Will the real Mandarin speaker please stand up. Chinese syllabus from Pr 1 to Sec 4 cut. With more reduction I fear the future generations might not even speak chinese. Today I was queuing up for food. The auntie ask the chinese girl behind me what she wanted in chinese. She said "he fen." Then she asks whether she wants it fried. She blured. Then the auntie couldn't be bothered and turned away. Then she spoke in strong foreign accent that she "couldn't understand what she was saying" and commented "Is she always this rude?" I was amused.I kinda blurted to myself "er.. not really" I told her she has asked her whether she wanted it fried. "She asked is it supposed to be fried?"
I think she wanted "Hor fun" which is technically "he fen" in chinese. But i think the auntie misunderstood that she wanted fried guay tiao or something.

There were also a few occasions at the Arts canteen Claypot rice store where people who looked like chinese ordered in English and the stallowner from China doesn't understand and I had to go translate for them.
I mean where do you come from? Mars? How can you not know how to speak chinese? My 3, 4 year old cousins also converse in English. I seriously think that chinese may be a lost language in the future.
If we're forced to take English qualifying exams, why don't they impose chinese qualifying exams? Or maybe they should impose conversational Mandarin for dummies classes.

Anyway, That's not the point, the point is the girl is cute. haha.

I have got to stop listening to music diary on 933. It just makes me so sad. It describes love as accidental. People can fall in love by a wrong paging, a fall outside a shop, old friends meeting.

Listening to Accidentally in love~ Counting crows.