Posted By joni on January 21, 2012
–my birthday!
I don’t normally celebrate my birthday; the most is probably just dinner with friends. This year, my Bunny insisted that we do something special so after a yummy dinner at an Italian restaurant, we had a relaxing full body oil massage. Bunny planned for us to go to a KTV because I had been wanting to go but I was actually sick that day (the first of many) so we’ll just have to go some other time.
–social week
Despite being sick, the past week was quite a sociable one, mainly because Chinese New Year was just around the corner and CNY is the Chinese equivalent of Christmas, if there ever was one. Had yummy Chinese dinners with Bunny’s dad and his friends + American lunch with Victoria at Johnny Moo.
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Posted By joni on January 14, 2012
The good news is that Gordie found me Chuan Buei for my cough. I described it to him and it turns out that he also used to take it when he was young. Maybe Chinese families everywhere in the world keep a bottle of it in their medicine cabinets….
Bad news is I infected him with my virus. So now we are a dog-barking frog-croaking pumpkin and bunny couple!
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Tags: china, humor
Posted By joni on January 12, 2012
My first gratefulness list for the year! Maybe what should be on top is my being grateful that my year started so well…
–weekend trip to Suzhou and Tongli
–lunch and shopping with Chell
–New Year party @ the Mandarin Tree, and finally….
–my novel has been awarded a Special Jury Prize by UST’s Premio Tomas!!
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Posted By joni on January 12, 2012
Ack! I actually owe my blog to lists!
–my first Christmas with G 
–New Year’s Eve hanging out at the Bell Bar in Tianzifang, and then the Bund
–squeezed in a yoga session in the middle of the week
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Posted By joni on December 28, 2011
–Watched Notre Dame de Paris
–Sleep-in Saturday with G!
–Attended a Chinese wedding (a first for me!)
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Posted By joni on December 23, 2011
–G is back in Shanghai!
–Tintin! And we had the movie theater all to ourselves too!
"Look out!"
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Posted By joni on December 16, 2011
–Finished and submitted Steinbeck proposal!
–2 of 3 recommenders sent LORs to SJU
(Note to self: remind recommender no. 3!)
–Caught lunar eclipse (despite super cold night!). So pretty!
Category: great gratefulness, Lighting the Lit Fire, THE Novel 2 |
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Posted By joni on December 11, 2011
Milk teas are cheap and plentiful.
Consider these prices at Happy Lemon in Manila.
And then these at Happy Lemon in Shanghai.
Current exchange rate is at RMB1=Php6.85. Fine, let’s put it at RMB1=Php7 just to make things a little easier for us mathematically-challenged beings. So there. You do the math (since I have already made it easy for you).
*You may click on individual pictures to make them bigger.
Category: Big Red China, New Shanghai Adventures, Yumfest |
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Tags: food, Manila, milk tea, Shanghai
Posted By joni on December 9, 2011
This was part of tonight’s dinner.
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Posted By joni on December 6, 2011
I was only planning on buying a pair of winter boots. Instead I got a dress and a coat. Plus of course, the winter boots!
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Tags: shoes, shopping, winter
