Waiting for god, newspapers and Aiyaaaaa!
Well, sorry for the delay since the last post, with the run up to Christmas things are starting to get a little bit busy and everything.
I saw this on the menu at a Japanese place where we sometimes eat and had to take a picture.
Anyone for a 'God Fillet'? I know food can sometimes be described as heavenly but serving up a slice of God is a bit far!
One of the events that I have been helping to organize over the last week was an English day at a Chinese school. The school itself was miles away (almost on the border with China) which was a bit of a pain.
However...because the school is brand spanking new (and I suppose sometimes in Hong Kong news is a little bit on the slow side) we had a reporter and photographer at the event. Check me out I got in the newspapers!!!
Goodness knows what the paper is reporting, I have no idea if it says we were good or if we were bad, but either way my ugly mug has now been circulated to the Hong Kong masses!
On a different note I am trying to add phrases to my limited Cantonese vocab. I have just mastered how to say "turn left", "turn right" "go straight on" and "Stop". I learnt these directions because I am fed up being dropped off on the other side of our neighbourhood by taxis. What is funny though is that some Cantonese language habits have been picked up and become westernised by expats living out here.
For example if something is shocking, or someone says something surprising you say "Aiyaaaaa", in an exasperated manner. Another bizzare trait is that in Cantonese there is a natural habit of adding LA on the end of most words or phrases. You may be on the bus and hear lots of Cantonese which ends in "la".
So to compensate for this, Western expats out here put "la" at the end of English words or phrases...Robyn is the biggest culprit of this habit. Just 5 minutes ago she said she was 'hungry la'. Last night she said she was going to 'have a shower la'. I say it as well though, but it's becoming a bit of a habit to automatically add it to what we say! Scary la...
I saw this on the menu at a Japanese place where we sometimes eat and had to take a picture.
Anyone for a 'God Fillet'? I know food can sometimes be described as heavenly but serving up a slice of God is a bit far!
One of the events that I have been helping to organize over the last week was an English day at a Chinese school. The school itself was miles away (almost on the border with China) which was a bit of a pain.
However...because the school is brand spanking new (and I suppose sometimes in Hong Kong news is a little bit on the slow side) we had a reporter and photographer at the event. Check me out I got in the newspapers!!!
Goodness knows what the paper is reporting, I have no idea if it says we were good or if we were bad, but either way my ugly mug has now been circulated to the Hong Kong masses!
On a different note I am trying to add phrases to my limited Cantonese vocab. I have just mastered how to say "turn left", "turn right" "go straight on" and "Stop". I learnt these directions because I am fed up being dropped off on the other side of our neighbourhood by taxis. What is funny though is that some Cantonese language habits have been picked up and become westernised by expats living out here.
For example if something is shocking, or someone says something surprising you say "Aiyaaaaa", in an exasperated manner. Another bizzare trait is that in Cantonese there is a natural habit of adding LA on the end of most words or phrases. You may be on the bus and hear lots of Cantonese which ends in "la".
So to compensate for this, Western expats out here put "la" at the end of English words or phrases...Robyn is the biggest culprit of this habit. Just 5 minutes ago she said she was 'hungry la'. Last night she said she was going to 'have a shower la'. I say it as well though, but it's becoming a bit of a habit to automatically add it to what we say! Scary la...
posted by robynandben at 5:01 PM
2 Comments:
keep the paper ben for posterity please ben. The good news is you have staff travel until your 24th birthday. x
thanks mum xxx
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