This old friend of mine at last had a blog up and running!
Brave young (ok, old) lady whis, she is a typical "banana" ie non mandarin speaking chinese who had her education in a "national school". In Malaysia, you have the option of sending your kids to (a) a national school where lessons are taught in the Malay language and English primarily; or the respective Chinese or Indian schools (the other kind is fir the rich and privilleged ie the internatinoal schools). Back in the old days there was a perception that national schools are better in terms of quality and prestige, but that has since changed , and especially with China emerging as a major economic power in recent years, knowing how to communicate in mandarin is an added bonus. As such, quite a number of people have always expressed regret that they never had a chance to learn mandarin. Sue Hooi is one of them.
But I did not expect her to have the courage to take this bold step to step right into China - Xia Men to be precise - to learn Mandarin. Kudos to her. She will be spending 6 months there, and since China has banned almost every single free blogspots around, Sue Hooi had to set up her own domain in order for her to be able to publish updates and pictures. Looks like this time, she is serious :) Hopefully after her 6 months stint she will be ab le to post a blog entry in Mandarin!
We'll wait and see :) Good luck there sis!
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