Anywhos, not sure what's up with my Tagboard!!! For some reason I have to enter a username AND password, which I don't even know of? Ugh. Annoying annoying!!! Think I'll change it after I'm done posting this entry. And I guess, by then, this paragraph is totally irrelevant. WHICH will inevitably make me sound like a weirdo cuz noone knows what I'm talking about hahaa.

ANYWAY, I have been very busy lately. It is an extremely difficult task to juggle between work and play. And sleep. >< Boy, have I been sleeping a lot these days. Have midterms, presentations, assignments and group meetings all the time SIGH!! And I still have that part-time job at the cafe, which I am actually enjoying. Sometimes I'm amazed at how I manage to get up at 6 to go to work, and not at 8 to go to school =_= (Just kidding.. of course I go to school...)

Last night I went out for dinner with my aunt and family. My aunt had been craving for Shanghainese food since forever. So then, we drove all the way to good ol' Richmond to have fabulous Shanghainese food.

When we got to the parking lot, there were alot of cars. It had to be our lucky day though, cuz we saw a car leave and we were going to back park into the spot when....

... this white dude in glasses stood in our way (on the parking space) to prevent us from parking there.

My uncle winded down the window and asked what's up. And the white dude said that we couldn't park there because his girlfriend was gonna park there and she would be driving the car here in a few minutes.

We were like.... err.. you can't do this. And we wouldn't move. HE wouldn't move. Then his girlfriend came, this petite Chinese lady with a Chinese accent (not sure if that is relevant but just thought it might interest you).

And she was insisting that the spot was theirs. Which I thought was utterly ridiculous.

Anyways, I went to get us a table at the restaurant first while my uncle dealed with it. Somehow, we finally got the spot. And while waiting for a table, the lady came to me and she's like: "Is he always like that? He must have had a miserable day."

And I was like: "Uhhh.. you can't DO this."

Then she went: "Well, tell him not to do anything wrong cuz my boyfriend is a lawyer. And we have your license plate down."

I was so pissed at that moment and I went like: "Yeah, we have YOUR license plate too." I just thought she was crazy for thinking that she could pull something like that off.

Then, later at night, it occurred to me that I used to do that in Malaysia haha! It seemed fine back then, but now I just think that it's not right to do that.

And actually, Suzz made a comment on this the other day and we were talking about it too. Like how we unconsciously become more Canadianized in terms of speech, behaviour and mentality.

I'm not trying to say that Malaysia is bad, because I still love it like no other place. It will always be my HOME. But yet, I still can't help but feel that this is the only reason why I love Malaysia for all its flaws... Cuz it is my home and I grew up there.

I think that I see Malaysia from a very different perspective now after being in Vancouver for a little over three years. (Haven't time flown eh?) And to be honest, three years isn't a very long time, but it is long enough for me to compare Malaysia and Vancouver.

This is gonna be quite controversial and many people may not like this post especially the super pro-Malaysia people like yeeling haha.

I am not talking about the government here. Sure, there are issues regarding the way Malaysia is governed but that, I am sure everyone is fully aware of.

I am talking about.. the Malaysian culture which is deeply rooted into the Malaysian society. The issue that noone considers a problem because we were brought up that way, we were TRAINED to be that way, and everyone around us IS that way.

Take, for example. A mere profession. Kids in Malaysia (sigh, the good ole days haha) have such limited options. Science or Arts. And for some weird reason, and I am ashamed to say that I was once like that, that people just think you're better if you were in the Science stream. So I guess, you are more prestigous if you were a doctor, a lawyer, or an engineer. And if you were a chef, it was because you didn't have the brains to pursue a medicine degree or what not.

Which is such a narrow-minded thought. I am so amazed at the range of options that are open to young people here. Kids in Vancouver, and in every other North American community I believe, get to learn about design, law, cooking, marketing etc in high school! They get to select the courses that interested them and try it out before they decide what profession they wanted to pursue.

When I was in secondary school, I was in the Science stream. I hated Science. But I got in cuz I had straight As in PMR. And my mom suggested that I stayed in the Pure Science stream because I had the ability to, and that I could gain more knowledge by being in the Science stream as opposed to being in Arts. Which made sense at that moment.

Many years later, I look back and wonder how the knowledge I had gained differentiated me from Arts students. We had more profound knowledge on different issues, but that didn't make one better than the other. Everyone has different interests and talents. Trying to compare a chef and a lawyer to see who was better was just ridiculous. Is the sky better than the ocean? Is an apple better than a celery?

I find that a lot of us are afraid to pursue our true passion. We go for what we think is right. Hence, we end up old and miserable, wishing that we had done the whole thing differently.

Don't know if I am making sense here. Just realised that the progression of this whole entry is somewhat weird. haha. not even sure if I have a point. Lol.

Need to go back to studying argh!!!!

Oh, and to those who don't agree with me, just chill ok. haha.

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