I used to blog like every day but since my first and last blog post, I've been finding it harder and harder to write again. I think part of the reason is that my life is pretty boring.
Well, going to Shanghai was nice. I went for meetings and to visit a foster home and made it into an overnight trip (per my friend Ann's urging) and I'm glad I did. The first night we went out for awesome Italian food (and cheap draft Stella at Dimarco's) and then to H&M. The next day, after I finished work, I went to another H&M. I love that place. I spent way too much money (that was supposed to be saved up for a vacation) but I got some great work clothes and cute accessories. It was just nice being back in Shanghai. I miss it. There's something about the air that feels/smells different and cleaner and wetter. It's definitely more humid down there which you really notice in the summer when you're always drenched in sweat and in the winter when your clothes don't dry (we don't have driers over here in China for the most part). But I do love the city. There's something about it that just makes you want to go out and spend money so maybe it's a good thing I'm back in Beijing! The dangerous thing is that an H&M is supposedly coming to Beijing (The Village!) in March of this year... meaning everyone's going to be wearing the same things!
What else happened last week... last Friday, after I got back from Shanghai, I met up with my girl friends at Alfa for 80's Night although it ended up not really being much of an 80's night as the dj played hits from the 70's and the 90's. Strange but not necessarily bad... I wore a new, cute H&M dress that was a bit too short and did my best to wear 80's style make up (pink cheeks and aqua/gold eye shadow). I snuck an old bottle of Thai whiskey I found in my cabinet from last year's honeymoon in Thailand and a can of diet coke into the bar and drank that. It wasn't as bad as it sounds actually, though no one wanted to share it with me. Couldn't handle it like hardcore me, I guess. Found out my friend is pregnant so she went home early and the others eventually went home as well. Val, Emily, Bekka and I headed to Tun and on the way Bekka's cell phone was found to be missing. When we went to look for it, Val disappeared and I got a message shortly after saying she had gone home as she had to work the next day. We still went to Tun despite being one phone short and once we got there and did a quick walk-through Emily decided to go home. Bekka and I had a good time with the help of some shots and drinks from a long lost "friend" I knew from Lush gigs. As I remember, I was just talking to some nice guy the whole time, trying to be a good friend and set him up with Emily. Bekka was alternating between dancing and talking to guys who were hitting on her. They swarmed around her but the assholes quickly ran away whenever it came out that she was married. No one could believe their luck that we were BOTH married. Luckily Bekka got down off the table just before two people fell off. It was a bar table and quite high and some people were dancing up there. I don't know what happened but they both fell off and seemed to be in shock afterwards. It didn't look fun but Bekka's right, it's probably better they were drunk when it happened but damn, the next day they had to be hurting! So that was our big night out. I rarely ever get drunk and have a good time and relax so I'd say the night was quite successful.
Saturday I took it easy. We had dinner with some friends and then went to The Bar, Cang Ku, for a few hours but I went home early. Sunday I cooked dinner and we had my brother, Bekka, and Taylor to eat, play Little Big Planet (or Big Little Planet??) and to talk about this new project Taylor wants to start doing. I'm especially excited about this. This could be what I needed as a hobby. I think it'll be great for zy to get to work with him and get to work on some new ideas. He is kind of set in his ways and this will force him to think more creatively about filming band videos, etc. I will write more once things are set up! This week I've been calling some bands to set something up for this Sunday. Hopefully it works!
Monday we went to eat with Hu Song and friends again because it was Yuan Xiao Jie which is the last big day of the Chinese New Year holiday. You're supposed to eat dinner with your family and you're supposed to eat yuan xiao (little boiled gummy rice balls filled with sesame or peanuts in a clear soup) and jiao zi. It's the last day for fireworks too so the streets were covered with the remains of fire crackers. Since zy is not speaking to his sister right now, he didn't want to go home so we ate out with friends, our second famiy, who also weren't with their relatives. Went to Cang Ku (again!) and hung out until we heard the building next to the big CCTV pants building was burning. By the time we got there, the fire was out so zy only got to film the smoking building but I guess it was exciting for him anyway.
Yesterday had to register again at my local, friendly police station. Foreigners have to register whenever they arrive in China within a certain number of days. I have been kind of slack about the whole thing but haven't ever gotten in trouble for it. My passport expired last month, after 10 years, and so I had to renew my visa and in turn my registration form. It was easy and pain-free as we had a copy of the housing contract, the landlord's ID, and the housing certificate all ready to go. I'm just now getting the hang of it. This is kind of a random post but at least it's a post and Ann can stop bugging me about it. :)
Oh and no more about the diet will be on this blog. Ugh. I will try to do it on my own but the last week has not been a good one for the diet. That's all I have to say about that...
Well, going to Shanghai was nice. I went for meetings and to visit a foster home and made it into an overnight trip (per my friend Ann's urging) and I'm glad I did. The first night we went out for awesome Italian food (and cheap draft Stella at Dimarco's) and then to H&M. The next day, after I finished work, I went to another H&M. I love that place. I spent way too much money (that was supposed to be saved up for a vacation) but I got some great work clothes and cute accessories. It was just nice being back in Shanghai. I miss it. There's something about the air that feels/smells different and cleaner and wetter. It's definitely more humid down there which you really notice in the summer when you're always drenched in sweat and in the winter when your clothes don't dry (we don't have driers over here in China for the most part). But I do love the city. There's something about it that just makes you want to go out and spend money so maybe it's a good thing I'm back in Beijing! The dangerous thing is that an H&M is supposedly coming to Beijing (The Village!) in March of this year... meaning everyone's going to be wearing the same things!
What else happened last week... last Friday, after I got back from Shanghai, I met up with my girl friends at Alfa for 80's Night although it ended up not really being much of an 80's night as the dj played hits from the 70's and the 90's. Strange but not necessarily bad... I wore a new, cute H&M dress that was a bit too short and did my best to wear 80's style make up (pink cheeks and aqua/gold eye shadow). I snuck an old bottle of Thai whiskey I found in my cabinet from last year's honeymoon in Thailand and a can of diet coke into the bar and drank that. It wasn't as bad as it sounds actually, though no one wanted to share it with me. Couldn't handle it like hardcore me, I guess. Found out my friend is pregnant so she went home early and the others eventually went home as well. Val, Emily, Bekka and I headed to Tun and on the way Bekka's cell phone was found to be missing. When we went to look for it, Val disappeared and I got a message shortly after saying she had gone home as she had to work the next day. We still went to Tun despite being one phone short and once we got there and did a quick walk-through Emily decided to go home. Bekka and I had a good time with the help of some shots and drinks from a long lost "friend" I knew from Lush gigs. As I remember, I was just talking to some nice guy the whole time, trying to be a good friend and set him up with Emily. Bekka was alternating between dancing and talking to guys who were hitting on her. They swarmed around her but the assholes quickly ran away whenever it came out that she was married. No one could believe their luck that we were BOTH married. Luckily Bekka got down off the table just before two people fell off. It was a bar table and quite high and some people were dancing up there. I don't know what happened but they both fell off and seemed to be in shock afterwards. It didn't look fun but Bekka's right, it's probably better they were drunk when it happened but damn, the next day they had to be hurting! So that was our big night out. I rarely ever get drunk and have a good time and relax so I'd say the night was quite successful.
Saturday I took it easy. We had dinner with some friends and then went to The Bar, Cang Ku, for a few hours but I went home early. Sunday I cooked dinner and we had my brother, Bekka, and Taylor to eat, play Little Big Planet (or Big Little Planet??) and to talk about this new project Taylor wants to start doing. I'm especially excited about this. This could be what I needed as a hobby. I think it'll be great for zy to get to work with him and get to work on some new ideas. He is kind of set in his ways and this will force him to think more creatively about filming band videos, etc. I will write more once things are set up! This week I've been calling some bands to set something up for this Sunday. Hopefully it works!
Monday we went to eat with Hu Song and friends again because it was Yuan Xiao Jie which is the last big day of the Chinese New Year holiday. You're supposed to eat dinner with your family and you're supposed to eat yuan xiao (little boiled gummy rice balls filled with sesame or peanuts in a clear soup) and jiao zi. It's the last day for fireworks too so the streets were covered with the remains of fire crackers. Since zy is not speaking to his sister right now, he didn't want to go home so we ate out with friends, our second famiy, who also weren't with their relatives. Went to Cang Ku (again!) and hung out until we heard the building next to the big CCTV pants building was burning. By the time we got there, the fire was out so zy only got to film the smoking building but I guess it was exciting for him anyway.
Yesterday had to register again at my local, friendly police station. Foreigners have to register whenever they arrive in China within a certain number of days. I have been kind of slack about the whole thing but haven't ever gotten in trouble for it. My passport expired last month, after 10 years, and so I had to renew my visa and in turn my registration form. It was easy and pain-free as we had a copy of the housing contract, the landlord's ID, and the housing certificate all ready to go. I'm just now getting the hang of it. This is kind of a random post but at least it's a post and Ann can stop bugging me about it. :)
Oh and no more about the diet will be on this blog. Ugh. I will try to do it on my own but the last week has not been a good one for the diet. That's all I have to say about that...
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