6 months......But Not Counting!
Good bye China….
You know you are (were?) an expat in Asia when…
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| One last stroll through Beijing Airport |
You know you are (were?) an expat in Asia when…
- You own a rice cooker and a dehumidifier.
- You mentally convert the price of something into three or four currencies before you make a decision about whether to buy it or not.
- You know the weather conditions in six countries just by logging onto Facebook and reading your friend’s status updates.
- You add “ok la” or “is it” to the end of every sentence you use.
- Your car cost more than the average family home in your country of origin.
- Your nieces and nephews are more familiar with the concept of nuclear fission than they are with you.
- You think that owning a lawn mower is the ultimate status symbol.
- You have to look twice if you see a woman without a Louis Vuitton handbag—or a man for that matter.
- You find it hard to control your emotions when you visit a supermarket back home, and you get more excited about your friends bringing your favorite products when they come to visit than you are about seeing them.
- You start to think that all Caucasians look the same.
- You pay your maid, driver and gardener less than $5 USD an hour and expect nothing short of blood.
- It’s normal to repeat your order several times in a restaurant and it’s also normal to get something completely different from the food you requested.
- It doesn’t surprise you to see six men crowded around a ladder trying to change a single light bulb.
- When you contemplate Sunday brunch you think of champagne, not eggs benedict.
- Your friends come and go quicker than Tiger Wood’s love interests and you have a lot of friends that you don’t really like but keep in contact with in case of a friend shortage.
- You can't say goodbye to someone anymore without voicing the last vowel for at least six seconds: "bab biiiiiiiiiii"
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