Em just sent me the strangest poem by Margaret Atwood... it's called They Eat Out... it's really weird.. and upon trying to offer my perspective on it... i really had none... the poem had me thinking it was about one thing and then suddenly switching topics reverted me to another without actually switching topics in reality. crazy stuff peeps!
one line in the poem "In restaurants we argue over who is going to pay for your funeral" which i interpreted as ppl arguing over who's paying for the food... which only ever happens in the Chinese world O_o it is SOOOO embaressing when you're like at a restaurant done eating this great food and you look up to see your mother/father madly trying to wrestle your friend's mother/father to get the bill!after the "big fight" is over, the loser auto matically tries to force great sums of money in to the hand/ purse of the winning party. and as if that wasn't enough, these are both done while screaming, yelling, and running around the restaurant...(i wonder what the non chinese speaking peeps are thinking when "we" do that! ... they prolly think we're all crazy lunatics trying to steal eachother's money or something... or it's some kinda game that we play at the family reunion since all chinese are related remember? hahaha my careers teacher can't tell any of the asians in our class apart.. he showed me dora's term mark today instead of mine :P) and finally it ends with the losing party taking back their great sum of money )which had it been offered to me, i would accept it greatfully haha ^_^ ) and heaving a great *SIGH* and saying "ho la hola! die yee chee do o bay la!"("ok ok! but next time I get to pay!") technically, i think this is actually a dramatic battle. whoever can act the most sincere about wanting to pay an extra fifty bucks fot the other family but ends up not having to pay wins. afterall, does anyone actually WANT to pay... in my opinion... why don't we just stick to paying for ourselves! unless it's someone's bday or something like that.. would prolly save plenty of commotion AND money... not to mention certain humiliation of your children :P