meeting new people, easy?

so it's late friday night. i was bored so i went around randomly bothering china people on various online communities.

seems as though some of them were also bored on this friday night, and returned my messages. please examine the following conversation to realize the hardships of cross-lingual communication:

sickEum says: (12:11:50 AM)
hey how are you

gobi says: (12:12:05 AM)
not bad.. you?

sickEum says: (12:13:50 AM)
What?

gobi says: (12:14:09 AM)
how are you?

sickEum says: (12:14:44 AM)
ye ye how are you how are you

if that made sense to you, please tell me for i am lost.

in other news, i discovered a nice restaurant on campus. and no, my campus is not huge like most universities, as it houses only one faculty. so there are maybe 10 buildings in total, and one of which resides a small restaurant that was recently renovated. the head chef there is actually from the beijing hotel, or so i've heard. workers and students advised me against going there as it was 'too expensive'.

so after a long chat in the office after class, i missed the timeframe to eat at the cafeteria so i decided to try the restaurant.

went there, nobody around as it was 1:30.

side note: people here only eat on time as they're told to. if you go to a restaurant after 1ish, or after 730ish at night, it's bound to be empty.

anyways, ordered fried rice as it was the only dish i could read on the menu that wasn't curry. after trying it, i realized this was the best fried rice i've had out of hong kong. and do you know how much it all costed?

10 yuan. including tea.

that works out to about 1.50CAD. SOOOOOOOOO expensive.

i don't understand it though, if these people went outside to eat at a restaurant as nice as this, it would have costed over double. i mean, even the hong kong cha-cantings are 20ish each dish. i guess i love being at the opposite end of the financial spectrum.