Well, well.

Today, I met someone and that someone irritated me like I never have been irritated before.

Said someone's a chinese woman in her late 30s, early 40s who attended my class today. She's not originally from my class; she's from the Thursday class I think.

Anyway...

Before class started, she turned around to me and spoke to me in Mandarin.

Then,

Then she just stared right at me wearing a very shocked face.

So I just smiled awkwardly and looked away. I mean, what else could I do.

Apparently, she was shocked that I'm not a Chinese; cos according to her, I look like one.

And that is more than fine, cos yes, I do look very Cina and in fact, I do have chinese blood. But in essence, I'm a Malay. But that was not the problem.

What came next was.

OMG. That woman has a problem. In her world, only the Chinese CAN speak Japanese. And the nons, regardless of whether they have been attending proper Japanese language classes for a few years or not, cannot.

In my heart, I was like, excuse me.... Like you, I have been attending classes. So what the hell was it that made you as shocked as hell when you found out that a Malay girl can read and write Japanese. She's such a fuckface. Grr. Shall not even try to explain what happened next when she actually insisted that I gave her my answer and then announced it to the class as if it was her answer. Gosh.

Turns out, that woman just lives up to the belief I have that older learners tend to hold the class back everywhere they go. I'm know I'm being an evil fuckface myself for saying this, but a fact is a fact. Happens in NIE, it even happens in Ikoma. Can you blame me?

Well, not everyone, maybe, but most.

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Anywayy.. on to happier stuff!

I'm back from my family vacation. Whee~ The week went by quite fast, as expected. And we wished that we did not have to come back to Singapore yet. But oh well, we had to, and we all did.

A few descriptions of Langkawi..

We touched down in Langkawi at night. So my first impression was that they have very very very starry skies. Super clear and pretty! ^^

And, the roads, the streets, the restaurants were exactly like how Phuket is. Exactly. Travelling on the roads in Langkawi reminded me soo much of Phuket. Oh, good times, great company. Memories.

Only difference btwn the two was that there was only prolly 2% of the bars that Phuket has. Being a Muslim country, of course it has to be that way. In short, Langkawi is the family-friendly version of Phuket.

We swam everyday, in the salt water pool (cool, eh?),

fought the waves in the sea,

drove around and visited every beach in Langkawi, went go-karting, visited the hugeass eagle thingy at the jetty,

went trekking (I got chased by scary monkeys :s), played in the cool waters at the waterfall,

went to an agrotechnology farm where we were fed lots of fruits that were plucked right in front of our eyes, and where we got really full after.

After 5 exhausting days, we left for KL.

And when in KL, what else could we do right? KL was all about the food and the shopping. My siblings and I played a lot in the hotel room, ate a lot in the hotel room and laughed a lot in the hotel room. Super fun.

[paparazzi shot of us by my dad]

These 2 pics perfectly sums up KL. ^^

And weather in Langkawi and KL was nothing like Singapore. Singapore is just unreasonably hot. >( The AC at home just can't keep up. Damn.