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Friday Five 5-July
Friday, 5 July 2019 23:26These are actually last week’s questions (this week’s isn’t up yet). These are very tough to me because I do not associate myself to any particular country or nationality... read on to understand.
1. What is one of your favorite things about your country?
I was born and raised in Macau, a city, not a country, and a Portuguese Colony up to 1999 and now a part of China. During the Portuguese rule, it wasn’t very “Portuguese-y”. Majority of the population was (and is) Chinese. Now after the handover this is a special administrative region; while under heavy China influence, this is still not China.
Our official languages are Portuguese and Chinese, but almost nobody speaks shit of Portuguese because it’s not a mandatory language course in schools. Yes, we are such a funny region here.
I guess I like this kind of ambiguity here.
2. What is your favorite thing to do on your country's national holiday?
Given that now we are under Chinese rule, there is only one thing to do on China National Day (1-Oct): celebrate Mom’s birthday. Hey, my mom happens to have been born exactly the same day and year when the People’s Republic of China was established. No reason to avoid Mom as it’s a public holiday. On Portugal National Day (10-Jun), nothing much goes on. Well the Portuguese Consul’s residence holds a cocktail party to all Portuguese people (show your Portuguese passport), and every year I say I’d like to go as the building is historical and was the old Hotel Bela Vista. Macau City Day (24-Jun) has nothing going on. And for the Austrian National Day (26-Oct) similarly, I keep saying I want to go to the cocktail party held by the Austrian Consulate of Hong Kong, but it just never happens.
3. What do you usually do for your country's national holiday?
Nothing. LOL. Only for Mom’s birthday!
4. What is your favorite national/regional ethnic dish?
How do I even answer that? I’m the first to admit I’m not patriotic to any of the mentioned nationalities and citizenry, though I carry some quirks of all of them (I have a Portuguese temper. I speak perfect Cantonese and hold some of the stupid superstitions the Chinese have. I’m chill like Macau people, and I believe my palate is like, I suppose, an Austrian)
5. Who is your favorite national hero and why?
erm... same as #4... but now is more like... I don’t know. National hero? Who needs one? Hero? Mom. It’s always Mom.
1. What is one of your favorite things about your country?
I was born and raised in Macau, a city, not a country, and a Portuguese Colony up to 1999 and now a part of China. During the Portuguese rule, it wasn’t very “Portuguese-y”. Majority of the population was (and is) Chinese. Now after the handover this is a special administrative region; while under heavy China influence, this is still not China.
Our official languages are Portuguese and Chinese, but almost nobody speaks shit of Portuguese because it’s not a mandatory language course in schools. Yes, we are such a funny region here.
I guess I like this kind of ambiguity here.
2. What is your favorite thing to do on your country's national holiday?
Given that now we are under Chinese rule, there is only one thing to do on China National Day (1-Oct): celebrate Mom’s birthday. Hey, my mom happens to have been born exactly the same day and year when the People’s Republic of China was established. No reason to avoid Mom as it’s a public holiday. On Portugal National Day (10-Jun), nothing much goes on. Well the Portuguese Consul’s residence holds a cocktail party to all Portuguese people (show your Portuguese passport), and every year I say I’d like to go as the building is historical and was the old Hotel Bela Vista. Macau City Day (24-Jun) has nothing going on. And for the Austrian National Day (26-Oct) similarly, I keep saying I want to go to the cocktail party held by the Austrian Consulate of Hong Kong, but it just never happens.
3. What do you usually do for your country's national holiday?
Nothing. LOL. Only for Mom’s birthday!
4. What is your favorite national/regional ethnic dish?
How do I even answer that? I’m the first to admit I’m not patriotic to any of the mentioned nationalities and citizenry, though I carry some quirks of all of them (I have a Portuguese temper. I speak perfect Cantonese and hold some of the stupid superstitions the Chinese have. I’m chill like Macau people, and I believe my palate is like, I suppose, an Austrian)
5. Who is your favorite national hero and why?
erm... same as #4... but now is more like... I don’t know. National hero? Who needs one? Hero? Mom. It’s always Mom.
