Life as AFAC

Everyone asks if I’m Xingkapuo ren. Cab drivers, salesladies, guests and clients at our launch party. I don’t know why, I don’t look even vaguely like any Singaporean I know. When I went to Taiwan everyone thought I was Japanese. When I visited Japan in 2001 I understood why. I do look kinda like the wide-eyed Japs who try to look like anime. I even had the "tiger’s tooth" (a canine a bit protruding over the incisor) which is considered lucky some have their teeth fixed to make it sungki. Crazy japs.

     Maybe people here assume since I can barely speak in Mandarin but the few words I mouth can be understood, I must be from Singapore… (major generalization coming up) where people can speak in Chinese but not really, can speak in English but not really. haahaha. no offense to my Sing friends. They are impressively well-versed in both Mandarin and English. I occasionally just can’t get the accent. My Sing officemate who I love to bits said we should’ve gone to Ridley Scott last night and apply to be a "caliver" in his next film. A what? Caliver. What? Caliver. Then she acted dead.

OHHH. Cadaver.

Everybody got it before I did. Even the Shanghainese. It’s me who have a problem.

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