Damn... reading Angela's blog makes me feel compelled to put in more effort into my blog (or at least take more pictures *note to self: bring camera everywhere I go from henceforth).
Oh well, nothing much happened today. I went grocery shopping, tried reading the instructions for contact lense solution/detergent, reading the special offer advertisements, and figure out how much was a packet of indomee in S$ (kennasai, daylight robbery. It's $1 per packet of instant noodles!!). Got a splitting headache from all the English-chinese-english translations and NT$ to S$ conversions computing at pentium 286 speed in my head). Oh I also spent the afternoon working from home -- reading everything i can about the healthcare system in Taiwan.
Yeah -- the shopperholic is now a supermarket ah-soh cum workaholic. & though I live smack in the middle of Taipei's "orchard rd equivalent", till today I have not bought my typical frivilous stash of clothes/shoes/bags/shoes... *gasp* WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?! I have recovered!!!!!
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Saturday, April 21, 2007
The Adventures of a Banana in Taiwan
Hi, my name is Pam and I am a banana in Taiwan.
We use the term banana on peeps who are yellow on the inside and white on the outside ie: a chinese with westernised packaging.
Ok, I feel like a banana here right now. My command of mandarin language is pathetic -- I can't even operate my hotpot/washing machine/cook instant noodles because everything is in Mandarin. Plus I had no idea that April 5th was Tomb Sweeping Day. In Taiwan, it is a national holiday and families would go to the graves of their ancestors to pay respects. Me? I spent the whole day sleeping/eating/shopping. So I feel kinda crap about me being so nonchalent about my chinese roots.
Anyhow, I thought I'd start blogging about my (mis)adventures in Taiwan. So you guys can have a good laugh! hahaha...
We use the term banana on peeps who are yellow on the inside and white on the outside ie: a chinese with westernised packaging.
Ok, I feel like a banana here right now. My command of mandarin language is pathetic -- I can't even operate my hotpot/washing machine/cook instant noodles because everything is in Mandarin. Plus I had no idea that April 5th was Tomb Sweeping Day. In Taiwan, it is a national holiday and families would go to the graves of their ancestors to pay respects. Me? I spent the whole day sleeping/eating/shopping. So I feel kinda crap about me being so nonchalent about my chinese roots.
Anyhow, I thought I'd start blogging about my (mis)adventures in Taiwan. So you guys can have a good laugh! hahaha...
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