Sat 11 Mar 2006
Yay! Steamed mini pork buns, green onion cake, soy bean dish, and hot & sour soup at Supreme Dragon, 4pm, as my only meal of the day.
We missed Bingo as the computer-related business took longer than expected at my parents’. So we just hung out with them for a few hours afterwards watching real survivor stories on the Explorer or Discover station or whatever it was.
We were supposed to meet my parents for dinner at Supreme Dragon, but they had called me an hour before meeting time to tell me they won’t be able to make it because they were with some friends at Sports Chalet, which is totally out of the way for them. “I wonder what my parents could want at Sports Chalet,” I said to Mr. W upon hanging up the phone with my mom. When we walked in my parents’ front door, the first thing I saw on the stairs was a Sports Chalet license plate frame that says, “I’D RATHER BE RUNNING.” “Neither of you run!” I said, laughing at my parents. “We got that for you, it was free at Sports Chalet” they said. Oh. “Thanks! Lemme take off my $30 UCLA Alumni license plate frame and put this on.” I guess I’m gonna put it on the front license plate. My mom showed me another Sports Chalet license plate frame that says “I’D RATHER BE SHOPPING.” My mom said she got that for her friend. I said, “Is that why you guys went to Sports Chalet? To get free license plate frames?” “No, I also got this free,” my dad said, holding up a 2006 fishing guide. My parents are SO Asian.
That is so cute.. I don’t know your parents but I can only imagine. My neighbors are chinese and they come over once in awhile “Look Yoran.. we got this free for you” Not sure why they call me Yoran.. unless I had been drinking the first time I met them and stumbled on to their grass.
That’s interesting, cuz we have the “j” sound in Mandarin. Actually, that accent sounds Japanese. My maternal grandma, who was in Taiwan during the Japanese takeover and therefore was a schoolgirl learning Japanese and speaks fluent Japanese, calls my friend “Vicky” either “Weeky” or “Ricky.”