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Yes, read the title. I'm not going to say how to try to look like a Caucasian but I'm going to just rant on people's reactions and thinking when they first see me. People who look at my pictures after they first meet me would normally ask:
'Omg, are you actually mixed blood?'
'Is your father ang moh?'
Answer to all these: NO NO & NO! I am pure Chinese! Both my parents are Chinese and people will then ask 'then is like your grandparent Caucasian? Or any other links somehow to ang mohs?' The answer is always no. Unless there is someone I don't know lah but my grandparents are definitely Chinese too!
These questions have actually been stuck with me ever since I was born because, believe it or not, I had natural brown hair when I was young! And not just brown. It was like obvious and light brown! And I heard from my mum that loads of people had thought that I had a Caucasian father. Gahahaha.
Anyways, of course, until today, people still ask such questions and some don't even ask. They ASSUME RIGHT AWAY that I am Caucasian. The thing is, I have no idea why either!
So, out of curiousity, I asked my dear friends on which part of me made them think that way. BECAUSE! I do not have brown hair anymore (dye-d) and I do not have different eye colour as Asians (except when I put on contacts duh!).
1) My nose. I have no idea how the hell people identify nose shapes unless the person has like a witch-like nose or something because to me, ALL NOSES LOOK THE SAME. Anyways, people say my nose is like sharp. Sharp in what way? Don't ask me!
2) My skintone. This one really made me like 'WHATT? @.@'. Because people say that Chinese usually have like yellow skintone BUT my skintone is like the Caucasian white. Okay not white, pale. @.@
Well.... judge for yourself?
Self-photos with the yummy goodies YanLing got for me all the way from Japan
Normally I don't post photos without any effects okay!
This will be one of the rare times because my skin tone will look different with effects -.-
3. Last and not least, my Chinese accent. Not really accent lah. I just cannot speak Chinese properly (don't ask me why because I myself do not know why) and sometimes the words (especially those at the end of the sentence) would come out weirdly. Like an ang moh.
It's like super weird until my friends told me to shut up before because they cannot stand the weird-ness. Gahahahaha.
BUT, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I GOT A DISTINCTION FOR CHINESE LANGUAGE OLEVELS ORAL. I'm like the living proof that it's not impossible to score for Chinese language even if you can't speak it well.
And I remember very clearly that day the results were out. I thought my teacher had mixed my results with someone else's because the girls who were in front of me by register number were really good in Chinese but they just got pass/merit.
SO, YES. MIRACLES DO HAPPEN IF YOU BELIEVE. Actually, I believe it was lucky. Probably the testers were impressed because that thought I was a mix-blood and usually those mix-bloods have really hard time to score well in Chinese so I exceeded their low expectations of me so they gave me a distinction? I guess I'll never know. ^^
And my mother DID NOT believe me when I broke the news to her. Truly, she totally doubted and bugged me the whole day not to lie to her anymore BUT HEY, IT'S THE TRUTH.
She also told me that when I was very young and was starting to learn how to talk, I COULD NOT speak Chinese at all. So my grandmother was really worried for me when I went into Primary 1 but guess what, I score straight As ;)
Okay, going to move on, not going to make this post on Chinese Language LOL!
Okay the funny parts are here. Well, it's up to you to decide to laugh or not because when I told people about incidents about people mistaking me for a Caucasian, they just burst out laughing. I'm going to reveal 2 out of the many many.
1. Taxi Driver
Normally I would run errands for my lecturer so I would take a taxi straight to work (can claim the fare one ofc!). And at TP area, there are many people taking taxi in the morning because it was peak period so I was standing there miserably fighting for a bloody taxi and I finally got one!
So, when I was happily entering the taxi, I said "Hello uncle, I want to go NUH!". Normally, taxi uncles would speak in english because most of the taxi drivers who drove me were malay/indian. So, of course, I was expecting the same lah!
But, the uncle was struggling to reply me in English as he was driving. At first, I had my earphones and could not hear clearly but when I pulled the earphone off, he was trying to ask me which highway or road do I want him to go.
I sort of understood what he was saying but since he was having difficulty speaking English, I decided to tell him that it was alright to talk to me in Chinese.
So I said "Uncle, 我会讲华语." which also means "uncle, I know how to speak Chinese."
And boy, he got a huge shock and his eyes literally widened and his volume like shot up in an instant.
"HUH!? 你会讲华语!?" And I was super surprised by his huge response.
BUT, he did not seem to believe me. He began talking in Chinese and keep asking me if I was pulling his leg because yes, the 语 (yu) which is also the last word of the sentence I first spoke in Chinese, came out of my mouth weirdly like a foreigner.
Come on uncle, if I'm not Chinese, I won't have rashly tell you I understand Chinese for nothing. Okay, that was story one!
2. The Salesperson
This just happened today and this 'accident' is what inspired me to have this post.
So, today is a weekday like any other. I was on my way home and on the way to the bus interchange, I was stopped in my tracks by this young guy who was asking people to buy food vouchers to help the needy people.
And when he approached me, he immediately spoke in Chinese. "Hello, ke yi da rau ni yi xia ma?" Which means "Hello, can I take up some of your time for awhile?" And I'm typing all these in the hanyu pinyin because I have no idea which are the Chinese characters that are correct. Yes, my Chinese just suck like that.
Okay, back to the story. So I was very tired but I turned to him and gave him a very shocked "HUH?"
& I saw the click in his eyes when he saw my face. He IMMEDIATELY switched to English and asked if he can take up some of my time for him to talk about his food vouchers.
Just with a HUH? and a clearer picture of my face made him think I was Caucasian. Pity I had no money but those vouchers were really expensive but when I was walking away I was like smiling to myself. Gahahahahahahahahaha!
Yeah, those are the stories. I'm quite sure that more will come, I don't know why but I would post up here when the time comes. Whatever people say, I'm proud to be pure Chinese! ;)
