I say potato u say potah-to

I got an E8 for my Chinese O levels. I don't speak it very well either. My spoken Chinese was too embarassing for use until sophomore year in college when I had a Taiwanese room mate, who'd refuse to speak to me in anything other than his melodic mandarin. Great - my spoken language actually improved to the point where I was comfortable speaking it, and would in fact use it wherever given the chance, even if I had a 3 year old's vocabulary.

Fast forward just two years and I'm back in Singapore. Everyone I know gives me the jiak kan tang shit. Ok, so my Chinese sucks, but I gotta try, right? Fuck man.

Anyway, I've a friend enrolling with me to take business mandarin classes at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce - woo hoo :D Screw ya'll I ain't a potato eata