I'm bi-lingual (English/Cantonese). What's that got to do with it? Well, came across this article (via Reuters) Switching languages can also switch personality: study. It's mainly about study on people who switch betweem English and Spanish, and studying their behaviour.
"Language can be a cue that activates different culture-specific frames," the researchers said in a study published in the Journal of Consumer Research.
I definitely can relate to that, take for instance, how I behave when I talk to my Irish friends and my Chinese friends when we all go out. My tone completely changes when I speak Cantonese, I'm more closer to Hong Kongers type of speaking here. I find that I am more expressive when I speak in Cantonese. I haven't thought how I really feel when I speak in English, I'm probably more serious?!? I think this would be quite hard off the top of my head unless I take notes all the time on my behaviour when I speak in either languages. Maybe someone might feel different who speaks more than one language.
I've finally gotten around to do it up, download it from here (yes, it's a PDF file, you'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader if you cannot read it). It's just a round up of what's been happening in the forum since March.
All those flights I've been on, when turbulence hits the plane (worst I've been through has to be from Cairns to Tokyo when we were crossing the equator at the end of January in my last leg of our honeymoon. Just saw this news article about turbulence hitting a Cathay Pacific flight and a few people got injured. That's a big EEP for me. I tend to hold on to my hubby's hand real tight and I feels like I was about to rip up the armrest, I was tense. I'm sure many feel that way as well when the plane sort of drops a few feet when the plane is rumbling and shaking.... okay, better stop before I scare myself silly and not get on the plane.
Down in Limerick, three Chinese renters demolished part of their accommodation to grow cannibis were busted. I suppose it's a scam that gangs do but we never hear about it, but some still get through. I hope this does not cause too much trouble for Chinese renters.
I've always wondered what this fruit was called, I just found out it's called a Mangosteen. The latest fad in diets, http://tinyurl.com/5qm6eb (from MDN). More info about this fruit at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangosteen.
Andy pinged me about this. Hehe, I had to mouth the pronouciations once to make sure I what I was reading and what I thought it was are both the same.
Just happen this morning in Hong Kong. They issued a black warning around 6:40am (their time).
More from BBC News (you can view the video there as well), and also here from HK gov site.
Hutchinson Telecom's made a deal with Apple to officially launch the iPhone in HK.
Existing subscribers of Hutchison Telecom, a unit of conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa , were expected to be the first users of the iPhone in an early program starting this summer, the South China Morning Post said.
You don't really have to look hard, just head into the Golden Arcade.
At present, Hong Kong people can only buy the iPhone, a mobile phone that allows Internet access and plays music, through unofficial channels often in the form of parallel imports.
Other than that, there are no other details are given by Hutchison Telecom.
