B.M. - the common language to communicate

I went out for lunch with Wai Hong (HLLC administrator) and Joshua (a missionary "wanna-be") today. Wai Hong is not good in English, and Joshua cannot speak in chinese. So as we were on the way to the restaurant, I was either talking with Joshua, and left Wai Hong out of the conversation, or I was talking with Wai Hong and lefted out Joshua. There was also a short period of silent because I don't know what to talk about, and both Joshua and Wai Hong can't talk to each other. So I suggested, "let's use B.M. to communicate." Immediately, Joshua and Wai Hong started to communicate with each other.

As we were having lunch and talking to each other in B.M. (mixing with a little bit os English), I was just wondering if there's anyone around us wondering, "why are these chinese guys talking to each other in B.M.?" And somehow I answered in my own mind proudly, "What's wrong with chinese using B.M. as a language to communicate with another chinese? We are Malaysians, (accept Joshua, the "almost Malaysian" Korean) using B.M. does not mean I'm Malay, but it simply shows that I'm a Malaysian who speaks my national langgauge. And I'm proud of it"

Language is the most fundamental means for human communication. As long as we are able and willing to communicate our message to each other, it doesn't really matters what langauge or how good you are with the langgauge. There's no point being expert in a language and yet we cannot understand each other. There's no point if we are able to communicate with perfect langgauge but yet what we communicated causes arguments and hurts that leads to a fight. Most of all, there's no point being able to speak in a language perfectly, but yet you are not interested to communicate, not even interested to listen to the other person.

I enjoyed the simple fellowship over lunch with Wai Hong and Joshua. I enjoyed speaking to them in B.M.