Taidot reflections of fantastic depth

In a dainty café, studying Mandarin, repeating the word as I write out the characters time and time again. It being Chinese, I tend to get a bit loud as I try to enunciate the tones clearly enough for my shoddy brain to remember. I get lost in the process, moving from word to word, until one point when I happen to look up and see a dainty café full of customers staring back at me. A few of them are grinning, others look dumbfounded, and one old lady even looks genuinely offended. It’s then that I realize that not only have I been declaring “AIDS! AIDS! AIDS! AIDS! AIDS!” for the last few minutes, but I’ve also gone so far as to unconsciously make a little song out of it; the Mandarin equivalent of “A to the I to the D to the S.”

Posted: January 21st, 2011 under Uncategorized.
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