Beware of virus!

August 22nd, 2004 by lynnylchan under Uncategorized

Not the computer kind. An actual, replicating-in-my-body virus. It looks like a mild flu. I swear it isn’t bird flu! There’s some concern in this country because there’s been another outbreak of H5N1 in the region, but because I don’t go near birds, it’s highly unlikely. (This is for the benefit of any government officials who may see fit to quarantine me.)

If anyone has been following the Singapore Olympic team’s fortunes, they would have noticed a real odd thing: The 2 medal hopefuls aren’t Singaporean. Not really. Ronald Susilo was the badminton hopeful, but he crashed out. He was Indonesian. Li Jia Wei (who is also Susilo’s girlfriend) is/was the table-tennis medal hopeful. (I haven’t seen the match outcome yet.) Funny isn’t it?

Something that’s even more interesting, to me anyway. Blame this on my increased awareness following my Singapore Studies module, but both the above-mentioned athletes are Chinese, and one of them is an Overseas Chinese (he IS Chinese, right?) and they met in a country where the majority of the population claim descent from someone who left the Homeland China. The Chinese Diaspora, baby! I think that for the ethnic Chinese, it’s easy to find a mate overseas because our ancestors went ALL over the place. Seriously. I have friends from Mauritius, for goodness’ sake! I didn’t know there were Chinese ppl in Mauritius! And when they were casting Cho Chang for HP4, I found out there were Chinese ppl in Scotland as well. I know we went everywhere. It’s just that Scotland doesn’t seem like an obvious choice.

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