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Thursday, July 9, 2009

Fortune Cookies

The age old tradition after eating Chinese takeout has always been to open up that fortune cookie to read what the future has in store for you. The other day my friend got a fortune that went something like this: "Give up in life and handover all of your decision-making to someone else". What kind of messed up guy would write that? I imagine someone who looks something like this: but then again who knows... All I know is that it's probably a person in a dark room with no future, whose only joy in their pathetic existence is to make someone else's life a little bit worse.

On another note, I love those fortune cookies that try to teach you Chinese even though you'll most likely sound like a complete idiot in front of a Chinese person attempting to formulate a sentence out of "Fish, thank you, and eggplant." Or insult them because the word, when pronounced slightly different, has a whole other meaning to it.

The lesson learned: Luck will visit you on the next full moon as the grasshopper of legend hops over the golden dragon of destiny.
Learn Chinese:
感谢你的鱼茄子
Lucky Numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

(P.S. I realize that the guy in the picture is Kim Jong Il, Leader of North Korea.)

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