Macau is truly a special place. For some, it’s a birthplace, for others fond childhood memories, and for some, it’s where we spend our adult lives. No matter how long or short our stay, we can relate to all of these. These are our 45 reasons you know you’re from Macau.
- Your ten-year passport is full within two years.
- Most conversations with your friends involve mobile phones.
- None of the sea-front buildings existed when you arrived. The shoreline itself shifted by half a mile.
- Your best friends come from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, America, Angola, and Portugal.
- You can’t put a proper sentence together in your native language.
- You got really excited when Starbucks opened their first outlet in Macau.
- At the movies, you take bets on the number of phones that go off during the performance.
- You developed an acquired taste for mooncakes.
- In a crowd or a queue, you learned to stay away from frail-looking old ladies carrying umbrellas.
- You seriously considered taking up golf.
- You think a half hour car journey is a long way.
- The “New Bridge” is now the “old bridge”.
- You no longer notice all the empty apartments in the new blocks.
- The weather is good when you can see Taipa.
- When it’s 10c it’s cold.
- All you like is Louis Vuitton clothes.
- Thanks to karaoke, you know who has the best singing talent in your company (not that this is a great achievement).
- You believe that pressing the lift button 63 times will make it come faster.
- The ultimate status symbol is a Macau ID card.
- You know it is useless to protest when the lady at the supermarket checkout wraps one toothbrush in 6 plastic bags.
- You will never ever eat Chicken feet.
- You learn to recognize Chinese Characters for Macau and Taipa.
- You aren’t aware that one is supposed to pay for software.
- Pink bathroom tiles can make any building or public garden beautiful.
- Your colleagues eat sun-dried cuttlefish coated in sugar and you don’t bat an eyelid.
- You actually purchased a Canto-pop CD.
- You actually played it several times.
- You think that Hong Kong drivers are good.
- You have attended at least four weddings and a funeral in a language you don’t understand at all.
- All the clothes you own are tailor-made or come from Giordano.
- You are not surprised to see your tap water run dark brown.
- Drilling on the walls in the wee small hours in the morning is considered acceptable behavior.
- If it’s Friday, it must be Typhoon 3 day.
- If it’s Saturday, it must be Typhoon 8 day.
- You tell your parents their house back home has bad Feng Shui.
- You compiled a 3-page list of weird English first names that Chinese people of your acquaintance have chosen for themselves.
- You learned to bring a coat, a scarf, and gloves to fight hypothermia in supermarkets, buses, ferries, and cinemas.
- Your collection of business cards has outgrown your flat
- You understand that all the roads in Macau end up at the Lisboa.
- You know that leather shoes can grow leaves during the wet season.
- The word “wildlife” refers to the family of cockroaches that dwells in your kitchen.
- You use the word “Ayyiiaaahh” every few sentences to convey surprise, pleasure, pain, or anger.
- You speak enough Cantonese to make your colleagues laugh their heads off.
- You believe you are really tall when you are only 5’8″.
- You know that leaving Macau will break your heart.
*Macau Lifestyle is not the author of this content, the origins are unknown.
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