Ramblings of an Immature Brat

Friday, February 27, 2009

Racial discrimination?

I read a blog of someone I know from college, and he was talking about some racial issues in UM. He was a Chinese and he was helping a foreign student to get into a nearer residential college to the faculty. The Malay office lady was acting indifferent to his attempts to ask if there were any rooms available. It kinda pissed me off when she gave him the cold shoulder. Sometimes I'm ashamed to be half Malay, thinking how some of the Malays have such closed minds. Ignoring people just because they're not Malay. It happened to me a few times too, because I'm very chinese looking. It's kind of amusing sometimes. They can give me the cold treatment at first, but when they find out that I'm half Malay, or Muslim, or when they notice that my BM is too good, you can really see the 360' change of attitude.

But then, being half Chinese ain't good either. The 'pure' Chinese don't like those who are 'bananas', yellow outside but white inside : meaning they look Chinese, but can only talk in English. But then, I don't think the Chinese here ain't bad. Most of them are willing to befriend me, so I haven't encountered any problems so far. And I do know a few other 'bananas' such as myself... only that they aren't mixed. I guess it's much harder for them cause they don't have an excuse of being mixed.

Friday, February 13, 2009

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I'm too lazy to think of a title D:

Anyway, it's been a while since my last post. Our MPIS dinner was held early this month. The location was okay but the food weren't that great. I felt kinda guilty eating the shark's fin :C

But i saw lots of wacky clothes there. There was this second (or may I say first?) year d00d who dressed up like a Japanese punk from Harajuku. I wanted to take a picture of him but... he went away before I had the chance to take a shot with my phone :C . Surprisingly he won best dressed. If it were me, I'd call it weird... and that's a complement coming for me. I just adore people who dresses weird (likemyself*cofcof*). The female best dressed went to a final year. She sure had some weird+BIG headpiece. I wonder how she can walk with that thing balanced on her head. And it was SHINY... D:

So in a nutshell, you have to be brave enough to dress weird to win best dressed.

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My finals are coming soon. It scares me to know I have to pass this to not take supplementary classes. I WANT MY 2 MONTH HOLIDAY GODDARNIT D:

I hope that's enough to get me studying. I need someone to nag me to study D:

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... And I have a camp with the 4th year seniors tomorrow. I hope it's not stressful or anything. I'm lazy to go... but it's free and it's somewhat a good way to relax.