Sunday, March 27, 2005
9:17 PM
Just finished dinner. Decided to blog abit before i start on homework (got lit journal thing and some long overdue math homewrk).
Anyway, yes i DO take my dinner this late at night, the average for my house is arnd 800-830, and we'll end off at around 900+. I don't understand how u people eat dinner so early anyway. For me, lunch has barely settled at 500+. People like bag would suddenly tell me ingame that he had to go for dinner. It goes something like this -
Jeffbag_IV: eh i gtg dinner
Mistuiriune: so early? wtf?
* * * * * 3 hours later * * * * *
Misturiune: eh i gtg now, haf to eat dinnr
Jeffbag_IV: wtf how come u eat so late one...
Our dinner time is approximately 3 hours apart wo0t. And they say we hongkongers can't adapt to the Singapore enviroment well. And yes we're both retards.
Anyway, I had just finished my food, and was about to tactfully decline the fruits that my mom asked me to eat. My reason to my mom went something like this, "We should leave the pomelo for grandpa & grandma, they need the fruits more." (translate to cantonese) And then, I found out something abt chinese myths that I had never known before, and was subsequently miffed. (ha.ha.ha.)
"Gnor dei mn sai sek, ni dee laou bei lian heng yan sek ma! Nei sek cho yi hou lou por sang zai sang dek hou dor!" My Grandma suddenly burst out. My eyes went smth like this --> O.O and I was amazed at the complete out of pointness of the remark. For the ignorant (or non-cantonese), that meant "We shouldn't eat it, these should be left for the young people to eat mah! After you eat your future wife will give birth to many sons!" Well, I had no idea how in the world pomelos could make my future wife give birth to more sons. I mean, come on, it isn't even my future wife (whoever she is) who's eating the bloody pomelos, its me! So how the heck would it then affect her? I was considering the fact that maybe pomelos had something to do with virility and thus i would somehow create a higher ratio of male sperms to female sperms or smth =.='
Not one to leave questions unanswered, i thus asked my mom how pomelos would make all that happen, and her answer was even MORE absurd. Pomelo's are pronounced "loug yao" (forgive me im a hanyupinyin noob) and that sounds akin to "lor yao" if u pronounce is cantonese-y enough. And "lor yao" basically means your ass/butt/hips. So if I ate more pomelo's, my future wife will have a better pair of hips/butt/ass and thus i will have more sons. Now that just didn't make sense. I totally CANNOT see how all that connects. I mean, dear gods if it had something to do with MY sperms at least it gave room for some arguement. But wtheck it enlarges some girl's hips so that in future she will bear me more sons. And what do wider hips or a bigger ass have to do with bearing sons anyway? Don't babies all come outta the same place? And what if the gods decide to play a nasty joke and pwn some poor girl's hips (think evelyn) and turns out it was the wrong girl?
Conclusion? Well...I ate the pomelos and become a hell lot more confused than I already am. And also the observation that chinese people have some weird thing with connecting words that mean something logical to words that mean something completely illogical. like "Fu dao" meaning "Prosperity coming" can be pictured as a Bat hanging upside down, albeit the same pronouciation. No and Prosperity is not a guy's name.
We chinese are a weird race...
