| WE FREEZE |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|01:26 pm] |

Back in Nanjing following epic threesome in Shanghai - me, K and Laurent Perrier. Unfortunately Nanjing is freezing and rainy :s. Ick. Trying to make the best of it though! |
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| hibernate |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|04:47 pm] |

Back from a much-needed weekend getaway with Jill in Shanghai -- had a blast! Put some Halloween photos up on Facebook, so check em out there. On my first day we went to the giant Barbie store for Barbie-tinis, and I went back the next day to get some waxing done. It's soo hard to find a waxing place in Nanjing! (I typed 'waxing' into Google-translate and called a bunch of spas here to check if they did it to no avail...except I later found out the word I'd been using literally meant CAR waxing oops.) 2 ladies did my wax jobs at the same time...now, a 4-handed MASSAGE is sweet, but 4-handed WAXING?? Not so much!
I foolishly didn't book a train ticket back to Nanjing in advance, and when I got to the train station at 7 pm on Sunday, all the regular trains back were sold out. I ended up paying double the usual ticket price to ride a Beijing-bound ( sleeper train ) to Nanjing, where it stopped for 2 minutes to pick up more passengers. They didn't even announce that the train had arrived at the Nanjing station, so I literally had to jump off the top bunk, grab my luggage and dash out at the last minute.
Nanjing's freezing now; I think I'm actually beginning to hibernate. I slept 12 hours yesterday and I wasn't even tired! My body doesn't like climate change...I'm too cold to be hungry, so I've been drinking tea all day long and haven't eaten since yesterday. Not good, but I don't want to go outside, even if it's just to buy food!
It's 5 pm and the sun's already disappeared. Time to curl up in my stolen SQ blanket and watch Sex and the City! |
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| here there everywhere |
[Oct. 30th, 2009|08:40 pm] |

Went to Huang Shan with the girls last weekend, it was gorgeous! Lots of walking, phototaking, the occasional cablecar-ing, overpriced instant noodles, breakfast muffins.....all culminating in a 4 am trek to the summit for sunrise.
Spending Halloween in Shanghai tomorrow night, I'll probably go as a.....vampire (original, I know ;p but I don't have dressup supplies in Nanjing, and you can't go wrong with a black dress & red lipstick!)
In other exciting news, K is coming to visit next week :D |
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| PRATA ALERT!!!!!!!!!! |
[Oct. 20th, 2009|03:50 pm] |

BROWNTOWN LAHVE! I found a 100% original Indian prata man at a street food fair. Prata queen is officially happy!!!!
Other notable food fair discoveries - giant cauldron of snails, starfish, scorpions on a stick, ostrich, smelly tofu, ostrich meat.....( have a look if you want ), but PRATA FTW! :D
(Also featured: a strange breed of coconut, which the stallkeeper used a POWER DRILL to create a hole in for me to stick a straw through. ( I kid you not ) |
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