I recently noticed something during my short stay (hopefully) in SAJC, I am constantly and very often surrounded by indians and/or Malays. May I add that I'm not racist and I do not despise this situation, just in case you begin to think that I'm about to make some offensive comments. I do enjoy talking and socialising with them. Previously, my class in St Hilda's only contained 2 Indians and 2 Malays, (boy and girl each) what a perfect 'textbook' couple. Even with that measly amount of racial interaction, I was thankful that I wasn't in a Chinese school.
Chinese are practically the minority in class. In a class of thirty, about a third or more of them are Indians or Malays, cool eh? Just a couple of weeks back, we were told to do some group work and were hence seperated into groups of 6. Halfway through the lesson, it came to my attention that I was the only Chinese in my group! I find that being constantly surrounded by people of different races is really insightful. I got to know about Punjabis, Holi, a few weird cultures and habits here and there etc. Here's another funny observation, the Indians eat from our Chinese vendors daily whilst I (while trying desperately to avoid spending) eat prata everyday. Haha... Call me a miser, I don't care, the prata rocks anyways.
Oh hell, I feel so handicapped. I seem to be able to write in short, simple, unimpressive sentences today. I'm not sure if it is actually everyday. I think my English is really lousy la!! Shit. Anyways, just to elaborate a little more, I feel brainless.
HAH.
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