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Mother Tongue Cool *
You know, I should be studying for chemistry right now, but I’m not. An attitude adjustment is in check for me. I failed mathematics! I mean even I can’t condone the fact that I actually didn’t pass that test. It was the easiest, and I mean easiest, test that the teachers have set for us in my entire time in VIP. Well, we should always brush the dust of our knees and pick our feet up. Haha, doesn’t that sound familiar?
Anyway, I am attempting to adopt a new approach to viewing things in life. This sudden change in mindset is probably due to the fact that everything seems to be going downhill in my life now. And instead of wallowing in sheer depression, I believe in making the best out a horrible situation. Or at least I believe in that for now. Haha. Maybe setting simplistic goals makes us more easily satisfied and in a way, we are more effortlessly contended instead of relentlessly being pissed at ourselves for not reaching unattainable aims that we have.
Watching Singapore idol is getting progressively more fascinating. I find myself taking pity on Joakim. The poor boy is getting brutally criticised week after week. Memory fails me, but I agree with the judge who said that his fans should grant him the favour of leaving the competition. It’s excruciating, for me even if not for him, to watch the judges condemn him week after week about his dreadful cawing. They have even come to the point in which all the bitching has already been done and all they have to say is “It is all up to the viewers.”
I wonder if it is easier for the Malay contestants to do a song in mother tongue than it is for the Chinese contestants. For me, the imagery I have in my head is that the Malay language comes as second nature for the Malays. As for Mandarin, there is a growing trend of youth who are starting to detest it as a second language, like me for instance. Which is also perhaps why the government is starting campaigns like “Speak Good Mandarin” or Jack Neo coming up with subplots in his movie “I Not Stupid” where one of the child actress helps illustrate to us why Mandarin is supposedly important when the teacher does some sort of cost-benefit analysis of doing well in Mandarin. Hence, in light of the issue that more Chinese are hating or disliking (if the word hate is too strong) their mother tongue, it may be why the contestants found it harder to sing in mandarin since the delivery was likely to be slightly more awkward than doing a song in English. Either way, I feel that Asian singers should concentrate more in singing in their mother tongue because it is rare for English Asian singers to ever make it big anywhere.
I shall end this really random post that I spewed out of my mind while dwindling the time away. Now that time has dwindled away, I shall attack my chemistry notes.
farcical-rants - 10:12 pm - Wednesday, August 23, 2006
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