So Chinese
I've been feeling really Chinese lately. Not only am I speaking Mandarin and Taiwanese without having to think but my thoughts are also in Chinese. The internet is my only connection to the West. My lifestyle in the past few days has also been transformed into one of a Chinese housewife, watching soaps and preparing supper everyday.
I'm still into that soap "Goodbye Alan (再见阿郎)" and watch it religiously. Today I discovered that I've been missing episodes everyday. Normally I would watch the regular 2 episodes after eating my instant noodles and the next day when I watched the show again I would feel like I missed something. Finally I just left the TV on after the 2nd episode and I found out that they added another one to the lineup, oh joy! Anyway, things are so messed up in the show that it's not even worth explaining anymore. All you need to know is that since the show has started, 3 people have died and one of them came back to life.
By Sunday I'll be going back to Xiamen to get ready for the Chinese New Year. Needless to say, I'm quite excited because it has been over 10 years since I last spent the Chinese New Year in China. I'm very interested in finding out what has changed. I remember the last time I was in Xiamen for the new years... my friend and I were outside waiting for the fireworks show and all of a sudden we heard this big boom and we saw this huge cloud of smoke. We waited and waited and eventually went inside after seeing nothing but the smoke. The next day we saw on the news that the show didn't happen because there was an accident and everything exploded.
Every time I leave Xiamen I think of things that I wanted to eat but forgot about it because there were so many other delicious dishes I was devouring. I should start making a list of these dishes so I can cover all my bases this time.
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