Believe it or not, this is the 100th chapter.
Took me 2 and a half years but I made it. The blog is still somewhat flying, I’m somewhat functioning as well, we
got countless stories ahead of us, all is well. So let’s have a fucking toast! Shout out to my
readership, shout out to Shanghai, shout out to my gang gang, shout out to my
vegans, shout out to everybody. We gonna keep running this shit until we
wear off the soles of our shoes, ya dig?
So last week.... Monday, I went to my friends’ spot to do some pre-drinking before
the jam night at Chairs’. This
time, I managed to leave at a reasonable hour, not closing the place up – I’m proud
of myself.
Wednesday afternoon, I met up with that friend of mine
running some veggie restaurants at the Knowing Café to catch up, drink some bad ass coffee and have some
dumplings. After that, I visited a friend living nearby for a dinner and some
hanging out. Since both spots are in Minhang, I took the opportunity to do a
longer bike ride over there.
On Thursday, I met up at Jen Dow’s with another friend for a dinner, and then we took it to
Abbey Road for the Trivia night. Pretty much the whole gang participated this
time around, and we won that shit again. So we’re
stacking up vouchers for future purposes. At some point, we gonna make it rain in
that motherfucker.
The most interesting thing happened on Friday tho. As all of my
dedicated readers already know, I’m
planning to visit this Dragon Burn festival, and this year, I’m joining Cucumburners – the vegan theme camp. Now, before
this festival actually takes place, theme camps do these little fundraising events to
raise some cash for covering some of their expenses. It’s
usually something like a pop-up bake sale, movie screenings, parties etc. Well,
last Friday, our camp organized this pop-up silent disco thing. Since we
already have like 30 wireless headphones that were purchased for last year’s festival, it only makes sense to
make the most out of them. We met up at 8pm at Fuxing Park. All the headphones
got booked out before the party, there were people bringing some sweets for
sale, it was all really nice. We spent about an hour in park and then we went
mobile. I signed up for 1 hour set too but since my set was scheduled for 9pm,
and you can’t really mix from your laptop
while walking, I ended up plugging my phone and freestyling some sort of
playlist that served as a background for pretty random shit that happened
after. I’m talking raves in the
streets, party in a Family Mart (you should have seen faces on clerks in that
bitch), invading a public bus, and eventually making it to the My Place bar to
wrap the whole shit up. I’m not the
biggest silent disco fan but this shit was kinda fun. You could tell that the
audience wasn’t really my crowd tho – hip-hop set didn’t fit very well with the trance and
psi-trance ones’ others brought but it kinda
worked. I had some people approaching me after to tell me that the lyrics were
kinda wild. Like yeah... I know that money, shooting people, bitches, drugs and fucking is not
the most hippie shit in the world but what can I say. I’m a complicated person....
Saturday was my only day off so I made it worth.
Went for a long ass run in the morning, cooked myself some dope lunch, and then
took a ride to my barber shop. My usual guy wasn’t there
so this time I got taken care of by this younger motherfucker – all suited up and professional. And
man, that guy was straight up killing it. My haircut usually takes like 15
minutes to do but this guy spent like an hour on it. I don’t really think my fade has ever been this clean. Even though he
charged me twice the price I usually pay, I had no objections (and honestly, 50
RMB is still peanuts). In the afternoon, I met up with my Lithuanian people at
Daning Tulip Park – up north about 6 kilometers
from my place – which made it another nice
bike ride. We hung out for couple of hours surrounded by cherry blossoms,
tulips, big ass lake and many people enjoying their weekend. On the way back, I
stopped by in this small phone shop to change the protective glass on my phone.
After couple of months and my Pacific travels, it was all cracked and really
looked like shit. In the evening, I met up with couple of my vegan peers at Hui
Yuan Vegetarian Restaurant at East Huaihai Road. My first time over there, they
do lots of mock meat, and the food was absolutely delicious.
So yeah, lotta shit has happened last week. The spring vibes
are still in the air a little bit but we’re
still not fully there yet. I mean, I still wear my winter jacket for the most
part. This has to fucking stop for real. Other than that, I’m doing great tho. Living good,
eating good, exercising, positive shit only. Have a great one people, talk to
y’all next week!
Highlights:
- New Yelawolf – not his strongest effort but that motherfucker still spits fire.
- Mock fish and bacon at Hui Yuan. Surreal.
- That tulip park. One of the bigger parks in Shanghai. It’s really massive, you can rent a boat over there and you can also step on grass which makes it an option for some future petangue games.
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