{"author":"Vann Chow","author_id":"Vann+Chow","total_quotes":30,"quotes":[{"text":"Partying and dancing have never been my thing, but drinking I could do with reasonable familiarity and skills. I decided to begin there.","author":"Vann Chow","tags":["beers","coming-of-age","dating","drinking","drinking-alcohol","meeting-girls","party","partying"],"id":1706,"author_id":"Vann+Chow"},{"text":"She doesn't need your money. Even a penniless fool like you can make her fall in love with you. That's just miracle.","author":"Vann Chow","tags":["fool","happiness","love","love-fool","miracle","miracles-in-life","money","money-not-happiness","penniless","shanghai","shanghai-nobody","sugar-mama"],"id":11880,"author_id":"Vann+Chow"},{"text":"Minding his own business had been his motto living in a strange foreign country with a world-recognized social issue of failing morals.","author":"Vann Chow","tags":["asia","crime","criminal-city","dangerous-city","dangerous-place","expat","expat","experience","failing-moral","gangs","gangster","japan","japanese-gang","life-advice","living-alone","living-in-foreign-country","maffia","minding-own-business","moral","traveler","war-zone","white-man-and-the-pachinko-girl","world-traveler"],"id":15567,"author_id":"Vann+Chow"},{"text":"While I still did not know what self- actualization that sat on the top level of the pyramid meant, I could believethat if I knew I would be able to say something positive about it as well inmy life.","author":"Vann Chow","tags":["hierarchy-of-needs","humor","humorous","humorous","maslow-s-hierarchy-of-needs","modern-life","needs-pyramid","positive-thinking","sarcastic","self-actualization","self-help"],"id":22688,"author_id":"Vann+Chow"},{"text":"Understandably she had a lot of suitors, just like any other girls in China with two arms and legs.","author":"Vann Chow","tags":["china","dating","finding-a-girlfriend","gender-imbalance","gender-inequality","humorous","men","sarcastic","women"],"id":41298,"author_id":"Vann+Chow"},{"text":"The only difference between having an affair here and having an affair there was that the American men would always ended up losing half of his estates over a woman he was infatuated just as much as the next tramp who would come his way, while Japanese men would only earn more respect from their subordinates through the possession of much younger women, as a sign of prowess and affluence, while their wives at home, as if there were rule books distributed nationally on the “proper” marriage etiquette for all young Japanese women to read before they enter into the matrimony, would turn a blind eye on their disloyalty quietly.","author":"Vann Chow","tags":["affair","american-culture","asia","asian","asian-culture","boyfriend","cultural-difference","disloyal","disloyalty","girlfriend","immoral","japan","love","love-affair","marriage","matrimony","men-and-women","morality","morals","not-loyal","office-romance","relationship","sarcastic","social-moral","wedding","women-and-men"],"id":50206,"author_id":"Vann+Chow"},{"text":"I am a loser in my own plot, but I might be the hero in someone else's plot.","author":"Vann Chow","tags":["bravery","courage","funny","hero","humor","humorous","inspirational","loser","plot","story"],"id":52375,"author_id":"Vann+Chow"},{"text":"Unexpected gifts were better accepted when they were presented by total strangers, I had learnt.","author":"Vann Chow","tags":["birthdays","gifts","presents","strangers"],"id":85402,"author_id":"Vann+Chow"},{"text":"Some of us are looking at the stars, but all of us are living in the gutter.","author":"Vann Chow","tags":["dreams","gutter","hopes","humorous","life-lesson","oscar-wilde","reality-check","sarcasm","sarcastic","stars"],"id":89288,"author_id":"Vann+Chow"},{"text":"Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance of a positive outcome maybe.","author":"Vann Chow","tags":["casino","chances","chaos","curiosity","curious","fortune","gamble","gambler","gamblers","gambling","game-of-luck","human-fallacy","human-weakness","humanity","luck","math","mathematical-prove","mistake","money","online-casino","opportunity","pachinko","playing-poker","poker","poor","probability","random","randomness","randomness-of-life","science","scientific-conclusion","statistics","unknown","waste-money","weak-mind","weak-minded","weakness"],"id":92732,"author_id":"Vann+Chow"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}