[insert dinner picture here when I feel like it 24 hours later?]
Well yea, we just had a rice-based dinner with cooked food that vaguely resembles the quintessential Singaporean meal - one rice pot, 2 meat dish, one veggie.
With a strange hiccup or two - veggie not really cooked to done, and fish fillet actually having bones within (!!!)
Even so, for some reason, for the whole day I felt a strange attack of don't-belong-ism.
I mean, well, we all know we are not Americans, not by a long shot, but I get this strange feeling I'm probably the only one trying, and even so, I'm actually trying too hard to fit in.
I probably should keep trying though, despite how flat-out futile it seems to be.
Why?
Because if I do not make any attempt to Americanize my accent (which of course isn't anywhere close) my raw Singaporean accent will definitely make anyone give me that ?_? look, as Kate just showed me when I accidentally pulled it off on her yesterday.
This pretty much sums it up.
I don't foresee doing anything on Saturday, but for Sunday I am thinking seriously about that zombie film thing someone's trying to film.
Seems like a good chance to network in a casual environment, which I prefer over sterile school shop-talk >_>
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