Yesterday i bumped onto daddy's friend (uncle Lawrence) at Metro. He was like trying to tell me sorry i can't speak Chinese. Then my mum said his cheena have improved alot. From the-don't-know-how-to-speak with strong English accent to at least can speaks the basic now. Suddenly, my mum told me your dad also used to be like this. I was shocked! She mean my dad can't speak proper Chinese in the past. I was like thinking uh? I thought dad speaks cheena to me? How can he not able to speak Chinese in the past? Then my mum say dad only start speaking Chinese after they got us (children).
Then i suddenly remembered i used to speak English with my dad in the past and we never speak Chinese with each other. I only speaks Chinese with my mum. And i speaks Techow with my grandmother. During my pre-school days, i hardly get to speak Chinese in school. Okay lah, only my mum but she gotta work. The teachers keep emphasizing on speaking English. Plus my very good friends in pre-school are those "angmoh pai". My pre-school is damn angmoh because it is a Catholic school.
When I started attending primary school, I got influenced by classmates so i went home speaking Chinese all day long. I start speaking Chinese to everybody and only certain people that i will speaks Techow with them. Funny thing was i didn't learn reading and writting Chinese. I learned purely on speaking only. That's why it resulted to i can only speaks basic Chinese and don't know any idiom.
No wonder when my dad wants to say school holiday (in Chinese) always say 放学. Then he told me he can teach my anything but not Chinese during primary school. When he reads the Chinese newspapers, always ask what is this word and that word. We got the same genes! If we read Chinese we will always read " X X X _ _ X X _ _ _ X ".
No wonder when my dad wants to say school holiday (in Chinese) always say 放学. Then he told me he can teach my anything but not Chinese during primary school. When he reads the Chinese newspapers, always ask what is this word and that word. We got the same genes! If we read Chinese we will always read " X X X _ _ X X _ _ _ X ".
That day siangfai still ask me how come i speak Chinese and doesn't even know how to write and read. Now the answer is i didn't learn Chinese during pre-school and primary school i was slacking all the way until my Chinese teacher realise how bad my chinese was in P6. Then i start learning how to write chinese. The most incredible thing was i from a D grade score until a B grade for PSLE. HAHA, my teachers teach me until want to vomit blood. I can read the word now but after that when you turn over to the next page, i don't know that word anymore.
Now i know why kenji hates Chinese. Because they are from St. Gabriel !!