China #16, 17,18: homesick, fOrg meat and blood relationships

Day 18. It's been almost 3 weeks since I've last been in Sydney. Not too long of a time span, but I'm starting to miss home lots, especially when I see all the fun I'm missing out via Facebook news feed! Stupid facebook. Maybe that's one of the reasons fb is banned here, so people won't see what they're missing out on, lol. I knowwwwww, I should be enjoying what I have now- all the time in the world and no obligations whatsoever. However, even nothingness has its limits...

Okay okay I'm exaggerating. I haven't been doing nothing, my family drove down to Quanzhou yesterday to visit some relatives and then we went to this aweeeesomeeeee revolving buffet for dinner. SO MUCH FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so excited. They had everything, from sashimi to ice cream to coconut juice to 'delicious fOrg meat' to deer to loads of cakes and the list goes on.

                                      

                                       

  

                                   
                                   
                                  
Weirdest translation ever. Blood relationship?!

The only downside is the after-buffet-bloating and feeling like the purple balloon girl from charlie and the chocolate factory, the one who blew up like her chewing gum...

But the turning platform (with our table on it ) made it hard to find where i was sitting every time i went to get food cause the platform would turn (imagine 2 circles one inside the other, and the bigger one turns while the smaller one is fixed). So anyway, I ate too much and felt like my stomach was ripping open, but it was worth it. :)

My favourite part! This is all the cake i took heehghehehe, one of each flavour, but ATE TOO MUCH CAKEEEEEE x_x and icecream, durian, vanilla, taro, green tea, strawberry.... <3 

Apart from that I haven't been doing much, I went to the bike repair shop to fix my bike! I broke the brake :( I have much admiration for the bike fixers, they're so clever!!

Here's  random chicken video from our place, lol.

oh and early merry christmas!

WITH ruv, from shloweeeyy

China #15: spastic dreams

I slept terribly last night, plagued by nightmares of sharks, human-sharks, cinemas, riots and fighting for bargains with Marie and Kahyi in QVB. An overall very violent experience, perhaps I have some kind of suppressed anger bubbling inside me. So anyway, my dreams went something like this:

I was heading to work but ended up watching a movie instead. So it was a huge cinema, quite nice, a little bit like the theatres I went to in Beijing. Then all of a sudden people run in screaming there had been shark attacks! And lots of them... So everybody panicked and ran to the beach (which was right outside the cinema) to find the sharks. I found one, and it looked like the shark from jaws, but then again all sharks look like the shark from jaws..

After that my brain skipped a few scenes and it turns out that the shark was actually a half human! He was a local who had been missing for 1000 years, and he could morph into a shark whenever he wanted to, but he could also attack as a human... Kind of like in vampire diaries how they turn monstrous and grow fangs when they're about to feed.

So then after that he was chasing me and trying to eat me, I got so scared I woke up.
It was still dark, so I fell asleep again and dreamt that Sydney was in chaos, everyone went crazy and started smashing shops, but funnily they still lined up to buy stuff...(but at a discounted price ). I was with Marie and ky and we were excited by the bargains lol, but then my shoelaces came undone and I had to do them up so I fell behind and lost Marie and ky in the crowd :( but then I found them again at subway !! And everyone was getting really cheap food but when it was my turn the girl said that her boss just came in so it was normal price again, disappointed I bought a hotdog.

HAHAHA.

Then i woke up and felt really hungry so I went to have some breakfast lol.

 No he wasn't my breakfast.. nor was he in my dream, I saw him on tv the other night and it reminded me of my high school boycrushes so I just included him in for fun hehe. He's too feminine though, his skin is nicer than mine :(

China # 10, 11, 13

I didnt realize I skipped #10 and # 11, I skipped 13 on purpose though, no wonder the days went by so quickly lol. So I went to get my hair washed tonight (cause I'm lazy and I don't like to wash my own hair anymore...) and they used a ginger shampoo. IT FREAKING BURRNT!! Lol it was soo hot. The guy who was washing my hair took my breath away... Literally.

He was massaging my head and at some points he pressed so hard I felt my brain convulsing and I couldn't breathe for a millisecond. The massage was really weird... He reached under my head and his fingers went into my shirt and down between my shoulder blades. Anyway, overall hair wash experience...weird.... If you like a burning sensation on your scalp and forehead and neck and ears and face then wash your hair with ginger shampoo! If you like getting your back shampooed then come get a hair wash in china lol. I also got my hair trimmed last night ... I asked for a trim and no layering and specifically NOT to have my hair curve into my face- I ended up with a half fringe and somewhat layering because he thought it was more '3D', wth?  Apparently un-layered hair is for old ladies.

Something that really bothers me is how I get followed around in shops, like hello personal space pleaseeeeeeee! And then I feel all uncomfortable when I leave without buying anything and they stare at me as I walk away...some lady pushed me today :( so I glared at her and then walked into her real hard and didn't look back HEHE.  I hate going into shops alone cause it is SO awkward. I have also become desensitized to car and bike horns, they beep at everything. I went for a walk by myself today and some crazy lady on a huge bike nearly ran me over lol, she sped out of nowhere and started beeping like crazy as she swerved away. I've also realized that I'm not allowed to look left and right like a normal person when I'm crossing the road otherwise I will look too much like an outsider- like I did today- and then strange men with cigarettes on bikes will approach me and ask if I need a lift somewhere... like hell I'd get on his bike.  T_T

I also bought a bottle of juice today, and it wasn't till I finished it that I read the used by date was '2010.06.26' lol! Ahhhh. During my spare time I play my aunt's piano and I'm also trying to play my dad's old guitar! It really hurts ze fingers ya :( Hope you're having fun working in Hong Kong Vanessaaaaaaaaaaa  a a a a a a aa a :)


<3 chloe