1.04.2002

Ways To Be The Perfect Chinese Canadian Daughter...

  • play the piano/cello/viola on the level of Yo-Yo Ma or similar musician
  • never answer back
  • heck, don't even have your own opinion. Or at least, don't say it aloud
  • maintain a 95% average while participating in volleyball, badminton, band, debating, and student council
  • date only nice Chinese boys with a future in medicine, business or computers
  • enjoy eating rice day after day after day...
  • read and write perfect Chinese (and speak Mandarin and/or Cantonese), French, English, Spanish, etc.
  • be modest and suitably shy when meeting strangers
  • call everyone in your parents generation "Auntie" or "Uncle"
  • and for Heaven's sake, don't choose English as your major!
Don't mind me. I'm just venting. Like a teapot ready to explode.

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