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since i got a place in NP Chinese Media and Communication
i have been feeling the urge to brush up on my mandarin and chinese
especially since i realise that most of the time when we talk and read
it is in english..
we often forget that we actually use mandarin unknowingly
but think that we normally only use English.

we only remember that we read the newspapers, blogs, internet articles, googles,
facebook, twitters and play games in English,
but we listen more to 933, watch channel 8/U/taiwan shows in mandarin/chinese.

what comes to my attention more is the fact that actually
the worrying thing to me is not speaking or listening to mandarin/chinese
but reading and writing chinese
because this will be a quintessential part of my next three years
(not forgetting working in a chinese media environment and living in china for up to a sem)

hearing and comprehending wat others say in chinese is not so much a problem
but reading and especially writing
i initially wanted to write this blog entry in Chinese using pinyin
but i realise i'm not very good at that because i grew up with using chinese in handwriting only
not on computers.. (even my days at fridayweekly, i was super slow always on the comp la!)
so now
i seriously need to brush up my chinese
and know the cuo bie zi(s)
and knwo which are the correct form of writing
and write in proper characters.
because i've not touched chinese officially for at least 5 years (after J1)
so it might be a challenge..
i don't want to lose to these kids who have been studying chinese for the past 10 years (pri+sec)
and i know i've bteer knowledge in the language

i super don't want to be laughed at with my poor command of the language
or for the lecturers to laugh at mefor cuo bie zi.

I know i used to give chinese tuition
but i guess i need chinese tuition now..
pass me the i-weekly/zaobao.. i shall start writing essays to zaobao again! Haha!