10 signs of becoming Chinese

1. Getting up at 6AM 5 days a week. (and getting woken up on the weekends by the noise- see number 8 below).
2. Stuffing yourself to 3 different crowded subway trains every morning to uni (and back), and owning a subway card you charge every time you've used all the money in it.
3. Being on the trains for more than one hour each way (eating your breakfast on the train and studying too).
4. Having lunch (usually Chinese food for less than 1 US$) at NOON (12:00).
5. Sometimes even buying one of these Chinese food boxes in the small places that sell really really greasy food, and obviously carrying that box all the way home. Or:
6. Eating in the university's cafeteria. Buying coupons in the entrance for about 1.5 US$- than using the notes to buy some dumplings or whatever Chinese food they have. Then obviously getting change back from something like 10 cents- in the shape of small coupons that look like the note I just wrote to my classmate in class.
7. Having Dinner around 6PM. Sometimes at the nice lady's booth in the corner. She sells fried noodles for less than 0.50 US$. Or: cooking in your own Wok.
8. Becoming deaf- from all the noise around you all the time (big roads, honking horns, building and destruction of houses and buildings - 6AM to 6PM, 7 days a week, renovation in the apartment above when you're trying to rest from your day etc. etc.) Then starting to yell on your cell phone- coz you can't hear a damn thing.
9. Buying lots of DVD's in the store downstairs. Watching Veronica Mars episodes in a raw- until you've seen them all and there's nothing next to the DVD player to tempt you.
10. Going to sleep before midnight. At the only hours there's actually some quiet- meaning- the only hours you could have used to study/read/have a decent conversation with someone.