WO MEI YOU QIAN AH x 11

Wed March 19
- the team met up 9:30pm @ UST
- MTR'ed all the way to ShenZhen
- got there around 11pm, 6 of us squished all into 1 taxi (the first sketch ride of the trip) to go to Queen Spa
- one word to describe the Spa: HEAVEN
- fruit buffet, ice cream galore, big screen tvs, reclining chairs, full body massages, pretty China girls, sauna, jaccuzzi, disposal underwears, see through glass showers (but they fog up), pretty bathrooms with mirrors and products set up for you----i don't know how to describe this place since there are no pictures to prove it, but it's stuff you dream about or see on TV.
- crazy employee who wouldn't stop talking to me about Canada and universities
- "would you like cupping or scraping?"
- 1st JLa Moment: Julie La appearing from nowhere out of the steam and fog with arms wide open geared up in disposable bras and panties and screaming "TAKE MEEEEEEE"

Thurs March 20
- stayed up until 6am to catch 9 am flight to Beijing
- again, 6 of us squished into 1 taxi
- ate lunch at crappy ShenZhen airport
- supposed to fly at 9am, ended up leaving at 10am, 3 hour flight in total, slept through both the take off and landing
- arrived in Beijing around 1pm, taxi'ed to our Hotel (Beijing Hua): had our own kitchen, living room, and 2 beds that we pushed together to fit all 6 of us, nice place. it was right to this huge mall, Joy City, and it had super nice stores inside, and there were so many other clothing stores right across our hotel. The hotel room we got only allowed 2 occupants (Julie & Joe), and so, the 4 of us would pair up and walk in about 10 mins after the other pair goes in. We did this everytime we entered or left the hotel. my partner was Ghoribet :D
- went to KFC to grab a bite (ended up being our dinner)
- headed off to see the Forbidden City. since Beijing is so strict on only having 4 ppl to a taxi, we had to get 2 taxis. our taxi was supposed to follow the first taxi, but he ended up getting stuck in traffic and lost the other taxi, and so he started getting MAD angry and was MAD swearing and cussing. i got yelled for not owning a phone in China and not knowing my friend's non-existant China numbers. jerk. but this was one of our many encounters with angry Chinamen.
- finally got to Forbidden City. bought Princess hairbands and Emperor hats. we went there kind of late, and the gates were closed and so we apparently really only walked around the entrance of the City for 2 hours. but i, personally, thought that that was the whole city.
- didn't even go to TianMen cause it was closed as well
- literally walked more than halfway back to our hotel
- got back to the hotel around 8:30 pm and all 6 of us were so wiped out that we all went to bed at 9PM
- this marked the first of many spoonage nights

"...so are we doing dinner guys?"
"nah. just go to bed"

Fri March 21
- woke up at 9am, got ready by 11, ate @ Joy City Mall (it was a sit-down restaurant, but they made you pay right after you ordered, and dog was on the menu)
- taxi'd to Great Wall (Ba Da Ling). about 1.5 hours, got 2 taxies (thinking back, we probably maybe most likely definitely got jipped)
- Great Wall is pretty effin cool. we went to the toursity side, and there were lots of old ladies and men selling stuff on the wall. we were there for about 2.5 hours, had to meet our taxi guys aroudn 6pm. we were exhausted after. the steps were higher than my...legs. gah. weather could have been clearer and better. but it was good.
- got back to our hotel, then went to a restaurant wanting Peking Duck, but they didn't serve it, so we left :S And then headed off to another restaurant and got us some Peking Duck.

Sat March 22
- JLa and ah gor were sick, so the 4 of us went to Summer Palace
- best part was dressing up as Wang Zhu GeGe, the guy who took pictures of us was really old and funny.
- got back to hotel, was so tired, napped (missed out on shopping, there was an alikoh mall right beside our hotel)
- went to Cheung K...buffet at 12am. the rest of the kids left around 3am, me and Ktran sang until SIX AM. AHAHAHAHAHA.

Sun March 23
- went back to Forbidden City (PART II). so this place is actually GINORMOUS. heh. stupid me.
- then visited Tiananmen Square. pretty boring there.
- went back to Alikoh mall!! but i only got 2 pairs of sunglasses. boo.
- then headed off to train station to take 11 HR sleeper train to Xi'an. all the hard sleepers were sold out, so we had to settle for expensive soft sleepers, however, it all worked out well. i think we left around 9pm-ish.

Mon March 24
- got to Xi'an around 8:20am. i really hate coming out of train stations. having herds of chinamen and women swarm at you and yelling at you in Chinese is blechalsdkjfa;lsdkf. so there was a sketch man that saw Joe reading his LP and said that he was a representative from the hostel that we were looking at. uh OK. but ya, man turned out to be super nice and helpful. i liked the hostel that we stayed here the best. Bell Youth Hostel. high recommended.
- we hired a tour guide from the man and we went to Bapo Village, a place where they made Terracotta Warriors, and then the Terracotta Warriors Museum--soooooo coool
- got back to hostel, really cool lounge area and restaurant, used the internet exactly at 6:50PM trying to do corp strat assign. no dice. had a banana split for dinnner.
- went night market shopping

Tues March 25
- checked out of hostel, ate lunch at hostel, drew on the walls of the hostel, massive Schulich sign
- went back to the market from last night to shop, bought a load of scarves wahahhaa
- rushed back to hostel around 4 pm to pick up luggage to get to train station for Shanghai.
- only 1 taxi was willing to drive us, but only 4 ppl were allowed on, and so Ghor & Ktran sat on a scooter
- the station was insanely PACKED and disgusting.
- took the sleeper train to Shanghai for 20 hours
- I slept early, lights went off at 10pm, the others Big2'd and played games in the dark

Wed March 26
- i woke up at 11am. played cards, ate instant noodles
- our train arrived at 1:30pm
- again, angry China ppl swarming at us, another sketch man drove us to our Hotel that JLa had booked back home
- only 4 ppl were allowed to a room, so me and Ktran had to bum outside for a bit while the others checked in.
- the Hotel was siccck. we lived like kings. there were 2 bedrooms, a living toom, a balcony, 3 TVs, and Xiao Zhu commercials!! wahahahahhaa
- then we headed off to find Xiao Long Baos, but um, these things are surprisingly hard to find in Shanghai. so we settled at a mini restaurant with a very angry waiter. we got 2 of every dish.
- passed by a stationary store, and a magazine store with Xiao Zhu. talked to the owners for a bit. such nice ppl
- went back to Hotel, i actually learned Big2
- the girls bought a vibrator :S
- that night, royal bonding sesh in the girl's room AHA

Thurs March 27
- Joe & the girls bought us breakfast
- went to Qi Pu Lu (a street of malls and stores that sell cheap stuff), we had to get in 2 taxis, and so the teams ended up getting lost for a bit
- ppl were mad following us for about half an hour. it was pretty crazy
- shopped until 6:30 pm, the girls bought a gajillion boxer shorts. the boys bought fob sweaters
- i started to get sick then
- went to a rando restaurant with no english menu, and so we walked out :S so settled at another with picture menus
- went back to hotel, had a boxer short panty party
- then I slept early cause i was sick, Ghor joined in, then KTran squished in after playing Big2
- Ktran moaned a lot that day (she was getting sick too)

Fri March 28
- woke up around 1:30 PM
- headed off to Nan Jing East Road, it was very nice, very much like HK, except more spacious
- tried to find Xiao Long Baos again, ended up eating it at a fast food Dumpling food court
- went into a Beijing Olympic store, had a very sketch elevator
- passed by a cheap underground market, a lot of cheap imitation wallets, coin purses, and bags
- went to the Bundt (I totally FORGOT that Xiao Zhu filmed Corner with Love here!!!! AHHH)
- crying poor lady asked us for money, and right after we gave it to her, she stopped crying
- went back to Hotel
- surprised Ktran with flowers and cake for her 21st!!! (but she lost her camera coming back from the Bundt :( )
- got yelled by our neighbour who had a baby for being too loud
- makeover session with JLa, got ready to go clubbing
- it took a journey and a half to find the right club, went to a restaurant around 11pm, and walked out again :S (I forget why this time)
- we settled at this club called Babyface
- soo crowded, smoky, so much pushing and shoving, the boys went off to mack, while the girls just chilled and danced with our devil lightup headbands (mine got smashed apparently), it was so crowded that i had to dance with a garbage bin inbetween my legs at one point in time
- got back to hotel aroudn 4AM where the others feasted on cup noodles
- we just chilled and looked at pics until 6AM
- slept when it was getting bright outside

Sat March 29
- checked out of hotel by 12, bellboy with our crazy 6 feet high of luggages
- ate at Jamaicablue *beeef buughherr)
- taxi'd to train station, it was a nice station, the others got into strip Big2 this time, creepy old man kept staring, left to HangZhou around 3:50pm. got yelled after an hour because we didn't know we were there already...bad start to the new city
- and again, this time the worst, swarmed by dirty old chinamen. settled with a sketch orgy HOTEL apparently--tears in the bedsheets, scratch marks on walls, horrible stench, SEE THROUGH WASHROOM with sheer curtain
- it was raining, couldn't see anything that night, went to eat at the famous Lo Wai Lo Cai Guan, crashed a wedding reception
- JLa competed with kids, had beggar's chicken without knowing the price (almost freaked out, but it was cheap), had fish from the West Lake, food was good.
- took a sketch van back to HOTEL, this guy ran his own service in his own family van
- we all slept in our clothes

Sun March 30
- woke up at 5:30AM for our flight to Shenzhen
- sketch van came to get us at 6AM
- thought flight was at 9, but it was actually at 8. got to airport by 7, checked in, and boarded
- got to Shenzhen around 10am, ate McDs
- another sketch van brought us to MTR
- took it to Choi Hung, and taxied back to UST