Errybody Say Cheeeeese!!!!

Okay Kayoko.  So is their teeth really that bad? 

Tony's birthday was great.

The Armani Party was great.

I think I still go out just a bit too much.

I also got a suit tailor made the other day.  Picked it up today, and it is DOPE!  It is THA BOMB!  PIMPIN'!  I'm wondering if these words are still used that much today.

It's all Gravy baby.

Happy Birthdays to Gigi, Chris, John, Dave, Melissa, Shih-wen.

The Tooth Challenge

Tony is a colleague of mine.  He's like an older brother, good friend and boss rolled into one.  Happy Birthday T.  He's really helped me out of some tough jams, offered me great advice, and been a source for good laughs.  Remember when you were a kid and thought 25 was real old, 30 was super old... Tony's super old haha... I'm getting there soon too.

Come party this Friday for Tony's Birthday.  Details are in my makeshift flyer.  I mass emailed it to everyone and have gotten some comments on how the T in Tony looks like a P.  Emails like, "Happy Birthday Pony?".  Man, it's a fancy T.  FANCY T!  So you like the Lens Flare I put on his tooth?

Speaking of teeth, Kayoko has queried me on the status of teeth on Chinese women.  Although I can't say all that much about their breath, I would have to say that on average, most Chinese girls have decent teeth.  Some girls though, have had the unfortunate accident of drinking from specially treated water when they were growing up that had the side effect of staining their teeth a dark blackish colour (sorry couldn't get any photos of that).  I've taken some pictures, I'll spend some time editing them to fit Xanga and my 100MBs of bought Xanga space and will post shortly.

This weekend there is a Giorgio Armani fashion show and afterparty, should be pretty good.

I'm always going on about how great things are in Shanghai.  There are definitely its pitfalls, I'll start writing about them soon, I really shouldn't be updating during work hours, I have such a guilty conscience.

Happy Birthday's to Tony, Alice, Ria, Gigi, Chris, Dave, Melissa and Shih-wen.

Smokin on a B, Dippin through the streets, Bumpin R&B...

The weather in Shanghai has started to get better now.  As I sit behind my cubby typing this entry, I'm looking back at my day today and realizing that I spent quite a bit of it daydreaming.  It happens every once in a while, and this feeling of unproductivity goes down like cherry flavoured Triminicol DM, a cough medicine flavour that I hate.

I've been working here for almost 2 years now, and in Shanghai for close to 3 years.  Time sure flies.  The amount of energy and change that goes on in this city is definitely something else though, I can't imagine staying in Toronto during this time in the world's most dynamic city.  Always something new going on, new information to process, new people to meet, new lessons to learn.  I guess it doesn't help that I think I have attention deficit disorder either, I'm soaking up everything as fast as I can with the attention span of a 4 year old child.  So much randomness going on here, and it's evident in my writings.

Last week, was Shanghai Fashion Festival.  I went to a couple fashion shows, the models were SO damn hot.  I'd definitely set this party off right.

She says she wants some Marvin Gaye, Luther Vandross, a little Anita will definitely set this party off right...

So after about a year and a half at our current office, we are moving to a new place.  I've been officially promoted to Senior Account Manager, and business is picking up.  It's Friday though, so there is a bit of time to daydream about other things.  I always have girl stories, but am often hesitant to talk about them.  This one is quite the kicker though, because I met a hottie at the clubs the other night.  I'd go on to describe her, but it would just be wrong because I found out that she was 17.  I'm officially the old guy at the club.  But as I think about this, it seems that the media really glorifies females at ages 17 - 27, at least media geared towards men does.  So as I get older, the more I understand the amount of restraint men have against the powerful force of sexual attraction.

On an unrelated note, Linda was telling me how paranoid her mom was about coming to Shanghai / China.  I would just like to clarify however, that Shanghai is one of the safest places to be in China.  There have been bar fights, road rage, arguments etc., but this is about as far as it seems to go and results for the exact same reasons as it does back home.  The media could be preventing access to the true stories, and there definitely are pick pockets in the more tourist areas of Shanghai, but in my 3 years of living in Shanghai, me nor my friends have experienced anything to justify any type of paranoia of coming to visit.  So jump on the bandwagon and visit Shanghai!

Speaking of bandwagon, I was forwarded a series of jokes the other day that made me laugh.  This one, made me laugh aloud in front of my computer:  "There was another war-related casualty today. The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon."  Jay Leno.  I know great sense of humour right???

Happy birthdays to Alastair, Richard, Norman, Angie, Colman, Ryan, Irene and Charles!