Thursday, August 10, 2006

Not always pretty here.....

It is true that France is a beautiful country, well, an average-vintage-european country that is. Well, its different here. Places are different, cultures are different, things work differently, even the washing machine, and most of all People are different.

Do you know the feeling when u are from the other side of the world and u dont speak the language VERY VERY fluently?
Then when somebody speaks their opinion about your culture and i dunno.....wat u eat, how u live and wat uve seen and wat u hafn't?
And when one critics something eventhough one never seen and never been (except from TV)?
Or when one thinks France is the superior above everything else? Or when one even thinks to go to Asia is a suicide because NOBODY speaks french or there is NO baguette, cheese and charcuterie, or get killed in a jungle because there is NO decent place to stay?

Have you ever felt so so desperate to speak up ur opinion and to tell one the truth about your own culture that you know very well on the tip of your finger since you were born there and lived there for the past 21 bloody years of your life BUT you can't do it because its fucking difficult to build a sentence in your head and to say it out loud. And because of your lack of vocabulary. It's depressing, tiring, upseting to NOT BE ABLE to tell one that what he says is not ALL TRUE!!

And juz to stay quiet and letting him enjoying the fact that ALL HE SAYS is RIGHT, juz because you can't argue back... when the reality is, HE HAS NEVER EVER EVEN STEPPED A TOE IN A LAND CALLED ASIA, let alone Malaysia or Indonesia.....And he thinks HE KNOWS EVERY FREAKING SINGLE THING...!!!

Let me remind myself that it is juz the beginning, like pierre always said, i would haf to act dumb and let go everything people think about how weird or how wrong or how horrible we live our lives...

I know that its useless to argue with people who always 'avoir raison' , but i juz want to say a little word of something. I juz wanna defend myself. I juz wanna give some opinion. And it wont kill you to hear the truth from an EXISTING and LIVING SOURCE, rite?

2 comments:

Siron Pereira said...

gosh babe... i noe how u feel la... btw, i stole one of ur pics with pierre and posting it on my frenster.. haha... cool... i miss ya babe... take care... muaxxxx.... say hye to pierre for me aite... au revoir...

Ee May said...

Oh crap. Suddenly reminds me of "almost french"!

That guy is S.A.D!!! SHows how inexposed they are!!


I get that here sometimes.



But we're Asians and we're PROUD TO BE ASIANS!!!

WOOHOO!