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「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」

@ WongKaKui @piefed.social

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"Can we transcend the boundaries of skin color?May this land be free of the hierarchy between you and I?The beauty of vibrant colors shines forth because it does not separate each color."

-黃家駒/Wong Ka Kui (from the Song 光輝歲月/"Glorious Years", song written in honor of Nelson Mandela)

Main Account: @wongkakui@piefed.ca

Old Acc: @deathbybigsad@sh.itjust.works

  • So... I asked mom to send some photos of her visit to China... and she send these absolute "High Definition" photos...

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  • It's a Galaxy A32 5G from like years ago...

    I don't think she even cleans the lenses... I mean dust probably got inside the camera... 🤷‍♂️

  • So... I asked mom to send some photos of her visit to China... and she send these absolute "High Definition" photos...

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  • I remember I kinds did some "parkour" on the ledge... (just walking on the ledge there not really "parkour" but its more fun to think of it as parkour lol)... Like you see that wheelchair ramp thing? I remember like just hopping over the barrier and on to the stairs and the back on the other side... kinda scary to think the on the other side of it is like a very high drop... 🫣

    Oh we used to play with these "Skateboards" in the plaza around the area... (still played this a bit when we were in Brooklyn NYC during the first few years when I was like 8-12, then just grew out of it... felt childish to me)

    Also safety? Pffff my dad literally just turned off an electric circuit then proceeded to TOUCH THE WIRES without gloves to fix something...

    Like what if the circuit switch failed? Where are the precautions? Do electritions do this? (He did not have a license in electricity stuff)

    I was like: Aaaahhh dad don't die and leave me alone on this mortal realm... 🥺

    Luckily nothing happened

    Also: OSHA is not a thing in China.

    On a related note: My old apartment building would not meet western safety standards...

  • [OC] Lunar New Year Celebrations: Chinese-American Edition

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  • Hey, don't question me, not my doing LMFAO. 🤣

    (Very frugal parents... literally every thing gets repurposed for something else. There are still stuff in the house that is never fixed... heater randomly quits working, bathtub randomly leaks water downstairs, refrigerator sometimes lets icecream melt, roach infestation... don't judge xD, not my fault. And my family is no longer poor anymore, not as of currently, just refuses to spend money to fix stuff since they grew up in poverty. Literally every penny gets invested)

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  • Red envelopes that my mom asked me for it to "help me keep it safe" 🫠

    So in my experience, it's all just a big show, its performance.

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  • My cat doesn't even wanna touch any "human food", only eats catfood. You can out fresh fish and she will not eat it. Only smell it.

    In China, it used to be that there was food insecurity and cats just, unfortunately, get fed scraps of leftover food basically, and they actually had to eat mice.

    Idk what happens in new years... probably get fed better? maybe? idk

    My cat never eats the mouse, only kills them and leave them around. Sometimes my cat leave them half-dead and the mouse runs away.

    So my cat is a privilaged American cat that gets to eats catfood whenever she wants, all year round lol

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  • OMG 我屬馬嘅 I'm gonna be 24 this year after my birthday

    Going off on a tangent:

    But its funny how because 落地占歲 I'm technically unofficially 25 since I was considered 1 years old at birth??? (cuz 9 months spent inside a womb apparantly counts lmfao), and new years, even before your official birthday counts... towards your age...

    So I ask my grandma, what happens if you were born the day before new years?

    So you just become unofficially "2 years old", 1 day after your birth cuz of weird shenanigans... where you are 1 years old at birth, then on new years your age counts uo by 1?!? lmfao

    So I was like "A 16 year + 1 day old person can say they're 18 then?"

    I don't think a Mainlander can walk into a bar in China and get alcohol that way, only legal age counts lmfao, not this 迷信 stuff

    But anyways... I kinda wanna magically become a horse and run around wild

    My older brother was born in '97, the year of the Handover from British, so he got to visit HK fore free for bring born that year (or something like that, maybe I misheard), so that's why we went to HK for tourism as family... so long ago... I can barely remember.

    My paternal grandpa would say something like: 牛耕田，馬食谷。 Because he's 屬牛 I'm 屬馬 so my brother didn't like that saying lmfao.

    Anyways: 新年快樂

    Family of Origin is so frustrating tho... 煩死啦

    Oops I said the 死 字

    新年流流，唔好意頭 or something... i dont really care anymore...

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    My Personal Original Poetry Community...

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  • Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship

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  • How I feel right now as a naturalized US citizen:

    P.S. It's even more complicated in my situation, since my citizenship is technically called derived citizenship which mean I have citizenship because it comes from the fact that my mother became a citizen when I was a was under 18 so I automatically got citizenship status. I'm not a lawyer, but a quick search online apparantly says if my mother somehow gets denatualized, I could lose it too, through no fault of my own.

    So... yea... mom pls don't do weird shady shit... (I don't know if she has any "skeletons in the closet")

    👀

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    Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship

    www.nytimes.com /2025/12/17/us/politics/trump-immigration-citizenship-denaturalization.html
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    Immigration Officials Deport Queens 6-Year-Old and Father Who Fled China

    www.nytimes.com /2025/12/19/nyregion/child-father-deported-china-nyc.html

  • ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say

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  • As a Chinese American, this resonates with me so much, I feel them. I've been through those similar footsteps as that kid, I was about the same age when I first got here, I was in second grade. But I've never been separated like that... I mean... I feel sad when I was in school, in an environment where almost nobody spoke my language (besides like a few classmates that were born here and grew up bilingual), and I felt alone, and my mother would pick me up from school like very late from the after school program that ran until 6PM, being separated from parents for just a few hours was already anxiery inducing enough, but this kid is now facing much worse than I ever did. I was also in NYC, so I can almost picture that scene... of being alone, and scared. I mean being separated like that, for extended period of time... who know how long this could be... must be terrifying, leaving your home country and trying to find a better life... only to get rejected by the country you are trying seeking help in.

    My family are legal, I'm a US Citizen now, but still, imagine if this admin was in power back around 2010s when I first arrived and didn't have citizenship status... and on that topic, my dad is still not a citizen yet (English is hard for adults)... so um... we could still theoretically get separated at any moment if this admin tries anything... 👀

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    ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say

    www.thecity.nyc /2025/12/02/ice-arrested-separated-chinese-father-6-year-old-son/