Pin Pin: interesting and touching post at lks's blogThis conversation was sparked by a post at Lim Kit Siang's blog. I don't think i'm a patriot like Kit even though i would be offended whenever other people make nasty or insulting comments about Malaysia.
Pin Pin: Wanna be born again as Malaysian in next life?
Pin Pin: ask u a question... not this question lah
Pin Pin: if given a chance, let's say u r rich and all, would u wanna emigrate to another country?
Pin Pin: let's say the other country has no problem in accepting your immigration
Pin Pin: wud u stay in msia or go to another country
YY: er........
YY: i will stay until one day i really cannot take it anymore....
Pin Pin: actually seriously, do u really find anything so unbearable in our country that you once said to urself, ok, that's it, i've had enuf
Pin Pin: hv u ever had that feeling before?
YY: nope...
Pin Pin: i had when i first came back from canada
Pin Pin: the first year or two when i was back
Pin Pin: i was so pissed off at so many things
Pin Pin: but the longer i stay here, i dun think or feel that way anymore
Pin Pin: i wonder if this means i've become immune to the bad things in our country and take it as-a-matter-of-factly liao
Pin Pin: which is bad
Pin Pin: sometimes only after there's comparison then u will realize the bad things, or at least realize that things could have been better
Pin Pin: i really dunno if it's a good or bad thing now that i dun feel the negative things anymore
Pin Pin: hmmmm...
YY: i think is the ppl around u make u think so....
YY: not that u r happy abt the country but u r willing to stay bcoz of the ppl here....
YY: family...friends...
Pin Pin: ya, i guess....
YY: that's y we shld not hv child in this country
Pin Pin: ya, really, if i were to have children, i really wonder if i want them to be raised in msia
I guess 贝 was right. Perhaps it was not because we love our country so much that we would not emigrate. We choose to stay because our loved ones are here. I believe living in any country has its good and bad, but to be close to your family and friends is just something irreplaceable no matter what other countries can offer.
As for Kit's question on whether or not i would wanna be born again as Malaysian in next life, well, i don't really have an answer. I couldn't even cope with my current life and how would i think about the next? I wonder if i even believe in such thing as having a next life. If there indeed is one, then i would choose to be someone smarter, richer, prettier, happier... regardless of which nation i would be living in.
