Friend's status on FB yesterday:-
It's a gorgeous sunny day and I'm gonna be stuck in meetings from now until late afternoon.
I was like "Hello??????" We are in Malaysia and in the middle of a heat wave. Humidity is crazy! And u're complaining that u can't get outside??
I'm confident all those poor construction workers outside would gladly swap with you and sit indoors while you go and frolic in the blazing heat and scorching sun!!!!
Why would someone say a thing like that?
Well, it's the kind of things people in the Western countries would say. I know we would all say that when i was in the UK. Altho during the heatwave in the summer, we were glad to be in the aircond Blues Cafe!!!
So perhaps these kinda people have heard it being said in the Western TV series and movies - or perhaps read about such things being said - and so feel the urge to be like them!!!! Why ape the Westerners for no apparent reason? Do you wanna sound cool? I'm sori to say this - as she is my fren - but it sounds pathetic!
It is just as pathetic as the student i saw yesterday - he was busy fanning himself with a piece of paper, obviously feeling very hot. But he was wearing a beanie, covering his entire head and both ears. Completely. Is it any wonder he was feeling hot??? Take off the beanie!!! People wear that in cold countries to keep warm. Is this another case of wanting to ape the West?
Wake up people! You are in Malaysia!!!!!!
*Track no. 7 from their album of the same title.
2 comments:
Technically, all he or she could mean is that he or she did not want to be 'stuck in meetings' or to be at work rather than being restricted from going for a 'frolic in the blazing heat and scorching sun.'
Reading a nuetral statement like that as an act to 'ape the West' could be unfair.
Cheers. (Unless you consider that to be to Australian or British.)
oh come on - with all yr legal training, surely u can come up with a better argument!!!!
if she did not want to be stuck in a meeting, she could have just said that.
aren't you getting tired of trying to find fault with me/point out my alleged 'mistakes'???
if i have done anything to hurt u, please settle it with me. i would apologise.
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