Back from Adelaide.

Spent the last 2 days in South Australia, “The Festival State” or something like that. Pictures coming up very soon, but not in this post.

Was talking to a friend lately about all sorts of stuff till the wee hours of the morning which really has made me realize all sorts of stuff. How different everyone is, but how alike sometimes our goals and aspirations are. The rat race. doh..

Being a Malaysian out here in Melbourne is not difficult, the ratio of asians to locals is almost 1:1 in the city anyway. And being Malaysian, we all have that accent that makes us distinguishable from other nationalities. But other than the accent which may even fade with time, I ask myself how Malaysian am I anyway?

Being a Malaysian born Chinese, I feel we’re the group of people with the least “national image”. Or whatever. Everywhere we go, we’re “second class citizens”. And it doesn’t help that the political situation and so on in Malaysia is nothing really to be proud of out here. For those who even care about culture, we know more about China and the Chinese culture, and for the rest of us who don’t give a nut about it, we well, know nuts.

People would say, “who cares? what has Malaysia given you as a Chinese!?” Well honestly, truth be told, not much. I want to be patriotic, I want to be proud of Malaysia for more than just the food and tourism, but I just can’t find the reason to be.

“a poor player, who struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard of no more.” (irrelevant)

Then again, I’m crazy proud of Sitiawan. HAHA! You guys can tell me about how you have subway in your schools or how you hang out at starbucks after classes during high school, I don’t care. NOTHING, beats Sitiawan. I think I shall just self declare Sitiawan as a seperate country and fill in my nationality in forms as “Sitiawanian”. Someone start writing The Sitiawan National Anthem!!

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ah lee: old template was getting crazy boring!!

kenk3n: post up pictures of your new hair!!!!

~ by darylyeak on September 23, 2008.

Posted in Opinions/Thoughts

13 Responses to “Back from Adelaide.”

  1. daryl..u damn yeng le..
    juz back from adelaide den update ur blog edi..
    haha..i noe u miss melbourne a lot..wahahah..

    chia ee said this on September 23, 2008 at 9:52 am

  2. Go adelaide for?

    yiwen said this on September 23, 2008 at 10:08 am

  3. yeah.. why do u change ur theme? I prefer the old one though..
    My hair? Aiks…soon soon!!
    I cut it a bit myself..
    Sitiawan is a great place although it’s small.. Nothing beats Sitiawan!

    kenk3n said this on September 23, 2008 at 1:38 pm

  4. I think the Botak Crew can compose a song. Haha
    MacShorty can do it!
    then you modify it
    hAHa

    kenk3n said this on September 23, 2008 at 1:41 pm

  5. Ha ha, yeah nothing beats sitiawan!!! And yeah i agree with not-feeling-like-a malaysian. Even now the issue on race is being brought up.

    Praise said this on September 23, 2008 at 4:44 pm

  6. yea weh…why do you change your theme?
    i prefer the old one too…
    chia ching cut his own hair..haha!!
    im missing sitiawan like siao… =(

    michelleyu said this on September 23, 2008 at 8:10 pm

  7. chia ee – yeah melbourne rocks lar.. haha..

    yiwen – i had an interview for Uni of Adelaide..

    kenk3n – dunno.. thought i wanted a change, you guys will get used to it sooner or later.. haha.. will probably design my own blog header soon..

    praise – yeah well… what to do..

    michelleyu – the old one nice mehh? i don’t like the orange orange parts la.. haha..

    darylyeak said this on September 23, 2008 at 9:57 pm

  8. How will you design your own blog header? teach me
    The issue of racism is brought up to stir up something to prevent Anwar. The Ahmad fellow may receive order from someone HIGH!!

    kenk3n said this on September 24, 2008 at 12:50 am

  9. hmmm… how about being proud of malaysia as a possible example of multicultural harmony? sure it’s far from perfect, but at least we haven’t started killing each other like snarling beasts…

    at least, not yet. =P

    Sitiawanku
    tanah ‘gam buan’ dan ‘mee sua’
    ‘kong pia’ yang sedap
    memanggil ku kembali
    yang paling best
    rakan dan keluarga di sana
    inilah sitiawan, tempat foochow
    yang paling best
    rakan dan keluarga di sana
    inilah sitiawan, tempat foochow

    siehjin said this on September 24, 2008 at 5:14 pm

  10. Wow sieh jin so you compose a song for sitiawan. It’s funny..

    Praise said this on September 24, 2008 at 6:06 pm

  11. kenk3n – use photoshop.. hehe.. i’m still fairly noob in doing it actually..

    siehjin – lol! hope that the day where people start killing off each other never comes.. and the song, is it supposed to go with “Negaraku”? haha.. and you got it spot on.. “yang paling best”

    praise – haha.. the legendary sieh jin who wrote so many songs for musicals ages ago… yeah.. when we were still kids.. haha!

    darylyeak said this on September 24, 2008 at 7:16 pm

  12. yeah, it’s supposed to be sung to the tune of ‘negaraku’ =P

    writing songs is actually not that hard, as long as you’ve got some musical basics, a reasonable command of language, and a message you want to deliver in song… oh yes, and the courage to try =)

    not all my songs were good you know… i’ve forgotten more than half of em already. just cuba-cuba and see la, u may be surprised by your own talent (open suggestion to all readers of this blog)

    this kind of song is the easiest kind to ‘write’, because it’s actually a ripoff… just take a song you already know, and change the lyrics =P for example, by a friend of mine:

    he was a skinny boy,
    she said see ya later boy
    he wasn’t FAT enough for her
    now he’s a sumo star
    slamming his spare tayar

    and i can’t remember the last line =P

    siehjin said this on October 14, 2008 at 9:37 am

  13. haha yeah i agree, sitiawan is the best =)

    jiunnli said this on October 14, 2008 at 4:18 pm

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