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Chill
Calgary26003 Posts
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Kurumi
Poland6130 Posts
On September 06 2012 19:50 Shady Sands wrote: My dad used to tell me that I would understand the way he acted once I grew up and had a child of my own. Before I read the rest, my dad tells me this too. He tries to make us live well. Shame he can't treat family like a family though. Interesting read. Quite personal. Good luck on your uni/college/whatever you'd like to call it life! | ||
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Shady Sands
United States4021 Posts
On September 07 2012 03:39 Kurumi wrote: Before I read the rest, my dad tells me this too. He tries to make us live well. Shame he can't treat family like a family though. Interesting read. Quite personal. Good luck on your uni/college/whatever you'd like to call it life! Same here. My dad grew up reminding us, all the time, of how he had to junk his artistic career to raise us. One time, and I remember this very clearly--my dad was supposed to watch over my brother and I at Disneyland while my mom went to the Chinese consulate to get our passports renewed. Dad ended up abandoning us there and sneaking over to the Getty Museum. My brother and I had a blast, of course, without parental supervision, but my mom was not so happy. My dad told my brother and I to wait for him at the parking lot at a certain time in the afternoon. He planned to get back to us before mom did. Of course this was LA so he got stuck in traffic, and this was before cell phones. Mom ended up getting there first (the friend who gave her a ride from the consulate was a local and knew which roads would be crammed with traffic), and when she found out what dad had done, she was... upset. On the way back from LA, my dad and my mom got into a shouting match where he pointed at my brother and I and said something to the effect of "if it wasn't for those two runts I'd have artwork in that museum", to which my mom replied that he could go cast himself in plaster and be in that museum in perpetuity. That was the closest, I think, they ever got to filing for a divorce. | ||
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Loser777
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However, with both my parents coming into the states in the early 90s on H1-B visas, I have to say that their story is not as dramatic. 我靠...我是用北京 口音读的 | ||
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MCDayC
United Kingdom14464 Posts
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Shady Sands
United States4021 Posts
On September 08 2012 19:42 MCDayC wrote: Awesome blog, also, why doesn't your chinese economy blog come up when I click on your blog list? It was moved from the General Forum, so it won't. | ||
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Disregard
China10252 Posts
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BigFan
TLADT24920 Posts
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Shady Sands
United States4021 Posts
On September 08 2012 19:21 Loser777 wrote: Sometimes I think that pretty much any immigrant family in the states could write pretty damn good book. Thanks for affirming that belief. However, with both my parents coming into the states in the early 90s on H1-B visas, I have to say that their story is not as dramatic. 我靠...我是用北京 口音读的 You used a Beijing accent to read that? Awesome. Roll those Rs baby! | ||
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targ
Malaysia445 Posts
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Shady Sands
United States4021 Posts
On September 09 2012 23:39 targ wrote: Oh I didn't realize you were Chinese! Thought you were Italian or something. Nope... 100% Chinese. Both parents from Beijing. | ||
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