although right now the thought of writing another one of these things makes me feel unbelievably tired i figure i may as well do it now while i watch urban legends, giving me an excuse to look away in the scary bits. whoops couldn't look away and now i have tingly skin.. and dads asleep. scary, huh?
it's all really confusing at the moment, i cant wait to come home but i dont want to wish away the time i have left here, i have really enjoyed it and the longer im here the more i really feel at home in this city. i wouldnt mind coming back to work here. it really is great.
But im also really looking forward to feeling clean back in melbourne, even if i dont shower there for a couple of days it isnt like this. here my skin always feels slimy or super dry from the aircon. not fun. another thing i miss is nailpolish. i havent been wearing it here which does make me feel a bit naked. actually, after this (and urban legends) i will go and put some on.
so this issue of the magazine is frustrating because instead of production taking two weeks it is taking three this time around just to balance total magazine out put for the year. massive pain because it confuses everything for us and all the people that regularly deal with the magazine.im relieved that i only have another 24 restaurants + food feature places to go to before i finish. my poor poor waistline.
last night we went to an ice cream launch party which sadly did not provide alcohol but never mind, there was ice cream and some really fun people. there was harry from london and coco pop the number one dragqueen in hong kong. all in all two of the more enlightening people i've met here so far. afterwards we guiltily lit up disapointed to not be drunk already. then we bumped into this guy rayphil we met, totally nuts guy who started talking to us outside the supermarket. he told yasmine she should be a model and then shared his own modeling history, enjoyable for both i imagine... haha.
then we popped into the shops, deciding not to go out and i bought some zip earring. fun for the whole family!
and then we saw some brilliant advertising/marketing/whatever it falls under - brilliant!!
finally a fun night out of dancing. a-trak is here on thursday so we got four free tickets to dance the night away. im so excited. there are lots of fun events coming up, the week after there is also the DJ Magazine China launch party and cocopops drag queen show which i think were going to. lots of seedy days ahead at the office. cant wait. thaithai hangover cures will have to be reinviented cause i dont have anyone as comfortable as caroline to lie on and there arent any of those soft water bottles here. also the juices arent quite the same. but i have found some good fresh juices around the corner from the office.
last week yasmine made me venture into these bird parks on the hottest day of the year so far. it took freaking hours and at the first one, after we visited the aviary she insisted that there was another one there where you can walk in amongst the birds, it sounded like torture to me but we walked for ages sweating a lot trying to find it until some helpful guy told us we were at the wrong park. eugh. horrible day, especially when you take into account my dislike of birds.
another thing to get me through the days ahead is the latest frankie which mum sent up with dad today. it really has made me happy. ahh this movie really is horrible. so many gruesome scenes. its the one at the moment where she is on that ride where you go through the tunnel and there are all the dead bodies and shit... you know...
any way 4 more weeks at the magazine and then another two of freedom. maybe dad will come to beijing with me for a week? i'll ask him in the morning when he isnt as angry at me for my hour long phone call to rosie (he doesn't know about the second yet) and then a 30 minute one with stobes, silly girls who cant use skype getting me in trouble!
mum is coming next week i think, i got tickets to hofesh shechter so im going to make her come with me to that. Also im desperate to do some winter shopping at lane crawford's last season outlet. you know how it is here... if it is not brand new its impossible to sell. winter shopping galore for me!
my hairdresser is going to kill me. my hair is so long and ratty they will want to chop it all off in punishment. so i'm thinking of hacking my hair short for winter.
dad is back so now the house isn't as lonesome but he is very grumpy so that is a bit of a downer. plus there is nothing on tv. urban legends is over so now i'm channel surfing again. ok relocated to my room, thank goodness we now have wireless internet, it was torture without it! i think i will rock it old school in a sec and write about my feelings and shit in my journal. haha journal i cant believe how much ive actually written in it.
but you know, i really love this city. it feels so safe and open to new things. and people work really hard but they really have fun too. i think the best thing about this internship is that it really forces you to meet different people doing different things. and wow, there are so many people doing such cool things. and that was a really wanky sentence, i should probably delete it cause i can imagine teasing emails and if not you all rolling your eyes at the computer screen.
i know there is something i wanted to say but im forgetting what it was. ah annoying. im glad i get back once uni assignments and exams are over though, that means no one has any excuse not to be fun, even you no money/no time caroline.
im actually getting a bit loopy listening to too much tegan and sara, not good for my health im sure.
oh well miss you all, will see you all too soon (and then probably want to escape you all!!)
love kisses etcetera...
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