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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 @ 10:38 PM hey there, It has been 5 days since i arrived at Xiamen, China. Only 5 days, but it is indeed unforgetable. The purpose of this visit was to attend my father's sister's daughter's son's wedding. Ya, wow indeed. I was very reluctant to come actually. Imagine i am to meet a buncha relatives whom i have NEVER seen in my life... Did i ever mention before my father's origin is actually JinJiang，Fujian？ Erm, ya my dad's a CHINAMAN. That's why he's not much diff from other chinaman. He's thrifty, stubborn but very family-oreinted. He has 2 elder siblings, one sis and one brother. His sister and brother had already gotten married so they did not come to M'sia together with them. He came to M'sia when he was merely 9 year's old. Yup, like others, he and his parents came here hoping of looking for a better living and at the same time escape from the poverty there after war. However, his parents was quite wrong about the whole malaysia-can-give-us-better-life concept. My father had suffered a lot over here as his father, my granddad, died a few months later due to some unknown illness. He had no idea what happen to his own father. 9 year old at that time obviously do not know was is life and death at that time. anyway back to Xiamen. This place is so not what i thought it would be. 10 years back, my dad sister visited us before. Back then, for them to be able to go overseas its like a dream. My dad had to compensate partly of their airfare for them to come over. When we drove them around in a car, they're so impressed. They even wanted our old but still wearable clothes back to China. so i didn't really looked forward to this visit. imagine hanging around with people whom they call YOUR RELATIVES for 12 days, ppl who u have not met in ur entire life and suddenly ur there to attend his wedding. wow. interesting. how fun. but, we were welcomed by 12 people with really really warm smiles. and my dad's sis ( i call her ah go), she saw me n she hugged me instantly and cried at the same time... my heart melted instantly... one step out of the airport, many sky scrapers stood beyond us. Not just any ordinary 20-storey building, but really really nice ones, well at least not what i had expected. my original impression of my village was just like other ordinary village. house built of stones, not-so-nice toilets, wooden pillows n beds, not so many of machineries and electronics etc etc. but WHOA, decorative neon lights are as much as our advertisements billboards. the road are at least 3-lane wide.. ganas wei. cars over there are like 3 times more than us. n its not just any kancil or proton but 50% of the cars are sedane, mpv, lush cars not older than 4 years. and pls note that im not exaggerratin. i sat in my dad's sis's son's car... last time i still rmb they were very poor people, but suddenly they've changed so much, mentally and financially. n even handphones they're not any far from us, Motorola v3 is a very common phone over there! so sue me for discriminating them. but wut im really thinking is that, they've improve so much in such fast pace really impresses me, not just my relatives but everyone there... so friggin unbelievable! so proud to be a chinese!! but, the pollution there is so so so bad... the air there is like our very very bad haze, so bad until our government would had to announce public holiday... to that extend! but the people there do not seem to be bothered by it. and... whoaaa.. they smoke like drinkin water. they honk the car honks like stepping on the brake paddle. 2 days in Xiamen i felt that my lifespan had shorten 2 months... =s its just so bad. n my really sensitive nose really cant take it... asthmatic people shouldnt go xiamen。take my advice for ur own good aiks, gtg.. its kinda late already.. shall continue tmr... c ya 0 shouts. |