if we were korean

i bought a book today called Happy Birthday or Whatever. It's written by a Korean author, and so far I've only read the first chapter, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to love the whole thing.
She's basically taken our idea of writing about her dysfunctional family. I know it's not an original idea, but still, I feel like she stole it.

A couple things made me laugh out loud. Like:
"...my parents use the phone as a 3,000-mile-long umbilical cord, and most of the time I want to strangle myself with it. My mother calls just to inform me that rice is on sale at Ralph's, but it's still cheaper to buy is at a Korean grocery store and how much is rice in New York and why do Americans eat Uncle Ben's, when he's not even Asian."

maybe all asian families are crazy. maybe all asians are crazy. maybe all families are crazy.

regardless, i still think we win the crazy contest.