Of being "too" Chinese

Just thought this might be noteworthy. Especially since I wrote about this before.

Anyway, it was a classmate this time...he didn't react as "surprised-ly" as Etienne, but he did admit he'd always thought that I came from China, together with my other Chinese classmates (come to think of it, I wonder whether some people think that my Vietnamese friend in GE is a Chinese too...)

This time, the discovery was brought about by our poly (textbook) for speech processing. Inside the cover was a quote from Confucius, and he was asking me, wasn't this guy banned in China? (or something like that) I slipped in a "warning" - "I don't come from China" - before replying...

Oh yeah, and the term started on the 21st of September, so this guy discovered it in less than 4 months, which was quicker than the one at my internship :P

There was another guy, also in my class this year who discovered a little earlier (a few months ago) Looking back at my time-table, it was the 16th of November. A Chinese guy had been invited to give us a lecture on a piece of research he had done. He was from the Harbin University of China, and my classmate wanted to know whether I had heard of the university. So same thing, I slipped in my "I don't come from China", and he went "oh, really?" (or something like that)

You see, they usually just ask, thinking that I'm from China. And if I were to simply answer, they would just continue thinking that...

As I mentioned in my previous post, it isn't likely that these people will come to my blog. But either way, I'll just say this: It is at least nice of them to have talked to me enough to finally find out that I'm Malaysian. More than half of the class (my new classmates) have never actually spoken to me before, nor acknowledged my presence.

So, Jacques and Julien, you guys are cool ^_^

Oh, and Pauline probably found out today at the same time as Julien since she was sitting just next to him. There are still a few people who have already spoken to me a few times and are quite friendly, but I still wonder whether they know I'm Malaysian or whether they have simply assumed their guess that I'm from China correct.

A voir... ("to be seen", literally)