Okay, so let me kick it with y’all for
the third time. Things are moving kinda slowly but they’re moving. Last week, I went to my
beloved campus in the middle of nowhere to deal with registration, I did
couple of marvelous bike rides through heavy rain, I kept all of my workout routines in
check and I did lotta music listening. Let me just tell you right away – Offset’s new
album is fucking amazing. Metro Booming did an incredible job on the beats,
melodies are outta here and Offset stepped his game up lyrically big time. Top3 this year and one of the best recent releases overall...
Back to the life, back to reality. On Monday, the gang met
up at Fat Cow just next to my compound for a dinner, and I joined them for a
drink. Obviously, Fat Cow does not sound like a place my vegan
ass would go to for a meal... It’s one
of many joints around here targeting mostly expats, nothing special. After that
though, we went to Chair Club for a jam night. Gotta say, I was impressed. The whole
thing started around 10pm with a 4-member band (drums, base, guitar, keys)
and this lady (I’m guessing late 40s or early
50s) setting the tone. Besides drummer, none of them was Caucasian, and they
took it to rnb and soul. I was rolling. The magic kept on happening for the
rest of the night. It appeared to be a pretty established event and since it’s open for anyone to step in if they
feel like it, you got people from the crowd (of about 40-50 people) jumping in,
singing with the band, or even bringing their own instruments, just kicking it.
The band line-up got switched up countless of times and most of people were
killing it. I gotta give it up for the motherfucker who decided to sing some R.
Kelly (very poorly btw). Doing this shit in 2019 requires some heavy balls or
mad level of ignorance. More power to you, young king! I initially came in for
a drink but ended up staying the closing hour (3am) and I’m pretty sure I’m gonna be back. Some dope shit right
there.
Wednesday, I met up with that vegan restaurant owner of mine
for some top-notch coffee and a dinner at Knowing Café. What’s
normally a pretty nice 30+ km bike ride turned into a fucking "riding in the
rain" nigthmare – not surprisingly. We had a
good chat and she recommended me this cartoon movie named Breadwinner. Another
thing worth checking out.
Real good.
Saturday, I met up at Uncafé with
my vegan peers for this Dragon Burn swap event. The aim was for people to come
in, bring shit they don’t need
anymore (clothes, camping gear, cutlery, whatever) and swap it with others. And
our little vegan camp did like a small stand over there selling cakes, cookies,
pasta, powerballs and some hummus. I didn’t
prepared any of that – showed
up just to help selling the stuff. It was a nice chilled afternoon, we raised a
bit of money and ate like tons of leftovers. Shout out my vegans!
Sunday, I went to the campus and in the evening met up with
my Montenegro girls since they finally. got back from their winter travels. I joined them at Lotus Restaurant on Dingxi Lu and then we took it
to the Beer Lady by West Yan’an.
Good to have the gang gang back. I’m
talking gang gang gang.
And that’s about
it. Just got back from gym, got some Gorilla Zoe and Zaytoven in my
headphones, coffee on table. For the past three days, we’ve got some sun in Shanghai, hopefully we’re moving towards warmer days.
Highlights:
- Offset, Gunna, Papoose, Kehlani, Yung Tory. Lotta great fucking music.
- Chinese singing. That shit never ceases to amaze me. They usually approach the mic barely talking but when it gets down to the shits, they kill it hard. So many great Chinese singers (pretty much only females) at the jam night.
- Just read that in Hong Kong, the temperatures oscillate around 20. Gonna go there by the end of this week and this make me a bit more excited about it.
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