A lot of my Asian girl friends asked me, “So what do you guys do for fun?”
Hum…interesting question, I would probably ask the same thing. What do interracial couples do for fun? Especially for an interracial couple like me and my bf (a very Honger girl like me, or used to be… and a very Canadian guy like my boyfriend.)
Well, let’s make a list of things that I did before I met him:
Here are my everyday/weekend activities (before I met my bf): -Sing Karaoke with my friends -Go for bubble tea -Watch the latest TVB Chinese Drama (TVB is the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong) -Watch the latest Japanese/Korean/Taiwanese Drama, movies -Rent Chinese movies and watch it in Chinese. -Shopping in Richmond. -Smoking -Go to house parties and play drinking games. (example :15/20 drinking games, Dices games and Ma Jong) -Play videogames -Go to a bubble Tea store and read all their translated Japanese comics and Hong Kong gossipy magazines. -Gossip in Cantonese and Mandarin.
Here are my summer activities (before I met bf): -Went on a “road trips” with my friends to the USA ->Bellingham and Seattle. (That’s like really, really far, because it’s like 3 hours of non-stop driving. lol) -BBQ near the lake/beach, things like chicken wings, fish balls and wieners with a long metal fork and campfire. (Usually takes about 20 mins to cook 1-2 chicken wings, IF you are lucky and you don’t drop it that is, hey~ it’s not about the food, its the experiences that counts!) -Hide from the sun, don’t want get tanned, because most Honger guys prefer pale Honger girls.
Here are my everyday/weekend activities (after I met my bf): -Watch 24, Desperate Housewives, Smallville, Entourage and other popular TV series. -Shopping in Metrotown/Downtown -Go to house parties. (Watch hockey games, play poker, grab a beer/cooler) -smoking -Go to Starbucks/ Blenz -Read magazines like Allure, Glamour and In-Style etc -Gossip in English.
Here are my summer activities (after I met my bf): -Went on road trips to LA, Las Vegas and Oregon. -BBQ in the back yard with a Grill. -Tanning, because the magazines said so.
…. Conclusion: I am doing pretty much the same things, there’s nothing “outta this world” or “crazy”.
Most of these changes are not too extreme and I can adapt to it, not a big deal, such as:
-Choices of drinks for parties are different. Now, both group are filled with good partiers
For Honger parties: Red Wine mixed with 7-up Chivers (Don’t think I spell that right) mixed with Green Tea. Hard liquor with some sort of mixer Coolers Some beer (not very popular though)
Canadian parties: 90% of the alcohol beverages are Beer The rest (left over 10%) are distributed between, coolers and wines.
-We have different party games; that’s fine, it’s not the end of the world.
-Instead of using a huge metal fork to BBQ food, we used a BBQ grill.
-The definition for “Road trip” changed, anything under 4 hours is a day trip, anything over 12-16 hrs drive is called a road trip.
-Pale skin->tanned skin
and so on.
Sometimes my boyfriend and I compromise; we will go do very Honger things one day (like having Dim sum for breakfast, watching a Chinese movie with English subtitles and go for bubble tea with our friends and sing karaoke) and then we will do something very Canadian (like having breakfast at White Spot, ATVing in Whistler, watch movies at a drive-in theater.) Yes…sometimes I do miss playing Ma Jong while munching my Calbee chips, but I think because of our differences (yes, I know it a cliché) make things so much more interesting, I swear!
Hum…interesting question, I would probably ask the same thing. What do interracial couples do for fun? Especially for an interracial couple like me and my bf (a very Honger girl like me, or used to be… and a very Canadian guy like my boyfriend.)
Well, let’s make a list of things that I did before I met him:
Here are my everyday/weekend activities (before I met my bf):
-Sing Karaoke with my friends
-Go for bubble tea
-Watch the latest TVB Chinese Drama (TVB is the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong)
-Watch the latest Japanese/Korean/Taiwanese Drama, movies
-Rent Chinese movies and watch it in Chinese.
-Shopping in Richmond.
-Smoking
-Go to house parties and play drinking games. (example :15/20 drinking games, Dices games and Ma Jong)
-Play videogames
-Go to a bubble Tea store and read all their translated Japanese comics and Hong Kong gossipy magazines.
-Gossip in Cantonese and Mandarin.
Here are my summer activities (before I met bf):
-Went on a “road trips” with my friends to the USA ->Bellingham and Seattle. (That’s like really, really far, because it’s like 3 hours of non-stop driving. lol)
-BBQ near the lake/beach, things like chicken wings, fish balls and wieners with a long metal fork and campfire. (Usually takes about 20 mins to cook 1-2 chicken wings, IF you are lucky and you don’t drop it that is, hey~ it’s not about the food, its the experiences that counts!)
-Hide from the sun, don’t want get tanned, because most Honger guys prefer pale Honger girls.
Here are my everyday/weekend activities (after I met my bf):
-Watch 24, Desperate Housewives, Smallville, Entourage and other popular TV series.
-Shopping in Metrotown/Downtown
-Go to house parties. (Watch hockey games, play poker, grab a beer/cooler)
-smoking
-Go to Starbucks/ Blenz
-Read magazines like Allure, Glamour and In-Style etc
-Gossip in English.
Here are my summer activities (after I met my bf):
-Went on road trips to LA, Las Vegas and Oregon.
-BBQ in the back yard with a Grill.
-Tanning, because the magazines said so.
….
Conclusion:
I am doing pretty much the same things, there’s nothing “outta this world” or “crazy”.
Most of these changes are not too extreme and I can adapt to it, not a big deal, such as:
-Choices of drinks for parties are different. Now, both group are filled with good partiers
For Honger parties:
Red Wine mixed with 7-up
Chivers (Don’t think I spell that right) mixed with Green Tea.
Hard liquor with some sort of mixer
Coolers
Some beer (not very popular though)
Canadian parties:
90% of the alcohol beverages are Beer
The rest (left over 10%) are distributed between, coolers and wines.
-We have different party games; that’s fine, it’s not the end of the world.
-Instead of using a huge metal fork to BBQ food, we used a BBQ grill.
-The definition for “Road trip” changed, anything under 4 hours is a day trip, anything over 12-16 hrs drive is called a road trip.
-Pale skin->tanned skin
and so on.
Sometimes my boyfriend and I compromise; we will go do very Honger things one day (like having Dim sum for breakfast, watching a Chinese movie with English subtitles and go for bubble tea with our friends and sing karaoke) and then we will do something very Canadian (like having breakfast at White Spot, ATVing in Whistler, watch movies at a drive-in theater.) Yes…sometimes I do miss playing Ma Jong while munching my Calbee chips, but I think because of our differences (yes, I know it a cliché) make things so much more interesting, I swear!