Chinese junk TV fusion

What to do when you want to watch junk TV but feel like you should be using all your time studying Chinese?

Mei Wenti!

Watch junk TV dubbed into Chinese!

Oh cheeses!

Okay so I have calculated that in the past month I have consumed cheese worth about 400 rmb.
Now that is 4800 rmb a year!

That’s two tickets to Vietnam!

It’s only when one adds up the cost that one can see the full impact of ones consumption behaviour.

I am having my very last cheese-sandwich ever in China right now. Since I am a vegetarian, this pretty much means I am not going to have anymore sandwiches period.

7 rmb fried noodles from now on!

Summer time…or not?

Weather is finally getting warm…or is it?

24 degrees on thursday and -1 on friday, WTF!

The central heating has been turned off, I demand that the weather gods be nice and send some warmth to Beijing and let it stay!

A hurricane names Snus

Im starting to wonder if not all cats are suffering from some degree of mental disorder…

Also I am wondering how old Snus (the cat Im babysitting) is, because I think she is very childish. Snus’ hobbies so far seem to be: climb and eat my palm tree, jump in and out of my dirty clothes basket, attack garbage bins, run in circles, and disturbingly she seems highly interested in the toilet and shower.

I wanted to take her out for a walk today, but then I remembered I don’t have a babystroller to put her in.

She is so lovely, I will miss her when Emma comes to pick her up tomorrow.

Beijing Pole Dancing Queens

Saturday was the big day of the Pole Dancing competition, and lucky me got voted the best dancer by the audience!

The competition consisted of two parts, a panel of 3 judges decided on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd best dancers. In addition to that the audience got to vote for their favourite.

The panel of judges consisted of a woman who runs a pole dancing school (where all the other girls come from) and two men who I have no idea are, or what expertise they have in judging pole dancing. Sooo considering the fact that I am not a member of the dance school I didn’t really expect to win the judges hearts no matter how well I danced. It’s okay, I like democracy, so I value the audience vote more anyways 🙂

Here are some pictures from Saturday (I obviously didnt take any myself, and unfortunately both sarah and ulrik’s cameras won’t load their videos on to my computer, so I only have a few that was taken by a photographer hired by the Hilton).

Winners!

Oh yes… I did end up going for “Big and Chunky” song from Madagascar in the end 🙂

I love performing, can’t wait until the next opportunity arises!

Rantithetical couplet

I’m going through the new Chinese words we have to learn for the next chapter in our book… sometimes I really wonder what the use of some of the words are.
Like this week’s 对联 which of course means “rantithetical couplet”, whatever that is. I don’t think I have ever before in my life needed to use the word “rantithetical couplet”, I don’t actually even know what it means.

And also amongst the list of useful words we will learn this week is 水仙，which means narcissus. Another word I have never used before in my life.

Time to google to find out what rantithetical couplets really is…

Something to keep me warm at night

I have a visitor this weekend. A fluffy little thing called Snus.

I’m baby sitting her for Emma and Greg 🙂

Snus helping me update my blog

Pole Dance overload

Necessity is the mother of all inventions.. not that my invention today was particularly high-tech or anything but still…

I did 3 hours of pole dancing the other day and my skin is so sore it feels like it is burning. What to do when there are only 4 days left until competition day and I need way more practice?

Tape toilet paper to all your sore areas!

It worked remarkably well even though I looked like a mummy of sorts. I just sprayed the tape with sticky spray and it gripped pretty okay.

Sexy?

Sexy?

Sarah had to answer this question when she signed up at the gym the other day. It’s hard because you don’t really know how to answer, like…do they want you to rank yourself on a scale from 1-10, or is it a yes or no question? Things in China are always that little bit more complicated, and also more fun 🙂

I’m thinking of signing up next week if I can straighten out my budget properly…

GHD: my first Taobao purchase

My first Taobao purchase has arrived!

I bought a GHD hair straightner from Taobao. Taobao is sort of like the Chinese E-bay, only way better 🙂

Normally GHD hair straightners cost around 1000-2000 rmb, depending on which country you buy it in, but I only paid 85 rmb for mine!

I wasn’t sure if it would be fake or not, but I decided that if it’s real then that’s superb, if it’s fake and it sucks then I only loose 85 rmb, and if it’s fake and works great, then who the hell cares if it is fake or not.

Right now I’m ecstatic because I’m 99% sure it is real as I managed to log on to GHD’s website and register it. Also, it works kick ass well!

I also bought some bookshelves at 45 rmb a piece from Taobao but they haven’t been delivered yet…once I get them I can unpack the 4 boxes of books I have and finally get settled in my new flat 🙂