*ngo sic gong guong dong hwa*
you know when we westernized folk get together in hong kong, we like to speak chingrish because it's so funny? becoz we lie to have der funny time lah.... but you know what i realized this week? local chinese like to make fun of westerners trying to speak cantonese too! i have to put up with collleagues who take the mick out of anglosized chinese all day long, complete with bad tonal pronounciations and all... now i know how the locals feel. *sigh* i guess there's never a lack of cultural lessons to be learnt here, even being a supposed native of hong kong. can you say "tck"?
you know when we westernized folk get together in hong kong, we like to speak chingrish because it's so funny? becoz we lie to have der funny time lah.... but you know what i realized this week? local chinese like to make fun of westerners trying to speak cantonese too! i have to put up with collleagues who take the mick out of anglosized chinese all day long, complete with bad tonal pronounciations and all... now i know how the locals feel. *sigh* i guess there's never a lack of cultural lessons to be learnt here, even being a supposed native of hong kong. can you say "tck"?