i am...

...now here. Or at least that is what I thought I heard when I was talking to my Hokkien friends. They kept saying to me, "Cunning now here." At first I thought, what great things do they expect from their tall barbarian friend? Then one day my girlfriend told me that it was a Hokkien profanity. It has opened my eyes.

The Hokkien fraternity is very friendly. They seem to say this thing to everyone they meet. I went to East Asia to work, and that's where I hear it the most. Now I teach in a Christian school, and I hear it there too! Friendly people, and everywhere, these Hokkien people.