The Retrocession

Back from Moscow. I MISS HOME SO MUCH! I don’t see why people like to say “I don’t wanna go home!”? Tak nak balik, tukar pasport lah. LOL. Russia has always been a mysterious place simply because IT IS SO FAR AWAY and so little-known. I mean, what do we know about Russia? 1. Largest country by area. 2. Used to be communist. 3. The President is called Putin. 4. Don’t like America. I think that’s about it. Before coming here I don’t know a single Russian football player at all. Anyway this trip adds the Russian Federation to my list of travelled countries. I thought I was pretty well-travelled—maybe not, I have a lot of space to cover. This trip took place because I won a lucky draw by Maybank and VISA . Maybe I spent too much on their card? I don’t know. But apparently VISA is my sugar daddy during this trip—everything was taken care of. First they gave us free US$225 for no reason. Then a lunch card worth 4500 rubles for no reason. Then free Metro card. Thre...

By right this post wasn’t supposed to be here but I’ve decided that since I am at the airport and slightly drunk I should write something about an issue which erupted yesterday. 最近发生了一件大事——（当然不太方便说是什么啦，但是影响蛮多人的），但是这则post重点反正也不是来讨论我的看法，after all the university has its rules，它讲什么你就follow咯，做学生的静静就好嘛。 我要说的是，我对于该事件获得大量同侪的支持感到欣慰。我一直相信 待人以诚 ，今日能够得到这么多正面的回响，我真的很感动。 有些时候人就是得往前看，毕竟是你的终究是你的，不是你的强求来也没有什么懒叫用。面对 unfavourable outcome 的时候能得到众人的鼓励（甚至义愤填膺的声音）真的令人振奋，尽管我们自己心知肚明，知道自己终究斗不过公权力。 But it does proves how much I mattered to my friends and peers, that I was a positive-enough agent of influence to them and that I was someone who was looked up to. 就算到最后自己的诉求以失败告终（机会很高吧），至少我有你们，足矣。

What does this three words mean to you at all? When the S House IC asked me what S could have stood for, I came up with these three words because it was like “duh” words people use when they praise each other (now you know that when people end off their letters with “Yours sincerely” 全都骗人的啦谁要跟你 sincere，只是 sincerely 等你快点 reply 他罢了） Now in retrospect, after Arts Camp 2018 has ended, I returned to these three words on the Dictionary.com: SINCERITY: freedom from deceit, hypocrisy, or duplicity; probity in intention or in communicating; earnestness. SELFLESSNESS: having little or no concern for oneself, especially with regard to fame, position, money, etc.; unselfish. SOLIDARITY: union or fellowship arising from common responsibilities and interests, as between members of a group or between classes, peoples, etc. community of feelings, purposes, etc. community of responsibilities and interests. ___________________________ There were two Orientation Camps that made a great...

Alright it’s time for the third post, on 世态炎凉 (realities of life?). Don’t really know how to translate that, I think you should just google it. This post will be a lot more Chinese because… like I always say, English is a emotionally-deficient language.  Gunakanlah bahasa ibunda, sebab bahasa jiwa bangsa. I tak nak jadi Mat Salleh. Looking at how things are developing in Malaysia, I guess there are certain things that you could observe as part of human nature. Let’s take the former ruling coalition, the Barisan Nasional as an example. In this coalition, UMNO is like a dai-lo and there are several smaller parties serving this dai-lo, as if they could not survive on their own. No matter how much humiliation they had to endure, because of the huge benefits they manage to reap off by acceding to UMNO’s incessant demands, they continue lick their dai-lo’s boots. Suddenly post-GE14, Barisan Nasional lost the elections and dai-lo UMNO no longer was able to keep its grip on the huge amount...

Okay many people has been bugging for my second blog post. Honestly I think it is not very nice if I publish something and it causes a big woohah before the next JCRC is elected. SO I WAIT. 这一天，终于来了。 Today I am gonna talk about the perfectionist behaviour I have. Many people think perfectionists must be damn atas. YOU ARE WRONG HAHAHA. Observe your friends carefully lah: You can drink three towers of beer , spur vulgarities in 4 dialects and skip all your lectures and still be a perfectionist. WHY? According to Wikipedia: Perfectionism , in psychology, is a personality trait characterized by a person's striving for flawlessness and setting high performance standards , accompanied by critical self-evaluations and concerns regarding others' evaluations . In its maladaptive form, perfectionism drives people to attempt to achieve an unattainable ideal , while their adaptive perfectionism can sometimes motivate them to reach their goals . In the end, they derive pleasur...

I promised that this series of posts will be in Chinese but after a second thought, it might just be more practical to keep it bilingual as it always have been. But of course the juicier parts are in Chinese. Too bad, English is way more culturally and emotionally more deficient than any of the vernacular tongues in Singapore. The government ask you to be bilingual so that you do not become CULTURALLY EMPTY. 不要以为自己会讲英语就西北厉害，结果一点礼义廉耻都不晓得，纵使腰缠万贯又有何用呢？ This will be Part 1 of a 5-part series on my journey as the JCRC President in Eusoff Hall. Since the JCRC Elections have yet to begin, I will not delve into whatever happened in the past year （他妈的要不然等一下吓死人，大家都不愿意出来参选了，我不是要变成千古罪人？） but instead share a bit more about what have happened in the past and the reasons why I chose to serve in the JCRC the third time. Since I am slightly more stupid than all of you, because I needed six years to graduate, this post will be slightly longer than any other post. 放心，我会为我写的内容负责。故事里的人物姓名已经过处理，如有雷同…...