happy birthday frank...

we, the a.b.c.'s (american born chinese) of taiwan, have the conversation about "deteriorating english" quite often. no matter how well versed you are in western culture and education it's bound go to sh*t. about 50% of the abc's back in taiwan are for family business and in order to spike the learning curve in traditional business settings, one must make that extra effort to assimilate with the cultural nuances covering all aspects of life (sauna, betel nuts, taiwan beer, smoking, gao liang, taiwanese language etc). and as one learning curve spikes upwards, another plummets to hell. the sin/cosin of cultural assimilation. the other day someone asked me...

"那天好不好玩？" (how was it last night)
"還好, 就那樣啊...但他們玩的滿HIGH的" (it was ok, same ole, but they partied pretty "high")

I CANNOT BELIEVE I SO INSTINCTIVELY REPLIED USING THE WORD "HIGH".

happy birthday frank.