Adding 2 Cents to 2

So..





I missed the fireworks.







Eugene and I decided to freak ourselves and feel absolutely sick by watching Hostel 2 while Ben and Cody capped of another round of (i'm starting to see the joy of..) DoTA. So we finally got our butts out of the house at 9:30. Got the first sign that we we're too late for the show when we saw streams of people walking back from Mill Point.



Anyways, we headed into the city anyways, parked, and walked around for abit. Met a drunk guy named Ethan who was really just high and he kept repeating himself and basically not making sense. But it was funny nonetheless. We eventually walked half way across the city (which isn't very far to begin with..) to (same ol' same ol') Northbridge, and into our usual dining spot. How exciting.



Thats my Australia Day experience.

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A while back i wrote about us not being liberated enough in our thinking which subsequently meant we could only view each other through our narrow parochial mindsets.

To that, Ying, you did give a very thought provoking response and i couldn't help but agreed with you.

Yes, it is true that our culture is extremely important and forgetting our heritage clearly a step towards disowning who we are. I guess i took a very hardline extremist approach when i said that we should stop refering to ourselves by ethnic race but by nationality.

Recognition of cultures and traditions are important as it defines who we are, but you would have to agree with me that because of this inclination to belong we naturally gravitate back to our own cultures this creates something of a clique.

I guess you can call this a clique factor over a cultural/ ethnicity factor.

But again it leads us back to where i started this.

That we identify with people of our own kind and despite our attempts will realise when push comes to shove, if you had to and could only save one out of two complete strangers who would you pick?

I don't have statistical evidence to back up whatever i say so this could be total bullshit but what do you think?