next station tin hau

train station 6am
Originally uploaded by galaygobi.

past few days have been pretty busy. 2 days ago i went drinking again with my friend but this time we took it easy(er). went to taku for all-you-can-drink and ended off with a nice buzz.

this picture is from yesterday morning when i was waiting for the train to get home. went to see my friend who lives on the other side of town (2 hours on the bus) and ended up missing the bus/subway back. i figured since i was already there we might as well go to ktv which is just the next block down. the girl i got was okay, from sichuan and spoke some cantonese which made me feel nostargic about home. hung around till 530 when the trains started running again and then trained it home.

i was pretty dead all day yesterday as i ended up sleeping for about 10 hours during the day, and then another 9 hours at night. my body was probably angry at me for not sleeping and drinking too much while still being sick. i guess i'll take it easy today before school starts tomorrow.

limp limp limp

bruise on the top of my head.
bruise on the back of my head.
bruise on my chin.
bruises on my fingers.
bruises on my elbows.
bruises on my knees.
bruise on my tailbone.
bruises up and down my arm.

interesting night to say the least.

started off with me meeting a new friend from chicago for dinner. we ended up going to some chinese restaurant that seemed popular for salad (wtf, salad?). while we were eating a creepy guy with acne face and snot hanging from his nose came to talk to us in english. found out we were from us and canada respectively then began to talk about music he liked. said his favourite band was nirvana and asked my friend, who's black, if he liked nirvana. my friend replied that it was 'a little too white for him.' creepy guy obviously didn't understand. after he left us alone for a bit, he came back and SAT at our goddamn table. of course we were eating, not looking at him, and pretending to ignore him but he pursued. asked my friend if he liked hiphop and rap, and then said his favourite rap artist was MC Hammer. obviously by then i was laughing like a schoolgirl. well to get him to go away, we quickly paid the bill and were saved by the waitress who brought his food to another table.

after that we walked back to our area and killed time as propaganda opened. propaganda is primarily a club that plays hiphop music. the catch is, on wednesdays it's 50kuai (7 canadian) all-you-can-drink. bad news.

after drinking probably the equivalent of over a litre of 40% alcohol, i completely forgot what happened. my friend managed to drag me home after i got kicked out of the bar and was put in an armbar by the bouncer. he said i fell down outside numerous times which accounts for all the bruises on my body. one time i fell backwards and my head was saved by an indent in the ground. apparently when we got back to my apartment, i kept telling him we had the right room (he didn't know as this was his first time over). so there we were trying to open other people's doors at 2 in the morning. needless to say there are some angry neighbours inside my apartment. he said we went to 5 different places before we got the right apartment. i'm funny.

he then woke me up at 745 this morning by bashing my head as we both had a test at 8. i was still so drunk that i couldn't find my classroom for a good 30 minutes. i realized that they changed buildings on me as i went to reread the sign outside. however, they just crossed off the old building and didn't write in the new one so i was even more lost. my test went okay i guess for me being still so drunk and hopefully won't get put back to the beginner level hahaha.

anyways, after the test i came home and showered and had a nice nap before i met my friend again to help him buy a phone while he told me all the hilarious stories of last night.

funny thing is he wanted to go drinking again tonight with me again to the other all-you-can-drink. i think i'll pass for today. maybe tomorrow.

lazing around

quite an unproductive day. woke up around 2 and basically sat around all day watching japanese tv series that i brought with me from canada.

got home this morning around 730am from karaoke. for some reason it was busy so none of the usual girls i know were free so i got stuck with a girl that nobody wanted. she was telling me how her life is and i sort of felt sorry for her but found it funny at the same time. for some reason she wants me to come on her birthday which is next week and then she'll take me out.

no thanks.

seems like an age-old trick they use. - 'next time you come i'll take you out.' actually she seemed serious after she poured out her life story and kept telling me to come.

but still, no thanks.

and besides that she made my neck look like i dove into a swamp full of leeches which is another reason i just sat around today. on top of that tomorrow i have to go get visa pictures and go to the public security bureau to renew my visa.

collared shirt - check!

i honestly can't wait until school starts so i can meet some new people. i think the best combination would be a local guy with lots of money. that way when we go out he can get the local deals and we won't get cheated by chinamen, but he'll have enough money to go to places that normal people can't go to. not going to happen for sure, but i can always dream.

i think i'll go to sleep as i've been sitting around all day watching tv and it actually made me pretty tired.

salty sunflower seeds

2am.
i've been eating sunflower seeds for the past 2 hours.
i slept through dinner.

so i'm back in china again. going to a different school in a different district, so i'm at a different apartment. half the price of my old place, but way less than half as comfortable. not used to it so far as for one, the washroom doesn't have a separate shower but just a drain on the ground and a shower mounted on the wall. also, i don't get any english channels here so there's really nothing to do at night but sleep or go out.

when i arrived, coincidentally my uncle was also scheduled to arrive in beijing for a meeting. so the first few days he helped me get settled in, and my aunt and i thoroughly cleaned the dirty apartment. since he's not a cheapass like me when it comes to eating out here, i had good food for the time he was around. he also bought me a hi-fi system since he said i'd be bored and i could just listen to music. yay! so now i have a cute hi-fi system with green speakers that i have yet to setup right. that involves moving furniture around, buying things necessary to rewire, etc. so i figure i'll do it another day. still need to buy a couple things, and run some errands. need to renew my visa, fix my dictionary, look for a new phone, etc.

saw one friend so far. went to eat a couple times, and went to karaoke once. he's still the same i guess. i really wish i had other friends here, especially like those back home. my best friend here, i wouldn't even put up with for a day in canada. he's too arrogant when talking to people and wonders why no one else in the class is his friend. whenever he talks to me about other korean people he says they're not good and how he thinks he's better than them. whenever you tell him something that you discovered or some trivial fact he says he already knew that. fun. wow, i'm an asshole for talking behind his back haha, but honestly i couldn't care less.

but anyways, tomorrow i have to get more documents for my visa, get some shopping done, and random things. the good thing about this area is there are so many places to eat within a couple blocks radius, unlike my old place. the bad thing though, is the center of the city is so far away. i miss my old place where when i was bored, i could idle at the beauty salon a block away and just chat with people. i guess i have to make new friends and find a new place to hang out here.

gross i just ate a rotten sunflower seed.

time to wash it down with water and try to sleep again.