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我可以打中文！ + watermelon shirt

原来 xp 可以打中文！omg. 我真的好似发现了新大陆似的。的确 w? 是山龟！但 w? 可是个超开心的山龟！现在终于可以随着思绪 blog 了.

i guess w? can be considered somewhat bilingual. even then, w? doesn't really consider herself truly effectively bilingual.

true, she can converse in mandarin, write in mandarin, think in mandarin. likewise, she can converse in english, write in english, think in english. however, because of the way her brain functions, she cannot make a booking at the karaoke lounge in mandarin.

i went "呃。。我想在下个星期一做个 booking"

basically i translated the above word for word from english when i realised the girl on the other end was speaking to me in mandarin. seriously, i'm utterly ashamed of what i said.

i can sing in chinese. ok. i can maul a song in chinese. i can read traditional chinese. i can even write a bit of traditional chinese. but ask me to discuss about say.. religion in chinese. i would probably choose to kill myself.

it really depends on what language i choose to think in. some topics like religion, life, diving.. are subjects that i think about in english. so it would be really hard for me to express my view about such topics in mandarin.

but things like emotions? well, certain emotions, are played around in my mind in mandarin. and hence it's just natural for me to switch to mandarin when i talk about such stuff.

and i break into singlish a l l the time.

sometimes i give the impression that i'm only fluent in one language - either english or chinese, depending on the situation. someone once thought i'm a taiwanese coz of the way i spoke mandarin. huh?

and (another) someone once thought i was the type of chinese who cannot speak mandarin coz of the way i spoke english. huh?

but seriously, my grasp of either languages is nothing compared to their native speakers. but it's always been interesting to me - this bilingual thing. i would love to be conversant in more languages but seriously, a language has to be used in order for one to familiarise with it.

and that is why w? could only say "Je suis desolee. Voulez-vous repeter lentement, s'il vous plait?" and "Je ne comprend pas" throughout her e n t i r e french oral. har. well, at least i can somewhat make sense of a french menu. that really shows where my interest lies doesn't it.

biang. super deviated. no time. want to eat.

anyway, omg. hx. y o u a r e t h e b e s t. thanks to you, i can type in chinese!

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this is the reason for this blog. my watermelon shirt! bought it a couple of weeks back.

actually it's not as small as it looks in the photo. it wasn't when i wore it for the first time. i was wearing it today after i threw it into the washing machine and refused to iron it. i figured i could pretend and get away with it by saying it's meant to be wrinkled.

and what do you know, hx actually thought so (that it came wrinkled). har~

and this morning when i wore it, i thought it had shrank in the wash coz it seriously wasn't so form-fitting the first time i wore it. and that was partly why i suspect my brother thought what he thought^. it was really quite loose when he saw me in it.

but this evening, i think i've figured it out. the "missing" cloth is in the wrinkles. hmmm.. but w? is lazy.

she had only ironed her secondary school pinafore less than ten times in her entire four years of study? she only ironed it when she thought it might be wiser to create a somewhat better impression during her oral examinations where she had to face the examiner on a one to one basis.

well, it's true that the pinafore was never subjected to the abuse of the washing machine so it never really got t h a t wrinkled. but still, she had seldom ceased to amaze people with her record.

the idea of w? ironing the watermelon shirt. hmm. let's see if the wrinkles really get on my nerves that much. i'm sure the two of them will meet. someday.

anyway i'm s o proud of the watermelon shirt. coz first of all, it's quite rare for me to buy apparel. coz i'm really picky. i consider the following before i try the apparel in question in the fitting room:

• cost (surely w? repeats enough about her dire financial status)
• design (must be interestingly unique [given the condition of cost], or so damn classic/simple that w? can not have a problem matching it with m o s t of her other stuff)
• colour (w? is quite particular about specific colours)
  

• cut (w? is super out of shape. everything's not in proportion to everything else.)
• comfort
  

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