Of Chinese and Programming

I remember very clearly what we used to say when we first started going out together:

Me: You can teach me chinese, and I can teach you programming, ok?

Fen: *tsk*

Well, I ended up teaching her today how to program in Excel so that it'd be easier for her to do her work ;)

On the other hand, I think my mandarin hasn't improved much, judging from the number of times I made her (and her mum/dad) laugh at my direct english-to-chinese translations unintentionally... ="|