Chinese curry and United Nations

Alright, so it's almost 4 in the morning here, I just got home from another partying night....oi. Shanghai is quite dangerous....the bars doesn't close until 4 here so the party gets quite late. And side note, i'm a bit drunk so hopefully this post makes sense.

Anyhow, to start off the evening, after work, I went to dinner with this guy, Steven, whom I met on facebook. yeah yeah, facebook is quite popular with people outside of the country if you guys didn't know this. My british friends LOVE facebook to bits. We met at Zhongshan park area, which is suprising to me because my guide book never cover this park and this area is quite...happening. There are at least 2 shopping malls here. Well Steven and I met and we picked this chain restaurant called Coco Curry....YUM. Think delicious Chinese curry. You pick your curry, which break down to meat, veggies, seafood or specialties and everything can be made with curry here. There's even a pasta curry...and omelette curry...yeah...eggs...curry....cheese curry...yeah... Anyhow, I had a chicken curry...delicious. Pick my curry, pick my rice size, and then picked my spicy level. Delicious. Steven knows a little bit of Chinese since he is here studying chinese so it helps. Oh and he's from Columbus and have a friend who is a pre-junior in Fashion design at DAAP. Small world right? We had delicious curry ( rachel, I can't wait to take you here) good conversation and then walk around the mall while I tried to find shoes. Lets just say that Steven had this funny conversation in Chinese with the shoe shop owner about how big my feet is because the largest size they have here is 9...what the hell??? 9??? that's tiny.

After that, I left and went home, showered, went to Jing'An area, met up with Josh and Theresa ( who happened to just had dinner at another branch of Coco Curry also!!!!) Josh left us to met up with this new girl he met, her name is...get this...COCO.... The only person who should be named coco is Chanel....lol. Anyway, Theresa and I struggle to find this guy, Shane, house that she knew via facebook. Finally found it, went in and met...Shane, who's from London, an attractive man. HIs roommate, Youseef, who's Irish actually, funny and sarcastic. Love him to bits. He's suffering from food poisoning these few days so all he can drink is coke. Also a guy named Victor, who's from Spain, another guy who goes by the name of Chou who's from spain originally, but mixed between Spanish and Taiwanese. And another chinese girl. So I'm sitting here, in this pretty nice bachelor pad apartment, having conversation with these Europeans, while they're smoking the hookah...pretty weird night.

Then we left to go to Chou's friend's house, Reuben, who's having a going away party. Arrived, went to this nice apartment, with tons of chinese people and white people too. Met Reuben, who turns out to be Malaysian, who is going to London to finish up hi schooling, so hence the good bye party. I tried some Remy Martin ( had a few tsingtao already and quite buzzed from this) and chatted with Reuben and Theresa a bit. The party is quite hopping actually, lots of people, crowded.... Then Shane and Chou was chatting with these 3 girls and somehow I end up chatting with them too. Can't remember their name, i don't think we remember each other names either so we called each other by the country we came from. I'm known as the American. Anyhow, one girl is from Germany, who's working as an engineer and going to school as a student, studying chinese. One is from Sweden, who was a student but now own her own companry in Shanghai, the other one is from Poland and is a student here. Pretty fabulous girls, we chatted about our own countries stereotype. The german girl keep spilling beer and she's like " oh, i'm German, we wash things with beer." Great group of people actually. We all chatted some more and then people are leaving the party to go to this club, Club 97. So the entire party left for the club and it was a taxi madness. Went to the club, dance a bit, it was playing ridiculous amount of Lil Jon, but I still enjoyed it. There were way too many white men there who couldn't do the hip hop thing...it's quite hilarious. I danced with all the girls, had a drink, dance with the boys, but then we all got bored eventually and left.

So that was my night. Pretty interesting people. It's kinda sad about Shanghai that you met so many interesting people, but it's only for that one night only. Come day light, you will probably never see them again in this city...so fleeting. No real connection aside from the business connections that you make while partying. So weird for me. I have only been here for 2 and a half week, but I feel like I've been here for ages...

Anyway, tomorrow is a long shopping day with Theresa for her new apartment. Good night all.