1. your mother has a short-haired, curly perm
-- Umm...she did before I was born lol.
2. your dad is some sort of engineer
-- I don't think so...lol
3. your parents still tried to get you into places half-price saying you were 12 when you were really 15
-- Haha...I did that, I was 11 but they said I was 9
4. you are 25 years old or older and still being carded to buy a lotto ticket.
-- I ain't 25
5. you are 25 years old or older and you still try to get into places half-price.
-- I ain't 25
6. you are a 63-year-old woman and you pass for 50 years old at the hospital where you get an in vitro fertilization procedure so you can have a baby.
-- I ain't that old!!!
7. you ask your parents for help on one math problem and 2 hours later they're still lecturing.
-- Lmao! That happens
8. you have a 40 lb. bag of rice in your pantry.
-- No I don't think so lol
9. you shop at 99 Ranch.
-- never heard of it
10. everyone thinks you're "Chinese" no matter what part of Asia your ancestors were from.
-- Yupp. I'm vietnamese if you're wondering
11. you've had a bowl haircut at one point in your life.
-- Eww no
12. your parents enjoy comparing you to their friends' kids.
-- Yup, all the time. But they get mad at me for comparing them to my friend's parents
13. you've had to sit through karaoke videos with scantily clad, ugly Asian women attempting to dance and walk around a temple, forest or library.
-- Yeah...when I was 4. My parents don't watch to karoake videos anymore
14. your parents say, "Don't forget your heritage."
-- Yeah sometimes
15. you drive mostly Japanese cars.
-- I don't know what kind of car we have
16. you've learned to keep bargaining even if the prices are rock bottom.
-- Uhh...hehe
17. you've had to eat parts of animals they don't even put in hot dogs.
-- Uh huh
18. at least once, you've started a joke with "Confucius say . . . "
-- What does that mean?
19. you know what bok choy is.
-- What the hell is that?
20. you've ever gotten little red envelopes around February.
-- Yeah!!! Free money!!!
21. piles of shoes tend to make it hard to open the front, back and closet doors.
-- Nope we have a shoe rack and the closet just can't open cause I put all my old things in there, not shoes.
22. you hear (your name + eee (optional) + yah!) every time someone calls you. (e.g., Jean- ee - yah! or Mary - yah!).
-- Sometimes from my mom...
23. you have NO eyelashes.
-- I have eyelashes! Ask Angie lol
24. idiot people try to impress you with pathetic imitation Asian languages, like the ever-so-popular: ching chong woo bok chi, etc ..
-- Haha always
25. your parents say leaving rice in your bowl is a sin.
-- Not my parents, my friend's parents say that
26. your parents say that the number of grains of rice you left in your bowl is the number of pockmarks your future husband/wife will have on their face.
-- no..
27. the Bio lectures on marine life (seaweed, sea cucumbers, octopii) was last night's dinner.
-- Huh?
28. your ancestors 1000 generations back invented the back scratcher.
--
29. at least one family member wears black wire/plastic frame glasses.
-- No...I don't think
30. your parents hover over your tired, caffeine-drugged body at 12 midnight to say, "In Korea (or other native country), we studied even more."
-- My mom does that lol
31. your parents expect you'll be best friends with any one off the street in any given area as long as they are Asian.
-- Uhh sometimes lol
32. an Asian woman comes on campus and people ask: "Is that your mother? Well then, is it your sister?"
-- Yes...
33. your relatives' houses smell like incense, mothballs or both.
-- My relatives' houses smell like crap. Like...food.
34. your parents say, "Calculus? I took calculus in 8th grade!!"
-- Uhh no
35. everyone thinks you're good at math.
-- my best subject haha
36. your parents' vocabulary is filled with "Ai-yahs and Wah's."
-- Just a little lol
37. you like $1.75 movies.
-- Not really
38. you like $1.50 movies even more.
--
39. your aunts and uncles bring you back adorable clothing from Asia with fuzzy bunnies, vinyl ducks and English words that make no sense, in great colors like yellow, pink, magenta, orange and the ever popular lime green.
-- Lmao thats when I was little.
40. your parents insist you marry within your race.
-- Yeah...but I won't listen
41. you never order chop suey, sweet and sour pork, or any other imitation oriental food.
-- I don't know what that is...
42. you either really, really want to go to UC Irvine or really, really want to stay away from it.
-- Never heard of it..
43. your parents have never kissed you.
-- Yea they have, when I was younger
44. your parents have never kissed each other.
-- Iunno
45. you learned about the birds and the bees from someone other than your parents
-- Yupp, from tv, and school, and friends
46. "You want a stereo!" When I was your age, I didn't even have shoes!!"
-- They never said that
47. people see a bunch of scribbles on a chopstick and ask you to translate.
-- Nope but I did ask some chinese kid to do that once lol
48. you have to call just about all your parents' friends "Auntie and Uncle."
-- Yup, cause of respect or something like that
49. you have 12+ aunts and uncles.
-- Yupp, boy did my grandparents like to bang
50. at expensive restaurants, you order a delicious glass of water for your beverage and NEVER order dessert.
-- I always get a pop, and dessert if i'm not full
51. your parents simply cut the green/black part off the bread and say "Eat it anyway. It's still good."
-- Eww my parents aren
