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1 " The trouble with you," Parvathi said with a wisdom beyond her years, "Is that you don't know who you want to be. Girl or boy. Chinese or Malay.""Ya-lah you!" Fatima said. "No wonder the kids in your school call you OCBC."There was a bank in Singapore called the Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation, or OCBC in short. So some cruel kid in school played on the initials of the bank to make fun of Peranakans.They jeered, "Orang Cina Bukan Cina." The words translated as Chinese person, not Chinese. "
― Josephine Chia , Kampong Spirit - Gotong Royong: Life in Potong Pasir, 1955 to 1965
2 " We are not just generations apart but are chasms apart in language,too "
― Josephine Chia , Queen of the Sky
3 " You mean at my age, I should care? "
4 " People think that great grandparents do not matter to kids. But they matter to me. They are my history. The more I know about them, the further my roots can stretch "
5 " How can a country's history be chopped off as though it were irrelevant "
