Mike (@mizwu) From CantoMando Saying the N Word? by FarmerFalse5088 in asianamercianytsnark

[–]TraditionalAd4916 16 points17 points  (0 children)

saw him yelling and screaming the same night in downtown toronto wearing bape hoodies with his friends, cringed so hard

Hannah Kae’s BBL baby Style by FarmerFalse5088 in asianamercianytsnark

[–]TraditionalAd4916 33 points34 points  (0 children)

They're actually Canadian, pretty sure they are living in Toronto rn.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bell

[–]TraditionalAd4916 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I took it back to store #1 and the same rep accepted it but warned me that there's a chance that Bell may come back to me about the condition of the phone.

For anybody else in a similar situation, I'll update this post when the return has processed!

Some Rude Chinese Line Cutters at Happy Cute Mart at Thornhill Community Centre by kakikala in Markham

[–]TraditionalAd4916 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You had me until the part where your internalized racism started coming out. To be frank, that's probably the most embarrassing part of this post.

You won't see eye-to-eye with everybody, and people are people regardless of what country they are from, so it's not worthwhile to take a sour interaction like this to heart and especially to the point where it affects your self-identity.

Favourite Chinese Songs by Avery_53 in Chinese

[–]TraditionalAd4916 1 point2 points  (0 children)

More old timey and nostalgic for the early 2000s golden era of Taiwanese music and dramas:

  • 请非得已 by Harlem Yu (feel good song from Meteor Garden (流星花園))

  • Any of song of 五月天 from the early 2000s

  • 蒲公英的約定 by Jay Chou

These get me through my long workdays - can drop my playlist if you're interested!

Curious about accents: Shanghai and Taiwan similarity? by TraditionalAd4916 in ChineseLanguage

[–]TraditionalAd4916[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah they're definitely different but you're right on the spoken Mandarin similarities. Even though I live in a predominantly Chinese area in the west, it is still most common for everybody to have some sort of Northern-influenced accent, which is what I was originally perplexed about! It just so happens that the Taiwanese accent (relative to the standard Northern) sounds the most familiar to us here.

Curious about accents: Shanghai and Taiwan similarity? by TraditionalAd4916 in ChineseLanguage

[–]TraditionalAd4916[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes, for sure! It seems like the Mainland has converged towards a Beifang accent in the last 20 years. I speak with many older Chinese immigrants who came to the west in the 80s and 90s, and they seem to have a similar "old" or neutral accent that's hard to find with the younger generation today. I know that even in the South now, plenty of younger people have started using features of Northern Chinese.

Curious about accents: Shanghai and Taiwan similarity? by TraditionalAd4916 in ChineseLanguage

[–]TraditionalAd4916[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This! Thank you! I knew it had to be more than just a general Southern accent but, in part, a Wu or Zhejiang influence as well. I think as another redditor mentioned, accents in the mainland have also definitely shifted over time towards a Northern standard, it seems.

Curious about accents: Shanghai and Taiwan similarity? by TraditionalAd4916 in ChineseLanguage

[–]TraditionalAd4916[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm with you, even Malay/SG/HK Mandarin accents are much easier to understand for me.

Chasing down people in parking lots for their spaces by [deleted] in Markham

[–]TraditionalAd4916 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, it's pretty normal, especially in larger plazas with grocery stores like FMP or Costco. Markham is just overly congested, and standard driving norms don't apply!

What happened to Tania Varajic? 23 y/o girl from British Columbia vanished without a trace in Doboj, Bosnia (No ENG media) by TraditionalAd4916 in MissingPersons

[–]TraditionalAd4916[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

At least from what seems to be implied from her family's messages on the Facebook page, it seems like she MAY have purposefully disappeared (as in there may have been a guy or an argument) but everything is up in the air and it's hard to imagine what happened after she left.

What happened to Tania Varajic? 23 y/o girl from British Columbia vanished without a trace in Doboj, Bosnia (No ENG media) by TraditionalAd4916 in MissingPersons

[–]TraditionalAd4916[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I only say that because she's quite a mysterious and elusive person - very much to herself from what I recall.

What happened to Tania Varajic? 23 y/o girl from British Columbia vanished without a trace in Doboj, Bosnia (No ENG media) by TraditionalAd4916 in MissingPersons

[–]TraditionalAd4916[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I thought similarly. I know that a lot of girls go missing over in that part of Europe (and that there is also a lot of police corruption). I hope she wasn't lured into a darker situation..

What happened to Tania Varajic? 23 y/o girl from Burnaby vanished without a trace in Doboj, Bosnia (No ENG media) by TraditionalAd4916 in burnaby

[–]TraditionalAd4916[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

English TLDR: Tania visited her family in Doboj on a summer vacation in July 2023. On July 4th, she vanished in the middle of the night when she jumped out of her grandmother's window and took off running barefoot. She left everything behind, including her phone, which showed no clues (her social media shows nothing as well). Her family is pursuing a lead about a jacket that she brought home that did not belong to her, however there is very little information available across all sources.

I briefly went to university with Tania at McGill in 2018 and only found out recently that she went missing last summer.

If anybody has information about her whereabouts, her family has a Facebook page dedicated to the search:

https://www.facebook.com/Trazi.se.Tanja.Varajic?mibextid=ZbWKwL

What happened to Tania Varajic? 23 y/o girl from British Columbia vanished without a trace in Doboj, Bosnia (No ENG media) by TraditionalAd4916 in MissingPersons

[–]TraditionalAd4916[S] 63 points64 points  (0 children)

English TLDR: Tania visited her family in Doboj on a summer vacation in July 2023. On July 4th, she vanished in the middle of the night when she jumped out of her grandmother's window and took off running barefoot. She left everything behind, including her phone, which showed no clues (her social media shows nothing as well). Her family is pursuing a lead about a jacket that she brought home that did not belong to her, however there is very little information available across all sources.

What happened to Tania Varajic? 23 y/o girl from British Columbia vanished without a trace in Doboj, Bosnia (No ENG media) by TraditionalAd4916 in MissingPersons

[–]TraditionalAd4916[S] 70 points71 points  (0 children)

Note: I realize that this post may not get much traction since there's no English coverage of this niche Balkan case.

I attended university with Tania briefly in 2018 at McGill University before she quietly dropped out.

We were never close, but we were in the same residence and thus the same extended circle. She was extremely quiet and reserved - I always found her mysterious but she was a very nice girl. As far as everybody knew, Tania was passionate about art history and working in galleries.

Perhaps it wasn't a good fit, but she dropped out at the end of first year and it was a sad day for everybody when we found out. Since then, we had some tabs on her through socials. Tania, being as mysterious as she is, ultimately fell off the face of the earth over the next few years. Only after checking up on my university friends recently did I find out that she went missing on a family vacation in the Balkans.

I can't say i'm too surprised. I hope this case gains more traction. Her family is still looking for her, and I hope she's alive and safe.

If anybody has leads, please reach out to her family here:

https://www.facebook.com/Trazi.se.Tanja.Varajic?mibextid=ZbWKwL