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China rich girlfriend By kevin kwan

Nowadays my son is getting more naughtier.

he is approaching to his third year birthday.

other moms might understand me.

so I literally want to laugh and enjoy today .

also for all the people who feel difficult nowdays.

I just choose funny part and nice sentences

from the book and quote here.

even though it is a novel, we can learn some of their

cultures. that's why it is fun.

only probrem of this book to me is to remember

all the people's names in the book.

please understand even though it is not perfect.

 

 

Eddie : "why are you seated here?

Was there some mix-up?"

Mrs. Bao: "no, i always fly economy class."

 

(her husband ,bao gaoliang was beijing's one of the top politicians,

and what is more, he had inherited one of china's biggest pharmaceutical

firms. Actually to eddie , she is his ultra-high-net-worth clients.)

 

"only my son flies first class.

Carton can eat all the fancy western food.

but for me, it is not worth it. I don't touch airplane food,

and i can never sleep on these long flights anyway."

 

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Corrina: "The peninsula gets too many tourists, and the four seasons

is the where all the new people go.

the mandarine is where proper hong kong families have been

coming to tea for generations."

"you must also leave out the 'oriental',we locals simply call it 'the mandarin."

 

(She was a special consultant for social climbers.

she always wore the same three giorgio armani pantsuits

,middle aged, mousy-looking woman.

now she was talking with a new client, the Lius.

they were relativley new clients but they are her favorite type- red royals.

 

she called them unlike fresh-off -boat mainlander milionares

who were anxiously filing the walls with museum-quality art in the

hopes that hong kong tattle might soon do a feature.

these second generation-rich had a good manners and good teeth,

and had never known the deprivation of their parent's generation.)

 

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Auntie belinda : "well, you two are brave souls.

i don't care how 'gourmet' they say the food has gotten,

all their animals are loaded with carcinogens.

and look at this duck you are eating! 

I bet it was fed with growth hormones too."

(she is a vegetarian.)

 

Auntie jin : "yes, you can trust the food in hongkong, but not anywhere 

on the mainland."

 

(They are now having a chinese new year's eve party with rachel and nick

and rachel's aunts family together

in the rachel's aunt's house,cupertino, in california)

 

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(Kitty was supposed to meet evangeline de ayala in the locke club,

hongkong's most exclusive dinining club.

 

evangeline is the glamorous young wife of pedro paulo de ayala, 

a scion of one of the oldest real estate families in the philippines.

but her membership at the club has just been revoked.

and two of them didn't allow to go inside. 

Kitty was crying and corrina appproached to her from next table.

 

Kitty: even after becoming mrs.bernard tai, i had never been treated with

such reverence anywhere.

 

Corrina :"at a certain level of hongkong society, it doesn't matter if you wear

the finest couture and milions of dollars' worth of diamons.

 It is seen as desperate. Trust me. Being in tattle is not to help your image.

it won't get you a membership at the locke club or an invitation 

to mrs.ladoorie's annual garden party at her villa in repulse bay."

 

kitty couldn't believe her.

she thought."how could this woman who looked like her hair had been

cut by some cheap hairdresser in mong kok dare to give her advice on 

her image (kitty is an actress)

 

corrina: "mrs. Tai. If i may be very frank, the tais have never had the 

best reputaion.

(kitty's husband is a party boy who inherited a fortune but hasn't 

worked a day in his life. no one takes bernard seriously.

 

kitty: there are so many other socialities with murkey pasts,

much worse than mine.

 

corrina: you are mainland chinese. You know how most hong kongers 

feel about mainlanders. 

Like it or not, you have to work extra hard to overcome all the

prejudices. You handicapped yourself early on in the race.

we will refocus your image. Anyone can be forgiven.

anything can be forgotten.

mrs, tai, i am going to change your life."

 

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ray: "it is like all my patients these days.

i never know whether the kid in my dental chair is homeless or owns google."

 

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"if you want to know what god thinks of money,

just look at the people he gave it to. - dorothy parker

 

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corrina : what matters more than ever now are bloodline and

when your family first made its money.

 

this is prepared for mrs. bernard tai by corinna  ko-tung consulting group.

 

appearance

please do not lose any more weight.

now you run the risk of looking too perfect, and this will only incite

jealousy from your social competitors.

 

makeup

now you are a respectable wife and mother .

from now on, get used to nude nails or monochromatic tones of beige.

 

 

Wardrobe

if anyone asks you what you do, say; : i am a full-time

mother , and i do some part-time charity work."

your outfit makes you look like a community college during summer

time

it is now time to evolve into your next persona,

dedicated mother and humaritarian on the rise.

as coco chanel said,"dress impeccably and they notice the woman."

 

Jewerly

don't you realize that at your age, big gemstones only serve

to make you seem older?

the larger the diamonds, the older the wife, the more

the mistresses.

your daytime jewerly will now be restricted.

Also,  you should add a few cheap trinkets to wear

like some tibetan prayer beads.

 

lifestyle

i think you should instead be on the hunt for a new 

property. I would like to see you relocate to a house in one of the

neighborhoods on the south side of the island

,repulse bay, deep water bay or even stanley.

this will send the message that you are a seriously commited wife 

and mother.

 

household

i might suggest a smart modern uniform of navy blouse

and white cotton slacks from j. Crew.

remember-your domestic helpers will talk with other domestic helpers

on their day off.

 

transportation

being seen in a rolls is completely ridiculous.

instead, please purchase a mercedes s-class , audi a8,

or bmw 7 series like everyone else.

 

dining

as part of my new campaign to associate you only with establishment

circles, you can no longer risk being seen at any trendy "culinary

destinations."

if a restautant is less than two years old or has been featured in 

hong kong tattle or pinnacle magazine in the past eighteen month,

i consider it trendy.

 

social life

take a trip, spend time with your child or why not both?

 

travel

to stand out from the crowd, you need to begin traveling to 

new locales to demonstrate that you are someone of originality and 

interest.

i suggest that you plan a tour of famous religious pilgrimage sites

such as santiago de compostela in spain.

 

philanthropic affiliations

in order to truely ascend to a higher social stratosphere,

it is important for you to become affiliated with one charitable cause.

 

spiritual life

i will introduce you to hk's most exclusive church, which you are

to begin attending on a regular basis.

please note that this is one of the cornerstones to my methodology

of social rehabilitation.

 

culture and conversation

your chief handicap to social success will always be the fact

that you did not attend the right kindergarten with 

any of the right crowd.

 

and this is the secret: they are still completely obsessed with

what happened with when they were five.

twenty percent of the other conversations at parties

consist of complaining about mainlanders.

 

so , you need to have a good converstational skill.

beauty fades, but wit will keep you on the invitation lists to all

the most exclusive parties.

 

to that end, you will embark on a reading program .

you will also attend one cultural event per week.

(hollywood movies, cirque du soleil, and cantopop concerts do

no not count as culture.)

 

reading list

i noticed many magazines but not a single book in your

entire house, with the exception of a chinese-language translation

of sheryl sandberg's lean in found in one of the maid's

bedrooms.

you will therefore complete  one book per fortnight.

with the execption of trollope, where you will be allowed three 

weeks per book.

 

Reading list 1

 

Reading list 2

Colette: "rachel, i have a confession to make.

i used to have a terrible addiction. I was addicted to spa resorts.

before i found myself, i used to spend the whole year aimlessly

flying from resort to resort.

but i was never satisfied, becuase something was never quite

right everywhere i went."

 

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jack: "i am the son of a fisherman. 

I keep telling you, you cannot change me.

but don't worry, it doesn't matter how good my manners are.

as long as this remains fat," he patted the wallet in his back

pocket, "even in china's best dining rooms, no one will care

if i spit on the table."

 

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Mrs. wen: "don't tell colette, but we do this every night!

we are  so much happier eating ramen than all this fancy 

french food."

 

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Carlton: "i am also sorry for everything i said to you.

i wish i could take it all back."

 

rachel: " i am actually very grateful for what you told me.

it is given  me some insight into a situation that has been 

puzzling me since we arrived."