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| How did this happen??? The two places that I spent the most of my life
in... (that is, if I count myself as a Taiwanese and not, well, you know)
You scored as British. British!
British | | 85% | French | | 75% | Chinese | | 65% | German | | 60% | HongKonger | | 50% | Aussie | | 50% | Singaporean | | 45% | Japanese | | 35% | American | | 20% | Taiwanese | | 5% |
What will you be after reborn? (translation)
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The night before leaving for Beijing...
My mom: by the way, when you get to the Customs in Beijing, make sure to...
Me: what? Tell them that Taiwan is part of China? (of course I'm joking)
My mom [start laughing]: no! Don't be disrespectful to your motherland! (Taiwan, that is)
Me: oh...okay. Then what do I have to do?
My mom: Make sure that you don't give them your Taiwanese passport.
Me: Why? What will happen if I do?
My mom: well, they'll probably throw you out.
Me:
o_0 WHAT??? *imagine myself being questioned by the military policeman
for attempts to overthrow the chinese government and establish Taiwan
independence*
My mom: just kidding, but they probably will throw your passport out.
Me: what?? that's not anything better! What should I give them then if not the passport?
My mom: Your Taiwanese traveler's pass.
Me: I see...*making a mental note*
Me
[while filling out documents for the Custom]: mom, they ask what
nationality I am! And wow! Taiwan is one of the check-boxes too!
My mom: oh ya, that. Make sure that you check both the box that says 'China' AND the box that says 'Taiwan'.
Me: hmm? why?
My mom: well, because they probably will ignore you if you only check the Taiwan box.
Me: I see...*making a mental note*
Then
later, I realized that the only box for nationality that you can check
is 'China', everything else (like Hong Kong and Taiwan) are grouped
under 'regions' using parenthesis. Eh. So much for declaring my
nationality.
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| I watched a wonderful wonderful film while I was on the flight home called A Good Woman,
starring Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson, and two other cute guys (their
names don't ring a bell, but the point is that they're really cute and
I have to mention that). It's a romantic comedy staged in the 1930
Italy, and the story centers around a young American couple and the
upper-class scene around them. I was completely, utterly fascinated and
touched by the movie, for several reasons:
One, the movie was
told so flowingly that even though there was tension between the
characters, ups and downs and twists with the storyline, I didn't feel
the agony of waiting for things fall into their right places in the end
of the movie, like I usually do when watching some of today's cheap
romantic comedies (sorry). It was just all. very. light-hearted.
Second,
the comments between characters were so witty and so insightful that I
basically want to quote almost every single line that was said by the
main characters. They're comments about relationships, men, women, or
just life philosophy in general. I didn't realize this until I got
home, but it turns out that the movie was actually based on Oscar
Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan. I've never read an Oscar Wilde book
before (didn't have the chance to encounter one), but I think I will
start now. Any recommendation as to where I should start besides Lady
Windermere's Fan?
Third, it was
just such a good story. I thought it was really really well written and
really makes you wonder about some of the things that we (perhaps
subconsciously) do. Like judging people by their appearance. Or by the
story that other people told you that they heard from someone else.
The story is about the goodness within people. There was a quote in the movie that
goes "every saint has a past and every sinner has a future." It's about
second chances that you give to people, and the faith that people can
change for the better. Another thing that the movie touched on was
honesty in a relationship, which is a topic that I have been pondering
on lately (well, sort of). I mean, there is no rule of thumb of going
about it. In the movie, I see the problem with lies stemed from a good
motivation, that you want to protect the other person from getting
hurt, but then I also see the damages that could potentially be done
with grand confessions. It's not black and white, and it sort of
bothers me that it's not black and white. I know that that's what life
is like, what a lot of things in life are like, but I just couldn't
help but wonder why it can't be black and white sometimes. Of course,
life will probably be really boring if it really is. Eh, the prices
that we pay to be drama queens.
Anyway, the movie is actually a
British film released in the UK about half a year ago. Quite naturally,
the DVD that they released is in region 2 format. How very annoying!
Whose idea is it to invent these region formats for DVDs anyway? | | |
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"I wish I knew how to quit you."
- quoted from Brokeback Mountain
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My mom continues to surprise me with her open-mindedness...
How fortunate I am 
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