He said, "you know, we have "ying guo ren", "zhong guo ren", "mei guo ren", but in the end the word "ren" remains unchanged. We're all still human, we're the same. It's difficult in Japan, you know, there's the language barrier. I really want to know the language and know people. Not to earn money, but just to talk to them."
I told him my aim of this trip was to live the life of a Japanese, and that it's sad that we have this language barrier, it makes things impossible. Nabil said this is exactly why he was motivated to study chinese. He's excellent at it, even if you don't consider the fact that he's actually from Manchester.
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Yamaguchi-san was kind enough to help me with the booking of the bus tickets, and I'm ever so thankful to have an RA like him. Wee Kian is a really helpful individual who enjoys learning about others, and Ee Faye is so open to people, so refreshing. Wan shares her things with people without hesitation, and Flair reminds me of myself sometimes.
From the people I talked to, I also learnt that some of my friends from china are not as open about inter-racial relationships or homosexuality. I think it takes time for them to be able to accept it, and China is still a developing country afterall. We got to give it time, not look down on them. We are all humans afterall.
My past 2-3 weeks have mostly been spent with Joseph, and we've established that we won't talk to each other when we're back in Hong Kong and Singapore respectively, since we're both not people to initiate conversations. We don't talk about our emotions or our deepest thoughts, but I do know bits of him, as a person. I don't open up in front of him, and sometimes I don't know if he's actually interested to listen. But I do enjoy our trips to places far away.
I don't hang out with the NUS group much because I don't really like groups. During class today, I asked myself if I'm keeping to myself again, not stepping out of my barrier. I keep hanging out with either Joseph or Chun Wee individually because they like 1 to 1 hangouts too. Should I be meeting more people? I don't know, but the occasional chats with other people do fine.
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Supangkat just posted on the Tembusu page about him donating some books to the 12th floor lounge. I thought, this is the reason why I love Tembusu so much - everybody is so helpful and sharing.
I don't know exactly what it means to grow as a person. I don't want to grow for myself, I want to grow for other people.
From the people I talked to, I also learnt that some of my friends from china are not as open about inter-racial relationships or homosexuality. I think it takes time for them to be able to accept it, and China is still a developing country afterall. We got to give it time, not look down on them. We are all humans afterall.
My past 2-3 weeks have mostly been spent with Joseph, and we've established that we won't talk to each other when we're back in Hong Kong and Singapore respectively, since we're both not people to initiate conversations. We don't talk about our emotions or our deepest thoughts, but I do know bits of him, as a person. I don't open up in front of him, and sometimes I don't know if he's actually interested to listen. But I do enjoy our trips to places far away.
I don't hang out with the NUS group much because I don't really like groups. During class today, I asked myself if I'm keeping to myself again, not stepping out of my barrier. I keep hanging out with either Joseph or Chun Wee individually because they like 1 to 1 hangouts too. Should I be meeting more people? I don't know, but the occasional chats with other people do fine.
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Supangkat just posted on the Tembusu page about him donating some books to the 12th floor lounge. I thought, this is the reason why I love Tembusu so much - everybody is so helpful and sharing.
I don't know exactly what it means to grow as a person. I don't want to grow for myself, I want to grow for other people.
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