Saturday, August 19, 2006
Hi. Today, again, the exhibition gave me another whole new experience. It was a very fun, enriching encounter. In fact, it even gave me a chance to converse in "perfect" english.
Prepare. Behold.
Today, at 8.30am, MALAYS came to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms exhibition. (look im not saying aniting here). Well, the thing is, we all know they cant understand chinese. So, we were posed wif the challenge of translating our whole scripts into ENGLISH. Imagine that. And top it up with the fact that all this was impromptu. Meaning we only knew it when they came into Kah Kee Hall.
SHUANG!
Of course, since I have played Dynasty Warriors before, I kinda know how to pronounce the chinese characters in english accent. (which always sucks, bcos foreigners are just too clever for their own good. Change the chinese pronunciation for suck cock english pronunciation.) Then, lo behold, the malays were actually better than those chinese people viewing the exhibits in one sense: Each and every group who walks by will ask me to explain the portraits.
Talk about cultural identity and understand one's culture. Malays are more interested in our culture than ourselves.
Ok, put that aside. Another funny incident. There was this couple who was visiting all the exhibits. When they came to me, I started one line by explaining the portraits. Then, they started deviating from the exhibit and asked me about what i knew and what i learnt. We deviated more when I said i understood about the basic storyline of the Three kingdoms through playing games. We deviated LIKE NOTHING when they went on to ask me about the game playstyle and interface, because they wanted to buy a game for their child. So we went on and on..(cos this is supposedly my best topic of explanation)
Lastly, to update all those who haf played ztd wif me and jack b4..WE GOT TO LVL 39!!WOOHOOO! now jack has gone for his tuition..after that we are gonna try again. Hope we can succeed.
Innocence
8/19/2006 09:38:00 PM
