if i fall out of what i fell in

got back from hualien national park(is it a nat. park?) yesterday. it is very pretty.

so we had a three hour train ride on the way over there. earlier, my other cousin, pei-i (i think that's how she spells it) bought a happy meal from mcdonald's and gave the toy to my sis. it was a little green afro-man-frog-looking-plushy named...keroro or something like that (it's some cartoon dude). my sis, of course, didn't want the annoying little thing, and so i, being of the mental age of...8, took it.

i got real bored on the train so i started amusing myself by bothering my sis with the little afroman (eg. making the thing "dance" in my sis's face, poke my sis with a pencil, throw my extremities in her direction.)

...i also repeatedly pretended to...ahem...fall asleep and drool all over her as well. cause...i was that bored.

then this old man with slicked hair came on and stood beside us...while i went on tending to my own business. i guess he got bored real fast too cause he started randomly talking to us (in mandarin of course...so my sis looked pretty funny all like ... the whole time) about the afroman thing and how there were other characters and "pretty" cell phone thingies and other toys that danced on their own and then asked me if i've ever seen any of them and stuffs. he also kept saying they were pretty like my sis and i....um yeah.

i thought he was going to keep on talking to me forever but probably seeing the bored me inside, he finally asked me: are you a middle schooler going onto high school?

sitting there embarrassed and amused like no other in my ucla t-shirt, i couldn't help but suddenly choke out a really loud (and rather unfortunately ugly) laugh and told him nono, i'm going to college!

the moment was priceless. for a moment you could see the man's face falter with a look of intense confusion, his previously gentle smile all gone awry...

then he attempted to recover, but only succeeded in another weak smile and asked so which college have you tested into?

with sheer joy, i realized that he had mistaken me for a native and was proud of my chinese speaking skills. so i basked in such glory for a moment and then replied with a really large grin, ohno, i'm from america! =D

overwhelmed with surprise, he gave me a stoned look and an ohhh!..., then finally turned, spotted who he suspected were my parents, and began making conversation with them...all to my great relief.


so. i am regressing. i knew i always have been a bit silly at times, but damn. mistaken for a (rather large)middle schooler...i guess that's pretty bad. my sis acts more my age than i do. (but that's just cause she's at that stage where she really cares about her image =P)

buthey! i can act mature if i really wanted to >:0
no really. i'm not kidding. i mean...i was also mistaken for a storekeeper again in some store here as well! yeah i'm actually really deep on the inside, folks *nods*

...oh oh oh!! butbut i also got a cute stuffed animal! it's a racoon...and i named my sis's cow "moopert!" like rupert but with a "moo" instead! gettit?? hahahahaha! ...ahem.


also, pei-i let me drive the rental car (cause i kept nagging) on some of the mountain and city roads in hualien!!! it was so fun! i feel so hardcore now. traffic laws in taiwan are...a bit screwy. i seriously don't know what the police are for. anything illegal is pretty much legal here when it comes to driving. and factoring in bikes, motorcycles, people, and such, it's like a mosaic of artful chaos.

okay okay, so maybe where i drove wasn't as bad as dead-city-centers but um. i feel that driving anywhere where the lines on the roads are optional...is still pretty hardcore. =D

yeahbaby.