Me: Let’s talk and practice Chinese! Dad: I don’t know what you’re saying. *My face drops.* Me: What? Dad: I don’t speak Mandarin — I speak a dialect. Teochew. Me (Inside of my head): WHAT THE HELL IS TEOCHEW!?!?
hat’s how my dad ends most of our telephone conversations. I say something affectionate and he grunts and hangs up the phone.
When I moved out to Southern California for undergrad, I had a very l’m-going-to-get-the-furthest-away-from-my-family, I’m-going-to-change-the-world, and while I’m doing that I’m-going-to-take-one-of-the-hardest-languages-I-can-think-of attitude. The moment I walked off the plane and saw a sea of faces that looked like mine, I was shocked. I felt like everywhere I looked there was a bit of my mirror and a bit of my father’s mirror looking at me.Vincent Soon-Yong Tan and his twin brother as children. Vincent was known as “A-tua,” which means “big one” and his brother “A-soy,” which means “small one.”
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