Saturday, November 11, 2006
- Pineapple's bum. -
Remember the pineapple? I think I know why it's sitting on the dinner table. I have two assumptions:
1. My bro told me to smell the pineapple's bottom and it smells really nice! You can really smell the essence of the pineapple on its bottom. Try it one day. So since it smells nice maybe my mums trying to have an aromatic dinner table... or something along those lines..
2. The other reason would be due to my ethnicity. *grins* I guess coming from a patriarchal society of South-East Asia, I am Hokkien from my fathers origins. And we all speak Hokkien at home as well (and Mandarin of course). The hokkien term for pineapple ("ong lai") synonymously (??) sounds like two different words which literally translate to be ...hrms....I just realised I dunno how to translate it. 'Lai' is come and 'ong' is something good I guess. I just don't know how to explain it. Anyone care to help me?
Well, anyway, I suspect its a silly superstitious thing.
I wonder when we'll eat it.
Oh, today I went to uni, bumped into Noelle, did no study, interrupted by Alan who gave me dodgy tictacs and went home with no study progress. Joy. Ok that's it. I'm done. I'll update again soon.
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1. My bro told me to smell the pineapple's bottom and it smells really nice! You can really smell the essence of the pineapple on its bottom. Try it one day. So since it smells nice maybe my mums trying to have an aromatic dinner table... or something along those lines..
2. The other reason would be due to my ethnicity. *grins* I guess coming from a patriarchal society of South-East Asia, I am Hokkien from my fathers origins. And we all speak Hokkien at home as well (and Mandarin of course). The hokkien term for pineapple ("ong lai") synonymously (??) sounds like two different words which literally translate to be ...hrms....I just realised I dunno how to translate it. 'Lai' is come and 'ong' is something good I guess. I just don't know how to explain it. Anyone care to help me?
Well, anyway, I suspect its a silly superstitious thing.
I wonder when we'll eat it.
Oh, today I went to uni, bumped into Noelle, did no study, interrupted by Alan who gave me dodgy tictacs and went home with no study progress. Joy. Ok that's it. I'm done. I'll update again soon.
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-{ missing you 11/11/2006 12:00:00 am }-