gem, personal

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[gem, personal @taheta_]

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this account will change to be a general interest account.

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[gem, personal @taheta_]

much as I understand the difficulty of 33 deg in the UK (very hot! indeed! I have felt it!) the bitching seems disproportionate to the heatwave's length of time - ie 3 or 4 days... if I didn't know, I'd think it lasted 3 or 4 months just going by what's said online

[gem, personal @taheta_]

we were still travelling like that in 2011. no roaming data, you printed your bookings and subway maps, read signs, remembered routes and asked directions

[Softboy @softboywin]

I think smartphones are ruining our lives but also if I had to go to the airport in 1998 with just my wits & a subway map I’d kill myself

[gem, personal @taheta_]

she waved and called so loudly to me from a distance at the start that every person in the queue turned to look at her

[gem, personal @taheta_]

remembering once I was queuing up in a Vienna train station when a Korean auntie waved frantically at me then jumped over the queue poles, grabbed my arm and jabbered at me in Korean asking for help with her tickets (or something). her confidence that I'd help just coz I am Asian

[특대형공허 @xxxlvoid]

해외여행하며 항시 느끼는것
다른 동양인이 어려움에 처하면 나서서 도와주는 사람들은 중국사람들이고
행복해보이면 일본사람들이고 (+숙소 개좋은데로 잘찾음)
현지식당에 대해 가장 많은 정보를 가지고있으며 이 식당은 뭐가 맛있다며 옆테이블에 오지랖부리는 사람들이 한국인들임

[gem, personal @taheta_]

@malainpa 😭

[gem, personal @taheta_]

oh singapore, where laundry can hang out to dry for almost 24 hours in 33 degree heat and STILL be slightly damp

[gem, personal @taheta_]

started watching white lotus and was thinking, god i’d hate it so much if random hotel guests started talking to me at the pool or the beach or bothered me while i was on my laptop to talk about themselves

[gem, personal @taheta_]

no, it's because it's bland

[Kaiyah -^^,--,~ @KaiyahgainAgain]

my opinion is that alot of hate for british food is rooted in classism

[gem, personal @taheta_]

i was following until “maybe get into uni” and “arranged marriage” 🤨

[polen @polen_ball]

"I ❤️ east Asia" ppl when they get reincarnated into an average chinese family & have to attend school from sunrise to sunset n deal with strict parents for 18 years just to maybe get into uni and get a job working 60 hours a week to pay off the house for their arranged marriage

[gem, personal @taheta_]

amazing, but please also read books where the fictional characters are neither your son, your husband nor you

[gem, personal @taheta_]

so since i scroll both, does it cancel each other out and i’m no better or worse than i was?

[emmie @sweetposting]

look im not saying scrolling on twitter is GOOD, but theres actual studies that measure cognitive effects of different platforms, and these studies found that stuff like youtube and twitter have a negligible effect while stuff like tiktok and reels noticeably make you dumber.

[gem, personal @taheta_]

tokyo is more like the past than the future, and i mean this in a nice way

[Unfiltered @quotesdaily100]

How the world's greatest cities became unforgettable:

1. Paris makes you fall in love
2. Tokyo makes you feel the future
3. New York makes you feel alive
4. Istanbul makes you question time
5. Rio makes you forget your problems
6. Mumbai never lets you sleep
7. Vienna makes you feel cultured
8. Havana makes you nostalgic for something you never lived
9. Beirut breaks your heart and fixes it the same night
10. Kyoto makes you slow down
11. Lagos makes you believe in energy
12. Rome makes you feel small in the best way
13. Buenos Aires makes you want to dance at midnight
14. Amsterdam makes you rethink how a city should be built
15. Cairo makes you feel thousands of years pressing down
16. Barcelona makes you believe architecture is a love language
17. Nairobi makes you feel a continent rising
18. Lisbon makes you ache for something you cannot name
19. Seoul makes you question whether you have been living efficiently
20. Mexico City makes you understand that chaos and beauty are the same thing
21. Prague makes you feel like you stepped inside a painting
22. Marrakech overwhelms every one of your senses at once
23. Singapore makes you realize what a city looks like when it actually works
24. Athens reminds you that everything modern was once someone's ancient idea
25. São Paulo makes you feel the hunger of a city still becoming itself
26. Edinburgh makes you believe in ghosts and you are not even superstitious
27. Tbilisi makes you wonder why nobody told you sooner
28. Cartagena makes you feel like the heat itself has a personality
29. Medellín shows you that a city can completely rewrite its own story
30. Copenhagen makes you question why everyone else makes things so complicated
31. Accra makes you feel a pride that does not even belong to you
32. Kolkata makes you confront beauty and struggle sharing the same square meter
33. Bruges makes you feel like time forgot to move and you are grateful
34. Amman makes you feel welcomed before you have spoken a word
35. Jakarta makes you understand twenty million people sharing the same urgency
36. Tallinn makes you feel like the medieval world never fully let go
37. Bogotá surprises you so completely you feel embarrassed for your assumptions
38. Chiang Mai makes you breathe slower without anyone telling you to
39. Porto makes you realize faded beauty is still beauty, maybe more so
40. Dakar makes you feel the ocean and the continent pulling equally
41. Reykjavik makes you feel the earth is still being made beneath your feet
42. Jerusalem makes you feel the impossible weight of what people believe
43. Hanoi moves at full speed and still feels intimate
44. Thessaloniki makes you wonder why its neighbor gets all the attention
45. Sarajevo makes you sit quietly long after you leave
46. Oaxaca makes you understand that culture expressed through food survives everything
47. Lviv shows the stubborn dignity of a people who refuse to disappear
48. Zanzibar makes you feel the air itself is different
49. Lagos deserves a second mention because one feeling was never enough
50. Delhi swallows you whole, overwhelms you completely, and somehow makes you want to come back for more

[gem, personal @taheta_]

this is why i only trust singaporean reviews of hotels because they know what’s important: wifi strength, AC temperature and number of towels provided

[돌아온평직 (돌평) @WombatJin87]

숙박업 사장님이 말하는 아시아 손님 국가별 특징

🇯🇵 일본 손님
진짜 최고의 손님 중 하나. 방은 나갈 때도 들어올 때처럼 깔끔하게 쓰고, 컴플레인도 거의 없음. 근데 후기를 엄청 짜게 줌. 만족해도 4점대. 소음에 극도로 민감해서 옆방 조금만 시끄러워도 바로 연락 옴. 조용히 완벽하게 해드리면 다음에 또 옴.

🇨🇳 중국 손님
말은 짧고 굵음. 요구사항 바로 직구로 들어옴. 방은 좀 지저분하게 쓰는 편인데 체크아웃할 때 후기는 또 잘 줌. 희한함. 근데 거의 매번 “현금 되냐”, “할인 되냐” 물어봄. 가격 협상은 기본 옵션인 나라.

🇰🇷 한국 손님
예의는 진짜 바름. 근데 기대치가 높음. 칼답장 안 하면 불안해하고, 대접받는 느낌 원함. 방에서 배달 엄청 시켜먹음. 퇴실하고 나면 치킨 박스, 편의점 봉지 장난 아님. 그래도 매너는 좋아서 직접 컴플레인보다는 후기에 씀 (그게 더 무서움).

🇮🇳 인도 손님
요구사항 진짜 많음. 그리고 안 들어주면 “이게 차별이냐”로 바로 감. 현장에서 제일 대응하기 까다로운 케이스. 방도 꽤 지저분하게 쓰는 편. 근데 다 그런 건 아니고, 진짜 조용하고 깔끔한 분들도 많음. 운임.

🇸🇬 싱가포르 손님
체크인 전부터 리스트 뽑아서 질문 날아옴. “와이파이 속도는?”, “에어컨 몇 도까지?”, “수건 몇 장?” 이런 식. 잘 사는 나라인데 깎아달라는 말은 꼭 함. 방도 깔끔하게 쓰는 편은 아님. 꼼꼼한데 요구가 많아서 체력 소모가 큰 유형.

🇹🇼 대만 손님
현장 종사자들 사이에서 거의 만장일치 최고 손님. 말 없고, 방 깨끗하게 쓰고, 컴플레인 없음. 조용히 왔다가 조용히 감. 근데 가끔 아주 가끔 예상 못한 빌런이 나옴. 그 낙차가 너무 커서 더 충격임.

마지막에 꼭 하는 말이 있음.

“다 그런 건 아닌데, 이런 사람 많음.”

[gem, personal @taheta_]

so nobody in the world should ever watch concerts or theatre shows overseas because they should be limited to domestic audiences only. goodbye, gig travel economy!

[SUDDENDESU @suddendesu]

Hey here’s a hot take: Japanese media is made for Japanese people. Tickets to live shows and such are limited, and are intended for their domestic audience. Once you open up these limited seats to the world, suddenly the local fans can’t get seats. It’s that simple.

[gem, personal @taheta_]

the most white people thing i see is them drinking a glass of wine with chinese or korean food

[gem, personal @taheta_]

doesn't sound right

[Nisha Anandani @AnandaniNisha]

Samsung is made in Korea, yet I didn't even see one Korean using Samsung. Everyone had an iPhone!

[gem, personal @taheta_]

and now hot desking is the bane of everyone's life

[USA Reject @sadreturns]

there’s a cosmic irony in the fact that gen x thought cubicles were hell because they were so anti-social, and now gen z is subjected to open plan offices which are hell because they’re too social

[gem, personal @taheta_]

that block of tofu is WEEPING at the disrespect

[Hail Seitan Ⓥ 🇵🇸 @tofuafficionado]

my unattainable expensive lunch as a bourgeoise millionaire vegan

[gem, personal @taheta_]

the insane self-insert / “i can’t read anymore because the author said 1 thing i disagree with” discourse about reading makes me think of this lin yu tang quote - how true it is that these people are imprisoned in their immediate world. and they don’t know how to step out of it

[gem, personal @taheta_]

the best thing about that “no mountains in china” claim is that this map was posted as a response - and it is endlessly fascinating!! look at the little green circle of sichuan surrounded by mountains! the vast plains of the north! the peaks in the west! what a country

[까날(오승택) @kcanari]

어떤 일본인이 중국에는 산이 없다는 멍청한 소리를 한 모양인데

어떤 한국인은 프랑스에는 바다가 없다는 멍청한 소리도 했으니

아래 사진은 지형의 높낮이를 강조한 지도인데 정말 볼때마다 산에 둘러싸인 사천지방이 신기함.