October 20, 2001



  • Top: Ryuma, Frankie, Carnic
    Bottom: Roy, May, Sheman, Simon

    Nanjing...


    I'm in Nanjing now at an Internet bar with Ryuma checking email.  We had a pretty late night last night, hanging out at a bar called Scarlet.  It is a cool club in the sense that they played all hip hop last night.  I also met a couple of girls from Britain, they overheard my friends and I speak Cantonese and I ended dancing the night away with them.  They study at Nanjing University and are also studying Putonghua for a year.  I think Caroline and Venus and them are jealous because they pouted practically the whole night, and have been giving a little attitude to me this morning (I had the most fun last night).  I guess I understand since going to a club in Shanghai, more often than not, there will be eye candy for the boys, but very likely, none for the girls.  Concave chests and oily hair just don't seem to attract North American women.  The two girls' names are May and Sheman.  I think perhaps Sheman was lying about her name?  I hope it's just a British thing.  They gave me their number so I will call them to party with us one last night before we leave.  I hope Caroline and them don't get upset.


    Today we went to the Sun Yat Sen Mausoleum.  It is located in the centre of Nanjing and is the place where he was buried.  We had to climb up 360 stairs to the tomb and from up top, the view of Nanjing left me breathless (maybe it was the journey up the stairs?)  Tonight we party some more, tomorrow I head back to SH.


    All in all, Nanjing hasn't overly impressed me.  The night scene here is no where near as good as SH, the drivers here drive even crazier, the people spit even bigger gobs of goober and the women have more hair in their underarms.  But when you're in China for a year, learning Chinese, you have to see the sights and soak in the culture.  Nanjing was a good weekend outside SH and perhaps I will come back again sometime, if anything to visit my new British friends.  I hope I see them again... but it's doubtful.  Damn that Bri'ish accent is sexy.


    Thanks for the touching email PH35, even though you might have been drunk out of your asses.  Happy Birthday Kev.