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Chinese queue meaning3/7/2024 After three hours of waiting I got to meet her and found a spot at the very front of the stage. I’ve always looked up to her, someone who is very comfortable being the creative artist that she is. And so we should ask ourselves why we queue.Ī year ago I joined the queue to get into dancing violinist Lindsey Stirling’s Melbourne concert. There’s no guarantee we’ll get what we’ve been waiting for after lining up for hours. Lining up for something free or the latest product is different from waiting in line at the supermarket to buy groceries or post office to pay bills. In a sense, it’s an endurance sport of some sort. Queuing takes up our time, tests our patience. We might tap our feet on the ground or cross our arms, maybe even curse out loud.Īnd so queuing can bring out the best or worst in us. Maybe even frustration if we’re the fidgety kind. At the same time, chances are queuing comes with boredom. When we queue, chances are we’re looking forward to experiencing something we’ve never seen, tasted or felt before. Queuing for freebies or some promotion comes with anticipation. I hate parting with my money and if the McDonalds monkeys had cost more than $2 with the burger meals that they came with, I wouldn’t have collected them eventhough I love monkeys. If there’s a giveaway at the head of the queue, all the more reason to queue: some of us Asians are stingy with our money and love bargains. Having saved money in the bank, I knew I could afford the $18 ricotta berry hotcake, and so lined up for it. After all, many Asians are typically wise with their money with the help of savings and investments, and so can afford a new thing or two every now and then (or maybe some of us are lucky enough to get pocket money from well-to-do parents). Perhaps we line up to buy the latest gadget, try that new dish and snap up the house-with-the-view on the property front because we can afford to do so. It was something we wanted to try for a while and we did – now I can proudly say I demolished one of the most colourful hotcakes on earth. A few months ago, one of my Asian friends dragged me to wait in a half-an-hour queue for ricotta berry hotcakes at a cafe. That’s what many of us are stereotypically taught from young: to be the first in class, to be at the top of the career ladder, to be the first among our cousins to get hitched. Or maybe we want to be the first to check things out. Maybe we queue because we want to say we’ve been there, done that. So when something out of the ordinary is around the corner, we usually go forwards and line up to see what’s going on. Many of us come from traditional Asian families that love swapping stories about the lives of their neighbours, asking how much that recent purchase cost us and where to get that branded bag. Maybe for us Asians, we queue because we are curious we genuinely want to check out what’s going on. The iPhone 6 launch lines in New York were made of up of many Asians. It seems Asians all around the world like to get in line for a new deal. Queuing for hours should be a sport in itself | Weekly Photo Challenge: Endurance.
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