the night is as quiet as it used to be and i just can't force my eyes to shut. A sense of embarrassment kept hovering me like dark clouds which were about to pour torrentiously. i am invariably ashamed of myself for not being able to speak proper mandarin + hokkien.
i was sitting with Dr K in the clinic this morning. A malay girl came to seek consultation for osteochondroma and she told me ..... 'Dr, i can speak mandarin'..... i ended up speechless, practically hunting for the right words to defend myself that i am not a banana afterall. Then, my lovely cornea caught the sight of Dr K laughing at me sarcastically. he was nice enough to explain to the patient about her condition in mandarin. i thought that he was nice. how innocent!!! he was then desribing how verbal constipated i was to the other MOs. of course, there was a burst of laughter which seemed to be contagious, enough to stir a commotion in the OPD. i stood there, warm blood gushing proximally to paint my cheeks tomato red. if i were an ostrich, i would have dug a hole and buried my blushed face!!!
So, i am a chinese who looked like a chinese but can't speak chinese!!
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