我一年前嚮 LYK 寫既第一篇野

English, Chinese, against, person, world

ENGLISH / CHINESE

if Chinese is the official language in Canada.
if Chinese was first to immigrate before the white people.
if Chinese had the army to conquer all over the world and colonize places.

i am trying to be right. and yet. every time i run into a white person who is take a stand against me. i know i am going to lose. i need to speak their language. they don't have to speak mine. it was written in history all over the place that English is better than Chinese. and the truth: I do not have enough knowledge of their culture to be one of them.

if Robert De Niro had to learn Chinese to get into a movie.
Not Jacky Chan and Chow Yun Fat speaking English with accents.

I am new. I am blowing lots of water. and I don't know how to type in Chinese.

sometimes I don't know what to do. Cantonese is my mother tongue. There is nothing I can do about it. When I am surprised I don't say GEEZ. I say WAH. I have tried to brainwash myself to fit into their culture. But I don't like Betty Boop or Winnie the Pooh. I like Ding Dong. And I know Ding Dong.

I don't play hockey. I play ping pong.

So how am I going to explain all these. That white people in Richmond has become a minority group. WELL. I don't see any Chinese culture going around Richmond RCMP. They don't eat dim sum and Chinese tea. Only I drink donut and coffee. There is a Chinese version of O Canada. more like a translation. somewhere on the web.

Being an immigrant has to admit I myself and family somehow believe our country / place of origin is not as good. All my memories / knowledge associated with my birth place and people has a negative denotation. if there is anything I can do about it, it will be:

Telling our local firefighters: GAU FALL
Telling our peace officers: ALL BEI YAN DA GIP / ALL OAK KAY YAU CHAK

Consider it is their duty to handle you, they will not leave you alone.
But then one of them is going to ask: do you speak English?
And if I ever had the guts to reply: I do speak English. Do you speak Chinese?

ps. making phony phone call aka prank can be an offense without a proper setting as an entertainment platform

playingtoy 發表於 2009-2-10 18:16

my LYK anniversary

tiffiant

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發表於 2010-2-13 15:32 | 只看該作者

what is this?poem?song?

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發表於 2010-2-13 13:28 | 只看該作者

For you Playingtoy. I am sure you can appreciate this.

The Road Not Taken - by Robert Frost

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth

Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference.

to be or not to be

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