meme me up
Going back to Oxford tomorrow. To combat packing stress, here's a meme from
1. Leave me a comment saying you want to do the meme.
2. I'll respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You should update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You should include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.
So.
1. Culturally, what has been the biggest difference between the UK and Hong Kong?
Possibly the fact that it's not rude to talk about how much money people earn and categorise them accordingly. I remember on my first day being told that some of my kids wouldn't be with me for more than a week because they were too poor. This was followed by a dismissive laugh.
Or. Bread. Hong Kong doesn't understand bread as a concept. It's all either brioche or salty. Ick.
2. You've won a trillion dollars! What do you do with it?
Oh, I'm so boring. I'd buy my parents a house, I'd buy my brother a house. Then I'd pay for my mother and me to go to New York, and pay for me to go to Hong Kong for Chinese New Year. The rest I would save.
3. If you could only wear one outfit for a year, what would it be? (It's given that you'll have multiple of the same outfit to avoid washing everyday.)
My most recent pair of jeans (because, frankly, they make my ass look amazing), a camisole, a cardigan, flat shoes and a long necklace of some form. Whenever I'm too lazy to put an effort into dressing myself, it's what I always end up wearing anyway.
4. If you could live through the events in any book, which would you choose?
I genuinelly cannot pick. Actually, possibly Delta of Venus by Anais Nin. It's a book of short erotic fiction, but I can't think of any other books I like which don't involve the characters in something quite unpleasant. There's one scene in particular with a dance where the lights are turned off after 5, after 10 and after 15 minutes, and everyone just gets ridiculously horny and they're practically ripping the clothes off each other, then they all get embarassed. I think it sounds fun.
5. What would you say is the dorkiest or nerdiest thing you've ever done?
Oh there have to be some. I remember feeling dorky when I was reading Arcadia and actually got stared at on the bus for snickering out loud at it. I don't know, though. I find since I've gone to university most of my classically geeky things aren't that geeky in the context.
Having said that, I did once spend 2 hours with Lewis re-making Doctor Who trailers and American Psycho. The second ended when Lewis couldn't say his lines, and I wanted to just strangle him. It was good fun!
Any takers? I'm going to go away and scream at my suitcase/squee at going back.
1. Leave me a comment saying you want to do the meme.
2. I'll respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You should update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You should include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.
So.
1. Culturally, what has been the biggest difference between the UK and Hong Kong?
Possibly the fact that it's not rude to talk about how much money people earn and categorise them accordingly. I remember on my first day being told that some of my kids wouldn't be with me for more than a week because they were too poor. This was followed by a dismissive laugh.
Or. Bread. Hong Kong doesn't understand bread as a concept. It's all either brioche or salty. Ick.
2. You've won a trillion dollars! What do you do with it?
Oh, I'm so boring. I'd buy my parents a house, I'd buy my brother a house. Then I'd pay for my mother and me to go to New York, and pay for me to go to Hong Kong for Chinese New Year. The rest I would save.
3. If you could only wear one outfit for a year, what would it be? (It's given that you'll have multiple of the same outfit to avoid washing everyday.)
My most recent pair of jeans (because, frankly, they make my ass look amazing), a camisole, a cardigan, flat shoes and a long necklace of some form. Whenever I'm too lazy to put an effort into dressing myself, it's what I always end up wearing anyway.
4. If you could live through the events in any book, which would you choose?
I genuinelly cannot pick. Actually, possibly Delta of Venus by Anais Nin. It's a book of short erotic fiction, but I can't think of any other books I like which don't involve the characters in something quite unpleasant. There's one scene in particular with a dance where the lights are turned off after 5, after 10 and after 15 minutes, and everyone just gets ridiculously horny and they're practically ripping the clothes off each other, then they all get embarassed. I think it sounds fun.
5. What would you say is the dorkiest or nerdiest thing you've ever done?
Oh there have to be some. I remember feeling dorky when I was reading Arcadia and actually got stared at on the bus for snickering out loud at it. I don't know, though. I find since I've gone to university most of my classically geeky things aren't that geeky in the context.
Having said that, I did once spend 2 hours with Lewis re-making Doctor Who trailers and American Psycho. The second ended when Lewis couldn't say his lines, and I wanted to just strangle him. It was good fun!
Any takers? I'm going to go away and scream at my suitcase/squee at going back.