Our new best friends on campus at the moment are the French students who have been at MICA for the past 3 months. They are so indianised that they managed to get a cheaper price bargaining for an auto than a local student. They have been very helpful offering advice and cynical takes on illogical practices that can only happen here. We also have a go at injecting our own dialogue into the hindi films that we watch during class because there are no subtitles.
"oh give me my shoes!"
"i will only give them to you if you let me feel your six-pack!"
"give me my shoes, give me my shoes!"
I have never really thought about the English language until having to converse with people from different parts of the world. Maybe British colonisation wasn't so bad afterall if it meant that now a Singaporean can so easily comprehend and laugh at a joke made by a French who lives halfway across the globe.
The Frenchies showed us a small joint they found that is closest to resembling a bar in Amdavad, sans alcohol of course.
L-R: Kash, Bertie, Erwin, Homain (pronounced as HO-MAR), Angeleigh, Marine
Erwin resisting peer pressure to smoke the tobacco-less shisha pipe, lemon-peach flavour.
Although he did give in to the shared germs eventually.
Today the professor was asking us to share our experiences with any protests that we have been a part of, whether in organising or in participating. While there were wild stories from the Indian students about ousting principals and anti-something, Erwin pointed out that in Singapore we go only as far as to join the Facebook group "Repeal s377A!" (There's one group by the name of "I'm pissed off that my prime minister's getting S$3.1 million this year"). The image of a lone Dr Chee sitting in front of the Istana with his umbrella popped into my mind when I thought about protests in Singapore. I don't think the Indians can ever understand the concept of protesting by grumbling then hurriedly tuning in to the mrbrown show to see what our beacon of free expression has to say about it. Here if they don't like a certain foreign chain of restaurants, they will eat there then later burn it down.
"oh give me my shoes!"
"i will only give them to you if you let me feel your six-pack!"
"give me my shoes, give me my shoes!"
I have never really thought about the English language until having to converse with people from different parts of the world. Maybe British colonisation wasn't so bad afterall if it meant that now a Singaporean can so easily comprehend and laugh at a joke made by a French who lives halfway across the globe.
The Frenchies showed us a small joint they found that is closest to resembling a bar in Amdavad, sans alcohol of course.
L-R: Kash, Bertie, Erwin, Homain (pronounced as HO-MAR), Angeleigh, MarineErwin resisting peer pressure to smoke the tobacco-less shisha pipe, lemon-peach flavour.
Although he did give in to the shared germs eventually.
Today the professor was asking us to share our experiences with any protests that we have been a part of, whether in organising or in participating. While there were wild stories from the Indian students about ousting principals and anti-something, Erwin pointed out that in Singapore we go only as far as to join the Facebook group "Repeal s377A!" (There's one group by the name of "I'm pissed off that my prime minister's getting S$3.1 million this year"). The image of a lone Dr Chee sitting in front of the Istana with his umbrella popped into my mind when I thought about protests in Singapore. I don't think the Indians can ever understand the concept of protesting by grumbling then hurriedly tuning in to the mrbrown show to see what our beacon of free expression has to say about it. Here if they don't like a certain foreign chain of restaurants, they will eat there then later burn it down.
oh man. how did the students there react to what Erwin said? they must be so darn surprised and shocked. lol. well, i think the french people are friendly! (:
must be the reason why i'm taking french this sem. maybe we can converse in french when u come back! *hugs*
haha omg they would just burn the restaurant?!