Thoughts of a Rodent

It really isn't a good thing to have the convenient of Internet and the necessity to mug at the same time - using the analogy of electron flow one would naturally follow the path where less resistance is encountered. And over the years with increasing convenience and access to it, it somehow has become something like an addiction already. Internet access is like a two-pronged sword - it could help you loads and at the same time lowers your productivity.

So what is der Rote Faden (the main point) here? It's good to have a very well developed library over here - I can hide here 24 hours during weekdays if I were to mug. Yes, the key phrase is 'IF I want to mug'. How often would I mug? That'll be a completely separate issue. Hehe...

Accumulated 4 weeks of enough doubts and unclear explanations from the lectures, all of which are conducted in German, and now feeling bad enough to start revising - using English textbooks. And ever since I came over here, the people in the western world seem marvelled at our ability to code-switch in our usage of languages and actually, it has its good and bad sides. Being bilingual - or even multilingual - is definitely good, you do not confine yourself only to a specific lingosphere. But the downside is that rarely you would find someone who could master at least 2 languages up to a very high level of fluency. People who belong to the rare cases would usually be translators or interpretors.

So when I was asked last night by a friend about which language I am most fluent in, and can speak perfectly, I really do not know how to answer. In some sense, I speak better Mandarin. But for a lot of terminonogies I know them better in English. Sometimes I'd rather speak Manglish or Singlish or whatever as long as the other party understand.

Is this a linguistic identity confusion? Haha I also dunno what I am talking about here.