Please check the list to see how Chinese you or your friends
really are:
There are 29 ways to know if you're Chinese. You will laugh at
yourself when you read all of them.
1. You unwrap gifts very carefully, so you can save and reuse the
wrapping
(and especially those ribbons).
---> i recycle the wrappings, if not just throw them away.
unless the wrapping very special i will use it. save some marney
over ex wrappings or save the earth a little.
2. When there is a sale on toilet paper, you buy 100 rolls and
store them in your closet or in the bedroom of an adult child who
has moved out.
----> why not. pungsai use toilet paper everyday what.
3. You keep a Thermos of hot water available at all times.
----> Not always. keep at home boil once a day to make hot
beverages tea of coffee of milo ovaltine holick.
4. You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers. You use the
grocery bags to hold garbage.
----> can reuse tin containers for a while. grocery plastic
bag can store rubbish for proper disposal. please remeber to tie a
thumb knot or two before throwing bags of rubbish into the
chute.
5. You hate to waste food:
(a) Even if you're totally full, if someone says they're going to
throw away the leftovers on the table, you'll finish them. (Your
mom will give a lecture about starving kids in Africa ).
(b) You have Tupperware in your fridge with three bites of rice or
one leftover chicken wing.
----> i dont keep food in the fride if i can consume it in
the same day. if full don't eat anymore. LKY said 3/4 full enough
already. army should also enforce this policy. cookhouse should ask
man if enough rice or servings so that soldiers can eat healty way.
last time army training all wrong. traing can be tough but food at
least served in proper way. the variety may be simple and plain not
tasty to the tongue but at least we should know how much to take
for a healthier stomach.
6. You don't own any real Tupperware- only a cupboard full of used
but carefully rinsed margarine tubs, take out containers, and jam
jars.
---->can reuse save marney and earth.
7. You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you take
every time you stay in a hotel.
----> make sure those bottles are clean before you take
them.
8. You wipe your plate and utensils or wash them in a small basin
of hot water before you eat every time you go to a restaurant.
---> kill germs nothting wrong with that.
9 . You own a rice cooker and a slow cooker
---> anyone got a problem with that?
10. You wash your rice at least 2-3 times before cooking it.
---> should wash the rice once of twice before cooking.
SOP.
11. You fight (literally) over who pays the dinner bill.
----> no. a lot of ppl offer to pay in a meal.
12. You have a teacup with a cover on it.
----> what if a housefly or lizard tail drop into it? can
conserve keep the drink hot for a longer while. in traditional tea
can prserve the aroma
13. If you're under age 20, you own a really expensive walkman if
you're over 20, you own a really expensive camera.
---->???
14. You're a wok user.
----> yes i am chinese and a wok user.
15. You only make long distance calls after 7pm.
----> i have to call my colleagues or co-workers all
over the country different time zone if need to. If email cannot
clarify problems and expanantions or communciations needed rapid
feedbacks and inputs.
16. You prefer your shrimp with the heads and legs still
attached-it,
means they're fresh.
--> i don't eat prawns and shrimps that much.not my first
choice.
17. You never call your parents just to say, ' Hi. '
----> have to work. what's the point? why not stand in the
middle of the road and say hi to that cheechapor instead.
18. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they'll ask
if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.
---> grow up please
19. Your parents tell you to boil herbs and stay indoors when you
get sick. They also tell you not to eat fried foods or baked foods
because such food are ' heaty' (yeet hey in Cantonese).
----> yes and no. see doctor must. heaty oily foods
no.
20. You e-mail your Chinese friends at work, even though you only
sit 10 feet apart.
----> i got a bad memory. please email.
21. You always cook too much.
----> anything wrong with that?
22. You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don't eat
the last piece of food on the table.
----> 3/4 full stomach rule applies. no right or wrong.
23. You starve yourself before going to ' All You Can Eat '
buffet.
---> i not that gianpeng. i don't go buffet
24. You know someone who can get you a good deal on jewelry
or
electronics, computers.
---> i have no need of ornaments. electronics and computers?
buzz off i know what to buy.
25 . You own your own meat cleaver and sharpen it.
----> sharpen meat cleaver cut meat better.
26. Your toothpaste tubes are all squeezed paper-thin.
---> yes save marney .
27. You call a sausage a hotdog.
----> no i can them my bana thi ckco ck
28. You wrap with napkins all the knives, spoons and forks of the
airline that you fly on and put in your travel-bag as souvenirs
----> cannot go pass security check point. don;t try
that.
29. You never forget to take with you all the unused bath and
facial tissues when you check out from the hotel because you
believe that you have paid its all.
----> rather i bring torn almost spoilt towels undies with me
during ICT. i know i cannot wash them so will dispose once they are
dirtied.
Now that you have read the lot, are they mostly true? Will you take
this
message and forward it to all your Chinese friends, because you
will
always be proud that you're indeed a great Chinese...
no lah. we are all human.
why do you sound so defensive ?
17. You never call your parents
just to say, ' Hi. '
----> have to work. what's the
point? why not stand in the middle of the road and say hi to that
cheechapor instead.
9 . You own a rice cooker and a
slow cooker
---> anyone got a problem with
that?
Like theres something wrong about being chinese like that
....
I find all the chinese habits very efficient, cost effective and
creative and i'm very happy to tick em all !
