What’s good
everybody, your boy t31 is back with some more adventures from the city of
Shanghai. The very first installment of international import expo is over so I
honestly hope that cops will stop asking me to get the fuck off my board while
cruising round the town... Let's get things back to normal.
Last Wednesday, I paid a visit to Yuz Museum at the West
Bund which marked my first visit over there. I know, ridiculous. There was
this rain installation that was pretty surreal. You get to a dark room with
this rain pouring from the ceiling. Now, when you enter the rainy area, you
quickly find out that the rain avoids you. It’s still raining everywhere else – you and like half a meter around you are a dry zone tho - wherever you go.
So you can hear the water, you can see the water, you can feel the water in the
air, you just don’t touch it in any way. That’s it. That and two strong spotlights
making their way through it all. The experience is quite crazy. Taking
something as natural as rain and totally flipping it into 100% artificial thing. After that, we went to Funkadeli and Parrot at Donghu Lu. And
spent some mula on cocktails and beers. All good.
On Friday, our little gang met up for a KTV at this spot at
Hutai Road. It was as bizarre as you would’ve
expected. All polished, flashy, lotta neon lights and countless rooms with
mics, comfy couches and flat screens. There was like 8 of us, we brought some
alcohol (they apparently don’t give
a shit if you bring your own) and had some fun for couple of hours. I got reminded
of my gaps in knowledge of 80s and 90s music. I mean those songs everyone seems
to know – I usually don’t. But still... You got Pharrells,
you got Kanyes – there are some common
denominators. Turned out to be a really entertaining evening.
The day after, two of my friends celebrated their bday. We
started off at Papa’s Beer and after that moved
to this party organized by Elevator guys (Elevator got apparently closed
recently) at Jiangning Road. Some hard ass techno. Even though booze usually
doesn’t keep me up for long, I
ended up having a pretty good time all the way up until 4am or something. Hadn’t been clubbing for a while and I
gotta say... Kinda missed that.
Outside of that, I started taking Chinese classes. On
Friday, I took my first one at this training center in Xujiahui so fingers
crossed. If I’ll be able to have some basic
small talk in couple of months, I’ll be
good. Let’s hope my brain is capable of
that. As a person who really enjoys to mumble while speaking, all these
Chinese tones give me serious headache.
Highlights:
- Dark – pretty amazing German TV series.
- On Saturday, I ended up in Anting town all the way down in Jiading which was the closest I got to village experience in Shanghai. Found this park with no security nor rules so I managed to read on the grass with no fucking people around... It sounds basic but you don’t really get to experience that downtown...
- Wayne released some bonus tracks to C5. Flames.
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