i'm back!!! 50 Ways You Know You're Asian...

omg, it's been more than 1 year since my last post... what a slacker. i will try to be better. what can i say, except - it's been an event-filled, busy busy busy year... we're all settled into our lives in toronto and both jobs are great, feels like we've been here forever.

anyways, will try to post more pics once i pester edward for them. in the meantime, i couldn't resist this one.

1. You were/are a good student with very high GPAs.
2. You majored in something practical like engineering, medicine or business.
3. You have more than one-college degree, sometimes more than one Master's.
4. If you play a musical instrument (of course, it must be piano).
5. You have a vinyl table cloth on your kitchen table.
6. Your stove is covered with aluminum foil.
7. Your kitchen has a sticky film of grease over it.
8. You beat eggs with chopsticks.
9. You always leave outdoor shoes at the door.
10. You cringe internally when guests walk into your house with their shoes on. (damn white people!)
11. You use the dishwasher as a dish rack.
12. You keep a Thermos of hot water available at all times.
13. You boil water before drinking.
14. You eat all meals in the kitchen to keep your dining room clean.
15. You don't use measuring cups when preparing foods.
16. You save grocery bags and use them to hold garbage.
17. You have a rice cooker.
18. You're a wok user.
19. You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
20. You wash rice 2-3 times before cooking it.
21. You don't dry-clean clothes, even if they need to be dry-cleaned.
22. You iron your own shirts.
23. You like congee with thousand year old eggs.
24. You always cook yourself, even if you hate it.
25. You use credit cards, and pay monthly bills in full.
26. You do either soccer, swimming, badminton,volleyball, basketball, or ping pong, and have an obsession with making the Beijing Olympics.
27. You buy Christmas cards after Christmas, when they are 50ff.
28. When you hand wash dishes, you only use cold water.
29. 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.
b) You have Tupperware in your fridge with three bites of rice or one leftover chicken wing.
30. You don't own any real Tupperware-only a cupboard full of used but carefully rinsed margarine tubs, takeout containers, and jam jars.
31. When toilet paper is on sale, you buy 100 rolls and store them.
32. You have a collection of miniature shampoo/conditioner bottles and little soap bars that you take every time you stay in a hotel.
33. You hoard the last scrap of soap and press it into the new bar of soap.
34. The condiments in your fridge are either Sam's Club/Costco-sized or come in little plastic packets, which you save every time you get take out or go to McDonald's.
35. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel (and travel means any car ride longer than 15 minutes).
36. You spit bones and other food scraps on the table.
37. Your dad thinks he can fix everything himself.
38. When you go to a dance party, there is always a group of guys surrounding the dance floor trying to look cool.
39. Your house/apartment is always cold in winter, and hot in summer.
40. Your Mom drives her Mercedes to the Dollar Store, or a discount grocery regardless how far it is (because things are cheaper there!).
41. You always look phone numbers up in the phone book, since calling Directory Assistance costs 50 cents.
43. You prefer your shrimp with the heads and legs still attached.
44. You never call your parents just to say hi.
45. You think ONLY Japanese can make good cars!
46. You can recognize the difference between Chinese, Japanese and Korean faces.
47. You starve yourself before going to all-you-can-eat places.
48. Almost all your money is in a savings account
49. You never discuss your love life with your parents.
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST:
50. You take this message post it in your own blog for all your Azn friends to see.

LOL, can't believe i put that up here. i usually scoff at those rice rockets i see on the road, especially if they have vanity plates with "azn" in them. (you know the kind, they're usually decked out with japanese characters, "flames" decals and super high "wings"...) but somehow blogging on a Friday afternoon when i'm supposed to be working, it struck me as rather funny.

happy Canadian Thanksgiving! it's going to be a nice long weekend, woohoo....