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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

HELLO WORLD!
Please be proud of me because I managed to navigate Blogger in Hebrew O:
(No, I didn't learn to read it.)

Reading the tags reminded me of something my mother encountered when she first went overseas.
Apparently she heard some Singaporean-accented English coming from a group of people.
So she went up to them and said: "Hi, excuse me, are you from Singapore?"
Their response was epic.

"Yeah O: Are you from Korea?"

My mother's face, as she re-enacted...
:D => ._.

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So yeah I met my dad and I think he fattened up from the last time I saw him @_@
Shhhh.
We visited our old house in France (that's where the pictures in the previous post were from - specifically, Parc d'Sceaux in the flower and bubbles one) in the little suburb of Antony~~
The hedge used to be twice my height - now I'm twice its height.
Wowza, huh?

I had this WEIRDDD encounter in Europe k. @_@
While walking down a street at night, looking for dinner...
Most of the shops were closed and their windows shut.
However, there was one shop ahead that had its window open.
Out of curiosity, I turned and looked in.
My immediate reaction was:
"... OHMYGAWD." *walks away quickly*
Moral of the story is to NEVER assume that all open shop windows are innocent -_-
For everyone's sake I hope nobody's still clueless because I sure as hell don't want to have to spell it out in everyone's face.

And then there's an Asian restaurant called Mister Wong (lulz xD) with exceedingly confused decor.
I wanted to take pictures to substantiate my point, but I'd have looked like an idiot doing it, so... yeah, no pictures..
They have this ancient Chinese decor theme, with a dragon's open mouth framing the opening of the stairway leading up. (The fangs were really poorly stuck on -_-)
I spotted Japanese paper fans, a Buddhist altar and pictures of the Thai King and Queen on the wall...
Wind chimes and paper umbrellas (Thai? Vietnamese? Malay?) hanging off the ceiling...
And according to the bottle, their soy sauce is from Japan. @_@ just saying.

The menu, of course, has zero Asian references at all (fried rice? fried noodles?).
Except for "Thai" curry which turned out to be sweet and not spicy (Thai food tends towards sour and spicy the last time I checked).

Ever got the "Konnichiwa / Ni Hao" treatment?
It's when someone from really far away goes "KONNICHIWA!!!!" or "NI HAO!!" and looks really happy and excited when you turn around to see who the hell just lost his or her mind.
For some strange reason, "Konnichiwa!!" happens a lot more often than "Ni Hao!!"

It happened at the airport too.
We were looking at chocolates at some duty-free shop. Minding our own business.
When the shop assistant came up from behind us (it's rude to sneak up on people D<) and said "Konnichiwa, may I help you?"
My mum just smiled and said "We're not Japanese :)"
The shop assistant promptly studied my mother's face very intently for several seconds and said, "You're Chinese?"
(We ended up looking at the chocolates on our own. Without any assistance.)

But hey, don't get me wrong. We could have been Thai. Vietnamese. Korean. Burmese. Malaysian. Tibetan. Mongolian. Indian. Peranakan (Perana-who, they'll ask).

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By the way.
I succumbed to the growing trend of online social networking.
I have LiveJournal and Twitter accounts (laxing, only one each!) ^_^
Honestly though, my LiveJournal isn't very active.
A lot less ~snarky~ Louisa there. (A whole lot more incoherence and maybe some emo-ness.)
And you wouldn't understand half of my tweets anywayz.
I'm serious.

And the above was pretty much pointless, just saying.
Time to sleep now, it's 5am back home omggggg @_@
Prolly won't be online for the next two days or something.

~*~ Merry Christmas! ~*~