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Friday, April 06, 2007

Community spirit

Last evening I was taking a stroll at the East Coast Park. I'm not making a racist statement......but I noticed a distinct absence of the Chinese people there!

Of course there were the odd groups of Chinese at the BBQ pits, the few couples walking the dog, jogging or roller-blading.

But the Malays and the Indians were camping, playing ball games, laughing together ---- there was such a healthy community spirit! They know how to relax, play, live ---- take time, make time for their inter-generational family and friends.

Where were the Chinese folks?

In their homes watching TV?... in the tuition centers??...in the shopping malls???...at the gymn????......basically, doing their own thing. Sigh!

link | posted by magnificentmom at 9:10 PM |

3 Comments:

deline commented at 6:42 PM~: hei...came to knw you from your son -Touch Youth seminar...

I do agreed tha usaully i pass by East Coast Highway, I do see lot of malays and Indians..

But really we as chineses are too busy with our kids - tuition , ballet class, dancing class, oragn class...

When my girl is young( 3-5) , i do always orangise BBQ , gathering with my friens and my caompany worker ( m"sia workers 18-22 yrs old) , we had so much fun ..But after they had left our company, my daughter had grown up (7-8 yrs old) we had plan her too much proggrammes over the weekend.. we for three yrs we had not orangise BBQ and gathering with al my dear friends...
But though we never go East Coast for BBQ , but i and my dear friends will go for a short trip, with our kids for school hoildays..
magnificentmom commented at 8:07 PM~: Hi Deline,
I can see you reviving your group activities and raising up a new generation who would be people-centered rather than program-centered!Yay!!!
netsonic commented at 6:51 AM~: Chinese pay too much time and attention to their kids, wish they could be better in the future life

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