Thursday, February 03, 2005

Jehovah's Witness n Falunggong

No no this post is not abt religion or politics.. just an interesting experience i had while in Stockholm.. while waiting for the Tunnelbana to go for my Swedish class.. yah anyway the damn train was super delayed.. i reached Central Station to change to the train taking me to my sch at abt 445pm.. still can make it in time for 5pm lesson loh.. but it got super delayed.. so i just stood down there n stone until...

one old Swedish guy approached me n say "ni shi chong guo ren mah" (r u China man).. he has to repeat himself abt 3 times b4 i get it.. no no i m not deaf.. not for 2 reasons.. never did i expect an ang moh to tok to me in Mandarin and his Mandarin is heavily ang moh accented... yah n anyway i said no n i from SIngaporean.. then he started taking out some small magazines to pass to me to read n i guessed then its some Chiristian thingy again.. (we had these in SIngapore, christians missionaries going abt preaching) then he tok briefly to me while we waited for train.. i figured since i have nothig to do might as well tok to her..

then after a while, the damn train is still not here yet.. 5:15pm liao.. waited for abt half an hour liao.. a Chinese woman (really from China) approached us, apparently she knew that guy.. (he must have preached to her b4) then we started toking (me n the CHinese woman). she mentioned that she fled to Sweden becos of persecution of Falunggong praticees in China.. erm ok .. haha then we tok more until the damn train finally arrived at 5:30pm.. she passed me a booklet as well abt Falunggong in Mandarin..

haha finally arrived in class at 5:45pm.. luckily LL said that the teacher jsut started 15 min ago becos she was spending half an hour looking for her missing purse.. haha diaozn..

after class, while on the train back home, i read the Christian magazine.. turns out they r Jehovah's Witness.. heard abt them b4.. they dont sear allegiance to country or flag or serve military service.. they r anti-politics..
n r banned in Singapore.. ppl who declare themself that r sent to the Detention Barracks for 2 years for their NS since they dont wanna hold a gun or salute or sing National Song.. interesting read though w/o all those Bible says that n this..

Falunggong is also banned in SIngapore.. i tink..

wow .. encounters with 2 members of 2 diff banned religions.. thats an experience i dont tink i will get in Singapore...

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