Check on full-face make-up. I also don’t agree with the following lifestyle choices:

- Leggings as pants (unless worn with a tunic or long t-shirt at the gym)

I have a nice, normal name - Cynthia - but likely due to sound issues (people being really loud) at Starbucks, baristas often assume I’m Sylvia or Cecilia. Well, that’s when they don’t actually spell the name incorrectly (Syntheea/Synthia/Cintheea/whatever).

YAY!!! :)

I thought people in Singapore (and many other parts of Asia, too) LOVED golf - even some younger people. Being able to play is a symbol to show that you’re “there.” In places like Hong Kong and Singapore, many locals have been joining clubs in droves over the past 30 or so years - after years of poverty and/or…

I wonder if our parents were thinking the same thing back in the 80s when movie stars from the 30s and 40s (i.e. THEIR parents’ celebs) began to croak...I don’t know. I was too young to remember them saying much. I think I asked about Rock Hudson, but my mom just told me he was “a famous guy from the old days.” I was…

I already think he’s running just to mock the crowd who support him and the more he says, the more it’s going to come out that way (at least to me).

Eloise from Hell? Wow, that must be bad - considering how much of a brat Eloise is!

Oh dear...Kim for President?

I was actually expecting foods that were “invented” in the colonies based on both British and local fare (as I noted in my other post). For example, in Hong Kong, there are items that are very much uniquely theirs - not Cantonese and not British. Elements of both. Usually kind of cheap/crappy by modern foodie…

Colonial cuisine and no Hong Kong milk tea (or yeen yeung (half HK milk tea, half (crappy) brewed coffee. I sometimes call it ghetto dirty chai latte - both are well-established Hong Kong tea restaurant (chaa chaan teng fare)) or any westernized-ish Indian fare like chicken tikka masala?

It’s for the most part accurate, according to my family’s knowledge of mui tsai and what they’ve told me. My great-grandmother brought one with her when she married and yes, said mui tsai eventually ALSO married the same husband (because men were allowed to have multiple wives at that time, but of course, not the…

International expansion? Does Canada not count? There are at least three stores in Toronto alone. And I live near one of them.

Well, vote if they were male. But I guess it was still better than many mui tsai. I mean, they were only women (girls, really - my great-grandmother’s mui tsai came with her when she married. GG was probably 16 and the mui tsai could not have been older than 10), right?

Irish indentured servants weren’t exactly paid a salary, either. They worked their travel expenses off, which was, as you noted, not exactly cushy. From what I understand of indentured servants, they had a similar existence to mui tsai in China - poor girls who were “sold off” by their families to the wealthy to work…

Busy? Try “wait, I don’t think we can afford her now that she’s a huge star. Let’s not even bother.”

French braids start at the scalp as well. Less tight, though.

There are braids in Chinese culture too (and I don’t necessarily mean the queues that men were required to wear during the Qing dynasty). As a kid, I watched a few period pieces on TV where young women/teens wore their hair in double braids. Younger girls might have double buns.

My nephew is also a ginger and my SIL was asked the same thing! They like not-so-common-looking kids. And gingers are rare - especially where they live.

I lost it at the age of 26. I would not call that “early.”

To be quite honest, to be more “accurate” and to have non-white cast members, there should be more Asians.