keskiviikko 19. syyskuuta 2007

You Know You Are Becoming 'THAI' When :

1.You can go for weeks without toilet paper.
2.It's perfectly acceptable to drive down the wrong side of the street.
3.You decline to wear a motorbike helmet because it'll mess up your hair.
4.Half your wardrobe is the colour yellow.
5.It is no longer surprising that the only decision made at a meeting is the time and venue for the next meeting.
6.Hearing "Mai Mii" or "Mai Dai" for the 300th time in a day and doesn't bother you.
7.You no longer wonder how a civil servant who earns 400 USD per month drives a Mercedes.
8.Curry is perfectly acceptable breakfast food as long as it has an egg on top.
9.Au Bon Pain is a chic hang out serving good food.
10.You can rely on the fact that any given night of the week, somewhere there is a model getting free drinks.
11.You are not surprised when three men with a ladder show up to change a light bulb.
12.You have a pinky fingernail an inch long
13.It's exciting to see if you can get in the elevator before anyone can get off.
14.You'd rather SMS someone than actually meet and talk
15.You are careful to cover your mouth when picking your teeth, but openly pick your nose at the dinner table.
16.You keep a roll of toilet paper on your dinner table, but not in the bathroom.
17.A t-bone steak with rice sounds just fine.
18."Love You Long Time" is not a satirical quote from Full Metal Jacket, but an actual saying.
19.You know when people say they're "going to bed" that they'll actually be partying until 2AM in a cylindrical nightclub resembling a spaceship.
20."Sexpats," "Pirates," "Yellow Fever" and "Rice Queens" are all in your vocabulary.
21.You can shame a group of whores in Patpong with one angry stare.
22.You regard My Name Lon - You Like Me? and Colonel Ken's Tales of 22 Misadventure in Asia as classics in the category "Asian Literature," shamelessly promoted at airports everywhere.
23.It's just part of the adventure when the waiter correctly repeats your order and the cook makes something completely different.
24.When shopping at the supermarket, a farang stares you down when he catches you looking into his basket while you wonder to yourself what farangs eat.
25.You regularly fumble for five minutes to find a 10 baht coin despite 10 people waiting in line behind you.
26.You realize half of your personality is complaining.
27.You sit sidesaddle on motorbikes (if you're a girl of course).
28.You stand still on escalators, without even thinking of walking.
29.You put a plastic bag on your head when it starts raining.
30.You don't think twice before picking your nose in public.
31.You sleep with just a fan at night because air conditioning is too cold.
32.You wear a jacket in " winter " months of December and January even though it is 30 degrees outside.
33.You hate the tought of all those pistols at Songkran.
34.You want to punch someone who touches your head.
35.You go back home and you take your shoes off before you go in your friend's house.
36.You eat pizza with ketchup on it.
37.You complain to the waiter that your food does not have enough chili peppers or fermented fish sauce in it.
38.You don't even notice the stray dogs that live under the table in the restaurant.
39.You don't mind sharing the one water cup at the water cooler with the 300 other employees at your workplace.
40.You spend most of your time at work eating, thinking about your next meal or discussing your last meal with your colleagues.
41.You've developed the ability to sleep anytime, anywhere, regardless of the noise, the situation, or your body position.
42.You think the first thing you are supposed to do after being in a car accident is to run away.
43.You are uncomfortable with public displays of affection but don't notice the massage parlors everywhere.
44.You refer to katoeys (transvestites) as She.
45.When visiting a zoo you start wondering what the different animal would taste like.
46.You come across a terrible crime / accident scene and you pose for a photo with the corpse.
47.You use your mobile phone in inapropriate public places (e.g. movie theatres, elevators, sitting in the bathroom) and share your conversation with everyone.
48.You publicly admit to liking durian.
49.You don't think there is any such thing as too gaudy a piece of jewelry..
50.You update the front page of a Thai forum every two minutes to see if anyone has replied to your latest wisecrack.