Today in Intercultural Communication 101...

Apartment 12 - wir - lädt via Twitter zum persischen Festmahl ein. Soweit so clever, dachten wir. Am nächsten Morgen steht Apartment 12 auf und stellt belustigt fest, dass Apartment 33 folgenden Blogeintrag über jenen Abend verfasst hat. Das ausländische da unten ist übrigens Englisch. Änder` ich auch nichts dran. Aber keine Sorge, ich verspreche, dass der nächste Artikel in dem besten mir zur Verfügung stehenden Hochdeutsch verfasst sein wird und keine Tabelle, Liste oder Zahlen enthalten wird. Dieses eine Mal muss es aber zwecks Unterhaltung und dem überraschend hohen Wahrheitsgehalt erlaubt sein:

1. I met my first Persian friend.
2. Had an omfg awesome Persian meal. 
3. Learnt that some Persians are awesome and not as anal as some you-know-who bastards back home.
4. Learnt that Persian music is omfg similar to Bollywood, but is actually not the same thing.
5. Heard a Persian speak in their native tongue.
6. Heard a German attempt to speak Persian language, and failing epic style.
7. Tried to teach each other how to say 'I Love You' in our native languages.
8. Learnt that German keyboards are not QWERTY but QWERTZ instead and failing, for the first time in my life, to touch type.
9. Learnt that Germans actually do worship the lol factor.
10. Learnt that Germans frequent pr0n and lolcat sites.
11. Introduced a German to the beauty of 4chan.org.
12. Learnt that Germans shower in the mornings (I'd love to see him try in Malaysia).
13. Found that C&C: Red Alert 3 had a German version, with a hot chick speaking in German (!) with Russian accent omg lol.
14. Found that not all Germans are holy saints and some do use 'fan ban' stuff like we do.
15. Realise the beauty of communicating freely with 'lah', making life so much easier.
16. Realise that I still struggle a bit when I'm forced to not use 'lah'.
17. Realise that I still succeeded in getting the message across without 'lah'.
18. Realise that Germans eat nothing but cereal / yogurt / bread for breakfast. 
19. Learnt that variety of breakfast = change of jam flavor (yawn).
20. Tried to convince a German to try Nasi Lemak for breakfast if he visits Kuala Lumpur.
21. Debating with a German whether it's reasonable to have Nasi Lemak / Pan Mee as breakfast.
22. Showed a Persian and a German pictures of Malaysian food, and realise that they have better tongues than Kiwis(oh joy FINALLY).
23. Cooked a half-boiled egg for a Persian and German and had them dip toast in the egg. And hoping and praying they really rike it and did not lie to me how omfg awesome it was.
24. Found that Germans don't like chicken feet. And think you're crazy to even try and eat it.
25. Learnt that 'busen' means boobs in German.
26. Learnt that Germans don't all drive BMW (Some drive Korean cars and watch Korean TV omg fail lol).
27. Tried to convince my friend to come to Malaysia and go on a makan-makan trip starting at 4 am in the morning.
28. Got threatened by a German that he'll report me to the police if I continue to stalk him through the window lol.
29. Found that Germans like to grow mint beside their windows while the Chinese like to grow spring onions?
30. And got teased by a German for mispronouncing 'umlaut' wrongly FML.

It's a nice change, not having to know someone's 'culture' just by looking downstairs during weekend nights. Some of them hor, you don't even need to approach them, because the noise and merry-making will always approach your reluctant ears.

All in all, fantastic experience to meet my new friends. All over a great meal, and I still can has some in my fridge so I don't have to cook tomorrow omg GMH finally.

But hor, I has a sad. The semester is coming to an end. Mexicans, Swedish, Canadians, Germans, Singaporeans, Koreans, whatever homo sapiens all gonna fly home jor sob sob sob. And it's another vicious cycle of going through goodbye > lonely awkward stage > meeting new friend > settling down with new friend > waving goodbye to new friend. I DO NOT RIKE THIS FML.

(Ya Hui Tan, The Malaysian girl from Villaga 310 - mehr unter newzealand2u)