it's hard to believe that my whole beijing escapade is coming to an end. sure, this isn't the most glamorous city to be. but at the end of it, i feel it like a second home.
the beginning of it hadn't been easy. there had been wild times and terribly exhausting times. i met some of the most incredible people and gained the most incredible insights to a culture that's so close to my roots yet so distant from my heart.
there are things i loathe about it here. lots of it. the bad service, the lousy food, and the fact that you smell cigarette smoke everywhere you go. but at the end of it, there's so much to see, learn, and assimilate out here. i love the vastness of china, the endless tales of its history, the kindred spirits of the people, and the whole new me that it's brought out.
i feel like a renewed person. i have a newfound self, a newfound love, a newfound career, and a newfound life. perhaps it's really time to return to singapore. i'm starting to miss family and familiar food sorely. this time when i return, i hope to be a better person. to be inculcated with the values and wisdom that this culture has instilled me with.
china is a wonderful country. it's beautiful and the people are amazing. only being an in-between chinese would make you realise this. thomas always lament about how the chinese never want to take pictures with him. instead, they'd rush for the typically blond-haired white man. thing is, mandy also told me that it's the same kind of excitement people would have taking pics with the ape in the zoo.
i'm sometimes bewildered when foreigners tell me how friendly the locals are. the truth is, chinese are extremely nationalistic and rascist in the way that they always only watch out for their own. and i tink that's commendable. if only singaporeans would think this way too instead of esteeming eurasians and overseas chinese who talk with a western accent. now if you ask me, that's despicably hypocritical.
the beginning of it hadn't been easy. there had been wild times and terribly exhausting times. i met some of the most incredible people and gained the most incredible insights to a culture that's so close to my roots yet so distant from my heart.
there are things i loathe about it here. lots of it. the bad service, the lousy food, and the fact that you smell cigarette smoke everywhere you go. but at the end of it, there's so much to see, learn, and assimilate out here. i love the vastness of china, the endless tales of its history, the kindred spirits of the people, and the whole new me that it's brought out.
i feel like a renewed person. i have a newfound self, a newfound love, a newfound career, and a newfound life. perhaps it's really time to return to singapore. i'm starting to miss family and familiar food sorely. this time when i return, i hope to be a better person. to be inculcated with the values and wisdom that this culture has instilled me with.
china is a wonderful country. it's beautiful and the people are amazing. only being an in-between chinese would make you realise this. thomas always lament about how the chinese never want to take pictures with him. instead, they'd rush for the typically blond-haired white man. thing is, mandy also told me that it's the same kind of excitement people would have taking pics with the ape in the zoo.
i'm sometimes bewildered when foreigners tell me how friendly the locals are. the truth is, chinese are extremely nationalistic and rascist in the way that they always only watch out for their own. and i tink that's commendable. if only singaporeans would think this way too instead of esteeming eurasians and overseas chinese who talk with a western accent. now if you ask me, that's despicably hypocritical.
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