At long last, here are some more photos of Vancouver, complete with commentary about the last four months of my life (in case you were wondering). ( Whee... )
Hahaha, oh fob condos. I've seen the weirdest things in those buildings, like when someone's room number is 24, they put a sticker on the 4, only it'll be a really tacky sticker like balloons. One time it was Barney, no joke.
because the number 4 is unlucky (if you're Chinese)
Useless fact: the Japanese have this same paranoia, because they borrowed the words for both "four" and "death" from Chinese, and made them homophones in Japanese, too. I think that's almost more neurotic than just having that kind of thing in your own language in the first place.
(I, too, lived on a 5th floor that was actually a 4th floor, when I was a young'un in Japan. Somehow I am still alive.)
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Useless fact: the Japanese have this same paranoia, because they borrowed the words for both "four" and "death" from Chinese, and made them homophones in Japanese, too. I think that's almost more neurotic than just having that kind of thing in your own language in the first place.
(I, too, lived on a 5th floor that was actually a 4th floor, when I was a young'un in Japan. Somehow I am still alive.)
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