Ok so obviously it is not the tomorrow after the last post and I'm not gonna ask for props just because a month hasn’t past between this and the last post ;) hahahaha
First let me tell yall bout the damn bird… his name is no longer Both
HE HAS BEEN RENAMED… and that name IS
dot dot dot
POOPER
Waaaaaaaaaaaaahahhahahhahahahha
my sister says there’s so many treats in the house the bird would probably die from old age before he runs out of snackies
spoiled
on to other shizzzzz….
Taiwan fashion
seriously, I’m not even apologetic about it anymore… because I just don’t understand how people dress here… it’s like everyone got dressed in the dark… layers upon layers of mismatched clothes... floral patterns with stripes… polka dots with screen tees… hooker shoes and jersey fabric… lace leggings and sequins tops…
you can't see it but she rockin twisties in her hair
obviously it's to go with her moon shoes
so she can fit in with the outter space crew
middle of winter... in spring time shoes
ruffle mini
shiny leggings
and AN EFFIN VALOUR ZIP UP
wuhhh thuhhh fuuuhhhh
there are just NO words for this fuckery
sorry about the cam quality
I snapped the pic with my phone
he's totally wearing Ugg's
patterned leggins
ON A GUY
oh the HUMANITY
Yeah, you seeee?!?!
Maybe I’m just annoyed because it’s hard enough to find clothes that fit and when I do, it’s usually all bedazzled and covered with frills or lace and English that doesn’t make any kind of sense, or even if it did make sense it’s usually spelled wrong. I don’t know, blech. Has NO one ever heard of spellcheck?!?!
Speaking of clothes… reminds me of something I thought about the size issue thing…
Maybe Taiwanese folks do the one size thing to avoid sizes. Avoid anything to give a number to a size hoping that it wouldn’t be larger than a 2, It's really kinda ridiculous.
Every time I see a thick girl wearing something cute I want to ask her where she goes to shop but I don't want her to get all offended. Oh well...
I know I’ve been all complainey and whiney about clothing sizes and feelin all fat and all that stupid shit I never used to worry about when I was home but a light bulb went off in my head… ligggggggggggggggggght bulb
I don’t think anybody here feel themselves to be that pretty… they’re all too busy with an obsession over their looks…
wearing fake eyelashes
colored contacts
dying or perming their hair
everyone here is on a constant diet, calling themselves fat (which bugs the fuh outta me especially when I see girls call themselves fat when they obvioulsy need to eat several sandwiches and a slice of pizza… and maybe an extra large sundae for dessert…)
or bleaching their skin, spending all their time outdoors hiding under an umbrella
hating the shape of their eyes so they wear stickers to create a double lid or even goin as far as to have cosmetic surgery to "fix" this so called problem. What you can't see or something?!?!
trying anything to not look like how they were born to grow up…
you’d figure we can all blame it on a world obsessed with western culture… the media, comsmetic companies, so on and so forth…
I was born with dark hair and dark eyes… I know everyone jokes that I look brown and I have no problem with that, I love it… but I know that my black hair and brown eyes come from my Taiwanese mother, from her parents, and theirs and theirs and theirs…
Although recently my hair hasn’t been playing nice at all since it’s now summer and it's averaging 100 degrees a day and don't get me started on 97% humidity cuz it's just ruuuuuuude… got me lookin like a poodle that’s been thrown in the dryer….
Realization: when sitting on the bus I have a tendency to sit on the left (if I can, right behind the driver), Psych analysis tells me I miss drivin too much. (professional opinion given by Dr. Me) gaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh I miss my truck, the sheep skin seat covers, my pina colada vent scent sticks, 17" Broadview mirror, microfiber dust mitt in the glove... I miss my monster... le sigh
Anyways back to the matter at hand…
Peoples obsessions with their looks is not a new thing… i know that
Maybe I’m just baffled by the thought that it's not the fact that they're obsessed about improving their own looks by enhancing their current features but by changing them all together… and I know before you get your scrunchy all in a twist… I know it’s not just Asian folks who change their looks to emulate white folks… I’ve just never seen it on such a massive scale.
Maybe I’m just way too into people accepting themselves and others when I know it’s as unrealistic as Fox news telling the truth… I know I’m being highly critical towards people who probably couldn’t care less and are just as baffled by my anger towards something they don’t think is a big deal…
This all just makes me wonder what kinda of home did everyone grow up in…. you think that’s a stretch? Not really…
Who are these parents who are not tellin their kids EVERY DAY OF THEIR LIVES that they are beautiful just the way they are… that they would be just as loved with our without a little bit of “extra” weight… whatever the shape or their eyes or hair color, their home would always be their home… and why should appearance change that in the first place
(thought… maybe that’s why all girls love songs like Bruno Mars’ Just the Way You Are, Katy Perry’s Firework, and even Ke$ha’s We Are Who We Are… because they’ve never been told that being who you are is pretty damn kick ass… hmmmm something to ponder upon)
Friends…
Bleh, bitter taste in my mouth… bleh… bleh bleh…
If you read the last post then you can kinda get a feelin of how I’m feelin… heh… ehhhh kinda
Like, I know I’m the one that left the country but it’s not like I don’t try and keep people updated here and on Facebook… and there’s only so many times I can leave voicemails before it starts to feel like I’m better friends with the answering machine than the person I’m trying to reach. Not just that... but people who said they’d keep in contact don’t, people who said they’d get SKYPE didn’t, and I know for a fact some don’t even bother to read the blog…
So you can’t be mad if I don’t tell you when I come home… you just can’t… and if you do get mad… I will punch you in your left tit… or if you can give me a reason as to why I should... I'd certainly like to hear it... must be interesting
There are several people who I must thank because for one reason or another we started talkin more (or just started talkin again) after I moved here…
Chris L. & Jonathan S. (you both are the bomb dot com and I love yall to death)
My brothers Robbie and Richard L.
My katana wielding soon to be shoppin buddy Mr. Bedrock himself, Richard C.
Le sigh
On the brighter side of friendship… literally it’s like I’m in the middle of a RAINBOW… I’ve made a gang of gay friends and I’m so happy…I’m completely surrounded! and oh so happy wahhahahahahahha I’ve missed my gays….
Speaking to one of my new friends who’s Taiwanese and gay (but that's not so important to me since no matter who he love's he's still pretty rad), he’s made me realize just how repressed slash oppressed the LGTBQ community is here in Taiwan… my friend constantly tells me that Taiwan is still very traditional…. As if that is to explain everything…
Here’s some things I’ve learned
For the most part gay men feel better being ‘out’ in public… but will go to great lengths to hide it from their family…
‘Taiwanese lesbians, don’t give a shit. In reality they have bigger balls than Taiwanese gay men.’ (comment by a non-TW gay man)
I heard (please note the stresssssssssssss on the HEARD part) I HEARD that dating a gay TW man is pretty much like dating a woman... THAT made me laugh… and of course it’s not applicable to ALL TW gay men but I just thought it was funny…
Ehhhhhhhhhh well… so it’s not like I’m studying them or anything, I’m just happy that I’ve made more friends… it doesn’t even matter if they’re gay, straight, purple, or inside out… ok, I don’t know about the inside out part… I mean I guess I could handle it but I’d always have the urge to yell “HOLD YOURSELF TOGETHER MAN!” hahahahah
It takes lots of skill to be this awkward… don’t hate… =)
Anywhoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Haha boyfriends and husbands…. Not really anything new to that… I still don’t have either hahaha although after the wedding everyone kept asking me when I was getting married… I said OH WOAH hello THERE… last month yall wanted me to get a boyfriend… and now you’re asking me when the date is? All I could do was laugh… I LOVE my TW family more than 珍珠奶茶… yup, that’s a LOT of love
Oh speaking of the wedding…
It was at the Grand Palace hotel in Taipei
very fancy shmancy
(above: the first floor lobby below: the banquet hall)
The bride was GORGEOUS… and the grooms was swagtastically handsome.
Here look for yourself!
I must say… I cleaned up pretty nicely myself…
Before the wedding my other cousin warned me it’s definitely NOT like American weddings were you eat and dance the night away, followed by sending the newly weds off into the sunset so they can go on their honeymoon…
Taiwan weddings go something like this…
PRESENTING THE BRIDE…
GROOM ASKS FATHER FOR HER HAND…
THE BRIDE AND GROOM MAKE A SMALL SPEECH…
THEN THE PARENTS JOIN IN ON THE SPEECH…
EAT
SPEECH
EAT
SPEECH
EAT
SPEECH
EAT
SPEECH
EAT
SPEECH
EAT
SPEECH
GO HOME
NOOOOOPPPPPPPPE NOT MY COUSIN!!!!
MY ROCKSTAR OF A COUSIN HAD HIS FRIENDS PLAY/PERFORM INSTEAD OF ALL THOSE SPEECHES… my other cousin said it was way better because normally people just eat through the speeches anyway. Hahahahha
It was like a music festival… I don’t know how any other wedding could top it… =)
enjoy some pictures!
enjoy some pictures!
(ps Mommy or Lillian or Kenny the next time you see阿嬷 你們可不可以給她看看。 Thanks, I think she’d like seeing them)
PS... HAPPY PRIDE PARADE!
aint nothing wrong with love
♥ ♥ ♥
go hug a gay today!
hahahahahahahhaahha
PS... HAPPY PRIDE PARADE!
aint nothing wrong with love
♥ ♥ ♥
go hug a gay today!
hahahahahahahhaahha
It's crazy seeing how people dress over there huh?! When Malique and I visited HK, he kept telling me, "I wanna buy her a burger or something." cause the chicks are like skeletal skinny! And I don't know HOW they can stay that skinny when there is food everywhere you go! As for the fashion, we'll probably start seeing that over here in the states in a year or two... cause I know I can't find anything here that hasn't been bedazzled or ripped apart. lol I love the pics you posted because I occasionally see people dressed like that here. haha But yeah... pattern leggings on a dude. WTF?! haha I take it back... DON'T find a man while you're there... unless you can find a more normal dressed dude.
ReplyDeleteLooks like you had fun at the wedding, and the brides dress is very daring. And why is it that Asian people don't like to give a big toothy smile in pictures?! They always look so reserved and what not.