English...again

Hello all,

So finally got this whole english blog thing to work again, thank goodness. So now I can update you guys on what's going on with me. Today was a very productive day. Josh and I woke up at 4 in the morning because we couldn't sleep. We basically got caught up on our emails and sat around waiting until 8:15 so we start leaving to go to work. We got dressed...i made Josh dressed up to go to work on the first day...but in the end, he didn't take an umbrella and it's monsoon season here so he was drench. We were lost trying to find our office building and that took alot out of us. Josh was drenching wet when we finally found it...I felt as a gay man, I have failed my own personal dogma...somehow...

Anyway, we got a tour of the office, kinda disappointing because it is such an odd place, met a few co-workers, got our key card and I hurried Josh to leave. lol. We walked back...in the rain...in my FIERCE shoes...which by the way gave me blisters....but I was stomping on the street of Shanghai like a top model. lol. We took a nap...well Josh napped on our couch which is WAY SOFTER and NICER than our bed....which are wooden boxes...or feel like it. I circled a few restaurants where we could go but quickly gave up. Josh and I ended up checking out Carrefour, this huge french supermarket that has amazing food court in the basement. And by food court I meant a bunch of restaurants with excellent wait staffs all of whom you don't tip...a very weird concept to me.

After we bought some stuffs at Carrefour for the "bachelors pad" as our apartment is known, we ate some delicious food and then head off to home. Then we hit up the grocery/shopping mall a block down from us where Josh was super stoked to find a sporting good store. The boy has been dying to get a bicycle since day one and look like he might get his wish. He's trying to convince me to get a bike and get on the road...but yeah, this whole en mass no traffic laws thing, not so well for Trinh. But I'm glad that Josh is happy though. Shanghai is slowly making itself available to us...although me buying bok choi was a problem. You can't just grab the veggies and shove it in a bag and go to the register, you have to stop by the veggies counter where they put a sticker on it. Josh and I was trying for the longest time to figure out what the chinese character for bok choi is before someone kindly point us to the counter...which the girl working there didn't know either and ask us what veggies it was....finally someone know it's bok choi. That was tough. Well anyway, during the course of me writing this blog, we have discovered a humongous stash of American movies with Chinese subtitles that are obviously filmed inside the theatre.....the bachelor pad is looking up!!!

Will try to upload some photos soon. bye all.