Here we go again. Two weeks before this year is over shit’s not getting any slower. Last
Tuesday, I paid a visit to Shanghai Tattoo, cause I’m realizing that I can’t make
it without new ink up until the next summer. It’s gonna
be challenging tho. Don’t get me wrong, the studio is
awesome. I like the interior, I like the look, the energy seems cool. But... It
just doesn’t feel right. Apart from the
fact it’s heavily overpriced, which
is quite symptomatic for studios in China and Korea, it just feels they do lots
of mediocre to plain bad designs. Now, I get that they probably do shitload of
rich tourist and basic motherfuckers with mediocre ideas, but if their
portfolios display fucking meh designs, it kinda suggests that they don’t really do much interesting shit
even at their best. It’s not
complete garbage, but it’s
closer than you would expect. And the price. I mean for a small ass tattoo, I
can pretty much buy a return ticket back to Europe and do two session with my
favorite guy who is top notch. I met this girl who does tattoos
in her small studio somewhere in Xuhui, so I’m gonna
pay her a visit sometime soon and then decide whether to go for it or nah. It’s quite a fucked up here. Anyways, I
hung out with the friend over there, and at least got a beer at their bar.
On Thursday, I got invited to have some beers to the flat of
my classmates. That was cool as hell. I drank with two of them (they’re sisters) and later on we did a
bottle of wine with their flat mate. Chilled and entertaining evening. The
weather is too cold now tho. When I’m
getting back home fucked, I don’t even
feel like stopping by at my noodle lady’s spot,
cause I just can’t wait to get back indoors. I
miss her.
On Friday, I was supposed to meet with my biking friend but
unfortunately, it turned out to be raining pretty much for the whole day, so we
scrapped that. I still managed to do a run and some outdoor workout when the
rain got little lighter, but overall it was shit. Cool thing was, I had the
whole track for myself. I ran into this Chinese elderly guy by the bars when I went
for pull ups and I got reminded that I really need to work on my Chinese.
There was only two of us and he tried to talk to me. I was just standing there
like a retard, awkwardly smiling and repeating that I don’t speak the fucking language.
In the evening, I met with my Macedonian guy and we did some
beers at Papa’s. This time it was a bit
crowded which was actually cool as a motherfucker. It was all Chinese who decided to
go ape shit with booze. Now, watching Chinese getting fucked up is usually
hilarious. They get drunk fast, they start hugging everyone and everything,
they try to hit on girls... I guess everyone does that but since Chinese are
not the warmest people by default (trust me, I can relate to that), it all looks super
funny. And these guys were not fucking around. Besides beers, they brought some
bottles of liquor along, and went kamikaze. We did like four beers and
called it a night.
On Saturday, I got into a little crash on my bike. It was
partly my fault tho. I went on a red light. Every time I do that, I make sure I’m clear from the green light directions, which I did
this time too, but there was this fucking guy on scooter who decided to do a red light
too, and he just ran into my front wheel. I managed to stay on feet unscratched
so it was all good, however, when I hit the pedals, I noticed that the wheel is
totally fucked. Some strings ripped out, it was all bended and shit. Honestly,
it felt like a miracle the bike even went. I had to be somewhere so I didn’t have much time to deal with that,
and couple of repair shops on my way were like “meiyou” which means something between “don’t have”, “can’t do” and “fuck you”. In the evening, I stopped by at my favorite shop and the
guy killed it as usual. He spent like half an hour on it, and the thing is like
new. He charged me 30 RMB. Fucking hero.
So yeah, that’s it.
Got two more weeks at the campus, I wanna wrap out most of my papers and final
assignments this week, and then cool off. The New Year’s Eve party is gonna be awesome. I already got a ticket to
Arkham – there’s gonna be this thing with DJs from 88rising crew...
Highlights:
- American Vandal – great Netflix show.
- New N.E.R.D. album. Pure awesomeness. I have mixed feeling on the new Eminem’s album tho. I’m a huge fan and I hate to see him lose but man... I do think it’s an improvement content-wise and flow-wise but he really needs to fire all people in his production department. The beats are totally off.
- While I was hangin out at Xuhui campus with a friend on Wednesday, there was this Chinese middle aged lady taking pictures of us for like 10 minutes. Without asking, just being creepy as fuck. Hasn't happened to me in a while. Yeah, that's the one awkwardly smiling at one of the pictures above.
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