Back on my bullshit y’all.
This time it won’t take long. Over the past
couple of days, I got on my anti-social shit a little as my schedule got kinda
packed with different kinds of stuff, and I also felt like not going
out much. Sometimes you need a bit of a mental hygiene and stay with your
thoughts for a bit. So without further ado, let me give you bits of shit I
actually managed to do in those past seven days.
On Wednesday, a friend texted me to join her for a street
food dinner at this legendary spot at South Xiangyang Road. I hopped on my
bike, got some beers on the way, and we got some grilled snacks. Good old oily
spicy shit. After that we took it to Taphouse, got joined by two more of my
peers... The spring vibes in the air, beer in our glasses.... All good.
The weather is getting better but it seems almost like it
can’t fully decide which way to go. We
had couple of days that were pretty springish, but then the temperature dropped
back to winter jacket state... I just want that shit to be over with, you know?
Fingers crossed for this week...
Oh yeah, and of Friday, I went to another veggie potlucks.
Made some purple beans with my signature mix of veggies and tofu and met up
with my vegan squad for a feast. I try to keep my diet nice and clean lately,
but when it comes to the potlucks, all of that shit goes out of window. Got
back home feeling like pregnant. Oh well...
On Saturday, I had my one and only day off and I decided not
to socialize at all. It was kinda cold, but it was sunny too, so I took a book
and got the fuck out with no particular direction in mind. Ended up in Tianshan
park, Zhonshan park, and roamed random streets of Shanghai. Can’t wait for the weather to get better so this can become a
regular thing again. Didn’t even
realize how much I missed that.
What else is new... They started renovating my stadium. Pretty much ripped the whole football feel out the ground and closed
that shit up for like 3 days. Then they made the running track and bars
accessible for public again so I’m good.
Talked to my Chinese gradpa squad over there, and apparently, they are gonna
work on that for the following two months. After that, I’m gonna have a brand-new stadium. Awesome. On top of that,
I already booked my tickets back to fucking Europe. So all you motherfuckers
back home reading this... I’ll arrive
to Brno June 27th in the evening. So brace yourself!
And since this was a slow fucking week (even though I
somehow had shit to do like literally all the time), let me give you an
update on something I find pretty interesting. Some of you already know that China
is like a cycling superpower. The culture of cycling is crazy here. Everyone
does that. Like two years back, the whole shared bikes business exploded around
here and flooded Chinese streets with extremely affordable bikes for everyone
to use. Many people pointed out that this is a bubble that’s gonna pop – I mean, at one point there were at least 20-30 different
companies providing such service – and they
were absolutely right. Some months later, most of these companies are well
bankrupt and resting in piece. I initially used Ofo bikes (the yellow
ones), and even though there are still some standing around here and there, you
can easily tell there’s zero maintenance
going on over there and when you go on the internet, you find out that the
company pretty much doesn’t exist
anymore, has no employees, and angry customers are waiting for months to get
their deposit back (which they probably never will – I pretty much gave up on that). It basically got down
to two reliable players to my knowledge – you got
one of the originators, Mobike, and a relatively new one, Hello Bike. The
latter is provided by Alipay, so there’s a
good change, it’s here to stay too. And since I
move around Shanghai by subway quite a lot lately (meaning, not taking my
personal bike with me), I made an account with Mobike and got reminded how
fucking cheap and convenient this thing is. Paid 50 RMB which gives me 3 months
of unlimited free rides and unlike Ofos, the bikes are in a pretty decent
condition. So don’t believe everything you read
about this shit online – the
system still works pretty smoothly in China – it just settled down I guess.
Highlights:
- New Rich the Kid album and Yelawolf’s singles so far. Trunk Music 3 might be fire.
- Tianshan park. Never been there before but it’s super cool and it has Shanghai Art Collection Museum too. If you have some spare time, give it a shot.
- Went to some areas I haven’t been to in a while just to found out they extended subway line 13 and there’s a construction of new lines going on at so many different spots. They don’t really play around here...
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