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So Andy and I went for dinner earlier at about 7pm with Esther, Geok Leng and Sarah by my car at SS14’s Yu Kee (aka leng zhai shop as termed by Geok Leng) for a hearty dinner of bak kut teh!! Following that, I fetched the girls back, leaving Andy and I at McD’s Taipan to study from 9something till midnight for the rather devious and tedious subject of Human Communication.

That’s the kai keok (chicken legs) at the back of the pic as ordered by Esther. *shudders* And the yar chow kuai dipped inside the bak kut teh soup was so the heavenly, herbishly luscious.

Sarah and GL gave in to Esther’s demand for a typical lala “1, 2, 5!!” pose.

Okay since I have yet to complete my final chapter of my studies and it’s like 12.51am right now, so I’ll cut to the point of what I want to say. Something that made me incensed enough to want to waste several precious minutes of study time to blog.

Esther was telling her usual excitable stories till she came across this particular tale about her going to a taxi and uttered a single word that denote her destination, “Giant”.

Old uncle sized her up and asked, “Lu Melayu ke Cina?”. Esther went wtf, then told him she’s Chinese.

So she went inside and sat in the car and the uncle began to talk in rapid Cantonese to which Esther understood most but couldn’t reply in the language, so she mostly uttered “yaya” and other non-verbal responses to indicate agreement. It came to a point when the taxi uncle began to ask her whether her parents are Chinese, to which Esther replied her dad is pure Chinese while her mum’s a mix.

Then waliao started lah the taxi uncle scolded her for her inability to speak Chinese (can actually make a Youtube video out of this under the name “Taxi Uncle” and see how popular it could get, as opposed to the infamous “Bus Uncle” video), citing totally ridiculous stuffs in Bahasa Melayu so that she can understand it 100% like “lain kali jangan makan babilah kalau tak tau cakap Cina” and the like.

LIKE WTF. SERIOUSLY.

I feel majorly insulted and offended even though I wasn’t there, because like whey being totally racist and ethnocentric (ahaha started lah using Human Communication terms) is just isn’t logical, especially when you’re condemning people from the same ethnic culture as yours. I’m not saying that insulting people from other ethnics is correct - it’s just.. so fucking stupid?

Yeah why not start shooting me in the arse for being unable to zhiang hua yu you mind-boggling language-ist fuck. D: You, Taxi Uncle, sir, just won yourself a ticket to the faraway land called the 13th level in hell.

This is seriously the first time I’m hearing people so offensively insulting to people of their own race for not being able to speak their language. I’m not a proud banana, but hey at least I’m trying to improve.