Final Ramble- A Thank you note

I would like to thanks those who have like, commented and given advice to this series. So I don't really expect these long stuff, I really treasure every like and comments it has been received.

I have th...ought of a similar idea like this two years ago, and the original idea is to translate what I have learnt during my course of study. However, I was reluctant to put it into action due to 2 reasons. Firstly, I don't believed I well trained enough to deliver quality, especially when the topic are sometimes up to discussions rather than facts alone. Secondly, I have to frankly admit that English is bad. I constantly, consistently struggled with my English since young (The is only one person in the entire class who pronounced titanic as Tatanic, Grand Theft Auto as Grand Thief Auto, pedophile as "Peter-Bao". That's me). I will be mortified to showcase my poor command over English by constant showing bad mistakes.

In recent years, I seems to encounter a rising anti-Chinese language sentimental among young Singaporeans (This is due to many factors of course. Perhaps 1 factor may be the mindset that Singaporean are suppose to speak their mother tongue badly and excel in English. Speaking good Mother tongue, especially Chinese, associate themselves with certain..... group of people). This is such a sad thing. Every where in the world regard studying a second language a great advantage. Only Singaporean regards that as an obstruction as it potentially pull them down in the great paper chase. Seeing how my future peers struggled to teach the language, I felt guilty for studying, and not joining the fight together with them as of now. But I can I do? That's when the idea came in. Instead of sharing what I learnt, how about an attempt to translated Chinese value and Culture in English. Most hated the language and culture due to a lack of understanding. How about to clarify those? If the worst has arrived and English is officially our Mother Tongue, can culture and heritage taught in this way? As for the concern for a lack a knowledge and poor mistake, I have to take the leap of faith and trust my peers to correct me if I made a mistake (Proven when peers told me that I spell rambling incorrectly). But how do I start? It is by chance that I rewatch les miserable on plane and remember a lecture about the similarities and difference between Confucianism and Christianity. That is how the first Rambling was cooked up. Although I may sometime take a little liberties a stray bit away, it is still fundamentally a tradition Chinese way of thinking and appreciating. I know that this is foolish attempt and will not have any impact. By despite the foolishness in this, It still something worthy doing it isn't it

As for why the name Mindless Ramblings? Mindless in a sense that it is not a thesis. Boring people with thesis is against the objectives. And beside, to a well trained minds, thought process like this should be Mindless isn't it. As I know I am not a very humorous person (Every time I try to be make a joke, the joke is always on me). My things entertaining is really not my forte. Thus, to be honest with myself, I named it ramblings.

I going back to Taiwan tomorrow. So I will be this project to halt. Studying is a process of construct, deconstruct and reconstruct (I refrain from using the word learning as learning is more like acquiring a certain knowledge and skill set. Constructing is to gather all you have learn and construct a holistic interconnected database). I will want to keep the construct away to prevent interruption to the deconstruct process.

At a last note, Thank you for your patience as I have been constantly spamming on FB. And as Fb is not a good site to keep references, I copied and paste all ramblings to a newly created blog for future references (Which I don't believe anyone would want to make reference to them). For people who think that this is a façade, an act just to show off knowledge, feel free to think so. I am not accountable to you btw. For those you hope for a "2nd season", I would not dare to promise anything and allow me to end in a terminator way. "I Will Be Back"