Thursday, March 15, 2007
ides of march - culture shock
i was wondering why were irishmen displaying patriotisms publicly on the ides of march because the scottish bagpipes were hardly mistakable; playing in the background of the city neighbourhood – almost a nightly affair since the end of last week. i was giving my nails a fresh coat of shanghai red paint before peeping out of the balcony, hoping to steal glances of men in scottish kilts. that was when i discovered a pole dancing school from my direct view in the opposite building, just above a beer place. women in racy lingerie pole-dancing to traditional scottish/celtic bagpipe music – it has got to be the culture shock of this week.
just last week, i met 4 koreans, 3 brazilians, 2 taiwanese and 1 columbian and i realized my tower is improportionately dominated by kimchi loving people. besides the pea-sized eyes, all the koreans i’ve met thus far remotely resemble the korean masses’ lover - rain. i got mildly acquainted to billy, the korean who bought the bulk of our excess furniture. brown the cunning bargainer from north who introduced himself as a colour because of his skin tone actually has a refined birth name(申龙喆). his refusal to admit his highly debated ancestry - resemblance to a default shaolin monk and our numerous onomatopoeic conversations had induced more side-aches than laughter. brown wanted to know the chinese symbolism/meaning of his name, which i had loosely or otherwise inaccurately translated as ‘stretching dragon’. daniel is the columbian charmer who contemplated to ink the chinese version of his name much to our (
p/s: st patrick’s day is on Saturday – celebrating all things irish, pretending to be irish, watch the parade and drink a Guinness, have an irish soda bread or potato soup with live music and hourly irish dancing! now to find company…
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