Friday, August 31, 2007

国庆在英国

2007年8月31日,当举国上下都在庆祝独立50周年庆的时候,我却在当年统治马来西亚的国家渡过,这种感觉还真奇怪。

仔细想想,究竟这么多年来的国庆我是怎么过。犹记得中学的时候,每年的国庆都得随着Brass Band去游行,心里还真不甘愿(因为别人可以休息我却不可以)。大学的时候,最疯狂的莫过于在大一的时候,到Dataran Merdeka去count down.然后再到Bukit Gasing过夜(不要想歪,纯粹是因为有一位朋友"无家可归",所以我们才一起"ngai"义气),然后隔天早上再到Dataran Merdeka看游行,而我们可全都是电单车一族,去那里都只是靠那两个轮子的电单车。

工作以后,国庆日对我而言,只是一个不用工作的日子,并没有什么特别的意义。到了这边,却发生了一件与国庆日有关的"趣事",愿与大家分享。

话说在美国国庆日的前夕,几个美国人在叽哩呱啦地讨论着她们的大日子,其中一位就问我们有没有类似的节日,然后大家就轮流地介绍自己的国家曾经被谁统治过。在我们当中,有一位英国人,所以轮到我的时候,我就对他说,"We were independent from the British 50 years ago",当场大家就捧腹大笑。

然后这位英国绅士就笑着对我说,"Yes, your country is independent from us 50 years ago, but you are stuck here now".

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1 comment:

Unknown said...

Time flies...it's already 3 months since u went to UK! This is my 1st comment/reply despite i've visited ur blog a few times, but everytime b4 i went to bed, heheh... ok, i promise i'll visit ur blog more frequent & post more comments in future :-)

Thanks for sharing ur experiences & photos. If possible, upload more photos ya, so that we can 'observe' if u've put on weight or not...are u o.k. with the food & weather?

This year Independence Day fell on Friday, so we didn't work for 3 consecutive days, fantastic!! U work for how many days a week? It's there any annual leave?

U went to Austria recently?! Wow, how nice!! I really admire u la... How u find the country? Upload the photos in ur blog ya...

Take care :-)