

I’m East Asian… how “PoC” am I on the “PoC Scale”? 🤔
(He/Him/佢/他)
Native Speaker of Cantonese, Mandarin, Taishanese, and English.
共产党… more like 共慘黨 lmao (homophone word joke, 共产 is “communist”; 共慘 is “suffering together”, same pronunciation lol)
光復香港,時代革命。
Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times.


I’m East Asian… how “PoC” am I on the “PoC Scale”? 🤔


Speaking of Holidays, I remember during the first Thanksgiving Black Friday, we were at the Bayparkway (Brooklyn) Bestbuy. A whole line of people lined up there. We didn’t have a car, so we basically just walked there, like 30 mins away. We got a cheap tv and some budget laptop, forgot how we got it home, but I assume one of our relatives came by and helped us move it home.
My aunts and uncles who lived around there said people would set up tents there the night before lol. Wait in line felt like 1-2 hours, maybe 3 hours, forgot. That was insane, but you kmow… poverty and people want cheap stuff.
Home would’ve been so much sadder without these stuff. Never had laptop before coming the US, new stuff, the novelty… it’s useful to look up a lot of unanswered questions kid-me had. Like space stuff, planets, looking up stuff was magical.
Like this was 2010s btw. Nowadays I think people just do online shopping.


Clearly, they hired kids as unpaid interns xD


Speaking of Time Square. I remember one time in Manhattan, like somewhere near 42 st, but maybe not that close. There was like a big toy store, Toys R US maybe? Forgot. They had this weird paper plane thing constructed from I think cardboard paper. Dude threw this paper plane and it kinda “bommeranged”, looped back back to the man and he caught it. I kinda wanted that thing, never got it.
I remember having a toy helicopter thing as a gift. Broke it during first flying attempt. If it were a modern DJI, it would never have crashed, that thing sucked, but I kinda got sad about it.
Also, I was in, well… not Long Island, but I’ve played at the beach in Coney Island. It was a fun beautiful memory. I think every time I was at the beach, I always try to make a model NYC Subway railway with the tunnel things, or it’s an amalgamation combined with a castle, or something… forgot…
I also rode the ferris wheel at Coney Island… Every been there? There was like the ones that move and the non-moving carts. The moving ferris wheel carts were in red or blue or something, the non-moving ones where painted white. The non-moving ones ends up higher at the top, so it was scarier for my fear of heights, but its non-moving so its less scarier in thay regard. My entire body shaked during the ferris wheel ride, so much heights. I remember riding the Q train (or was it the F train?) when we used to explore NYC, that coney island railway segment was layered on top of the F train, like taller than 5 stories of a building, and it was so high, I got scared that the train would fall off. I think they even paused the train when there were storms, perhaps it is possible for those trains to fall off?


Sorry, just to clarify, I didn’t mean to mention the drug use thing as an insult lol. I just kinda admire that Americans (and Westerners in general) are kinda rebellious, like in a badass kinda way. I personally kinda never dared to do that stuff.


there was one ride that I was a few inches too short for
Bruh, you reminded me of the opposite situation. When my family were new immigrants in NYC, the money situation was a bit of a struggle, so my mother often tell me to just pretend to be younger, avoid the MTA employee stationed on that stop, and just go through the turnstiles with her, as on, on one fare, which was allowed for uo to like 2 children accompanying an adult. But…
Eventually I got too old, but my mother keeps insisting. I felt so embarassed lmfao. I was like idk 11/12 years old, and I was growing taller. And also, my mother would pass the monthly pass through like the fence thing to my father, who then just waited 20 minutes and can swipe the card again (because they prevent double swiping in quick succession), I think it was against policy to give it to another person, but like… lmao. Personally, as a child, I was always taught to be obedient and obey laws/rules. but then this happens, so I feel so uneasy, lmao, I felt like cops were gonna show up and we’d get in trouble.
But I eventually got so big, I convinced my mom to just get me a separate fard card loaded with a small amounts of money (deducting money instead of being a monthy pass). (Just googled the site, apparantly it’s done by height not age, so I think that was always the case even back then)
So yea, that was NYC. Damn I think I spend so much time on the subways I have so much memories of it. It’s like a big section of those years, much more memorable than car rides when nothing notable happens. I always get so bored on those subways. I had no phone, smartphone didn’t even exist. I’d just stare out the windows and see things. Mind wandering through thoughts. Pretending there’s a monster in the tunnels. And the Manhattan Bridge. Can’t even call in the tunnels, so my dad or mom (whoever was with me at the time) would make a phone call to someone else, either the other parent, or my older brother who already got a cellphone (a verizon flip phone). Bruh I didn’t get one till much older after the Smartphone revolution already begun.
Damn, those were nostalgic. NYC was nostalgic. But I kinda hate it there. Trying to find a bathroom was a bitch, Manhattan doesn’t allow non-customers to use their store bathrooms, so I hate those storeowners. I remember my mom asking a fellow Chinese Immigrant who ran the store, to use their bathroom, they fucking refused, even though my mom already said she was already planning to buy something there anyways.
I just got so pissed at this transactional type of mindset, I fucking ran off to get my mom to stop spending money there.
I kinda disliked Manhattan ngl, even Chinatown, not Chinatown itself, but these fucking evil storeowners who wouldn’t let a little kid use their bathroom. Also MTA subway stations had NASTY bathrooms, oh lord.
But anyways, NYC, subways, I was basically always just observing the environment. No entertainment to stop the boredom. Except sometimes I ask my dad for the flip phone to play with like the few games that it does have. Snake? Tetris? Forgot… I remember one of the later feature-phones having an UNO game.
Oh wow I rambled so much now its a wall of text. It’s amazing how much memories got associated with just thinking about NYC Subway.


Um… 🧐
Bruh, y’all got wild teenage years. I still haven’t ever tried any drugs to this day. 😅 (Am Asian, drugs are very stigmitized in Asian families)


Bro found out the ban expired and immediately chose violence… 💀


God help us,
oh yea there is no god…
this is a suicide carriage, but I guess its useful for when I lose the will to live lol


But, does this make me immune from getting grabbed by a bunch of armed masked men? 🧐
No, that’s mario’s green brother going to Central Park, nothing to see here, move along.


Bruh usually I just use 0-9 then use the “RAM” in my brain to store the tens-place digit lol


Contempt (insult?) of cops should be legal.
Personal opinion. (It’s illegal in Taiwan)
Lol. Reminds me of a joke: If you go to Hong Kong and say 谁拆楼, is sounds similar to 死差佬 (in Cantonese), an “insult” to cops.
Chinese is good at making names short, but terrible at making names extremely short.
My name is ■■■, and its funny how knowing the number of characters does not deanonymize me an any way, almost everyone has 3 character names, its so standarized.
Except like those rare 2 character names, in which case society just deems you weird (not really, but I personally always notice the 2 character names more, but yes, you could technically make your name shorter. Or if you have 4 characters, people are gonna think you’re a Japanese (because last name having 2 characters is a very Japanese thing).
So if you go to a western country and have to use the Pinyin as your name, its usually gonna be 2-5 letters for last name, 4-10 letters for the given name, not too long, not too short, just perfect. You could say Chinese names are the perfect names, 3 characters, 3 4 三四 生死 life-death, 4 is death, 3 is life. So your name is kinda symbolically representing life. (Not sure if this is intended or I’m just attibuting meaning to coincidences)
But also: Names like 曹操 (Cao Cao) has a very short Pinyin name, if you are lucky enough to get these short names (or I guess you could change it, couldn’t you?)
(Also how does a Taiwanese get their name romanized? Taiwan doesn’t use Pinyin… 🤔)


Average American can’t tell the difference between Communism and Democratic Socialism, Exhibit A: ⬆️


Out of Spite.
To be the anomoly of the world.
As a “fuck you” to the Communist Party of China who didn’t want me to be born for being the 2nd child.
As a “fuck you” to white supremacists and other political/reglious extremists that want me dead.
To make sure my abusive older brother doesn’t get the gratification of me being dead. To call dibs on my parents assets when they die, to make sure he doesn’t get my share.
To enjoy Movies, TV, Anime, read books, play videos games.
To explore the world one day.
To publish a book one day that people would want to read.
To form true friendships, real friendships.
And hopefully, when I find the financial stability and I win against depression, I kinda wanna start a family, to raise children that will grow up experiencing only happiness, and never ever ever have to experience the abuse I had when I was growing up, to bring more happiness into the world and thus making the world less sad.


OGs remember this as “Rules for Rulers”


Behold, a wild r/AITAH post has appeared!


Based on your previous posts, I assume you are a Mandarin speaking Taiwanese?
Passive Aggressive 就是好像我妈恨我的时候她根本拒绝跟我说话,然后用它母老虎的恶眼神来看我,想说句话都不行,连骂都不骂,几乎当我不存在。
或者… 一个同学故意的,假装“不小心”碰到你,然后你去 confront 他的时候他就说 “it was just an accident, I’m sooooooooo sorrrryyyy, 你这么生气干嘛,都说了对不起了,he he he (偷笑)” 然后就跟他的同伙嘲笑你的种族或者 mock 你的母语 (他们不是华裔的美国同学)
或者… 我告诉我妈我想自杀的时候,她跟我说:“用不用开车载你去啊?😂” (她真的那么笑着跟我说 😭)


Speaking of maturity, when we were kids, my mother told me and my brother to share stuff, like split food in equal proprotions, because like… we’re supposed to be equal to each other. Guess why we have fights every fucking day lol. He always say its not fair or some shit.
I personally don’t like the idea of murder, I’d if we-the-people get into power, just pass laws that taxes them, then enforce the law as such. If they resist, jailtime for tax evasion.
For those that are exceedingly cruel with their time as a billionaire, they get tried, judged by a jury of average people, 2/3 is a conviction (as opposed to the unanimity required now), life imprisonment.
Billionaires and their heirs are deprived of political rights.
Easy peaceful transition. Zero bloodshed
I don’t like bloodshed, because once that starts, once we “okay” mob killings, people are gonna attack anyone they don’t like, including small bussiness owners they had a grudge against in the past.
I have empathy, I don’t wanna see the streets filled with blood.