China Doll
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
I was actually quite upset with my mother's word when I was havin my really late dinner.
"You du shu de ren jiao de peng you jiu shi bi jiao guai."
Literally: Those people who studies make friends who are more guai.
As you know, old people, what they meant by people who studies are those people who chiong their homework, study hard for test and get good grades.
As usual, she's referring to my elder brother, praising how guai and ting hua he is. I felt that the above sentence was shot directly at me.
I was never jealous of my brother( maybe at a point of time, yes, but I've already outgrown that stage). He's a guy, I'm a girl. His character and mine is completely different. There's absolutely nothing to compare, I feel. But the problem is, my mum's always comparing.
My mum always think that the people I hang out with is bu san bu si, zhu peng gou you. I get very offended when my mum says that. I think she is insulting my friends. Because I know my friends are all nice people who helped me through my life. They deserved to be compliment rather than insulted.
Somehow, the way I interpreted that sentence was:
"You are in polytechnic, you did not get good grades, your friends are all rubbish. They all lead you astray. Whereas people in JC are ALLLLLLLLLLLLL studious *insert all the nice words* blah blah."
I know this isn't a very objective to view the whole thing. But sometimes you are just so bu shuang about everything that u go on endlessly on how unfair people is treating you. Thats the way I am feeling.