage, but english is a UNIVERSAL language. yes, you go to japan you speak japanese, you go to china you speak mandrin, you go to malaysia you speak malay. but singapore, yes, rojak country, but you still have to speak ENGLISH. don't the foreigners every understand that ? you have to adapt when you go to other countries, you have to learn. its making it difficult for those singaporeans that have to communicate with them. & its been getting really horrible.
i'm fine with singaporeans speaking chinese to talk with each other. but at least when they're spoken to in english, they UNDERSTAND & reply in english. gosh.
posted @ 11:27 PM |