Update

It’s been almost a month since I’ve arrived in Dunedin, New Zealand. Things seemed to be a lot better than they were when I first got here. At least, I’ve got a place to stay and things in University’s settled mostly. Of course, living in a foreign country, there’s always a lot of new things around to learn and adapt. But I think I’m doing just fine.

Somehow, I felt like I’m a lot more mature here. Although its been only a month. But through meeting people and experiencing different things in life, it has broaden my perspectives and obviously opened up my eyes. I go through my days with my mind open.
Not everything is good here of course, but I guess it’s the same everywhere else in the world. There are good and bad people around, so just take the goods and ignore the bad?

Experiences here had made me miss Malaysia for the first time in my life. Despite the bad things in Msia and all the flaws which I’ve been complaining all my life, I miss everyone back home and some of the things which you can never find in any other countries.

There are some regular shits that happens around here all the time – Discrimination.
Mainly because there are not many Asians in this area and there are a lot of childish minded people here who hasn’t seen the world enough. There was one time when I was walking around town and this white guy just came up to me and scolded “fucker!” and then left, at that time I was of course, a little pissed off but at the same time I felt sorry for him. Today, while I was on my way walking back home, there was a car with students passed me by and the driver gave me a honk so I took a glance thinking it might be my friends or so, but it turned out to be this white guy showing me his middle finger.
I’m so used to these by now.

I guess this is one of the reasons why Asians intend to stick among themselves because the “locals” didn’t give them or us a chance to fit in. However, it is one of my mission here to try my best to blend in and hopefully some of them will have a different opinion or impression of us and hopefully it’ll help them NOT to stereotype all of us, plainly because they don’t know shit about us. >.<

I stand firm with my personal policy of respecting everyone who’s around me, regardless of where they come from or what “colour” they are. I personally think that it is the fundamental way of being in a social circle. It takes a great courage to go beyond our comfort zone and that’s what many Asians did, or at least forced to. I think we should get the basic respect of a human being and what the hell? We’re doing our studies in English, so called “their” language, see if they can do the same in ours?