One of the first scenes in Double Happiness was of a Chinese family at the dinner table. The children were speaking to each other in English, using some popular culture words. The parents kept shouting at each other in Chinese, Are they speaking bad words?! Stop that! What horrible children we have!!!

I was at my grandmother\’s apartment today helping her with some technical stuff. She wanted me to teach her how to program the VCR to make a timed recording. So I did. I explained it all in broken Chinese. Apparently she didn\’t understand what I was saying. She didn\’t know the difference between up/down buttons (which you use to increment) and the left/right buttons (which you use to go from one field to the next). So I also had to help her with her computer. Because she doesn\’t know how to read English that well, she had a on-screen reader. It would read aloud in a mechanical male voice anything that the mouse was hovering over. And, I just had to read Rekuytn\’s e-mail (who had another one of his crazy ideas and would rather e-mail me than call me) there and as I clicked on the subject a loud male voice shouted, Masturbathon!

Fortunately, my parents and my grandmother were quite oblivious.