depthq - ccm|mac

After being here for a bit more than 2 years, I've seen my English competence drop like the current Wall Street stock market. Same goes for my Cantonese and Malay. I don't care much for my Malay at the moment, as long as I still remember how to say "nasi lemak", "mee goreng", "teh tarik", "sup kambing", "roti canai" and other delicious Malaysian 小吃 (xiao3chi1 @ snacks).

Note to self: I need to watch more Cantonese shows on tudou.com and read more English books.

I find that its much harder to find the right words and I definitely can't write as well as last time. The problem is because I am not using English as much and I realised that, I think, I am beginning to think in Mandarin.

Actually this is not surprising, since I speak Mandarin at work. Most e-mails are in English and do I chat in IRC and IM in English, but when you speak in Mandarin and everyone around you speaks Mandarin you somehow get warped in this other language world and your brain starts to get lazy. And I listen to more Mandarin songs than English ones nowadays.

There are lots of feelings and situations that I can express better in Mandarin and hard to replicate in English, which I find very troublesome.

The worst part about this is that I still can't write or read much in Mandarin. Sigh.
Okay, end of self rant.