Afito's Adventures

Hello,

The name's afiah. I'm currently 18, and I get a year older on the 29th of April.
Because of how this world is no place for a mind or a thought, I feel it best to manifest my ideas into the virtual world. After all, my global position systems are vocally addressed. Oh, and you could say that I can get a teeny bit mental at times.




posted : Thursday, February 12, 2009
title : Saying politically right things is not the politically right thing to do.
I just came back from the Peranakan museum and it was awesome. Too bad there was too little time, I didn't get to read all the exhibits!

I particularly love the syair written on the museum wall and I love everything about the Peranakan museum. I wanna go again! I like the way they write malay, it's like old malay or malay mixed with Chinese. It's awesome.

Just as I am typing malay i see the word 'malay' underlined in red at the bottom, meaning, malay is not in the dictionary.

This is so unbelievably outrageous. How can they not include the word malay in the dictionary? Are we really that insignificant? Or are the westerners all just dumb or is there something wrong with blogger?

Anyways, on the slip of paper with the feedback on the learning journey they asked "what other things do I wish to learn from this Learning Journey" or something like that. I wrote "I wonder why there is racial discrimination in Singapore when the Peranakans can accept another's culture very well?".

Well, if someone were to read that I think I would get scolded for being insensitive or insulting or whatever crap but I am just stating what I feel. Really. If peranakans are straight from China people shipped to Malaysia and can adapt to malay culture very well, I don't see why there were racial riots in the 19th century though peranakans existed long before that. Right?

Expressing your opinions is the politically right thing to do but when we do this we are not stating things which are politically right. Am I right? This is so contradictory and I can't stand it. I don't like contradictory things its just so..............frustrating.