Tuesday, June 20

wow.... so long ago... (it's the 26th today)...

i think i went shopping with cassandra this day, which will now be termed today to lessen confusion....

Andrew called me in the morning, just as i was leaving the house with cassandra.... and so i was talking to him on the road, while cassandra was giving me a weird look... i normally don't like talking to ppl while i'm with other ppl, but this was an LD call, so too bad girlie. .... anyways, we didn't eat breakie, so first stop was FOOD! ... 'cept we missed the bus stop (blam ecassandra, i had no idea where we were going to start with, so not my fault!) ... but anyway ended up at this ramen place, and i had already said i wanted ramen on the bus before we missed the stop, so it was all good. the ramen place sucked btw. three ramen places i've tried: the one on Baldwin in TO with my mcat girls, then Santa Ramen in SF, and now this one, which is a HUUUUGE chain in shanghai, maybe all of china. best one: Santa. worst one: the one in shanghai! it was just plain bad... ugh... i can't even describe it.... and the "kimchi" was nasty too.... oh well... apparenlty, last time i came back, cassandra and i went to the same restaurant (another location) and got sake and this beef with mushrooms thing... vague memory...

so after lunch, we went shopping! ... first place - uber fucking expensive. seriously, how the hell do ppl here afford anything?!?!!? the prices are like the same as in canada, i.e. shirts cost smt like 280RMB = $40. normal price for canada, but considering average income here is like, 2000RMB/month MAX, that's just fuking crazy. ... so, onto the next mall after me whining about the prices and how ridiculous they are cuz cassandra kept on saying her friends keep buying these really expensive (like >1000RMB) things and i kept on saying "ya, well, NOT THEIR MONEY!! IT'S HER DADDY'S MONEY!!!" ... .i hafta rub it into cassandra's brain that all of the money she's spending is her parents' money, not her own, which makes her useless and should make her feel guilty, etc cuz she's almost 23!!!!!!!!!! ... well, that's my job as a JJ, so there. ... if she was married and spending her husband's money, then that's a diff. story... anyway! ... eventually, we moved on to this cheapy mall (i like cheapy malls - u can bargain, it's great). .... i bought some interesting stuff on the cheapy mall - like a toothpaste tube squeezer thing! i'm so cool.... but i also bought a shirt from this store called Ebase, 'cept cassandra kept on saying it's Abase (the lettering is weird, but it was obvious that the first letter was the same as the last one and not the middle one... the girl's weird)... i saw a shirt i semi-like, so i grabbed it and was walking around the store with it, as i NORMALLY do in canada. I always try it on after i circle the store at least once and picked out everything i liked to try on. but as soon i as picked it up, some woman starts following me!!!! she was relentless! so i found my cousin waundering in another part of the store and said "that woman's following me!!!!!! she's following me! tell her to stop following me!!!" in english... cassandra laughed at me. and then the lady took my shirt and placed it in a changeroom. i'm so cool... apparenlty, lotsa ppl steal clothes, so she thought i was a thief. riiight, cuz i'm that daring... to break the law in another country... and a communist country where the death penalty is so prevalent... riiight.... am i mad?!? i think not...

anyway... then we went to a bras store, where the lady scared cassandra. then we were looking for smt to drink and the store we went to was CRAZY expensive, so we left in search of a convenience store... then we went to cassandra's favourite store... she likes the stores that sell unique things, i.e. not the chain stores... she likes the stores like on Queen st, independent stores that sell flowy, colourful clothes. anyways, she found smt, and we spent like an HOUR in that store, while she tried on pretty much everything... while the lady that was helping her felt bad for me cuz i wasn't trying on anything, so she kept on picking out the ugliest things in that store for me - cuz apparently, those are the only things that'll fit over my boobs. grrrreat. anything that i picked out, would not fit over my boobs... GRRRRR... but i guess that's good too, cuz the clothes were super expensive. cassandra bought smt for 140RMB, i.e. $20CDN. ... imagine me buying a shirt, just ONE shirt for $140CDN, cuz relatively, that's how much it costs.... and with my dad's money! HAHAHAAA!!! would i be killed? yup. ... not that i ever spend anyone else's money now, but whatever. case and point made. i think. :P

then we went homne, and i dun really remember the rest of the day, altho i think we went to this really crappy restaurant that day.... it was recommended by mom's best friend's little brother (used to live downstairs of us), and it was absolute crap. .... we left more than half of the plates barely touched... nasty.