Calling all Asians

[daisie]

I'm married to a Filipino man myself and I'm sure it'snot just the Spanish blood, but he is one of the most passionate--horizontally and vertically.

*evil grin*

I think I hit the jackpot with Filipinos. The food is great, the families are warm and friendly. The men can cook, dance, sing, tell a joke and make love - and they love their mothers.

I love the Philippines. It's beautiful and the men are so sweet - though that could have been because I was probably the only 5'10" blonde woman in the country at the time.



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[MercyMia]

*evil grin*

I think I hit the jackpot with Filipinos. The food is great, the families are warm and friendly. The men can cook, dance, sing, tell a joke and make love - and they love their mothers.

I love the Philippines. It's beautiful and the men are so sweet - though that could have been because I was probably the only 5'10" blonde woman in the country at the time.



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Ack! You're so right about the men loving their mothers. I can't tell what the magic ingredient is, but somehow, it's working in the next generation, too. My son loves me and shows it more than to anyone else in the family. Very touching. It makes up for the times my husband made the wrong choices for our marriage but the right ones for his mom.

What part(s) of the Philippines have you visited? I can imagine you would make quite a visual impression given your height and coloring!

 

[daisie]

What part(s) of the Philippines have you visited? I can imagine you would make quite a visual impression given your height and coloring!

I had a kind of entourage. People couldn't help staring. It was kind of weird. Someone thought I was Alicia Silverstone. (Nothing like having people yell at you, "Clueless! Clueless!") I guess we all look alike to them, too.

I was married there. I stayed in Antipolo, was married at UST in Manila, and my reception was at a beautiful resort in San Pablo. I had a huge wedding, for a fraction of what it would have cost in the States.

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[Ask For More]

Funny story daisie

I remember when I went to Granada in Spain to visit a friend(a fellow literotican as it happens), everywhere we went there were people starting at me! Its a pretty small town and there's like three chinese restaurants and a japanese one, and no other orientals in whole city.
She's white, and obviously me yellow, and a lot of people seemed to be amazed that I would go into all the normal places like bars and stuff. One time we walked down this street where there were a few guys doing roadworks, and they stopped and stared at me all the way down the street. I felt like I was in a Western or something....

 

[MercyMia]

Funny story daisie

I remember when I went to Granada in Spain to visit a friend(a fellow literotican as it happens), everywhere we went there were people starting at me! Its a pretty small town and there's like three chinese restaurants and a japanese one, and no other orientals in whole city.
She's white, and obviously me yellow, and a lot of people seemed to be amazed that I would go into all the normal places like bars and stuff. One time we walked down this street where there were a few guys doing roadworks, and they stopped and stared at me all the way down the street. I felt like I was in a Western or something....

Do you speak with a British accent? I bet *that* really threw them off too! When I was a girl, my family would go camping in the wilderness of Maine and you can bet we were the only non-white people in a tent. We got stares and whispers, too. It seemed like they didn't think we noticed them, that they were invisible (and not the reverse? gwei loh = invisible ghost?). One time, I had had enough. We were at a picnic area just grilling steaks and cutting up salad stuff. Two other families kept staring at us and nudging each other and casting looks our way. I yelled something out, like, "Okay, guys, the freak show's over. Let's all eat now." My parents were so embarrassed. But at least the people stopped staring so obviously...

 

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Of course I have a British accent

To date the only Lit member I have met, the first time she spoke to me she said "Oh my god, you really have a british accent!"

Stupid americans

 

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(and not the reverse? gwei loh = invisible ghost?).

Gwai lo, cantonese slang for white people, real meaning is ghostman! Orginally said because foreigners were so pale, chinese thought they looked like ghosts.

 

[latefrost]

morning?

i think it's morning. hey folks. hope your vday went the way you wanted, whether it was spent cuddled with someone cute and almond-eyed or together with friends bitching about the commercialization of romance.

which was it? or how would you have liked it?

 

[MercyMia]

Thanks for explaining gwai loh, AFM. The Hokkien term for white people isn't quite the same, is it? Ang mo?

Hi LateFrost. Welcome to the thread--papillon started it off. My VDay was very uncommercial but romantic. We practice the cheap date philosophy! More important is that we are together. And you, how was your vday?

 

[latefrost]

Hi LateFrost. Welcome to the thread--papillon started it off. My VDay was very uncommercial but romantic. We practice the cheap date philosophy! More important is that we are together. And you, how was your vday?

it was a day. for the past while i had been dating someone in the food business, so i'm used to being left to my own .. er .. deviced on vday. different girl this year, but she had to work. i elected to critique poetry instead. =)

 

[MercyMia]

it was a day. for the past while i had been dating someone in the food business, so i'm used to being left to my own .. er .. deviced on vday. different girl this year, but she had to work. i elected to critique poetry instead. =)

A most worthy way to spend V-day!

Do you write poetry, too?

I pretend to critique poems but I don't really know how.

 

[latefrost]

A most worthy way to spend V-day!

Do you write poetry, too?

I pretend to critique poems but I don't really know how.

like writing poetry (yes, i write -- badly), critiquing is a skill you gotta develop too. looking at the details, and not just the governing emotions, mostly.

 

[RomanHans]

Thanks to everyone for the posts...always interesting to hear various perspectives on being Asian--I've had several interesting experiences blending in when in an Asian setting (in Chinatown, working in Japan, etc.)--a lot of people apparently can't tell that I'm NOT full-Asian in many situations!

Since we've already dismissed the Asian male penis size myth, how 'bout taking on another popular myth--the 'yellow cab' reputation of Asian females...anyone want to comment on that hot potato?

Enjoy!

Roman

 

[MercyMia]

What is the yellow cab reputation? Does it have to do with prostitution?

 

[Ask For More]

Yellow cab?
Its not some kind of disease is it?

 

[RomanHans]

'Yellow cab' is a really obnoxious term for the supposed phenomenon that Asian women, especially when they go on vacation, will 'take anyone for a ride' (meaning that they go buck-wild and have sex with any male that moves)

Roman

 

[MercyMia]

'Yellow cab' is a really obnoxious term for the supposed phenomenon that Asian women, especially when they go on vacation, will 'take anyone for a ride' (meaning that they go buck-wild and have sex with any male that moves)

Roman

I wonder what context "yellow cab" came from. It's too new to me to be annoying.

I've sadly heard Filipinas called LBFMs--little brown fucking machines. Several years ago, maybe 10 now, Liam Neeson made a passing comment in an interview about having a couple of Filipinas chained to his bed at home. That was really crass. I respect him as an actor, but not as a thinking human being.

Oh well, I have other venues to rant about neo-colonialism and racial power dynamics.

Thanks for coming back to explain the yellow cab syndrome, RH.

MM

 

[Ask For More]

Hmmm, that's a really derogatory term!
In my experience, Chinese girls are incredibly difficult. They definitely are not easy!

My best friend made a bet with me yesterday. I've know since we were kids, and recently there's been a lot of flirting and sexual tension building up between us. Yesterday we were discussing whether we'd ever jump into bed together, and she bet me a month's wages that I wouldn't have the guts to bed her.

She's gonna be soooooo wrong

 

[MercyMia]

Hmmm, that's a really derogatory term!
In my experience, Chinese girls are incredibly difficult. They definitely are not easy!

My best friend made a bet with me yesterday. I've know since we were kids, and recently there's been a lot of flirting and sexual tension building up between us. Yesterday we were discussing whether we'd ever jump into bed together, and she bet me a month's wages that I wouldn't have the guts to bed her.

She's gonna be soooooo wrong

is your best friend also chinese? what will you do with all that money you win?

 

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is your best friend also chinese? what will you do with all that money you win?

She filipino actually.
Maybe I'll take her to dinner

 

[MercyMia]

She filipino actually.
Maybe I'll take her to dinner

LOL!
Just don't mention anything about yellow cabs.

 

[Ask For More]

Or LBFM's!


Asian babe!

 

[MercyMia]

Or LBFM's!


Asian babe!

yes (groan), don't *ever* bring up the LBFM biz.

afm, is your babe of the day thread for any one to post pics on or is it your wall?

 

[Ask For More]

Well I just start a random babe of the day thread every now and then

Just start your own

 

[MercyMia]

Well I just start a random babe of the day thread every now and then

Just start your own

I was thinking more along the lines of chunky hunk of the day thread.