Sometime ago, my coworker and I were standing on the platform of Sheung Wan station after work. We were discussing about exotic animals in Cantonese, and then somehow trailed onto the topic of chinchillas. To my surprise, my coworker had never known what a chinchilla looked like. So there I was trying to explain to her that it was like a hybrid of a rabbit, mixed with a mouse, with a pom pom tail and I said specifically: It was in Ghibli’s Totoro. There was a “long mao” （龍猫）!
Then all of a sudden, some Korean dude in front of us with a lethargy look on his face and messy hair (Ashlotté: Not that Koreans are not good-looking, it’s just this guy) turned around and said to us in English: Chinchillas are not called “long mao” （龍猫）, trust me. And then closed his eyes; falling into a deep coma from his lethargy. I paused for a moment so that this thought: WTF? You have no grounds to stand on for me to ‘trust’ you, buddy. Could register through my head. I said to him: Are you sure? I looked at him cockeyed. Cuz I’m pretty sure I’m right. (Ashlotté: WTF? Nobody makes a fool of me!). At that point in time, I really didn’t think he was moving nor breathing for that matter. And so o preserve our dignity, and not let the other nosy passengers listening in on us think we were associated with him in anyway, we migrated slowly but steadily, far far away.
Not wanting to feel defeated, I went online and googled up Totoro, Chinchilla, 龍猫, and even long mao. Eventually in the end, even google was on my side…I found pics of chinchillas under龍猫’s images. I knew I was right…FUCK YOU, punk ass bitch who tried to pwn me. Long mao IS a chinchilla!! So in yo face!!! You’re the dumbass that doesn’t know what you’re talking about.
Unfortunately, my victory was short-lived cuz I realized that I will never see him again to mock and ridicule him for being pretentious.
Even now I still hoped there was someway I could let him know how truly wrong he was. I even imagined going as far as paying and posting ads at the mtr stations with these texts: You were wrong! 龍猫=Chinchillas!
Maybe I will meet “Chinchilla Dude” again someday so that I will be able to pwn him. But that’s another story=]
2 Comments | In: Hong Kong | tags: hong kong, mtr, wtf?. | #
tells me something. I can’t help it. Even though those imageries MAY or may not be real, I can’t help but to hypothesize something unpleasant out of it. I would confront