I can get tanned
Wednesday, 7 June 2023 22:58![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elusivekAh, hahaha. Facebook popped an old photo (the memories function) and that made me think about something.
So in Asia the thing is the "stay white" because if you get too tanned, it means you have been working out in the fields. Ergo, rich people who don't need to work out in the fields are more pale. So, the aim is to stay white.
The other day, some colleagues were commenting on "how white (pale) I am" and that "I won't need to use any whitening products." I said I could get pretty dark if I play out in the sun too much, and nobody believed me.
Now, the conspiracy of our electronics listening in on us aside, this photo came up, so I'm feeling nostalgic.
Look how dark I can get, in comparison to my Austrian cousins! My Sis is the one on the right, 2 cousins on the left and bottom, and I'm in the middle. The painting behind was painted by one of my Onkels and the person painted is my Oma, when she was young. People in the village back then thought I was Thai.
So since I'm feeling nostalgic, here's another old old old photo. I wonder if back then the family thought my Dad weird for bringing an Asian wife. Although Mom is Portuguese, but since she's actually of mixed heritage, when amongst caucasians, she looks more Asian. So, it's Mom and me that look like outcasts.
For those who care more about the dog than the people, his name is Loompi! From Switzerland! Dad got him when he worked in Switzerland, then, when he brought it home, Opa said "a dog is not to live in an apartment" (coz Dad was working in Switzerland, and as chefs go, spent more time at work than at home, and blah blah) and kept the dog LOL. So Loompi got his long walks and freedom every day after.
This photo was at one of my Onkel's garden. It definitely was very, very sunny. I guess I was in my rebellious age and simply bored of life in countryside Austria where nobody but my Dad spoke English with me and my Sis spoke Chinese with me and my Mom spoke Portuguese with me and then I couldn't understand anybody else. Heck, I couldn't even understand the TV. And there was virtually no public transport anywhere so we were stuck in the boring village with nothing to do for 3 weeks.
For the record though, in my 2015 trip to Austria with my friend, we sort of made a circle touring around Austria and it was a lot more fun, more people spoke English, I had started to learn some German properly, and so it was a lot more enjoyable visiting my roots as an adult.
It's time for more Taobao Shopping show-off. New watercolor paint! The 3 smaller boxes on the left were bought a couple months back. It's a very small amount, but I figure it'll actually last me a long, long, time, since I don't really paint much. Which should be a clue for me to quit buying water color paint. And then the shiney and bigger box just arrived today. It's shiney! It's sparkly!
And then I bought another pair of shoes. I was actually surprised with the materials. It looks like leather, but it's not, and it should be those PV or PU fake leather but it doesn't look like that either. It looks very plastic-y. Then the soles, upon closer inspection, is really some kind of soft plastic or hard silicon type of thing. That they designed it like this makes this pair of shoes very good for rainy weather. China shoe sizes tend to be on the smaller size. I'm a 39 or 9 in EU or UK size, but in China I usually buy 40 or even a 41 if they have it. Oh oh, this was a Taobao online shopping thing, so I couldn't try it on first. Overall it fits but only just. I'll need to put on my "toe brace" for my right foot so that the fourth toe (ring finger, so ring toe?) won't get squashed by the middle toe, but I'm not sure if that will push my little toe too far out and cause it to chafe on the side of the shoe. I'll try it out on the weekend.
Oh yeah, the previous Japanese post was because I suddenly felt like writing in Japanese, so did so. Just some silly thing about pottery class.
So in Asia the thing is the "stay white" because if you get too tanned, it means you have been working out in the fields. Ergo, rich people who don't need to work out in the fields are more pale. So, the aim is to stay white.
The other day, some colleagues were commenting on "how white (pale) I am" and that "I won't need to use any whitening products." I said I could get pretty dark if I play out in the sun too much, and nobody believed me.
Now, the conspiracy of our electronics listening in on us aside, this photo came up, so I'm feeling nostalgic.
Look how dark I can get, in comparison to my Austrian cousins! My Sis is the one on the right, 2 cousins on the left and bottom, and I'm in the middle. The painting behind was painted by one of my Onkels and the person painted is my Oma, when she was young. People in the village back then thought I was Thai.
So since I'm feeling nostalgic, here's another old old old photo. I wonder if back then the family thought my Dad weird for bringing an Asian wife. Although Mom is Portuguese, but since she's actually of mixed heritage, when amongst caucasians, she looks more Asian. So, it's Mom and me that look like outcasts.
For those who care more about the dog than the people, his name is Loompi! From Switzerland! Dad got him when he worked in Switzerland, then, when he brought it home, Opa said "a dog is not to live in an apartment" (coz Dad was working in Switzerland, and as chefs go, spent more time at work than at home, and blah blah) and kept the dog LOL. So Loompi got his long walks and freedom every day after.
This photo was at one of my Onkel's garden. It definitely was very, very sunny. I guess I was in my rebellious age and simply bored of life in countryside Austria where nobody but my Dad spoke English with me and my Sis spoke Chinese with me and my Mom spoke Portuguese with me and then I couldn't understand anybody else. Heck, I couldn't even understand the TV. And there was virtually no public transport anywhere so we were stuck in the boring village with nothing to do for 3 weeks.
For the record though, in my 2015 trip to Austria with my friend, we sort of made a circle touring around Austria and it was a lot more fun, more people spoke English, I had started to learn some German properly, and so it was a lot more enjoyable visiting my roots as an adult.
It's time for more Taobao Shopping show-off. New watercolor paint! The 3 smaller boxes on the left were bought a couple months back. It's a very small amount, but I figure it'll actually last me a long, long, time, since I don't really paint much. Which should be a clue for me to quit buying water color paint. And then the shiney and bigger box just arrived today. It's shiney! It's sparkly!
And then I bought another pair of shoes. I was actually surprised with the materials. It looks like leather, but it's not, and it should be those PV or PU fake leather but it doesn't look like that either. It looks very plastic-y. Then the soles, upon closer inspection, is really some kind of soft plastic or hard silicon type of thing. That they designed it like this makes this pair of shoes very good for rainy weather. China shoe sizes tend to be on the smaller size. I'm a 39 or 9 in EU or UK size, but in China I usually buy 40 or even a 41 if they have it. Oh oh, this was a Taobao online shopping thing, so I couldn't try it on first. Overall it fits but only just. I'll need to put on my "toe brace" for my right foot so that the fourth toe (ring finger, so ring toe?) won't get squashed by the middle toe, but I'm not sure if that will push my little toe too far out and cause it to chafe on the side of the shoe. I'll try it out on the weekend.
Oh yeah, the previous Japanese post was because I suddenly felt like writing in Japanese, so did so. Just some silly thing about pottery class.
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Date: 2023-06-09 16:13 (UTC)