hao de, hao de, hao de

Wei Ni Hao!

Let us start with some corrections that I cannot make in the last post.

1. The last posts name 49.Just everything produced in your home town is "very famous in China" is from is the list of : You know you've been in China too long when..... given to us by some friends.

2. The man took our picture on his camera phone to send to his friend.

3. The post should be called "what a pity." This is the response with the exact same inflection and conviction we get every time we say that we are leaving on Sunday. What is amazing is that we are convinced that each speaker truly believes it is a pity that we are leaving. It sounds the similar to the way a piano player at the Traveler's bar last Sunday sang "Let it Be" emphasis on the "Be" and "Pi TY."

4. You all missed out on a hilarious party last night -- Amy and I now have many new boyfriends at two different clubs that would be super happy to stand around you. We ate in the Korean part of town and then went down a walkway because we heard live music and it was this series of rooms with a red honey comb motif with a stage at the front surrounded by couches (note: if you are on a couch expect the menu will not have pictures and the food will be twice as much as on the street) and women performers singing popular songs (including Pink's Can't get you out of my mind -- na na na song sung as la la la) with men who were working the crowd pitching in on the chorus or not helping at all, runway walkoffs, and dance routines. We were escorted to our seats by a woman who's phone I had managed to borrow. Then, a man in uniform pushes away all the other lower ranked men in uniform to be the one to present us with the menu, he opens it to the most expensive page, and waits while we look at the menu. Here there were about 10 men standing around waiting for us to order. And we just burst out laughing, the menus are always completely in Chinese and you cannot just order a whiskey and coke. And we tried really hard to get a mix drink without having to buy a whole fifth of Johnny Walker Black Label but in the end we had to go up to the bar and it was beer for us. Then we went to a different bar and danced the night away, learned a dice/drinking game, and Amy got some awesome pictures of me intensely rocking out -- forthcoming when the internet is less of a bitch.

5. Does anyone know where the soymilk is in the Chinese grocery store or brandname or something? All we can find is milk/niunai. Thanks,

Keep on Rocking in the Free World, E