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{SPEAKER name="Miu Eng (Interviewee)"}
also a lot more independence, from, from the parent's generation, um, because the tradition is that you live at home until you get married, y'know, and, y'know, it's- I didn't do that. [[speaker and man laugh]] [[?]] "what, you're moving to school?" yes, I am.
{SPEAKER name="Samir Meghelli, Ph.D. (Interviewer)"}:
What about your brothers, or any of your aunts or uncles, or..?
{SPEAKER name="Miu Eng (Interviewee)"}:
Actually, I've. Ah, good one. I never asked them. Y'know we're kinda like, we all had our own, we all had our own set of friends, we live our own lives, it's like we- we didn't... um... y'know.
Man: Hm...
Didn't have that conversation at home [[speaker and man laugh]]
{SPEAKER name="Samir Meghelli, Ph.D. (Interviewer)"}: Also, since she got married before her older brother.
[[all laugh]]
{SPEAKER name="Miu Eng (Interviewee)"}:
That's a weird tradition. Uh, my b-, my mother said you have to buy this pair of pants, then you have to take the pants and put them over your head. [laughs] Because you climb over him, so, you know, by not waiting your turn in marriage it's like- [all laugh] ok mom, whatever.[laughs]
{SPEAKER name="Samir Meghelli, Ph.D. (Interviewer)"}:
Um, well I wonder if you happen to remember how it made you feel to see your work hanging, you know, at this important intersection, 7th and H, um, I mean was it the first time that something that you produced was hanging in public? And no less that it was humongous.
{SPEAKER name="Miu Eng (Interviewee)"}:
Yea,
{SPEAKER name="Samir Meghelli, Ph.D. (Interviewer)"}:
And people walked by it everyday.
{SPEAKER name="Miu Eng (Interviewee)"}:
You know, it's, I actually have a sense of like wonder, like how the heck did we actually do that? You know? Because sometimes you, sort of when you're working on something, you're looking at it, um, piece meal. You don't really have that big vision. And, once it's up, it's, you know, it's like wow. We did it. You know, it's that sense of um, [Audio ends]