dang dat ingrish-spiaking hi-society
back at home in my lovely penang for 3 days...
- got the convo pics with family framed up and hung up high up the wall...
- morning walk and breakfast with dad...
- got into a darn unnecessary fight with my lovely dearest... now settled...
- did a 2 pages long explaination telling my mom that my frequency of coming back home is equal to or double the amount of stress at work when i'm in hospital...
had 2 articles readily typed in my palm when I am in SP, but somehow the absent minded LKP once again misplaced his palm, in some hidden pockets of some bags. In short, today i had to rant about other stuff.
since merdeka fever is just over, perhaps i will talk about independence day. zzz. boring. not really, it can be amusing or perhaps enlightening. Reading a few articles, especially the one by Azmi Sharom, really talks a lot about the lost idea of independence.
I believe the idea of being independent is really far from what we are striving all this years. we can say that we are free, free from danger, free from natural disaster, free from bird flu (such irony that all the countries surrounding us are getting it, and we're scot-free), free from examination fee of SPM/STPM/PMR (budget 2006 if you care to care) and many more free stuffs and so.
Are we really free/independent/merdeka?
In reality, we are still pretty stupid in our own way. naive would be a better word. But i would like to keep my english vocabulary in low volume so that people that have problem with the words 'composer' or 'siblings' can understand me.
recently an entry in the one of my junior's blog about how much she was disgusted by the first year students in orientation for not knowing what the 2 simple words above meant, really outraged me. oops. forgive moi. made me mad. not really mad in a sense of insane. just a little bit disappointed.
then there was this entry of blog in medicinemalaysia.com for quoting her entry and cursing our current education system in lowering our internal chi in englishism. yes, our education system is a useless piece of garbage. that i agree. but this entry seems to hold up english as a supreme language and the chief language of all language. you good in english, you are A student. you bad in english, you rot in hell, mister... why study medicine, mister...
(i may have mistaken the isi tersirat in both the entry, if it does happen so, i wish to forward my apology. sincerely. i'm seriously apologizing)
if english is that ever powerful, they should have replaced levator labii superioris alaeque nasi with 'the-thin-muscles-beside-the-nose-for-lifting-up-of-lateral-upper-lips'...
i believe english is just a medium. not even ours to being with. we so-called independent country are fighting a losing war. A losing war that only one can realize just 2 decades too late. Like it or lump it, a stupid (naive) majority of us is worshipping english, and hating (+looking down upon) our bahasa melayu, or other sub-dialects of chinese because only with english, you consider to have a good 'standard' of education.
face the fact. english is dominating the world, more with the invention of internet coming along. see, i am writing this entry in english. I am writing english because i know you guys know english, and i want to communicate with you guys. trust me, my grammar is just as old as my grandma. she's 88.
by knowing english, you are not an excellent doctor. you just most probably do well because most of the big bosses high up the hierarchy ladder (equal the big sharks/killer whales in the food chain), meaning the sifu of the sifu of the sifu are englishmen and they simply adores presentation in good english.
but when you face with an old malay lady in the roadside, crumpling her face, holding her stomach while crying a long lines of kelantanese malay which sounded like what the elves speak in Lord of the Ring, and with your ever caring facial expression, you open up of your highly educated mouth to say "do you speak english?i dun understand you". well, go figure.
as a chinese, let's face it. most of our native dialects are slowly dying in our country. some dies of a quick death, some dies of a slow humiliating death.
some just die. why? no standard mar.
you don't study medicine in hokkien, hakka, teochew or cantonese.
but real patients speak those no-standard language.
the next time, we laugh at people of other country
korean bad in english - HAHA!!
japanese bad in english - HAHA!!
taiwanese bad in english - HAHA!!
thais bad in english - HAHA!!
let's us ponder
with all the 'english-superiorism' invading our education system, that 'fine' day will come when
malaysian bad in bahasa malaysia - HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! HAHA!! and it shall echo into eternity.
famous quote from mother theresa:
love is language that the deaf can hear, and the dumb can speak.
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I know one MO, sharing his experience in Muar Hosp serving as HO
then. He was speaking Bahasa to a Chinese patient just because
he doesn't speak Mandarin or Hokkien(even he's Hokkien)The
patient doesn't know much English or cantonese. I think knowing
few more languages or dialects are good.