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The “Nightmare” Before Christmas- Episode 2

Well…well…well never had I ever thought that I will have sequel of “nightmare” before Christmas. Good news is this time I didn’t almost miss the flight or anything happened somewhere near the airport. It happened right on the city center of Julu Road, Dodu restaurant.

Few weeks before Christmas, me and Courtney has been texting and asked each other if we will be here on Christmas and yes we both are. We didn’t plan anything until 23rd of Dec when Courtney said let’s meet up on 24th I said yes to her and we started to look for a place to have dinner, we didn’t want to be a fancy deal dinner, there were some places that we were interested in but in the end we chose Dodu at 7:30pm. Courtney made the RSVP and we all set for the next day.

On the day, I had to take the wrong direction so she had to wait for me, she said “it’s ok because we didn’t get the table yet” until I arrived which was 15 mins late we still didn’t get the table but we were not complaint about it, we understand that restaurant was busy. The only table available was the one that directly in front of the door, originally we didn’t want to sit there because it’s cold….but anyway we chose that table for a while. We ordered “roasted cheese” and “half roasted chicken”.

We both kept talking until I realized some guest from upper floor already went home, so I talked to the Chinese guy-let’s call him the manager- that I want to move upstairs and he said “No, upstairs only for 4 people” heee??? What is that? He can’t separate the table into 2-2 or what? And I turned myself to Courtney and said “Courtney, as white people to another, please talk to this white guy, he seems to work here” and she did, the white guy was peeking to upper floor and said to the manager “yes they can move upstairs” I think the manager tried to be funny by saying “yeah, you can move upstairs if you want, actually it’s colder there” yeah for sure it’s colder there. #weird feeling number 1

When we were upstairs, the table that been set up by the white guy wasn’t really convenient but we didn’t complain about it, within few minutes we saw another table of 4 left so we just moved there, the waitress- I assumed she’s a Filipino separate the 4 table into 2-2 and sitting next to us was a couple.

Our first dish arrived, which is surprisingly not the cheese but the chicken, not a biggie, we were hungry anyway, it came with the sides and since the table is small so the food was kind of consumed all the space on the table.

Then our cheese arrived but the waitress gave it to the couple next to us and I said in Chinese and Courtney said in English that “this is ours” the girl heard us and move it to the next table of 4 and I said to her “that cheese is mine” she said “no, they also ordered” Courtney said “but we were here before them” #weird feeling number 2

Anyway we continued eating our roasted chicken, I think it was not more than 5 mins the manager came to me and asked “did you order roasted cheese? We didn’t mark it and now it sold out” and we both said “that cheese was ours but she gave it to their table” well the manager done what every manager would do which is he gave us a pate as a compensation.

Even after the pate we were still hungry and thinking about dessert until the food of the couple arrived which is half roasted chicken and their portion was bigger! Turns out they mistakenly gave our order, they gave us quarter of a chicken! No wonder we were still hungry! #weird feeling number 3

I had a habit of taking picture of the food and I called the manager to talk to him and he said “I can’t see the difference in the picture” hmmmmm you can’t see the difference? Like HOW?! They have 6 pieces and we only have 4?

  • Ours
  • Them

Anyway the white guy was around and Courtney talked to him, he was quiet surprised and I asked him “are you the manager here?” he said “I’m the boss here” I continued “Good, can you see this picture and the food that this couple had?” but the way me and Courtney talked to him wasn’t complaining, we just informed him about what happened and he took our report seriously than his staff. I said “I’m really sorry but I won’t write a good review about this place” and he was so wise by telling me “It’s OK do what you need to do”

Then we went downstairs to pay and the white guy still there and he said “OK, we will charge for the quarter of the chicken and please wait here I will give you something to compensate” and guess what he gave us??? A complimentary voucher of a free quarter of a chicken! Yeay!! And when he handled me the voucher he told me “Now you can write an OK kind of review right?” haha! I asked him what is his name, he is a Hugo Boss and we really appreciate him for his behavior but we warned him that the attitude of his staff is not good at all.

We left Dodu in searching for a dessert place, while we were walking we got a bit calmed and able to think clearly and we find it funny that it seems like we got the food for free due to this voucher 😉 and we just laughed when we realized that our Christmas Eve dinner was only 78 RMB mwahaha bottom line is it wasn’t really a bad thing after all.

The voucher was written valid until 31st Dec but Hugo crossed it until March and I said to Courtney well actually we can use it now and said to them “Hello, we’re moving on, we’re still hungry and we both demand our free quarter chicken now” haha but we didn’t do that we stick to our dessert searching.

I ended up having ice cream at Garcie’s and Courtney having crepe at Odelice!

As the night is going late…. We had to say goodbye but both of us will come again to Dodu to see if the service has improved or not and for our free food obviously! Haha! Turns out this wasn’t a total “nightmare” before Christmas but I don’t mind to not have this kind of moment again for next year, please don’t let it become a tradition!

Merry Christmas everyone, hope you all had a nice Christmas Eve and Christmas day 😉

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The Unrelated Father

It was a chill Wednesday morning so far, I was reading and replying some emails, looking on a wechat group about house, second hand stuff etc until one group really caught my attention due to many chats happening which is the one and only Hungover Games group. I was a bit curious because it wasn’t 12 PM yet so it’s definitely not a sign up time but what was the hype is all about? Turns out it’s was…….. #drum-roll and facepalm!

HAHA! SERIOUSLY?!?! Parent and Child Category?

This is about obstacle race in Moganshan the one that we and a bunch of archery people participated last year and they have it again on April and they use the picture from last year to put it as an advertisement for this year Xiaker’s race. They have 3 categories now (I think last year they only had 2) elite, recreational and parent and child hahaha! And what on earth somebody will put the picture of me and Thorben to fall on parent-child categories? 😉 LMAO!

Thank you Nikita that suddenly posted it on the group, I was laughing so hard and also thanks to Gigi that found it on the first place, you saw it right that girl on the picture is me hihi 😉

But still how it is possible? My very handsome Freddoy made an “analysis” if Thorben had me when he was 16 then it’s possible hahaha! but still I don’t look like 16, well if I do… it means I look 10+ years younger than I actually am 😉 #thanks to Yves Rocher cosmetics haha!

Not being over confident but I admit that on that picture I look younger than my age but still not as young to fall on child category hahaha and Thorben is really really impossible to look as old as a father haha!

Anyway, I found it very funny, thanks guys, you made my day and just like I mentioned before, something randomly funny always going on when you have a 500 crazy people on one group and this group is always worth to check 😉

And so it went to 12PM Tim sent a sticker saying “SILENCE” and you know what time is it? sign up time 😉

#Back to work 🙂

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The 8 “Working” Hours

Last Saturday, I asked Thorben and Aggy if they want to try the new Burger Chain called “Shake Shack” that just opened on Friday. From the article that I read, I was more excited to try the shake other than the burger. But for Aggy, she’s not a fan of burger but she will tag along anyway, Thorben currently not doing his strict diet so he agreed, at least until we knew that it took 2 hours to be able to order our burger and there is no burger in this world that Thorben and also me and Aggy obviously want to wait 2 hours for, therefore we switch to the next place. Aggy recommended a new British restaurant, the location was quiet nice too, it wasn’t that far from where 3 of us lives so we went to a new restaurant called Fish in Xikang Road.

The menu is called Godfather. We waited for 40 mins and Thorben said probably the food is as big as the table and when they brought it to us, it was true! haha The waitress did said it is for sharing between 2-3 people, but they only have 2 prawns and 2 breads 🙁 and there were 3 of us…please add 1 each haha 😉

After having lunch here, we went to Thorben’s to play the board games. And yes board games with a “s” because this house got every games of the year! Thorben wanted to buy snacks first and guess what are the snacks???? FRUITS! haha yeap he’s not on a strict diet but still eating healthy stuff, its good tho 🙂 Aggy also bought the grapes from that specific shop in front of Thorben’s apartment because the grapes are seedless, which is AWESOME! and Marina made the brownies for us!!! AMAZINGGGG!! This weekend can’t be more perfect!

My roomies- John arrived, followed by Brendan. Marina was reading something from her kindle, so at first it was 4 of us played the game called Confusion in German language. But hey, at least I learn a new words 🙂 Blau, Rot and Gelb hahaha blue, red and yellow what a useful words, I was getting good at this game, Aggy didn’t like this game so much. So we changed to a more confusing and chaotic game called Dopple which is Double, in every card they have at least the same drawing and we need to be fast to put it on the other person’s card. Thorben won this game twice, it is fun! doesn’t require that much concentration but we were chaotic and we don’t really know how to call this things so Aggy just said “Canada” because it’s the leaf that exist on Canadian flag and few other things. Marina was filming when we played this game and Aggy this is not a stupid game 😉 I really enjoyed playing this game haha!

Thorben already won and he helped me to see which drawing that exist on the other person’s card.

Then we played the game card that’s called “The Game” which is we need to sort out the number from 1-100 and 100-2, this is slightly similar with the game card called “The Mind” that we played before, but this time we can speak a bit. Thorben said if we have a card that is +-10 from the card on the table, we need to shout “STOP” so that’s what I did but maybe I shouted it too loud, I took the instruction very seriously 😉

I was eating Marina’s brownie and other bread it was soooo good, but due to my left hand was grabbing the food and my right hand was holding the card and I can’t do it so I need to put the cards down or grabbed the card not in a good order and John can’t stand to see the messy card on my right hand tsk tsk tsk roomies… Brendan arrived almost when the game ended, he knew this game so he also helped me to put the card strategically so we can all use the cards, no card left behind 😉 #I like the spirit!

And since 6 of us were here, so we played!!! CATAN!!! I’ve never played this before, so I was confused on how to play it, but they said it’s not as hard as it looks like. Thorben’s got the extension of the game, like seriously this house has everything! Brendan was patiently putting the pieces into the supposedly correct place.

Marina was the winner of this game! She’s the first one that reached 10 points! wohoooo and she was the nicest one, when she got a chance to move the robber, she moved it to the dessert awwwww! hahaha Thorben was upset with John because he stole the harbor that Thorben’s wanted, and me… I was only able to built 2 cities, 1 settlement and 3 roads mwahahaha this game took us 2.5 hours! when we finished this game I thought it was already 8:30 and Marina said “what happened” Aggy said “The Catan, that’s what happened” hahaha

We ordered food because the 饿了么 should be close around 9-ish, we ordered roasted chicken, they ordered 3, I wasn’t that hungry so I thought 1 is enough and we still have Marina’s brownies and everything but when the food arrived, thanks God they didn’t listen to me because the portion was so small hahaha.

Last game that we played was “The Wizard!” again I never played this game before and the card between the Wizard (Z) and the zero card (N) is written in somehow similar way so I was a bit confused at first…or should I honestly said the whole 9 rounds hahahaha 😉 so Thorben helped me to let me know which card should I put first blablabla and by surprise I was leading the game without even knowing the rules hahaha #facepalm! But finally on the last round, 10 out of 10, I got the rules and I lost! mwahaha got -10 points…hmmm did I really get the rules?!?!?! big question mark here 😉

Marina was neck to neck with Moi!

By the time we finished the food and the game, it was already 11PM hahaha! we were there since 3PM and ended up until 11PM, it’s a total 8 hours! just like a full time job that requires 40 hours a week which is 8 hours a day! hahaha #mindblown!

Thank you Thorben and Marina for your complete board game collections, brownies, snacks aka fruits, chocolates #drooolllingggg 😉 and also Aggy, Brendan and John that helped me through the game and “patiently” explaining the game rules 😉

#Back to work before another holiday again! haha Ciaooooo

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Rich’s Mansion

Everyone that I know from the Hungover Games had been to Rich’s home while me…I’ve never been there! WHAAATTTTT! *mindblown
Up until on Saturday, while we were having dinner at Thorben’s, Rich asked me what will I do on Sunday? He said he’s having a happy hour party at his home and I was over the joy to finally able to see his home haha. Yves was there and he said “woww Marlyn Calm down” hahaha waitttt Guys the reason why I was over the joy was because I always heard sth bizzare about Rich’s Apartment hahaha the decoration and stuff, his collection of 150 bottles of vodka and the list goes on and on and on and I was super curious to check it out 😉

There you go the F(S)UNDAY poster, it is very very typical Rich to make poster of his own event, like soooo TOTAL, I like it!

Thorben, Aggy and I, we came together to Rich’s home. They’ve been there before but still couldn’t find the right building at the first attempt haha and when we finally there and the door opened it was EPIC!

He indeed has his own mini bar with around 150 bottles of drink, it was a bloody marry night and he brought it directly from USA unfortunately Im not a fan of bloody marry therefore our lovely bartender Luis made me another drink that involves proseco, campari…right? and sth orange-ish kind of things and it was gooooodddd!
I asked Rich to give me a tour of his mansion, saw the bar I mean its hard to miss it when it was directly at the entrance haha living room, guest bedroom and guest bathroom that you might need to change the lamp, main bedroom that somehow become the place where all of us playing mario kart hahaha

and NO dining table everyone hahaha 😉

We played game in the living room, Brendan explained the game called Jungle Speed where we need to take the stick if we had the same card, Uliana was very good at this game, she was so calm and so concentrated, this game is too much for me I cant control myself of not screaming while I’m taking the stick.. well on my defense, I need to match myself with the game name right? “Jungle” haha and Uliana match herself with the second name which is “speed”. Nicolas and Rodion had to remind me that this is a card game not a screaming game #facepalm.

Moving on to the next game, we wanted to play another card game named Saboteur, Thorben was reading the instruction but somehow it was printed weirdly so he kept flipping it up till the point where Rich asked “what are you doing? cleaning up your hand or what? hahaha the instruction will not change no matter how many times you flip it” ahahaha then he gave the instruction to me and indeed it was such a weird printed way.

Therefore we did another game that does not require highly concentration at all, Alice game! 😉 and then followed by another “overthinking” 1up 1down, two up and two down game #very very facepalm emoji please hahaha
We also did the meme’s game but I was tired of sitting so I moved to the main bedroom to join Freddoy and Uliana played mario kart.

Honestly, Sorry no offense, I was never liked Mario Kart! I mean, my mario generation was very much better, Super Mario Bross that I played in Nintendo! therefore I was always the last one among the 4 of us huhuh T.T When I was playing somehow a scene from TAKEN 1 happened!

I was the one that got taken by Rich by pulling my leg to the ground ahahaha and he said “Marlyn, its time, leave the game it doesnt matter come on come on it has to be now!”

I was like what the HELL is going on?! and then he took me to the guest room with Nicolas, Boramy and Thorben already there and he said “you need to touch all of us” put your legs, hands, anything you just need to be able to touch all of us! Boramy said “She can do split, it will be easy for her to positioned herself” Feeling so bizzare, I kept raising each other legs to see which one is which and positioned myself so that I was able to touch everybody. I still not understand why do I need to touch everybody but yeah I did it anyway and then we watched such a very lovely video <3 but somehow we missed Dasha! so I need to grabbed her and told her the same things but then Uliana came and the rules still the same, followed by Aggy, Luis and Ben! hahaha at this point Nicolas run away already 😉 and here we are
It was a super fun party to kick out year 2019, not to forget the muffin and bread that Uliana baked wogghhh so good! the guacamole, Thorben’s leftover dinner that Boramy took and I ate the pork neck 😉 , the chocolate candy that Luis hide it so that I didn’t see it but I did see that HA! andddd the taco bell deliveryyyy! wohoooo oh also the Ayi that kept cleaning all the things 😉 Also (how many also already haha) Rodion for trying to re-make the taken scene again while I was watching Lars’ played the mario kart haha and I appreciate your defense / compliments by saying “She was on the game, not winning or not a good player but at least she was on it and Rich just pulled her legs” hahaha

Thank you Rich for having me at your home, it was a very fun night with all the games and the rules that you made haha I genuinely cannot imagine what my life in Shanghai without all of you, thank you for choosing me to be your friend among any other people that you could choose <3 lots of loveesssssss kisses and huggssss from me XOXO

The Mansion’s Owner

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The Blue and White VIPs

It all started when Siti (the star of one food app) asked me if I want to go to an event called Zaku Night.

The location was at M1NT, I am not a fan of night club so when I first saw M1NT I was a bit skeptical but yeah I clicked on the link and read the descriptions and find out that it was quiet interesting so I signed up 😉

Up until the moment I signed up, I only knew Zaku is Teru’s event, Teru is Eiman’s roommate (now become ex roomate because he moved out haha) that we knew and he was the organizer for this event so yeah I came.

The attendance list was Siti, Julia, Eiman, Phil, Gordy, no Thorben and no Aggy hahahaha 😉
From the description, I know that there will be free ice cream, free soft cake or whatev its called and some foods and drinks. Thats enough to convinced me to go 🙂

So here we are, at Zaku Event!
They gave us this bracelet and coupon to use for foods wohooo free food on a rainy Friday, what more can I ask.
We had the soft cake and then ice cream and the third icon was nails? I mean… what is the connection between ice cream, soft cake and nails? hmmm idk somebody please explain! haha

The decoration was nice actually, the color was dominated by blue and white, I mean it has to be match with Zaku’s logo right hahaha Thanks to Siti that quote “I was here since 4PM helping them with ALL of this” yeah sure M1NT only has chandelier before you came right? hahaha

Then here is the main star of the night, Teru!

Not sure if 11th Jan was the first day that Steve Jobs launched apple back then…hmmmm need to check it out, but this year 11th Jan marked the first anniversary of Zaku zaku! wooooo *clap clap clap

With this first anniversary they also announced their new menu which is Zaku Latte, with the caption of BEST MILK EVER! from Hokkaido with the best cow ever! hahaha

This is the situation during the event, I mean its a fun event, Eiman! Idk why you looked so serious, this is not in class where you need to answer teacher’s question and got additional points hahaha

The food on there was great but not as much as its written on the descriptions I guess….or maybe there was too many people and they grabbed the food faster than us pfffff therefore we were hungry and we went to Xinwang restaurant just 30mins before the business hour closed, idk is it the people power that made them still let us in very late or what haha.

We were on the second floor with a small table for 10people haha! and Eiman ordered the food like a boss.
E: 我要这个咖喱something something (pointing at the picture)
XW:几分?
E:随便.
What is 随便?hahaha don’t order too much! we had 3 portion of ducks I guess and then all other food was doubled portion, we had 12 dishes in total. Surprisingly, we kind of finished it all.

During the dinner we discussed about Zaku’s event and how everybody on the table was invited as Teru’s VIP list hahaha *facepalm. It does feel very special when we can share this VIP list together, doesn’t it? #should be a rhetorical question, not sarcasm 😉

But at least in this dinner I gotta met the awesome crew like:
1. Nick, who apprently quiet upset that Zaku Latte is the new product other than Zaku Americano but hey you gotta taste the best MILK ever for once right haha otherwise you really missed something in life haha
2. TeeJ, the Korean guy that was carrying his spicy sauce around and for the sake of Asian’s I also carry my spicy sauce around sometime lets have spicy sauce battle later on hahaha. Special thanks to not choose fast food chains restaurant such as hahaha you named it.
3. Ken, from Japan that insisted we ordered too much food and wanted to cut down all the food to one portion only hahaha thanks God we didnt do that otherwise it wont be enough
4. A very cute husband and wife Vincent and Sonia that apparently came back to China (according to Eiman) too f$@!ing soon 🙂

Phil we missed you on the dinner!

Even though none of us won the lucky draw of free dessert for 365 days but we all know Teru and we made it to his VIP list (wonder if the VIP list does exist when everyone was on the list hahaha) then why dont we just came to Zaku’s shop and asked for it haha use the People’s Power one more time 🙂

Above all Congratz to Zaku Zaku for having their anniversary and thanks for having us there!

PS: pics was taken by the link that Teru’s shared and camera 360 from TeeJ.

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The Sequel of Source Code

And here the sequel of source code begin….

Featuring Marlyn, Elle, Gordy and Wesley

Hahaha! Started at Zeitgeist during the kick off of Christkindlmarkt aka Christmas Market.

We were suppose to meet at 6:30 but me and Gordy arrived earlier at Zeitgeist due to the reason I was super hungry before the xmas market and at the market it will only be snacks instead of proper food so we had proper dinner first before we swayed to the backyard for the Gluhwein 😉 Gordy already had 2 cups of gluhwein on the restaurant, I just had Schnitzels and the gluhwein will be on the market. The market was nice and surprisingly full for the first day…well maybe because it was on Friday, it was hard to walk without spilling your gluhwein no matter how careful you are, you just can’t haha

Gordy was the one that super prepared in terms of thematic sweater, it’s still the 30th November but he already wear a xmas sweater with a xmas tree on it and it is so match with the real/fake xmas tree in the middle of the market haha. Many people took selfie with him just because of his sweater, I really think it’s a good investment to buy that sweater haha 😉

In the market, they have chicken something, pepito pancakes, bratwurst and friends and honestly speaking I had my gluhwein so I need to take off my glasses to drink it otherwise it would be dewy, so I can’t see anything clear about what kind of food there haha I just know there was also some stalls that selling earing, candle, nuts and etc etc. Elle was so persistent on having a pretzels and then at some point she saw a kid holding pretzel walked passed by and without any excuse me or so on she just said (read: a bit scream) “where did they get the pretzels?” and to her surprised the kid replied “it’s from the restaurant” and Elle said to me “I didn’t expect that the kid would actually reply” hahaha Wesley got his chicken something but I don’t know what was going on with him, we went to the chicken stall, he looked at it and somehow we walked all the opposite way to the other side to see some skewers and Wesley said “I want a chicken” and I said “You mean the chicken on the other side?” and he said yes, so we have to walked all the way back there, carrying our gluhwein that was already spilled anywhere just so that he can get his food *facepalm.

Gordy met many of his friends there, but me and Elle also saw a very interesting guy that looks like an assassin! like in every movie kind of assassin, sleak hair with a very clear hairline, sharp eyes it’s very like wow! I need to look up for a sniper or something because they must have a code between each other…and the code was…. a rose!

OMG we were so nervous what can we do with the rose, so we put it on the nutcracker statue so Elle should be undetectable by the assassin 😉 hahaha *fiuh just save the day ahahaha, we lost the assassin. That’s need a cheers!

At some point, we somehow lost Gordy, well….not lost but he was talking to his friends so the three of us were walked around and waited for the food and while we finished, we came back to where he supposed to be which is next to the tree but he wasn’t there! But yeah we couldn’t lost him anyway so we tried to take a selfie with the tree, and then here he is! the blurry guy on the background, while they have “where’s Waldy?” we have “where’s Gordy?” hahaa

Elle got her food, Wesley already finished and now it was Gordy who still wants to eat something so he also ordered the same thing as Elle if I remember it correctly. While waiting for the food, they put a Christmas songs or a song that all of us know so we talked about songs quiet a lot but I don’t know why they can’t catch the song that I sang pffff guys 🙁 ahaha #begging me for mercy, yeah yeah yeah

While it was about 10PM, they already closed down the market, they stopped the music even earlier so that we have no other options other than to leave. Elle and Wesley got a day trip the next day to somewhere in Suzhou where I don’t even think they know either hahaha.

But as the night goes by, the code about the assassin getting more and more clear, so who is this? What I know from all the movie I watched, the characteristic of an assassin should be:

  1. Very careful,
  2. Isolated,
  3. Always reveals incomplete clue.
  4. (Read: Not always) mostly guy.

And who that can fit to those three (or maybe four) basic categories?!?!

I mean, Gordy can’t be because he’s not careful at all as he spilled the gluhwein the most, clearly not isolated especially with his sweater where he became the attraction of the xmas market. So crossed him out, it means only leave to Wesley! *shocked face…..

Verdict 1: Wesley did very careful on the market, he paid attention to every gluhwein that he might spill to his shoes! he doesn’t want any spot on his shirts or shoes.

Verdict 2: Speaking of isolated….well, sometimes picture speaks thousand words 😉 He doesn’t want to eat around people!

Verdict 3: Another proof that pictures speaks thousand words… well, maybe in this picture, it will only speaks few words.

Unfinished line!

Me and Gordy was waiting the next message from Wesley but it was never came!! *facepalm

By this so called failed detective analysis, the assassin might be ehmmm ehmmm again, I’m not gonna say the brand ahahaha but in the end everything went safe and sound, no one get hurt 😉 #this the season to be jolly lalaalalalalallala

As I won’t see you for this Xmas sooo…for now….happy early Christmas then! I’ll see you in year 2019!! HO HO HO!

Have a good holiday guys!!!

 

 

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The Mathematical Formula of Raining

Me and Miguel supposed to run on West Bund on Thursday, be in mind that it’s ON Thursday, not EVERY Thursday haha we are not so dedicated in running, we just run because we realized that we need to do a bit of sports. Miguel play archery more than I do so with this running exercise that we are planning to do “every two weeks” it should be enough exercise already haha. It seems only theory to do run every two weeks 😉 however we were trying to be discipline, but….. there will always be an exceptional “but” hahaha 🙂 yesterday both me and Miguel has a bit issue with our knee….however, for the sake of our own commitment we still trying to keep our running plan untilllll!!! the Universe has spoken! hahaha it was rain yesterday hahaha! sooo we took it as the Universe way to protect our knee from getting injured as we both have archery on Sunday 😉 hahaha

So, we need other plan! which is tararaarammmm! Miguel always talked that his fav bread place is Pain Chaud and I’ve never try it before so I suggested him that we go there. And somehow I remembered that the meaning of Pain Chaud was “Fat Uncle” so I typed “Let’s go to the fat uncle” and Im afraid that he didn’t get it, so I said “The meaning of Pain Chaud is Fat Uncle, right?” and he said “No, it’s actually a hot bread” and I was like whaatttt how come I remember it so wrong! not that I never remember anything wrong in my life ever, but this one is wayyyy too far.

And turns out he did say the way to pronounce it is similar to pronounce fat uncle in Chinese which is 胖叔 (Pang Shu) hahaha and I couldn’t help my self to crack laughing when I realize it 😀 This was very funny and seriously I cannot hold it anymore but I can’t be the one in the office that suddenly laughing because of 胖叔 so I need to excuse myself to the bathroom just for laughing hahaha *face palm. Miguel was also giggling and he was so exposed so he cannot hide anywhere haha.

And after I finally able to calm down which is took a lot of time, he started again with typing 胖叔 and even when I’m writing this I still find it funny in some way hahaha 🙂

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And then there’s a time when we met at IAPM and we went to YongKang Road to see the 胖叔.

But then I realized that it’s not the same 胖叔 as I want, because I want to go to bigger and fatter 胖叔 but it was already sometime close to 8 and the 胖叔 need to rest and it will close like 9ish maybe?! and 胖叔 is not a place for dinner as it’s only bread and cakes. So we decided to go somewhere else and then came back to 胖叔, after a 10 attempts of different restaurant, we ended up to gave up the idea of 胖叔  hahahaha I thought of Thorben’s place though because he always have food *wink wink 😉 but in the end we go to Beef & Liberty.

In this Beef & Liberty, I saw my long time friend that I haven’t met, so I said to Miguel that I want to say hi to my friend, and I did came to Julia to say hi and to my surprise Julia said:

J: “There is Agnes there”

M: “Who’s Agnes?”

And then Agnes is the one and only AGGY!! hahaha and I brought her to Miguel and he said “Is this your friend? I also know her” ahahha

What a random day from planning to run but then the Universe has spoken to no 胖叔 and yes to burger. This is a good mathematical formula then haha

Raining = No Running + No 胖叔 + Yes to Burger 😉

Raining = (-) Running + (-) 胖叔 + (+) Burger

Raining = (-) + (-) + (+)

Raining = (+) + (+) = Double Positive!

Me and Aggy doesn’t want Thorben to be left out so we sent the picture to him so he didn’t missed out the news hihihi and I’ve told him that I thought about his place and he said “But I’m not a restaurant” ahahaha *face palm. And another good news is Miguel will be neighbor with Thorben and he has a piano! so Steak at Thorben’s and piano at Miguel’s haha perfecto! wohoooooo

Btw people, me and Miguel really did run before, not so dedicated but at least we’ve done something sporty hahaha.

And if the Universe let us to run again, we will! haha *determined face! (just imagine that) 😀

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Daddy’s Rules Number 1

“You can’t never be the last, this will be too painful to me, in everything you do you have to be at least second from the last, then I will be OK”

Yeap that’s my dad’s number one rule, when I was still an elementary students, junior high school and high school students every year my father always asked me “are you the smallest one in class?” and my annual task is to find somebody that is smaller than me, we don’t care if that someone will be taller than me next year but at least at that moment I’m not the last one, he said if I’m the last one then I’m in danger. If I had a bad grades, he always ask “is there someone that is worse than your score?” and of course there will always be someonesssssss (with the s which means its plural haha) and anyway with this rule I carry on with my life 🙂 my “I can’t be the last” attitude haha!

I think it was Aggy that having an idea to do Camel Pop Quiz on Tuesday and I was available to do that on Tuesday and so were Thorben. The Quiz starts at 8PM, Thorben had company dinner before so he might arrives late, I asked Miguel, David, Gordy, Andy, Yves, Thorben texted Rich but everyone couldn’t make it, including! the pioneer! AGGY! phewww you gotta organize your schedule because you were the one that always go to Camel, we need your help! But in the end, Stefan (which Thorben claimed really good at music and movie) came and also James from UK. And Thorben arrived at Camel way early that the quiz and I arrived exactly 8PM German Time.

At first, I thought the pop quiz will be like in the old broker way like the DJ asked question and we need to answer it as fast as we can like raising up our hand or ring a bell etc haha but turns out we need to write the answer on the paper quiz which gives us more time to think about it.

We picked up a name, Thorben said we will be so bad Marlyn, we only two people, lets write our group name “No Name, No Shame” so if we lose we won’t be so embarrassed anyway (German mentality that always prepare anywhere anytime, he even knows before the quiz starts that we will lose haha! do I look like someone that has no knowledge?!?! haha)

The very first question on the camel and the one that I know the answer was:

I knew it was INDIA! Because both my sister and me are the supporter of LGBT and she posted it on her IG that India finally legalize same sex marriage and that’s actually how I know it. And!! Thorben didn’t know about it! Booyah! I suddenly full of knowledge, and I’m quiet happy that I can answer it, I’m ready to go home hahaha!

But then it’s just go went all the way down, giving all the credits to Thorben haha! But at least I know the first one yo! And because that Tuesday was 11th September, so they asked the history about 911, like how many hijackers on the plane- which is 13, how many people died, what was the name of the attackers etc.

And then the pyramid questions came like:

name 6 largest cities in Germany which is easy because we have Thorben and Stefan, and then name 5 personnel of one direction which is easy because we have the UK representatives-James and MOI obviously! haha. And getting more serious, name 4 countries that start with D but the democrats doesn’t count I guess or sth like that we only knew 3-Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, and we put…. Deutschland! haha technically it wasn’t wrong people! And….I was so sure that Indonesia was one of the largest producers of Brazil nuts, we have a lot of fertile soil….so why can’t we be one of the producers? see the logic… haha!

And there was 4 pictures of men and we have to write down who are they and what was the connection. But during this time, Stefan’s mind occupied by something else which is the fact that we can’t take Didi taxi anymore from 11PM and he couldn’t take his mind off it….

And the questions regarding the second most spoken language in some countries for 10 times and Stefan got so bored, he came back to the Didi’s driver issue. What is the second most spoken language in Australia? I was so sure it was Indonesian because they taught Indonesian language in schools and there were many Indonesian stays there, but turns out I was wrong, it’s mandarin.

The first page of the paper is done, we have to exchange it with the others and!! tararammm this is our score!

I was sooooo proud when I see the score! haha I’m not the last! at least the way the DJ put our group name was on the second from the last 🙂

And there here we continues, with Stefan’s area of expertise! MOVIES! but it was the movies that Burt Reynolds played, it was hard! haha. We need help from Rich and he knew the answer! awesome! apparently it was too late for us to write it down.

And somehow out of nowhere (well, we know where you suddenly got the “inspiration”) Stefan and James “knew” 2 of his movies title.

 

And then the music section came! we were so sucks at it, we (well, I guess it more Stefan’s) only knew one which is from The Beatles, he said it the title was “Shake It Up” and somehow James got “inspiration” to change it into “Twist and Shout” and I like that song sooo much! I was wondering why I never heard my dad played that song before….hmmm father please!

And the era of 1991 music arrived! I knew one which is “More Than Words” but I knew it from Westlife instead from Extreme haha!

And here was our results:

We WERE NOT THE LAST! Gosh, I’m so proud of myself that I could fulfill my dad’s number one rule! We did everything we could just to fulfill your requirements dad!

I think we can go to the next pop quiz, but we will recruit more people to join haha! But maybe the next pop quiz will happen somewhere by the end of October or maybe even November, let’s see if we can still be obedience to my father’s rule or not ;p

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No Electricity? NO MORE!

At first, the very first morning when we hop on to our bus, our tour guide said that there is a MUST VISIT shop that we have to go and there is a MUST ITEM that we need to buy blablabla I was already like “arrghh this could be something unnecessary” and we went to the bamboo, silver, coal kind of store. And of course the sales woman introduce to us the different kind of items, daily used item.

She said that there is two types of coal like the one that has a really high energy and low energy (like the BBQ coal kind of type) and she also tested it with a machine which I don’t really pay attention because why would I have a coal on my home to keep the energy?! I already have enough of energy within me so I don’t need any additional energy.

Besides the coal, they explained the magic bamboo stuff on the daily usage, such as bamboo water bottle that can change the PH of water into the healthier one, she demonstrated that our drinking water was not healthy (which I also don’t care because for almost 27 years of my life I’ve been drinking bad water and I’m still alive so yeah! booyah! I ain’t buying that)

And then the towel for hair that absorb water within seconds so my hair can dry easily which is interesting btw and I bought that! hahahaha. Moving on to the cream that could be use as a glass cleaner for car, bathroom anything anywhere that if you put it on the glass car and then you drive the car but it’s raining, the water will directly drop, of course there is a waiver function on cars but it’s different you don’t need to wipe it with the waiver it will just fall off directly. Next is the chop board that can hold a very heavy meat almost like 75kg (because this is the weight of the tour guide and he stand on the chopboard and it didn’t break) but who would put a 75kg meat on the chopboard?! Scarf with many tutorial on how to use it, which there’s also many people on youtube channel that does that hahaha but honestly the scarf is pretty unique and soft as it’s made out of bamboo so the material is really different.

But then, the most interesting item was!!!!! are you ready??? drumroll pleaseee! dum dum dum dum…. I called it:

EMERGENCY UNDERWEAR!

She said it has some silver and coal on the underwear, well I don’t really get it they said it’s good for the health, anyway I see it on the other way. Watch what is the 功能 of this emergency underwear and why I called it likewise.

And the most amazing is they also have SGS certificate! I mean as someone that doing sourcing the certificate from SGS is pretty hard to get and it’s the most reliable testing institution!

Pretty amazing yah?! So I think if we have this kind of underwear we don’t need to worry about suddenly electric shut off at our home because HAA! Just take this underwear and a rechargeable light bulb and VOILA! electricity 来了 🙂

 

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Definitely Wrong Benchmark

Me and my mom is in Hainan now! Tadaamm…

My mom said that Hainan do a lot of promotion in Indonesia, like cheap tour and also we don’t need a visa to go there which is convenient, but the deal is my mom cannot extend her stay at Hainan or at China. So this tour was for 5 days and 4 night and I took my holiday to meet her in Hainan as well as I also never been there. The main point is mainly to meet my mom, I’m not really interested in Hainan at the first time…untilll! this this place enlightened me for a “wrong benchmark” that I took haha.

We are now on our second day here, and it’s pretty impressive, the sky is sooo clear and sooo blue, the weather is the same as Shanghai I guess which is hot…haha…

We went to a “must visit government bamboo shop” as what the tour guide called, usually I don’t like when the tour guide planned to go to some kind of shopping place but actually this bamboo place was not bad at all, I will explain on my next blog ahahaha stay tuned readers 🙂

And we went to a deer place, I have no idea why the hell it’s called a deer place when we can’t even see the deer, oh! yes we could see a deer statue ahaha, but the view in this place is nice, and of course I mean the dear statue is nice it’s looks like a deer.

We went up to the view point where we can see the Dubai made in China building, which is shorter like waaaayyyy shorter hihihi  but instead of Dubai which is 1 very tall building, they have 5 cute short building look like Dubai-ish.

Both me and my mom really likes to watch a show, circus show like ERA in Shanghai and that kind of things. And in Hainan, they have 2 shows, one is Las Vegas Show where it was more like separates shows first is they do some dance, acrobats and magic. The second one was 三亚千古情, the translation will be Romance Park which not me the one who translate it, but this is how its written everywhere…. Both of the shows last for 60-70 mins, but on the second show at least they have only one story while on the first show they have separated acts.

Both of the shows we liked it a lot, but what is the most impressive for me from the Las Vegas shows was the last acrobats which is two men that seems boneless, but they are full of muscles.. yeasss biatchhh! While me and my mom watched the show, our feet was already feels so weak because how could they do that to their bones?!?!

And then tonight, the story from this Romance Park is something about romance duhhh! obviously! haha but also they have another boneless acts. I was wearing my glasses but I couldn’t see of where is the rope or something, I mean how can they bend their body like that!!!! there must be some very thin rope..or a magic shoes….but they moved their legs….. hmmmm… Please be assured that it’s not that I’m jealous because I can’t do it but I was just amazed by HOW HOW HOW!

Definitely they trained since they were kid, and me! what I can do is….. I can only do split and bridge and I already felt that I’m on top of the world in terms of flexibility but turns out I’m on top of nothing compare to this acrobats. Well, it’s simply because I choose the wrong benchmark! haha I choose Thorben and Stefan as my benchmark 🙂 They are pretty shocked that I can do split without warming up in front of them, while Thorben he can do 80% of split but Stefan…he can do like 0% or even – hahaha. John and Aggy was there too and they also remembered that I can do split directly.

Well this Stefan he is not archery guy he is a friend of Thorben…which… he has another 3 guys also with the same name as him at his office (yes! I paid attention to your story! including the story that somebody also have the same name with the same date of birth like you… which Leyfa thought maybe someone stole your identity while me… I don’t think so somebody would steal your identity haha! I mean why would them steal…yours? haha! #notjoking)

Anyway, at least I am still able to do split and bridge which is quiet OK but yeah definitely not count as flexible anymore especially after I see the shows performance and my conclusion is I should not take Thorben and Stefan as my flexibility benchmark hahaha!

aannddd Goodnight from 三亚果喜大酒店！Marlyn’s OUT! for now only 🙂