Really? It's in every drugstore in Canada. I've used their cleanser for my face since I was a teenager.

If you've seen the 2000 Hamlet with Ethan Hawke, there's a scene that was shot outside of the theatre where The Lion King plays on Broadway. It doesn't explicitly show the Lion King logo, but anyone who vaguely knows the theatre scene will recognize the font.

There are women who only want a big rock and don't care what the carat is. Their rule is "bigger is better." I don't like big. I have extra small hands and a big rock just won't look good. However, I don't think a woman should turn down a ring just because it's too big either.

??? "Shower curtain" earrings was a term a former headmistress at my high school used for large hoop earrings - the type we were NOT allowed to wear with our school uniform on one of the reminder lectures she gave about proper dress/uniform code.

As I've said before, if I were the one writing, I'd call it "Shower Curtain" earrings.

Hasn't Marc Jacobs' name been tossed around for MONTHS?

I wouldn't say that Hong Kong "stamped out" Chinese culture. They just developed their own culture that is unique to them.

My husband's lost about 20 lb since we married (one year yesterday!), and I haven't gained or lost anything (well, it fluctuates. I gain more if I eat more or if I go to my in-laws). I'm not as worried about actual weight gain as I am about body fat percentage, since my family has a history of being "normal"…

But you have to admit that it's worse if an educated woman marries an uneducated man.

But I don't think men in Japan are looking for "uneducated" women. They want educated women who're willing to be homemakers. However, most educated women in 2011 don't want to be Betty Draper.

There's a saying in Cantonese about wooden doors matching up with wooden doors and then another type of door matching with another.... basically class (and education, career, etc...-related as well).

I call those earrings "shower curtain earrings." A speech on school uniform/dress code by a former headmistress when I was in Grade 8 or 9 still sticks to this day.

Men don't mow the lawn in Japan? WHAT? That's sooo.... F*(|

Yeah. My aunt went back to work about a week after she had my cousin. Totally not traditional, since new moms (especially first time moms) are housebound for about a month. They had the grandparents and a nanny as well. That was more than 30 years ago though. Today, the grandparents are likely still working.

How is wanting a guy who drives a BMW, has good taste with clothing, the latest iWhatever, etc... "traditional" though? That's NOT traditional at all.

The "dreaming of getting the 'hell out' of their home country" thing doesn't make much sense for Japanese women (at least not to me), since the country is considered part of the "developed world." I can see why some women in say, mainland China, want to marry men from abroad, but Japan? It's more that they see…

Although you have to admit that Japanese, Korean as well as many parts of Southeast Asia are influenced by Confusionist culture, which is from China.

Yeah, and the women are preetttttyyy picky about the men. If the dude doesn't have a good job or good taste (I SWEAR that a lot of women judge a guy not only by his job and appearance, but also what car and phone he has too), he's not going to get a girlfriend. That's why a lot of the guys there are really, really…

My family is from HK, but I was born/raised in Canada. The only Hong Kong wedding reception I've been to was a second reception - my cousin married in the US and had another reception for people who weren't able to make it to New York. They also had a registry, so gifts were a mix of $$$$$ and registry stuff.

Is hired help common in Japan? In Hong Kong, it seems that practically every solidly middle class to upper middle class family hires someone.