ripped from kelvin
[bold what applies] aZiaN
1.Your mother has a short-haired, curly perm or dyed
2. Your dad is some sort of engineer.
3. Your parents still tried to get you into places half-price saying you were 12 when you were really 15.
4. You ask your parents help on one math problem and 2 hours later they're still lecturing.
5. You have a 40 lb. bag of rice in your pantry. ::last i checked that was a good thing::
6. You shop 99 ranch. ::yup, and lions too::
7. Everyone thinks you're "Chinese" no matter what part of Asia your ancestors were from. ::ppls in HK think im jap::
8. You've had a bowl haircut at one point in your life.
9. Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friends' kids. ::i feel like smacking my parents...::
10. You've had to sit through karaoke videos with scantily clad, ugly Asian women attempting to dance and walk around a temple, forest, or library. ::sadly...and i blame you, Young goh goh...::
11. Your parents say, "Don't forget your heritage." ::once or twice, but they said it::
12. You or your parents drive mostly Japanese cars. ::european::
13. You've learned to keep bargaining even if the prices are rock bottom. ::yea, inbred HK bargaining skillz::
14. You've had to eat parts of animals they don't even put in hot dogs. ::ever heard of pig's blood??::
15. At least once, you've started a joke with "Confucius say...."
16. You know what bok choy is. ::the question is "who doesnt?"::
17. You've gotten little red envelopes around February ::one of mai favorite months...::
18. Piles of shoes tend to make it hard to open the front, back, and closet doors.
19. You hear (your name + eee (optional) + yah!) every time someone calls you (e.g. Joy - ee - yah! or Joy - yah!). ::huh??::
20. You have no eyelashes. ::wtf?!::
21. Idiot people try to impress you with pathetic imitation Asian languages, like the ever-so-popular: ching chong woo bok chi, etc... ::hah...nikheet... funny...::
22. Your parents say leaving rice in your bowl is a sin. ::you wife will be ugly, not quite a sin for you...::
23. The Bio lectures on marine life (seaweed, sea cucumbers, octopii) was last night's dinner.
24. Your ancestors 1000 generations back invented the back scratcher.
26. Your parents hover over your tired, caffeine-drugged body at 12 midnight to say, "In Korea (or other native country), we studied even more."
27. Your parents expect you'll be best friends with any one off the street in any given area as long as they are Asian.
28. An Asian woman comes on campus and people ask: "Is that your mother?" Well then, "Is it your sister?"
29. Your relatives' houses smell like incense, mothballs or both. ::only a couple::
30. Your parents say, "Calculus? I took Calculus in 8th grade!"
31. Everyone thinks you're good at math.
32. Your parents' vocabulary is filled with "ai-yahs, and Wah's."
33. You like $1.75 movies. ::who doesn't?::
34. You like $1.50 movies even more. ::even better...::
35. Your aunts and uncles bring you back adorable clothing from Asia with fuzzy bunnies, vinyl ducks, and English words that make no sense, in great colors like yellow, pink, magenta, orange, and the ever popular lime green. ::oh yea, it was lime green and had Y2K stitched to the hem::
36. Your parents insist you marry within your race. ::grandparent, definitely. but parents are kinda loose...::
37. You never order chop suey, sweet and sour pork, or any other imitation of oriental food.
38. You either really, really want to go to UCI or really, really want to stay away from it.
39. Your parents have never kissed you.
40. Your parents have never kissed each other.
41. You learned about the birds and the bees from someone other than your parents.
42. "You want a stereo?! When I was your age, I didn't even have shoes!!"
43. People see a bunch of scribbles on a chopstick and ask you to translate.
44. You have to call just about all your parent's friends "Auntie and Uncle."
45. You have 12+ aunts and uncles.
46. At expensive restaurants, you order a delicious glass of water for your beverage and NEVER order dessert. ::THEY wouldnt order dessert, but i do::
47. Your parents simply cut the green/black part off the bread and say "Eat anyway. It's still good." ::i say it, my parents dont::
48. The vast majority of the people related to you wear glasses. Thick glasses.
49. You will most likely be taller than your parents. taller than your mom at least :: i AM taller than my parents::
50. Your parents have either made you play the piano, the violin, or both. ::im glad they didnt, thnx mom and dad::
51. You get nothing if you do well in school, but crapped on if you don't. ::kinda true::
52. When going to other people's houses, you always have to bring a gift.
53. Your dad still pulls his socks up to his knees, you know, the ones with the blue and pink stripes at the top. ::lmao, my dad wears ankle socks, and tried to act punk::
54. Your family owns a tennis racquet, golf clubs, or both.
55. Your family always cheers for the Asian athlete on TV (i.e. Michael Chan.) ::my parents like basketball, and dad kinda like yao ming, so i guess that works...::
56. The furniture in your house never matches the wallpaper, the carpet, the decorations, or any of the rest of the furniture. ::i guess...::
57. You have rocks, sticks, leaves, and strange-smelling, unknown substances in your pantry for use as medicine.
58. You own a rice cooker or two.
59. You buy soy sauce by the gallon. ::by the quart::
60. Your family owns butcher knives bigger than your head. ::almost bigger, but not quite...::
61. Your parents tell you about how long it took for them to get to school, how horrible the weather was in their native country, and how much they still appreciated going.
62. Your parents buy you clothes and shoes many sizes too big so you can grow into it" and wear it for years to come. ::i waer my dad's clothes a lot of the time::
63. your parents believes in fong swaii (whos that?) ::first of all retards, it's fung tsui in canto and feng shway in mandarin. whoever translated "fong swaii" is a poopoohead. but yea, my mom believes in it.::
64. your parents are very conservative and think that tank tops/halters/spaghetti straps shows too much skin. ::my dad much prefer topless when he's doing yardwork::
65. everytime your parents lecture you, they always make up excuses that relate to everything you've done in the past. ::i FUCKING hate them for this...and i cuss openly for this one...::
66. you eat rice everyday. ::almost everyday...::
67. you like JIN ::not really like-like, but the way he uses canto in that one song is funny::
68. when you were little. Your parents beat you with sticks and stuff ::nah...i got whipped by bamboo, aka tung tiu::
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overall, this was fun and enlightening, wouldnt you agree??
GonE
And the wind brought Clive @ 11:47 PM
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