Showing posts with label Taiwan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taiwan. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Overheard in Taiwan

CKS Memorial Hall station, copyright by me.

At Taipei's Metro subway of Chiang Kai Shek Memorial station, a pair of couple on the elevator:

Girl: why are you pulling me to the right and not standing by my side?
       “你為什麼把我拉到右邊,又不站在我旁邊?”

Guy: Don't act like the Mainland people.
        “別像大陸人一樣”

Girl: What about the Mainland people?
        “大陸人怎麼了”

Guy: They stand on the left side of the elevator.
        “他們都站在電梯左邊。”


Note: It's very comfortable walking on the street in Taiwan, and especially using the elevator. EVERYONE stands on the right side and gives way to people who are in "rush minute/ hour" to run on the left side. I only encountered once where 2 ladies were 'blocking' the way on the left side of the elevator standing next to their friend(s), and later overheard their conversation and found out they are not Taiwanese :-)

Taiwan is awesome!

Korea, can you ever achieve that???