Is filial piety English?

Certain differences between westerners and asians are that westerners have children just so to complete a family. Asians, they have children just so they have a retirement plan. This then puts alot of pressure on the children, and maybe a little silly on the parents too. Cause if they have this bubble of their children taking care of them when they are old, what if the children decide not to. Won't they be utterly crushed?

This topic of discussion regularly comes up between me and my Australian older colleagues at work. They don't agree with the Asian idea of having children. But then again, filial piety never existed in their dictionary. They asked me if it's English. Maybe its French, like rendezvous. Thus they never knew there were such a word.

Which is really interesting, because it means they never had the culture of parents having kids as 'investments' and therefore they do not have filial piety in their dictionary. But as Asians, from young we already know that we ought to be filial.

That aside, something interesting over the weekend. Highlight of the exhibition was....

Ta da! This mister actually was stark naked and used his **** as a paint brush! Although his hand was covering it in the pictures, you actually really can see his **** dip in paint and PAINT! I didn't want to you know purposely zoom in, and stand at an angle where i can take a picture of him and everything. Thought i should be respectful lah.

And i must say, i applaud him. His paintings are good, judging that he did not use his hand. He was doing portraits for people. Initially, i thought it was $5 per picture (coz there was a sign that says 'picture with picasso's brush $5), and i wanted him to draw me. But the boyfriend said if it was only $5 per pop, his **** would have rot by now.

So then we saw another sign that says $49. So i didn't do it.


Not bad hor, so old already still got talent.

And this, is a stupid stupid stupid ride in bad taste. But it was an ingenious idea, too bad they didn't make full use of it. It was tauted the first sex train in the world, and cost one million dollars to make ( i do NOT BELIEVE!). The idea is like a ghost train in carnivals, except instead of ghosts, you go through dark tunnels in a cart, and see mannequin robots in compromising positions. So bad its worse than the cheap haunted houses in fun fairs.

Everything as you would already have guessed is towards sex.

Oh, and they have a center stage where shows go on every half hour. You have male strip shows, female strip shows, games, competitions like amateur strip show (where members of the public just go up and do their thing) so you see people of all sizes and shapes strutting their stuff. Not sure to laugh or do applaud them for their bravery.

And of course, main bulk of this exhibition is sale of products. From novelty gifts to toys to lingerie. I look like an absolute alien here. I bought something for my brothers, something to put in their room. I think its hilarious, but i know my parents will tut tut at it because its vulgar. But hey, you need a sense of humor in today's modern world. Mum, dad..you've been to Europe! You should have seen more than us!

The things on sale are ridiculously cheap compared to those in the shops. Soooo tempted to buy those novelty humor gifts. But i had chant the mantra "they are junk. they will collect dust. they are junk. they will collect dust." Oh, but i did give in to a few things...to save as presents for people

The End.