Dragon or Horse, in Ways more than One

In case you were wondering what happened to Jeremiah over the past week, he just returned from a visit to the Greater China region. It turned out to be a very weird trip...weird in that it was never meant to be a root-searching trip, but somehow it became so. It was not the fantastic food, nor the exciting tensions between modernity and traditions there that caused a small reawakening of the Chinese consciousness within Jeremiah. Nope, it was not all that and you can never imagine what the catalyst was. It was TV. Yes, it was the 60 Mandarin cable channels that did Jeremiah in. The euphoria that gripped Jeremiah when he found that there was only Mandarin channels on TV was overwhelming and intoxicating. It was only then Jeremiah began to fathom what it meant to be a Chinese.

As some of ya know, I will be heading to the Middle East next week for an extended assignment. Somehow, I feel I don't really belong there. The Old Department seems to suit me better. For want of a better analogy, my sentiments are like those of Inspector Ma Rulong in "Project A II" when he was reassigned from the Marine Police to the land division. Let's hope this is just discomfort associated with stepping out of the comfort zone...inshaallah..