Saturday, June 07, 2008
Graduation Redux
Today I attended the graduation ceremony of the cousin I'm staying with in Kaohsiung. He is the same year as I am. The weather was beautiful by southern Taiwan's standards, which means very hot and not too humid. It's amazing to see all the graduates walk around outside in their gowns. Is there some secret I'm missing here? That, or I just tend to sweat more easily. The actual ceremony was held indoors with several overflow rooms that had large projections of a live feed of the proceedings in the ceremony hall.
I caught this funny picture while I was wandering in the hallways (I mean, who wants to hear those old blokes blather about graduation anyway. I've discovered that regardless of location, they tend to talk about the same things.)
It reads "Mom...I've graduated!" There's something a bit overdone in this poster that hit my funny bone. I'm amused.
The best part of the ceremony actually took place after it ended. Some insane graduate student got up on stage and started talking about something I couldn't quite parse properly. It turns out he was proposing to his girlfriend. A group of undergrads, including my cousin started chanting "別想不開啊!" which might be translated literally as "Don't keep your thoughts closed!" This is to mean that in the event she turns him down, the guy should not check off the suicide box from his list of final solutions. It was certainly a bit of mean-hearted jeering. Naturally, I laughed.
This weird story managed to make the second headline on Yahoo Taiwan's homepage. Pics or it didn't happen you say? Take that! It's number 2:
Here's the link to the article in Chinese. It can't be that easy to get the girl to say "Yes" can it?
I caught this funny picture while I was wandering in the hallways (I mean, who wants to hear those old blokes blather about graduation anyway. I've discovered that regardless of location, they tend to talk about the same things.)
It reads "Mom...I've graduated!" There's something a bit overdone in this poster that hit my funny bone. I'm amused.
The best part of the ceremony actually took place after it ended. Some insane graduate student got up on stage and started talking about something I couldn't quite parse properly. It turns out he was proposing to his girlfriend. A group of undergrads, including my cousin started chanting "別想不開啊!" which might be translated literally as "Don't keep your thoughts closed!" This is to mean that in the event she turns him down, the guy should not check off the suicide box from his list of final solutions. It was certainly a bit of mean-hearted jeering. Naturally, I laughed.
This weird story managed to make the second headline on Yahoo Taiwan's homepage. Pics or it didn't happen you say? Take that! It's number 2:
Here's the link to the article in Chinese. It can't be that easy to get the girl to say "Yes" can it?
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