THursday, July 6

today was my grandpa's bday. ... so first thing in the morning, i woke up, and walked to the rail station to buy cake (cuz that's the only cake store i know i can get to without getting lost) ... then, i was gonna take the rail to JinAnShi stn and cab/walk, but morning rushhour traffic was too crazy, so i just decided to cab it all the way there... it took sooooooooooooo EFFING long! ... and cost waaaay more than it should've ($17-18 = normal price from home to hosp... this cost like $30smt) ... anyways. so finally, i got there, ate the cake (i bought two... one for breakkie), sat with my yaya for awhile. he was really happy that day. he smiled, a lot. he was deliriously happy. and then when i told him Joe was gonna there later on, he was even happier. two grandchildren visiting him in one day - i bet that's never happened before!! ... wait, one time me and cassandra went together, 4 yrs ago. ... but see, cassandra the loser never goes to see yaya... loser girl.

anyways... after i left, i wanted to JinAnShi stn, met up with my aunt, and we went to HuaiHai Road where she MADE me try on bras and bought two bras and an undie for me. seriously, she wanted to get me the hot red stuff - bras and lacy lacy racy racy undie - she's CRAAAZY! .. she says it's for my wedding... uh huh... cuz i'm getting married?!?!?!? ... anyways, she bought that, and then bought me some more clothing, and then we took the "weight lose" coupon to the spa, to make me lose weight, apparently....

we get there, and the stupid lady measures my weight, height, and APPARENTLY my BMI number and % fat, etc with this random machine, which then told me that i'm SEVERELY overweight. i.e. i'm gonna keel over and die from a heart attack at any second cuz the fat in my body takes up so much of my body weight that it must be in my blood and clogging my veins already. and apparently, my body shape is worse than that of a 50 yr old. and that apparently, the MAXIMUM i'm supposed to weigh (by my height) is 50kg = 110lb. 'cept really, i'm normal here, and the MINIMUM i'm actually supposed to weigh is 113. so uh, they're fucking crazy in china!!!! ... anyways, how they make u lose weight, apparently: they use this vibrating machine to "loosen" your fat, cuz apparently if u don't, u can't lose the fat. then they rubbed all the fat from the sides down into my uterus. (ok, intestines)... and they said i can poo it out... RIIIIGHT... cuz fat is under the skin, NOT in my digestive tract. how stupid. ... ppl in china are dumb and will believe anything. they're so incredibly stupid it's incredible... eventually tho, my aunt did down $200 CDN there - on that vibrating machine thing cuz it's a good massager thing too. ... so i had to lug that to Toronto. gwarsh.

after this oh-so-great-weight-loss-treatment that was really stupid, we went to my grandpa's place and the car came, and we went to "Xiao Fei Yang" (my ex-favourite hot pot place from 4 yrs ago) for hot pot. pretty much everyone came... and the interesting events of that night:
- weiwei kept on taking my pictures ... sometimes my didi is really weird...
- Billy's aunt actually asked me "how does Lisa not know mandarin?!?" innocently ... i wanted to say "how do you not know cantonese then?!?!" ... (lisa speaks Toisan [sp?]) ... her concern is that she won't be able to communicate with lisa... so i said "learn english"
- the driver is cute, and my grandma kept on saying "we need to introduce you two" in a way that meant more like "i wanna set u two up" ... 'cept he's younger than my didi!!! ... and my grandma is uber against girl-older-than-guy ... therefore doesn't really like the lisa-ben thing... oh well. the driver was scared of my grandma - ahahahaaa! but indeed, kinda cute. tho way too young (like may '83)
- the most disturbing thing: my youngest aunt said that one time, WangRanFeng, this moron fucking idiot from the farmland who has somehow tricked my grnadfather into believing he's part of my family, one time turned on the computer, and his wallpaper was MY picture. dunno where/when he got it, but it was my picture. i told my aunt "I'M GONNA FUCKING THROW UP NOW" ...
history: 4 yrs ago, the same aunt invited me for lunch with the family. i sat betwen Sean and this perverted son of a bitch. the ENTIRE fucking time, he kept on staring at my chest, i'm not even exagerating. the ENTIRE fucking time. do you have ANY idea how disturbing that is?!? ANY IDEA?!?!? guys: imagine a girl, staring at your crotch for like 3 hours. a NASTY, UGLY, HICK!!!! ... so all thru lunch that time, i kept on inching and inching closer to Sean, and he was confused. ... right after lunch, i told my mom that i hate him and that he's perverted and i want him to die. unfortunately, he didn't die. but i got that feeling 4 yrs ago, and now i find out he has a picture of me, and that he saves his as his wallpaper?!?!? i was soooooooooooooooooo fucking furious that day u can't even imagine. seriously, i hope a ginormous bird picks out his eyeballs, and then beats him to death. buts picks out his eyeballs first, while he's still alive. no wait, pees in his eyes, and then picks them out with sharp sharp claws. yup.

so dinner was fun... not.
and then we went to Pudong to see the night scenery. ... which again wasn't fun. again, i was really really mad. really really really pissed. aunt wouldn't go into the fucking picture when told, until i YELLED at her. sure, don't go in when i'm nice, and ask you nicely, but go in when i yell. and then stare at me like "omg, this girl is scary when she's mad". then, grandma was all complaning and whining about the driver and how he had to get home, etc etc etc, when he's said A MILLION times that he doesn't hafta get home any time, and that he was having fun and he'd love to drive us anywhere we freaking hell wanted to go. and it was a realy hot night. and i didn't get to go to all the places i wanted to go to. and the lights weren't all turned on. basically, i was fucking pissed. and then the ride back was really dumb too. really really fucking stupid. OMG! just that entire freaking night, i was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo mad. the maddest i've ever been in a very very very long time.

when i finally got home, i called my mom and complained. and then slept.