Mah Taiwanese Birthday

by Sander Tams 3. October 2009 17:23

OMG OMG! DING 18. Can has epic ground mount!!

So, it became my turn now. So prepare for asian craziness.

 

During all day in school, my classmates were drawing stuff and acting completely different. Normally they're supposed to have neat desks and sit completely straight, just listening to the teacher, but for some very obvious reason, they were allowed to not care so much about the education today. (Hey, so much special treatment... :S)

 

The day was actually almost as boring as usual - still bu dong zhong wen - but finally when it was 4pm (which is actually the time I usually leave school, but not today):

 

So for my birtday, I get a giant burger. They really hate cake and sugar here, huh?
Okay. It's actually a cake, of course. A pretty damn good lookalike.

 

Opposed to the danish tradition of putting X candles in the cake, where X is the age of the celebrated one, the Taiwanese just put the numbers into the cake. I guess a lot of contries do that actually. Amirite?

 

So after I blew out the candles, a bunch of ppl tried to kill me with little fireworks.
In Denmark this kind of firecracker always has a label on it saying something like "Never point this at other people or animals". Seems they never heard about that concept here. I'm okay though. Nothing happened.

 

It's important that you cut halfway through the cake right after blowing out the candles. Otherwise you'll live shorter! :O

 

Looks pretty damn real eh? Especially the salad. I really like the detail here. I can asure you that it's a cake, and not an actualy burger still.

 

And then the present-giving began. It took an hour. Had to receive presents from 30+ people one by one so.....

 

 

 

 

This is where I find out that the salad that looked so real, did so because it was real salad.

 

 

Some japanese all-girl metal band methinks. I hope I can get some time for finding out what it actually is sometime soon. (Methinks I need some drivers for my DVD-reader in this monster laptop.)

 

Unwrapping one of the more special gifts. Maybe I should think of getting a bunch of extra plane tickets for my trip home already.

 

Actually, naive as I am, I didn't really realize what that was actually about just untill afterwards. I was thinking it was some kind of crazy way to give me a scarf.

 

I don't really know if I dare use this when I'm going to sleep, really...

 

They also gave me this book with a lot of epic stuffz in.

 

Ppl put a lot of crazy stuff in here. People even drew on some of the pictures, and hey, people are quite good at drawing stuffs here.

 

Hey... Maybe finish this off with the birthday party that was held for me afterwards at Davids house some other day. Untill then:
... Damn I'm awesome... Cya.

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Travel | Taiwan

Comments

10/6/2009 6:17:52 PM #

Teis

Epic^^ Sorry for ikke at have kommenteret på det seneste, men der har været en del skolerelateret stuffTong

Synes nu også det salat så overraskende realistisk ud^^

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