Criticism

This morning Old Law's blog caught my attention, he mentioned one of his friend was feeling uncomfortable after reading most of my blogs are criticizing about shanghainese.

I replied my apologise, and sat back & give few minutes of thoughts about this.

I was imagining myself reading a blog, criticizing Malaysian's Malay laziness, MAS that has bad service and bad service attitude, TNB that says want to raise price but never raise the quality of their service, Maxis that monopoly most of the coverage in one of the IOI owened property but cannot give people broadband connection over there and forced them to take up a 3G that don't know will work or not, Malaysian police that molested suspected-chinese (still puzzled about the real nationality of that smooth skin lady) lady and thus came the popular phrase "lokap girl", etc etc... I was pretending I am a Malaysian, reading all these abroad (actually not pretending, I did read about them), and what's my reactions? I actually don't feel bad or angry about all these criticism, because they are all real. They did happen, and with rational sense, it is not difficult to recognize which side has 道理。I do not feel a single sense of anger towards people who mentioned about all these Malaysian 丑闻，becuase they are not 无中生有，it really did happen.

When I was first residing here, I need to get a so-called "yellow paper" from the local police here to prove that I really live in the shanghai address that I have given, until the real working visa is out. The shanghainese policemen were very nice to me. However, they mentioned something:" your country, the policemen, do not like us?" I asked him if he was referring to the "lokap girl" event, he said yes. I replied, "I feel very bad about it too, and I must apologized on behalf of our mistakes. But perhaps there are misunderstanding too, because some reports mentioned that the girl is not chinese chinese." The policeman then chit chat with me a while, leaving this topic totally behind. We had a great chat, and he said I can speak chinese very well (ok ok.. this is beside the point, hehe). I also praised his country is very "powerful", retail industry is booming, car industry is booming, everything is booming and people's life are getting better and better.

My point is, no country is perfect. sure got 丑闻。But, as a citizen, we should be proud of what the country achieved of course, but at the same time cannot 否认 there are still many things to improve on the ugly side.

Sigh... I guess my this blog perhaps will create some uneasiness on some china chinese again. OK, must 重申，I always criticise that people here are rude, don't line up, spit on the road whenever they like, push people around when walking, talk loudly, etc etc. All these are true for only 80-90% of the population here only ok. My colleagues are nice people, my shanghainese grandparents do not own any of the bad traits here too. So, perhaps is my luck, always let me see the 80-90% of the people with these bad traits - don't que up, push people, bad service, talk loudly, smoke in public, etc etc.

If you are the good 10-20% china chinese who feel uneasy about all my comment before about shanghai, then I am truly sorry. But hey, the incidents all did really happen, I never made up any of the criticizm over here.