¥6.00 Breakfast (Uni Restaurant)
¥12.50 Cappuccino
¥7.00 Lunch
¥15.00 Dinner
Thursday 20 March, 2014
¥6.00 Breakfast (Uni Restaurant)¥2.50 Water
¥7.00 Bubble Tea
¥13.00 Dinner (Fried Noodles at a small noodle place)
¥13.00 Dessert (Blueberry Mousse Cake at Casa Miel)
Friday 21 March, 2014
¥6.00 Breakfast (Uni Restaurant)¥8.00 Dumplings
¥32.00 Dinner (Ajisen Ramen)
¥70.00 KTV (Karaoke)
¥10.00 Breakfast (The 4:30am kind)
Total: ¥208.00 ($37.35)
Weekly Total: ¥487.00 ($87.43) <I'm starting to spend the money I got at a better exchange rate.. how am I going to calculate all this>
Total Spend: ¥15464.00 ($2947.30 AUD)
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At the moment it is 11:38pm (Thursday, 27 March). I had dedicated all night today after dinner at 7:30pm today to work on my blog. My homework took three hours.
On top of my daily homework, my teacher in class had asked me whether I liked Chinese art. I told her I did like some, so she asked if I could write down the names of some artists and why I like them. I was under the impression that she was going to hand it to another teacher who was doing some sort of research on international perspectives of art, but as I was struggling to find the adjectives to describe artworks it hit me that maybe she asked me so that it would just be an extra exercise to get me to do more work. Which in that case would be quite endearing that she cares about me improving and challenging myself... I guess I'll see when I hand her my writing exercise tomorrow.
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So, just to catch you up on the happenings that occurred on the 19th - 21st of March in this side of the world:
Happenings: Running
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| Post-Run Snack... 12 Guo Tie's (pan fried dumplings) |
Issues: Perceptions on Skinniness
In my Wednesday tingli (listening) class, we had one chapter on losing weight. My teacher asked the korean girl students what they thought the ideal weight was (i.e. don't need to diet at ##kg)
This was the verdict:
Korean girls (said): 45kg.
Korean boys (said) 55kg. (one originally said 50kg)
Then the teacher asked a German girl and she said it depends on your height.
I found it interesting that the Koreans didn't say that either. Maybe they thought it was the ideal weight for them, but even still.. I think 45kg is a bit light for anyone over 155cm? I'm not sure. It was just an interesting (perhaps alarming?) observation.
Happenings: KTV
KTV is the term for Karaoke here. On Friday night I went out with some friends to go KTV. Here, peak hour is 5pm-11pm, and it's half price per hour after 11pm.
FACT: Chinese Beer is dubbed "Beer Water" because it has such a low alcohol content. It's usually around 2.3%.
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| You can get packages with food at KTV. I think this package included 24 bottles of beer, which is essentially water because of the 2.3 |
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| You also get fruit and snacks. Do you see those four round containers in the background? That's to play a very common Chinese dice (drinking) game. It's not that fun, but I'll tell you the rules another time. |
Happenings: Clubbing - the photos
You can walk in and out and not spend a cent (if you don't use the cloakroom). It's not like any Western club you've been in.. this is clubbing the Chinese way.
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| This is what you imagine a club to be like right? Crowded, loud music.. well the dance floor is where the people raving (naked) under the blue light are. Everyone else is standing around tables and drinking. |
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| Fancy ass shared handwashing facilities. Girls and guys would sit around the edge and watch others, chillout puke, 等等 |
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| I would say 90% of the club looks like this. People sitting in booths, each with their own waiter who lights their ciggies for them and brings them more ice buckets to put their Moet or XO in. It's a lot about mianzi (keeping face), so they order heaps of alcohol and just sit around, checking their phones or attempting to chat (it's way too loud in there for that). They get plates of fruit and snacks too (like the image from KTV), and I'm always tempted to take a piece because I'm hungry all the time. |
We left the club around 3:30am. The worst thing about clubbing is trying to find a taxi home - a lot of the time you won't get one because of the time, and all the taxis out on the street now are booked using this app that I don't know how to use. Luckily we hailed a cab and got back to our college at 4:00am. Some of my friends were hungry and they said there is a really good breakfast place that opens at 4:30am, so we decided to grab a few seats while we waited for the owners to set up shop (it's just out on the street).
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| The shop owners setting up their store. They sold bing (pancakes/breadbiscuitthing), savoury tofu, noodles I think.. just a big mess of everything awesome and delicious |
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| We got you tiao (the deep fried bread stick up top), dou fu nao (it's like doufu fa but savoury ,and it's actually quite nice!) and finally a spring onion bing (bread, thing). It was late and the air was chilly, but this was definitely worth it. It was served hot right after they cooked it and it was so amazing.. I'm dreaming of it now... |
I'm considering buying a piano.. at the moment the one thing bringing me to Walmart every week is the display keyboard they have there, and instead of shopping I just stand there and practise. There are shotty keyboards for 200 RMB (<$40) which I want to get to practise, but I'm worried it's one of those things that once I have, I'll never use.
Anyway it's 12:30am now, I have 8:00am class tomorrow. Good night human beings!
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