drinking, not studying, and playing psp

sounds a little bit like going to university.

wait, i'm still in university. not really. sort of. no, not at all.

anyways, these past few days have been pretty interesting.

saturday i went out with my korean classmate and my japanese classmate and our chinese friend to form the neapolitan of oriental races. anyways we went out to drink at some little restaurant on the street which is best known for its lamb kebobs.

okay, first let me get to the lamb kebobs. i'm not a big fan of lamb, so i might see it in a different view from everyone else. but honestly, after i ate too many, it reminded me of arab people body odour. not nice, i know.

anyways, after eating too many of those to accompany many yanjing beers, before we knew it the place closed and we had to emigrate to a 24 xiaoshi restaurant.

i think after about 7 hours of drinking, we totalled close to 30L of beer and who knows how much food. the grand total of everything came to......................... less than 20 canadian.

i honestly don't know how i can go back to canada and spend more than that on 3 bottles at a club, tips included. either way this was the first time i drank in china and found it pretty interesting. i saw a funny sign on the bathroom wall that said 'xxxxxx anus and intestine hospital ...' which i only thought was funny because they used the word anus instead of something else like colon, or just going by the scientific terminology.

anyways, i had a midterm today and yesterday i didn't study as we had quite an adventure. one of our schoolmate's things got sent to main campus in haidian district. never going there before, she got lost on the bus and then called my friend whom i was with in the afternoon. since we both had too much time, we decided to accompany her to haidian to get her things.

wrong move.

actually, it was kind of fun. it took us 1 hour to get there by subway (which i might add is really shitty here in beijing - one transfer station requires u to walk outside and across a few streets). we get to main campus and have no idea where to go because the woman giving us direction as to where we're supposed to meet her is being very vague. on top of that, she talks fast with many 'er' sounds like the other 12 million people in beijing. after being lost for about an hour we finally find the place. after all that fuss she makes us go to the post office. why she didn't tell us to just go there in the first place, i will never know. so after our long adventure it was about the time when beijing subways/traffic hits the all time max since everyone is going home. so jam packed on a subway for a good hour and a half, we finally make it back home.

instead of going home, we decide to meet up later with our schoolmate again for dinner, so my friend and i kill time around our school area. we meet up pretty late for dinner with our schoolmate again, and one of her japanese friends that just arrived in beijing for vacation. late dinner, sparse drinking, and i'm home at 11 with a midterm at 8. i think i've been in worse situations before so no bother.