Last week was quite fun. I submitted all the papers for the university and although I’m gonna have to adjust one, I already feel like the work is done. And it does feel good.
On Wednesday, on the way from school, I stopped by at
Shanghai South Railway Station to get my tickets to Beijing for the next
week. Initially, I was considering getting the cheap ones and do like 15 hours’ train ride but I decided not to. I’m gonna spend there like 5 days so I
don’t really have that much time to
waste. I went for the high-speed option so the ride is gonna take less than 5
hours…
My friend invited me to this concert on Thursday in Shanghai
Oriental Art Center. The poster was in Chinese so I didn’t really have a clue what I was signing up to. I kinda
understood that it would be a classical music event… Given the fact, the venue is nearby Science and
Technology Museum, the location of one of the biggest fake markets in the city,
I decided to get over with shopping for my sister. She wanted me to buy get her some shoes and caps and I kept postponing it cause I really hate shopping. So,
I took my bike around 3pm and with a little help of ferry got over there, and successfully got all that 100% guaranteed branded shit.
When
I met with all the people later on, I realized I’m fucking underdressed as hell.
Everyone was on their super formal shit and I came with shorts and t-shirt.
Oriental Art Center is a huge modern concert hall – pretty impressive inside and out. The concert was amazing
– it’s been
a long time since I’ve heard classical music live.
My way back home got kinda adventurous too. The night ride under the skyscrapers in Pudong was great. However, I
didn’t have a fucking clue that
ferries stop at 10pm and although I got to the dock like 21:55, they refused to
sell me the ticket for the last one. Because China, motherfucker. So, I spent
like an hour riding around the bank looking for other ferry spots just to
confirm that all of them are closed. Had to park my bike by the Pearl tower and
took a subway back home – picked
the bike the morning after.
On Friday afternoon, I grabbed a beer with my bro at the
stairs by the Jing’an temple station and later
on went for a dinner with another friend. We went to the Jen Dow veggie place for a
hot pot and it was on point as usual. Afterwards, we took OFO bikes and rode the Windows
Scoreboard for the final hangout of our international class. That was kinda okay… I got home around 1am…
Since I’m gonna
go to Beijing tomorrow and my closest friend here is leaving the next week, we
decided to do the farewell night yesterday. I bought a bottle of Johnie Walker and
met him at the Huashan Greenland park. It was raining like crazy but the park
has this little spot with shitload of chairs, tables and a roof so we were good.
After finishing like ¾ of the
bottle, we got to Dada for this dancehall party. I was drunk as a skunk and I
had a great time. Got home around 3… Again,
on an OFO bike – drunk biking is the shit!
Highlights:
- I got asked to take a picture with random people like 3 times last week. Getting popular over here…
- So many super white people in the Oriental Art Center. The way they dress, walk and talk – it’s incredible how white a person can be…
- OFO bikes – for some weird reason, I’m not getting charged for using those – I’ve taken like 15 rides already and they charged me once. 1 RMB. No idea how they make money but hey, I’m not complaining.
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