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Taiwanese-ified

Rewind back a year. I would have looked at this sentence and scratched my head....Who writes like that?
Well, me, apparently now, to my Taiwan mates [woops, rewind back 4 years and I would NOT be using the term 'mates']


哈哈哈
幹嘛醬～沒有那麼奢侈啦～
不～曉得叻～除非要到師大／古亭附近走一走


A basic translation：


Hahaha
Why you so like that? (this translation betrays my Malaysian-ness, but I can't think of a better way to translate 幹嘛醬)
I don't live that luxuriously.
I~~don't know ler~~Unless we walk around to Shida/GuTing


Cultural adaptation....adding more countries to the pot of Charis...
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