Okay, since most of my responsibilities, deadlines,
assignments and all the other fun things have been successfully dealt with, I’ve had plenty of time and space to
catching up with people I haven’t seen
in a while, as well as hanging out with the usual suspects. I had one last
chance to meet up with my girls from Montenegro on Monday, we drank some beers
at Jingan park and then moved to My Place. They left two days after, so now I’m the last one standing out of our Shanghainese gang.
However, the week still turned out to be quite eventful anyway. On
Tuesday, I got invited by my Lithuanian friends for a hangout at their spot. They’re like the perfect couple. Apart
from the fact, they’re great people, the girl is
involved in movies and the guy has recently picked up a new hobby – mixing drinks. So we talked for hours, watched a movie and
enjoyed plethora of really well executed cocktails. Now, I’m not much of a cocktail guy – in terms of alcohol, I’m really good with beer or straight
whisky. But all of the shit he was making was real good. Like real real good... We gonna do
volume 2 of that this week.
I also caught up with another friend I haven’t seen in weeks, and since she bought
a new DVD player (I know, fucking stone age, right?), we went to one of the
local small fake DVD stores to pick up a movie to watch at her spot. It’s been ages since I actually
purchased a physical copy of a movie so the whole thing felt more like a
cultural experience... We got Jackie Brown for 13 RMB. These stores are way
more solid than I expected tho... All movies are packed properly, wrapped in
plastic, they contain booklets and when you put them on, they have menus with
scene selections, languages and all. I really thought they sell some kinda
burned out bootleg shit made on the spot, but those copies seem nearly like originals. And there’s really something about browsing through hundreds of movies with your hands...
I actually met up with my Lithuanian people once more to
show them arcades and My Place, I also met up with some other friends at Papa’s on Friday... And on Saturday, me
and my biking partner went to try out the rock climbing thing at Shanghai
Indoor Stadium again. This time it was open so we were on! The whole area looks
incredible. Besides the fact, it’s huge
as fuck, there are lots of statues of muscular Chinese people performing all
kinds of activities ranging from different kinds of sport to posing with guns. The
bright future of this amazing country! One day pass for the climbing is 80 RMB,
and you pay additional 20 RMB for renting out the equipment (10 for straps, 10
for shoes). I saved 10 tho, cause Chinese don’t
really do size 47. Ended up climbing in my fucking gym shoes. They have like
15-20 meters tall walls of different difficulty levels. For the easier
ones, there are these self-winding systems installed so you don’t need anybody to secure you on the
ground. You strap yourself up and once you reach the top, you just let go
and the machine will slowly bring you down. Let me tell you tho... The first
time you get up there and you’re
about to put your trust in that thing... It kinda goes against all your
instincts... But yeah.. We didn’t do
the super difficult shit but we had a lotta fun on those easier ones and I have a
feeling that this is something we might start doing regularly next semester.
Some more healthy stuff to do....
On Sunday, I met up with my friend from Ukraine who decided to
pick up skating. We went to the fake market to get her a board, practiced a
little bit in the area, and then went on to grab a dinner and some beers.
Shanghai is still beautiful, weather is warm but not really super hot (which
makes it significantly different from the last year), there’s lotta things to do, I’m having a blast. Got one more week
to go!
Highlights:
- Teyana Taylor – KTSE, Freeway – Think Free, Jay Rock – Redemption. All amazing projects.
- The Chi. Real decent TV series. It’s like a diet version of The Wire but it’s still dope as hell.
- Dark Chocolate/coffee stout by some local brewery. They sell bottles of this shit in one of the beer shops I go to and man... That thing might be one of the best beers I’ve ever tried. Straight up!
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