With all the politic and controversy surround the Olympics and Olympic torch, I just don't want to get into it... so I'm not...
Instead, I am going to update on absolutely useless information.
Actually, I don't really feel like I have much to update on... Ok I have a lot to update on but all the interesting stuff is too incriminating to put up in a public domain like this. So if you really want to know the interesting stuff, give me a holla.
So some semi-interesting stuff.
I've started to play lacrosse again. I know!! I didn't know I'd get back into it this soon, but destiny calls in the June tournament that will be in Beijing. So now I might be giving up my Saturday nights to trek across town to practice on Sunday nights, because with any person with some Chinese origin knows about the concept of "losing" face, basically getting schooled/ embarassed. And in this tournament will be an American team and hell we can't just let them roll over us!!!
Our team has a lot of training to go as most girls have played for less than 1 year, which puts us with a slight disadvantage... But I believe in this team! We're gonna get it done.
Switching subjects, Chinese people do not know how to play April Fool's jokes. One friend, said she was going to marry a gay guy in a month. This was too easy to figure out so it wasn't really that funny. Another friend sent a text basically professing her love and I was doubtful but then it was all in Chinese so I was getting confused if it was a joke or not... in the end it was a terrible April Fool's joke and something you should not be throwing around so casually...
Finally, that day another friend invited me to go out but by then I was so cautious as to who was being serious I probably asked her 3 times if she was really going to the bar or would I expect to be stood up... she was actually being serious, so it was nice seeing her :) so the day ended well.
That's all my semi-interesting news... for the real dirt, catch me on gtalk, aim, msn, skype.
Showing posts with label beijing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beijing. Show all posts
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Tis' the Season for Giving
Our nontraditional Christmas, but doing the traditional things.
I'd gotten a text earlier in the week from Vivian who "needed" to go dancing and this doesn’t happen very often as she is a Chinese person, so I jumped right on that and was like yea let’s go dancing, however Michael thought his father’s friends were more important and had to get up early to go skiing or some lame shit (jk).
On Friday, our group congregated at Rickshaw for some Mexican food and large drafts till about 11:30 then bounced over to Heat where there was an extreme shortage of people. Even the normal go go dancers were occupied with other guests. Then what surprised us was in the walkway connecting Heat and Carib (salsa place) there was a deer! Is there PETA in China? Alex said we’d liberate it like how the Communists wanted to liberate Taiwan but really where would we have taken it?
Can someone call PETA?
To protest animal cruelty, we went to Nan jie “South Street” across the street. There, some group of abroaders broke out in santa and elf gear and proceeded to dance on the tables, it's all fun except there was barely any space to dance so we went back to Heat hoping that the scene picked up and the deer might have been liberated. Well, neither had happened, so we met up with Carrie at China Doll. I must say usually when I go there I’m pretty trashed so this time I was only slightly trashed and finally could pay attention to the video they replay. A very interesting video of under water bondage, I'd call it, idk, go see for yourself, also I finally noticed the walls with naked people, how I missed this before I do not know.
Saturday night, start it with Alex at dinner, and then we headed out to meet up with Kenai, well I knew Kenai was at a lala bar and I told Alex that, what I didn’t know was this bar was having an event so before we even got within 5 ft of the door the “bouncer” was like it’s ladies night, I’m like yea… she’s like no guys, it’s lesbians, are you? (just be sexist and completely put me out there)… so well, sorry for leading Alex to a place where men did not wear the pants :( he did not make it in, but you know he only missed 50 RMB (~$7) open bar, a bunch of T’s (butches) 泡妞, KTV competition, drinking contest where a beer bottle was stuck between a girls leg and someone else had to drink out of it, a hot dancer, and me failing to pick up a girl cuz I can't play my game in Chinese. Oh so did I mention dancer, yea, see below.
What a show
Sunday, chilled at Obi, pretty much what Obi is a good for a chill, chatting night.
Monday night, Christmas Eve, Ping An Jie, was a winner. Alex, Ben and I, went with the traditional meal and got 烤鸭, Peking Duck, it’s so delicious. We finished at 8:30, so we’re like “oh no, what to do?” so we picked the healthiest choice and went and got hooka and a pitcher of Long Island ice tea at Alfa. It was all pretty nice, except we had to argue over getting another piece of coal (total bullshit, cuz coal cost nothing, it the crap Santa gives to naughty kids and trust we're we're naughty)
Anyway, after Wangqi and her friend met up with us, we decided to head out cuz it was about that time to start the real party and plus I can’t afford Alfa’s prices (or I guess I choose not to). We hit up the usual Sanlitun (bar street) area, hopped around a bit. Kai -> Heat (who had a 50 rmb cover , so didn’t go in, but the door was also blocked by everyone trying to get in, this is the place that was deserted two nights before) -> Nanjie, where we settle for a bit and since I’d started with a Long Island, I figured I’d stick with hard alcohol for the night (great decision). The thing I figured out is that at cheap bars, the mix drinks usually are weak so after my rum but mostly coke, I sprung for some shots, rum -> jaegger -> rum, getting me off to a great mood. The late night party was not at Nanjie so we rolled out back to Kai area. We got our groove on between the three bars in a row and Alex kept sneaking in Yanjing’s, because Smugglers is the only upstanding bar selling Yanjing’s and not crappy Qingdao’s.
Oh our way out Alex got another big bottle from my fav cigarette street vendor :)
You cra-zay!
Our crazy Christmas Eve kinda put us all out of commission all day. We met up after dinner at Lush which was playing Love Acutally (cheesy, lovey-dubby, i didn't really need it Christmas movie), and also to help us get into the Christmas spirit was their 6 tequila shot deal and eggnog, ok jk, didn’t do the shots cuz I think I would have died and they were out of eggnog by the time we asked. But we did destroy our lungs one more time buy ordering hookah and they’re deal of long islands, both of which were pretty substandard (granted it was a third of Alfa’s price), which is another reason why the wu (that general area) sucks. We bounced soon after since we all had to return to normalcy the next day.
Happy Holidays Everyone!
I'd gotten a text earlier in the week from Vivian who "needed" to go dancing and this doesn’t happen very often as she is a Chinese person, so I jumped right on that and was like yea let’s go dancing, however Michael thought his father’s friends were more important and had to get up early to go skiing or some lame shit (jk).
On Friday, our group congregated at Rickshaw for some Mexican food and large drafts till about 11:30 then bounced over to Heat where there was an extreme shortage of people. Even the normal go go dancers were occupied with other guests. Then what surprised us was in the walkway connecting Heat and Carib (salsa place) there was a deer! Is there PETA in China? Alex said we’d liberate it like how the Communists wanted to liberate Taiwan but really where would we have taken it?
Can someone call PETA? To protest animal cruelty, we went to Nan jie “South Street” across the street. There, some group of abroaders broke out in santa and elf gear and proceeded to dance on the tables, it's all fun except there was barely any space to dance so we went back to Heat hoping that the scene picked up and the deer might have been liberated. Well, neither had happened, so we met up with Carrie at China Doll. I must say usually when I go there I’m pretty trashed so this time I was only slightly trashed and finally could pay attention to the video they replay. A very interesting video of under water bondage, I'd call it, idk, go see for yourself, also I finally noticed the walls with naked people, how I missed this before I do not know.
Saturday night, start it with Alex at dinner, and then we headed out to meet up with Kenai, well I knew Kenai was at a lala bar and I told Alex that, what I didn’t know was this bar was having an event so before we even got within 5 ft of the door the “bouncer” was like it’s ladies night, I’m like yea… she’s like no guys, it’s lesbians, are you? (just be sexist and completely put me out there)… so well, sorry for leading Alex to a place where men did not wear the pants :( he did not make it in, but you know he only missed 50 RMB (~$7) open bar, a bunch of T’s (butches) 泡妞, KTV competition, drinking contest where a beer bottle was stuck between a girls leg and someone else had to drink out of it, a hot dancer, and me failing to pick up a girl cuz I can't play my game in Chinese. Oh so did I mention dancer, yea, see below.
What a showSunday, chilled at Obi, pretty much what Obi is a good for a chill, chatting night.
Monday night, Christmas Eve, Ping An Jie, was a winner. Alex, Ben and I, went with the traditional meal and got 烤鸭, Peking Duck, it’s so delicious. We finished at 8:30, so we’re like “oh no, what to do?” so we picked the healthiest choice and went and got hooka and a pitcher of Long Island ice tea at Alfa. It was all pretty nice, except we had to argue over getting another piece of coal (total bullshit, cuz coal cost nothing, it the crap Santa gives to naughty kids and trust we're we're naughty)
Anyway, after Wangqi and her friend met up with us, we decided to head out cuz it was about that time to start the real party and plus I can’t afford Alfa’s prices (or I guess I choose not to). We hit up the usual Sanlitun (bar street) area, hopped around a bit. Kai -> Heat (who had a 50 rmb cover , so didn’t go in, but the door was also blocked by everyone trying to get in, this is the place that was deserted two nights before) -> Nanjie, where we settle for a bit and since I’d started with a Long Island, I figured I’d stick with hard alcohol for the night (great decision). The thing I figured out is that at cheap bars, the mix drinks usually are weak so after my rum but mostly coke, I sprung for some shots, rum -> jaegger -> rum, getting me off to a great mood. The late night party was not at Nanjie so we rolled out back to Kai area. We got our groove on between the three bars in a row and Alex kept sneaking in Yanjing’s, because Smugglers is the only upstanding bar selling Yanjing’s and not crappy Qingdao’s.
Oh our way out Alex got another big bottle from my fav cigarette street vendor :)
You cra-zay!Our crazy Christmas Eve kinda put us all out of commission all day. We met up after dinner at Lush which was playing Love Acutally (cheesy, lovey-dubby, i didn't really need it Christmas movie), and also to help us get into the Christmas spirit was their 6 tequila shot deal and eggnog, ok jk, didn’t do the shots cuz I think I would have died and they were out of eggnog by the time we asked. But we did destroy our lungs one more time buy ordering hookah and they’re deal of long islands, both of which were pretty substandard (granted it was a third of Alfa’s price), which is another reason why the wu (that general area) sucks. We bounced soon after since we all had to return to normalcy the next day.
Happy Holidays Everyone!
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
4 Killed in Subway
*FAKE NEWS*
Beijing, China - For some unknown reason 10 subway trains (well I saw 4) passed Jianguomen, one of the transfer stations, therefore one of the busiest stations, in Beijing without stopping rush hour. The mob on the platform grew quickly and workers and security personnel could not hold back the overcrowded platform, as a result, two people fell onto the tracks as the train pulled in and two people were trampled.
Rush hour on Tuesday in Beijing was met with many bewildered commuters, who were stranded at Jianguomen subway stop when trains on the 2nd line were not stopping. According to an Asian American on the way home after a hard day at the lacrosse company, “Yea, they kept announcing something in Chinese that I couldn’t understand, but I suspect it had something to do with the trains not stopping.”
The number 1 line was running, and many opted to get to their respected destinations by going in a very roundabout way from 1 line to 5 line back onto 2 line. However, if you were just going to a stop adjacent to Jianguomen, good luck, go find that bus.
The unruly crowd could not get any comprehensible answers from the handful of workers and incompetent security holding back the hundreds of people. Apparently, they were only told to stand there and try to keep the mob calm, but also were in the dark about what the municipal government was thinking.
The truth remains to be solved, did the higher officials bet how long it would take for someone to get killed in the subway, did they want to have an unruly crowded so they can test out the newest mob controlling weapons? We may never know but next time they decided to wreak havoc during rush hour they should really think about how long it is before the people start a mutiny.
Moments before the crowd became unruly
[I don't think anyone actually died (at this point) but the trains really weren't stopping. WTF!]
Beijing, China - For some unknown reason 10 subway trains (well I saw 4) passed Jianguomen, one of the transfer stations, therefore one of the busiest stations, in Beijing without stopping rush hour. The mob on the platform grew quickly and workers and security personnel could not hold back the overcrowded platform, as a result, two people fell onto the tracks as the train pulled in and two people were trampled.
Rush hour on Tuesday in Beijing was met with many bewildered commuters, who were stranded at Jianguomen subway stop when trains on the 2nd line were not stopping. According to an Asian American on the way home after a hard day at the lacrosse company, “Yea, they kept announcing something in Chinese that I couldn’t understand, but I suspect it had something to do with the trains not stopping.”
The number 1 line was running, and many opted to get to their respected destinations by going in a very roundabout way from 1 line to 5 line back onto 2 line. However, if you were just going to a stop adjacent to Jianguomen, good luck, go find that bus.
The unruly crowd could not get any comprehensible answers from the handful of workers and incompetent security holding back the hundreds of people. Apparently, they were only told to stand there and try to keep the mob calm, but also were in the dark about what the municipal government was thinking.
The truth remains to be solved, did the higher officials bet how long it would take for someone to get killed in the subway, did they want to have an unruly crowded so they can test out the newest mob controlling weapons? We may never know but next time they decided to wreak havoc during rush hour they should really think about how long it is before the people start a mutiny.
Moments before the crowd became unruly[I don't think anyone actually died (at this point) but the trains really weren't stopping. WTF!]
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Leaves are falling
To me it's a surprise there are still leaves on the tree branches because Beijing has a harsh wind. But below is a pic at the Geological school, there are a lot of leaves are on the ground but the trees are still holding on.
Another pic I took at Beijing Normal. Fall really is the best season in Beijing
And this sign I noticed while I was on the bus. At first I thought it was a sign for promoting "culturedness" in Beijing because for the Olympics the government has been scrambling to tell people not to spit, etc. So I thought the sign was like "don't fight people", then I look closer and it's for the Technology school's gym. The event must be like judo or something. What sport do you just body slam someone?
Another pic I took at Beijing Normal. Fall really is the best season in Beijing
And this sign I noticed while I was on the bus. At first I thought it was a sign for promoting "culturedness" in Beijing because for the Olympics the government has been scrambling to tell people not to spit, etc. So I thought the sign was like "don't fight people", then I look closer and it's for the Technology school's gym. The event must be like judo or something. What sport do you just body slam someone?
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