The article of my life

So in the span of 2 days, my article here has pretty much been shared and retweeted all over the place which is pretty mind-boggling. I would like to clarify that in version of my article published on FMT, there was one subheading in the middle on the article stating 'The Chinese Wins Hands Down', which I did NOT put in the version I submitted but included by the FMT editor. That kinda ticked me off coz' that subheading was taken out of context and it's not my intention to give the impression that any race is a winner or loser in this country, and I have no doubt that there are too many idiots around who love exploiting statements made out of context to incite under-educated people who don't know how to read proper English. Unfortunately it's already gone viral, so nothing much I can do about it at this point except to write it in a version that such poorly undereducated people can understand. And yup, I've gone and dunnit.

So I was up all night working on the Malay translated version of the same article, i.e. with some additional points I did not mention in the English version (coz' every good writer has to adapt to their audience). I just submitted the article to FMT this morning, and I'm not really sure if having it published on the first day of Hari Raya is really a great idea. Needless to say, I'm nervous like shit on how it will be received. This one will either really help to bridge the gap between the races, or really help put my head on the chopping block. I do hope it's the former coz' becoming human sushi in my own country is not a really appealing idea.

For all those who agreed with my views, thank you very much for your support. And for all those who think I'm an idiot, well, maybe I am an idiot. A crazy, crazy idiot who's about to be sushified.

Hopefully I can at least look half as cute as this. 

 


UPDATE: It's been a whole day and apparently FMT is not going to publish the Malay version. So I guess it's only going to be on my blog. Oh well, if that's the way it's going to be then time to rock on.

The article of my life