There's something mentioned abt changing the Chinese syllabus to "fit" the needs of our children.

Since when things have been the other way round? Shouldn't WE be the ones working harder in order to improve our standard of chinese? Whatever happened to China being the next impetus in the economy and we should be the ones jumping on this running train in order to stay at the nose of the economy?

Maybe desperate times calls for desperate measures.

But must the language stoop down so low?

Sad.

Ironically, we are rather fluent in certain Hokkien vocabulary, and this is true even with those 'bananas'(a.k.a. Chinese but eat sleep live in English).

Then again, i've lost touch with Chinese as well. Guess it isnt a necessity in our pragmatic-oriented society anymore.

So there.