so what am i?

for my whole life i have been asked many times whether or not i am a foreigner.

so for all those who do not know me that well, let me tell you, that i am a 100% singaporean.

no, not a japanese or korean or chinese-from china.

haha. yesterday as i was taking taxi home from school ( i was really really tired) the taxi driver asked me if i were a chinese national after i spoke two lines to him in chinese!! is that i compliment or what? my chinese is not that bad eh! who said i sucked?

hey all those in school, especially those from my class like ZOEY!! haha, read this and try to stop asking me to pronounce those simple chinese words that sometimes, note, only sometimes, pose as a challenge to me.

if you say a line and i repeat, i can speak rather fluently, but if you dont say it and ask me to read it like that by myself, then sometimes i dont sound that correct. i have no idea why like that.

anyway, back to my point.

that taxi uncle was really friendly and we chatted the whole journey. then i shared how when i was in primary 1, i went to thailand and stayed in a beach resort. then one day i was picking flowers by the beach with a guy when this japanese couple passed by, then came up to me and bowed.

woah! i got a shock, kept quiet and walked on. crap man, now that i think of it, the couple must have thought i was very impolite. maybe i should have just bowed back or something. haha.

oh then one or two years or so back, a friend came back from studying overseas and commented i look like a jap or korean singer/star. thank you thank you. haha.

i wonder what would happen if i dressed like a tourist and went to some shop in town to buy clothes or something. then try to buy it without speaking, just body language. would they really think i were a foreigner and jack up the price? haha.

and if i were to pay for something and pretended that i was not famliar with the currency, and let then take the money by themselves when i show them what i have, would they take the right amount?