Comments on: Day 3 in 香港 (Hong Kong): 雞年快樂，恭喜發財! http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/02/11/day-3-in-hong-kong-gai-nin-fai-lok-kung-hei-fat-choi/ Jonathan Stanley's little corner on the Internet where he muses on life, phpBB (PHP Bulletin Board), (X)HTML, CSS, Web Standards, Science, Technology and whatever miscellaneous stuff that takes his fancy. Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:24:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=X.Y-svn-lambcutlet Comment on Day 3 in 香港 (Hong Kong): 雞年快樂，恭喜發財! by: Jonathan Stanley http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/02/11/day-3-in-hong-kong-gai-nin-fai-lok-kung-hei-fat-choi/#comment-86 Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:55:46 +0000 http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/02/11/day-3-in-hong-kong-gai-nin-fai-lok-kung-hei-fat-choi/#comment-86 Dunno, when a Slovenian friend saw one of the pics of my cousin and myself commented with the fact I looked very "English"? Mother was quite often mistaken for being Japanese and I was occasionally too... I at the very least don't dress like the locals or mainlanders anyway! Dunno, when a Slovenian friend saw one of the pics of my cousin and myself commented with the fact I looked very “English”? Mother was quite often mistaken for being Japanese and I was occasionally too… I at the very least don’t dress like the locals or mainlanders anyway!

]]> Comment on Day 3 in 香港 (Hong Kong): 雞年快樂，恭喜發財! by: spoxy http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/02/11/day-3-in-hong-kong-gai-nin-fai-lok-kung-hei-fat-choi/#comment-85 Wed, 16 Feb 2005 06:58:48 +0000 http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/02/11/day-3-in-hong-kong-gai-nin-fai-lok-kung-hei-fat-choi/#comment-85 at the risk of sounding racist and ignorant i will say that it sounds very unimaginable to me as a white person... to me you look a lot like your cousins... do you feel you look different? at the risk of sounding racist and ignorant i will say that it sounds very unimaginable to me as a white person… to me you look a lot like your cousins… do you feel you look different?

]]> Comment on Day 3 in 香港 (Hong Kong): 雞年快樂，恭喜發財! by: Jonathan Stanley http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/02/11/day-3-in-hong-kong-gai-nin-fai-lok-kung-hei-fat-choi/#comment-84 Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:19:08 +0000 http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/02/11/day-3-in-hong-kong-gai-nin-fai-lok-kung-hei-fat-choi/#comment-84 I would be speaking Cantonese though for whatever reason, a lot of people seem to reply in English to me... probably as I really don't look local at all anymore? I would be speaking Cantonese though for whatever reason, a lot of people seem to reply in English to me… probably as I really don’t look local at all anymore?

]]> Comment on Day 3 in 香港 (Hong Kong): 雞年快樂，恭喜發財! by: spoxy http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/02/11/day-3-in-hong-kong-gai-nin-fai-lok-kung-hei-fat-choi/#comment-83 Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:57:03 +0000 http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/02/11/day-3-in-hong-kong-gai-nin-fai-lok-kung-hei-fat-choi/#comment-83 sorry about the mix-up of languages... i knew that i'd mix something up... blushes.... so what you are doing is refreshing your Cantonese, right? like i will be refreshing my German for Easter in Berlin. can't wait!!! sorry about the mix-up of languages… i knew that i’d mix something up… blushes….
so what you are doing is refreshing your Cantonese, right? like i will be refreshing my German for Easter in Berlin. can’t wait!!!

]]> Comment on Day 3 in 香港 (Hong Kong): 雞年快樂，恭喜發財! by: Jonathan Stanley http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/02/11/day-3-in-hong-kong-gai-nin-fai-lok-kung-hei-fat-choi/#comment-82 Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:53:53 +0000 http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/02/11/day-3-in-hong-kong-gai-nin-fai-lok-kung-hei-fat-choi/#comment-82 According to my doctor I am supposed to be 177 cm tall, perhaps when he forced me against the measuring thingy I wasn't slouching? Most of the family don't speak Manderin, 'cept the young'uns like my cousins that were educated in Chinese schools... so the language of choice in Cantonese, though they use a bit of English for the bits I don't understand now. Grandmother isn't all that fluent in Cantonese though so will occasionally drop into Fukien (née Hokkien) which only the elders like my late mother, uncle and aunt speak. Jokes and occasional cussing would be in Manderin though, and sometimes Japanese too... Ideally, I'd like to get out of England permanently, though that's another rant altogether! According to my doctor I am supposed to be 177 cm tall, perhaps when he forced me against the measuring thingy I wasn’t slouching?

Most of the family don’t speak Manderin, ‘cept the young’uns like my cousins that were educated in Chinese schools… so the language of choice in Cantonese, though they use a bit of English for the bits I don’t understand now. Grandmother isn’t all that fluent in Cantonese though so will occasionally drop into Fukien (née Hokkien) which only the elders like my late mother, uncle and aunt speak. Jokes and occasional cussing would be in Manderin though, and sometimes Japanese too…

Ideally, I’d like to get out of England permanently, though that’s another rant altogether!

]]> Comment on Day 3 in 香港 (Hong Kong): 雞年快樂，恭喜發財! by: spoxy http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/02/11/day-3-in-hong-kong-gai-nin-fai-lok-kung-hei-fat-choi/#comment-81 Mon, 14 Feb 2005 07:46:36 +0000 http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/02/11/day-3-in-hong-kong-gai-nin-fai-lok-kung-hei-fat-choi/#comment-81 sounds like you are kept very busy indeed! here are some of my considerations... 1) are you really 177 cm tall? can't really remember you being much taller than me.. 2) forgive my ignorance... but in what language do you converse with your relatives? refreshing your Mandarin skills?... 3) and finally... ain't it great to get out of good old England at least once a year?! have to keep up this tradition also in the years to follow!! sounds like you are kept very busy indeed!
here are some of my considerations…
1) are you really 177 cm tall? can’t really remember you being much taller than me..
2) forgive my ignorance… but in what language do you converse with your relatives? refreshing your Mandarin skills?…
3) and finally… ain’t it great to get out of good old England at least once a year?! have to keep up this tradition also in the years to follow!!

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