Malaysia Boleh!

Sorry for the lack of photos. I doubt I'll put up my photos anymore unless they are really interesting i.e. me at a new place. For the rest of the birthday or random dinner photos etc, just check them on Facebook! There are TOO many photos so I can't be bothered.

Anyway, I have always wanted to blog about this but didn't really find the time and motivation to do it. Since I got here, I have came to realize that Australians actually have this misconception that Malaysians cannot speak English. When we tell they that we're from Malaysia, they get more confused because they thought that Malaysians should only be able to speak MALAY. In fact, they even asked us if we have been in Australia for years because we speak English pretty fluently! Sigh. Even the SINGAPOREANS tell me that some Malaysians have problem speaking English and even though I didn't voice it out, I was unhappy that people thought so lowly of our grasp of English. Has our education system fail us? Maybe. Interestingly enough, on average Sunway students do MUCH better in the exams. But then again, we're not like the Aussies. Most of them have to juggle a few jobs and they party like mad!

Today, when I was volunteering at the Malaysian exchange booth to encourage Aussies to go on exchange to Malaysia, some actually voiced out their concerns over the language barrier. I was just baffled. CLASSES ARE CONDUCTED IN ENGLISH LA DOI. But the good thing was, some of them were genuinely excited and would really want to go to Malaysia! That kind of made me miss home, having to talk so much about Malaysia and promoting the Sunway campus today.

Sigh I don't really know what I am talking about now. Just felt a bit mad that we Malaysians are so misunderstood. =(