Mao & a long crazy ranting post

Hello again all,

I just woke up from what I would consider my first crazy partying night in Shanghai with my British friends ( oh the expats are quite crazy here) I didn't get home until 5 in the morning so yeah, I have never been out that late before. Last night, after I wrote on my blog, i left to grocery shop, it was packed at the Brillant West Shopping Center near me. Again, everything is in Chinese inside this store so it doesn't help me very much. I went home, was about to get ready for a date ( yes, a date) when my date cancelled on me at the last minute, just as I was putting on my clothes. Needless to say that I was really disappointed and somehow, kinda down about it. SInce I was home alone now, I cooked some dumplings, pop open this bottle of redwine that we have in our kitchen ( which turns out to be the most normal tasting Chinese red wine I have had so far...oh Changyu, you and I shall be good friend from now on), pop in our illegal dvd of Constantine, and began my night. My movie didn't play very well because it's pirated and my mac does not like that at all, so I watched half of Constantine ( I recall me wanting Keanu Reeve to straddle me somehow because in the movie he was straddling someone to exorcise a demon of some sort....), i switched movie, pop in X-men 3, no luck, pop in Ultraviolet and began my dumpling and wine routine. The DVD stopped at halfway point of the movie again, I gave up, listened to my music while it's thundering outside like crazy. I think I was quite buzzed at some point when I began to have a little Shanghai moment. My Shanghai moment is just when I stopped and wonder " what the hell am I doing here?" lol. I was having one for some reason, probably the wine makes me emotional, luckily, Josh came home from his rock climbing thing, soaking wet because the city was flooded so the water was up to his pedal and he is..disgusting. Theresa texted me because she just woke up, want to get something to eat. Josh showered and we head out to meet Theresa at Jing'An temple subway station.

We met up, I wanted to try this down home chinese restaurant that I read in my guide book, we found it, it was closed because it's 9 something, end up going to Always Cafe where they do serve the best lunches. Josh and Theresa oredered some food, I have some beer, and then they start to complaint about the music that was playing. THey were upset because it's not playing rock and roll or their taste in music. The cafe were playing some sort of pop music which was ok for me, Theresa asked the waitress to play something different, and the cafe puts on M2M. If you guys don't know who M2M are, just think early mandy moor and early jessica simpson. The 2 are gagging, i'm enjoying it because I do have M2M in my iTunes and I'm quite buzzed so it's lovely. They started to make fun of me for my music taste, which I was slightly annoyed because I have not make fun of their rock crap. So the entire dinner was the two of them ripping the music apart really...( there's nothing wrong with a little bit of Destiny's Child and Beyonce in it, but no...not to them) Apparently it was an awful experience for them in the cafe which irk me a bit because I have sat through alot of places with music I hate and never care much to constantly talk about it.

We found that we need to meet up with Howard, Piere and Nick at this bar called Abbey Road, across from Mao, our club goal of the night. Mao is apparently a new club in Shanghai that just opened and have pretty good review for the interior and music. We met up at Abbey Road which Josh immediately commented about how "yuppie" it's. The boy confuses me because he called this place yuppie while he wears polos and pop his collar...huh? I don't think it's yuppie as it's just filled with a lot of the expats. We have a drink, I tried my first Tsingtao beer, met up with the boys, chatted for a while then head over to Mao across the street.

Mao was interesting, it's not a big club by anymean, but they were playing pretty good music...actually, the DJ was doing a pretty good job putting some great beats to the songs and add in some great hip hop. Needless to say, I grab a drink and began to feel like dancing. The people around me weren't drunk enough to dance just yet, so I chilled with them for a bit. The club is quite packed with a good mixture of expats and chinese. Drink a little bit more and my dancing begins. I dragged people to the tiny/wet dance floor and starts doing my Trinh thing likes it's no body business. For those of you who have danced with me before at the club, you know how I get... I was dancing like a trooper and of course, sweating like crazy. Goodthing is that everybody is sweating too and everything is kinda wet from the rain so no one cares...at least I didn't. My only thing is that the Chinese girls here don't DANCE. these bitches don't dance, they stands around for a bit, shake their body a little bit and calls that dancing. And since the club is a mixture of white men and chinese girls, it's kinda weird since there aren't alot of good dancers out there, except for me of course. You can spot a few good dancing people, but those are usually the foreign girls, and there were....3 of them. Rachel and I could have tear the dance floor off...to take note Rachel. What I did discover however, is that Nick is quite and AMAZING crazy dancer. His dancing is a bit...odd, think 80's funky white boy dancing but the fact that he does it so well and doesn't care, makes me love him for it. Finally someone who doesn't care about what people think of how they look!!!! Drank some more, dance some more, music is actually really good by now, and the club suddenly changes....it becomes quite....GAY somehow. Local Chinese men slowly drop off a little bit and the club is now mostly white men and chinese girls...who a majority of them are really prosties working for the night at these kinda places. In shanghai, sometime you'll meet a girl, take her home, have your fun, she won't reveal until the next morning that she's a prosty and threaten to call the cop on you if you don't paid her. Lucky for the straight boys. So the club is full of them now, and there were men dancing with each other, but not in the way you'd see them dance in a gay club so it was confusing for me. I personally didn't think that there were alot of gay men here because really....still hip hop ( and we know how alot of gay men don't like this, except for trinh of course). I think it's just because it's mostly prostities girls and the guys outnumber girls 2 to 1 or something rather. Either way, I didn't paid attention much, was dancing away, drinking down my mint mojito that tastes like sugar mint water and not alcohol. But Theresa was complaining that it has too much alcohol in it....so I don't know.

We were at the club for quite a long time, i'm soaking wet from dancing, hot right? I was wearing some hats through out the night. One was a chinese cap with a long braid at the back, the other was a communist red star hat. Pretty funny as Nick and I switched that out through out the night. At the end, the club suddenly drop off into this weird thing where they were playing dance music version of R&B favorites...which is not that great because really, how do you dance to soft Ushers, Craig Davis and Chris Brown??? We decided to leave, but Piere wanted to go home and Howard stills want to go out, it's only 3:30 in the morning, the night is still young he said. It's pouring rain outside, so Howard and Piere went back in to have a drink, Nick, Theresa, Josh and I grab a cab. Suddenly, people wanted food, specifically Papa John...this was an entire Josh idea that he shouted out. Pretty dumb I think. Got into the cab, NO ONE KNOWS of whwere there would be a Papa john around this area...or it would be open at 3:30 in the morning. Then someone, people starts fighting with each other because Theresa is upset that Nick is not giving her a straight answer of where he lives so she can tell the taxi driver to take us to the area and there will be food. It was the weirdest thing because I was all happy and elated from my alcohol and the next thing I knew, people were fighting. I told Theresa to just tell the driver to take us somewhere that had food since people wanted to eat. Funny thing is that I was the drunk one of the group and I was being more calm than everybody!!!! We get to this chinese restaurant that is apparently very popular with the late night bar goers, Nick said he needed to find an ATM or some sort and walked out to find it. I think it was just his way of excusing himself after the argument, which is sad to me because the night was going so well. We ordered some food and I was in my mellow drunken state, which Theresa took for me feeling upset of some sort....when I'm drunk, i get really mellow and people always think that I'm pissed off at something or upset at them. We talked and somehow Josh got my nerves. Well I do know how he got on my nerves actually. I think it's because his personality and mind are very different and sometimes I'm saying things just to get it out of my system and he's doing his Josh things which makes me feel like he is thinking that I'm in one of my high strung stuck up mood. lol. It's weird, I know. One of the conversation we had was just about me telling them how I didn't get the fight in the cab between people all of the sudden and that if people were more patient with each other, we could have avoid Nick leaving us. Which Josh construct as me being pissy about it which is not true since I was merely telling people how I feel, i have no anger, just simply, I wish it could go better. Then Josh and I got into a little conversation about how I was using the full length mirror in his room and saw 5 dirty glasses laying around and I asked if he could just leave them in the sink for me so I can wash them. That annoyed him somehow because he said there are like 20 glasses in the house and it won't hurt if he leaves 5 dirty glasses in his room. Which is ok, whatever, but I was just merely asking that if there are dirty glasses, just put them in the sink since I do dishes every half day anyway, I can do them. Somehow that was a big issue with him and I feel like like he is dissmissing it as if it's another "high strung Trinh thing". That feeling and the combination of the alcolhol totally did not makes me feel good anymore. So needless to say, the night kinda went down hill all of the sudden, like club Mao.

So yes, my very long night in Shanghai where friends suddenly gets upset at each other. Kinda sad, but it was a good dancing night for me for the most part. I don't know what I will be doing today, probably make some dumplings for food and then who knows. chill around the house. Will write more later. It's 90 F here and feels like 113 F. I do love the humidity.....right.