Just My 2 Cents.

Logged in to Jeremy's email. and saw his thesis.

I was like, okayy wow.. His English is really something.

If you have read his blog, you wouldn't believe that the thesis was written by him. Seriously.

I mean, in his blog, he's like someone who doesn't know what the heck is grammar and probably have never even heard about it. In his thesis, he's like a different person - like a professor or something.

There's my point.

Most Singaporean don't really care of how they write or speak English among themselves, they don't give a damn if their grammar are craps. They don't care, as long as the second party understands what they mean.

On the contrary, we Bruneian speak fluent English. We brag about it. We speak English among ourselves. Whoever can't understand English considered as "lower class". In some blog, Bruneian people tend to care about grammar. It's blog, for god's sake. Nobody will assess you, why do you care so much? No marks given. Some of us may have a big fat dictionary beside them as they write a new blog entry. What for?

We learn English and even forced to master it, don't we? Yet none of the English native speakers are force to learn Malay. Why do we learn English? To look good? Why can't we be proud of our own language? Why can't we just use it? Or, why English? Why not Spanish or other language?

We often stereotype people who can't write or speak well as stupid. No they aren't. Not all, at least. They just don't brag about their cleverness. Not like us, Bruneian. Don't deny it, because deep down in your heart, you know it's true.