here's me trying to fly @ the great wall!

at the end, i said "i twisted my foot" in cantonese, fyi.

Jenni Cheung at 04:51 PM

should be available for viewing here by around 2pm china time. the first 2 pages are already working, except i haven't uploaded the thumbnails yet. but click a blank thumbnail and u'll get a real pic.

a lot of the pics are like just diff angles of me in the same place. my dad likes to take a lot of photos. also, some of them are me mid-action. i figured candid shots are fun too

Jenni Cheung at 09:35 PM

we got to beijing yesterday. i think i like beijing better. it's bigger and the weather is not as humid as it is in shanghai. but i haven't really explored either city, so i can't say much.

i think i'll be able to visit the great wall and also tianamen sqaure and forbidden city palace thing while i'm here too. i'm glad i came to beijing even though imma miss some major partying in shanghai.

so last nite my dad introduced me to another of his 20-something friends. me and william went to yes club last nite. it's on the third level of this one building. i couldn't take pics cuz they don't allow it. but it's quite different. from like 8-9:30, they were playing quite mellow music. then there was a live performace till 10. then dance music for awhile. then they had "singled out" kinda thing with 3 girls and 1 guy. then it was dance music again. spent a good amount of money on alcohol last nite cuz we bought a bottle of red wine, and it's a good kind too, but i forget what brand. chivas? so william speaks mandarin, almost no english, so i had to make do with conversating in mandarin. it was quite doable! like we actually had good conversation despite my language impediment! he's a badass crazy dancer! like he gets really into it and dances all crazy like i do sometimes. it's cool ^_^

afterwards, we went to one of those places that serves skewers. and we had lots of those, and some beer from a bowl. i guess it's customary to drink beer from a bowl if ur eating on the side of the street. i like duck kidneys.

mcdonalds and KFC are HUGE here! like i can imagine mcdonalds, but i'd never think that KFC would be so big! i wanna try some franchise food here. they have like unagi on pizza at pizzahut. crazy shit.

Jenni Cheung at 07:36 PM

i am devastated. i found out that i won't be in shanghai for ANY of the weekends. cuz i'll be traveling with my dad. ugh. not that i don't love my father and all, but imma miss all the good nightlife scene! yeah i'm truly upset about it. when i realized this fact last nite, i cried soo much and now my eyes are puffy. yeah cuz this weekend i'll be in beijing, next weekend i'll be in hongkong. i can't go out if i dunno anyone cuz my dad won't let me go out alone at night and i dont' wanna go with my dad to these places.

anyway, i went to a bar street with my dad's friend's friend. we went to this club called "babyface", and it's pretty nice. it looks quite trendy inside, but the dance area is super small. jeff says that that's a good thing cuz people dance closer ^_^. but since it was tuesday last nite, there weren't that many people there. jeff and i played this dice game, then this guessing game with the hands, all popular drinking games. the drinks were like 30 to 50 RMB, and NO TIP. i really like being able to get drinks without spending an extra $2 on tip. anyway, i've been wanting to dance all night, but i didn't wanna be the only ones dancing. so finally around 10, a group of 4 girls started dancing, so i made jeff come onto the dancefloor with me too. people were looking at me weird, cuz i dance all crazy. haha

so we left around 11, cuz jeff had to work today. but we sat outside for awhile and chatted and ate stuff from a 24hr mart, it was those meatstuffs that's on a stick. and we started talking about relationships and i started sharing my philsophies on relatoinships (cuz i get very philosophical when i'm buzzed). so he's in a long distance relatoinship. 5 years! but for the past 2 years, he hasn't really been around since he went to college in europe and he's in shanghai now. he's only been back to his hometown once in the past 2 years, for 2 months. and i ask him "don't you have needs?" and he's like yeah, but he's good at controlling them. cuz he doesn't believe in doing it without love. mad props. i just don't think that LTRs work unless the relationship is very very very established and solid. but what do i know, i'm single.

Jenni Cheung at 04:18 PM

i started writing a song to/about him on the plane. i told him that i started writing a song kinda about him, he doesn't ask about it at all. then he tells me he rewatched a scene from FF:AC. how sensitive huh. i like such insensitive boys. being in shanghai and being on trains so much gives me so much time to think. i think too much.

anyway, it's a good song. i think at least. imma record it on my comp when i get home.

Jenni Cheung at 06:16 PM

i'm so tired and still jetlaggy! anyway, i had a full weekend in different parts of china. my dad had to work, so he brought me along with him to test phones in diff parts of china. lemme start off at the beginning.

i knew about the whole spitting thing. but i found out my first night here that it's quite popular to pick your nose in public also! i had shuay jiou the first night here. (i dunno pinyin, so imma just sound stuff out the best i can.)

day 2, i woke up really early and just watched monster-in-law on a pirated dvd. my dad told me to not bring much clothes, so i had nothin to wear, so i made one of his tshirts into a tubetop and wore that. yeah. that was a bit to skimpy for china.

then we rode the train to nanjing. i like how they sell food on the train. but i guess they sell food on the trains in US too, but i hardly ever ride the train. so the trainride from shanghai to nanjing was about 3 hours.

when we got there, i had to buy some clothes so i had stuff to wear the next day. i bought this hat i liked, but then my dad scolded me for not letting him haggle, so i ended up spendin too much. the rest of the night, i let my dad do the haggling for me when i see stuff that i'd wear (i wouldn't wear most of that, mostly cuz i'm shoppin for now-weather, and they'd be too hot to wear) so i got stuff at 30-50 RMB that night, and my fake adidas bag for 30RMB (that's like a little less than $4)

anyway, i'm considered a cow here. on 2 occasions while shopping for clothing i was offered a larger size or they assured me that it'd fit in a way that suggests that i'm a lardass. evidently the anorexic look is in. bah, whatever. i guess i'll lose a few pounds while i'm in china.

the next day we went to yangzhou. i mostly just looked at some scenery there. i don't remember what its called. willows by a lake is always so pretty. took lotsa pics tho, my dad likes to take a lot of pics.

and monday afternoon here, came back to shanghai. dad introduced me to one of his coworker's friend who's around my age and speaks cantonese. i think we're meeting up tonite. cuz i wanna go to bars/clubs and it'd just be weird if i go with my dad...

Jenni Cheung at 03:19 PM

I dumped all the pics from my sidekick to hipalbum.com?jenni

feel free 2 browse

Jenni Cheung at 12:18 PM

So since the limited ultimate edition of FF Advent Children was backordered, the site was unable to fulfill my order. So I got my money refunded. As much of an FF freak I am, I think Im better off not having it and having the money instead. So I guess AM digging myself out of debt decently for now.

Jenni Cheung at 12:02 PM

From day one I talked about getting out
But not forgetting about
How my worst fears are letting out
He said why put a new address
On the same old loneliness
When breathing just passes the time
Until we all just get old and die
Now talking's just a waste of breath
And living's just a waste of death
And why put a new address
On the same old loneliness
And this is you and me
And me and you
Until we've got nothing left

Jenni Cheung at 04:32 PM

so i'm gonna be going to china for a month starting the end of this week. i'm kinda nervous cuz i've never been there. even though i can speak cantonese semi-fluently, my mandarin is subpar. i hope i dont' get robbed.

i only say that because my mom tells me of experiences, now i'm thinking that it's gonna be like all ghetto.

but i'm going to shanghai, so it should be ok, right?^_^
i'm stopping by hong kong for a bit too. i'm really excited about that!
it's gonna be my first time back since i came to the US!

Jenni Cheung at 12:28 PM

i know they just released FF:AC. i know it's just in japanese and i don't understand japanese, but i just placed the order for the ultimate edition + the figures for the rest of the cast. i'm am wholly ashamed.

you see, i was on my way out of credit card debt, and now this put me back another $540. $540 that i don't have. fark.

at least i'm working now. so crawling out of debt shouldn't be that hard, esp that i dont' have a handbag/shoe habit at all. just little splurges on pretty nerdy things.

Jenni Cheung at 10:45 AM

I feel like "Anna" from "The O.C."
(Season 1. Part of love triangle with Seth and Summer.)

Like how even though she and Seth gets along marvelously and Seth is lucky to have a girl that appreciates his interests, he just always saw her as just a buddy. Guys like Seth always go for girls like Summer.

I always go for the guys like Seth.

Jenni Cheung at 12:06 AM