All of a sudden, OMG I MISS SHANGHAI SO MUCH.

In other words, I am hungry and I can't fling a sweater on, shuffle into my flipflops and make a mad dash across the road to get freaking delicious dumplings from Family Mart. O to live alone, in a foreign land once more.

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Places I've been in 2012 ( Read more... )

CRYPTIC EMO WARNING ( Read more... )

So here I am once again, at Muses Cafe, my favorite cafe in Shanghai, along my favorite Shaanxi South Road, trying to squeeze in one more slice of cake before I have to go. Did almost everything I wanted to in five hours and on a shoestring budget - strolled around Xintiandi, remembering all the brunches, took my long-lost love 10号线 back to ( Read more... )

It's my last night in Shanghai. I've called this place home for the past five months, and it feels super surreal that I'm leaving in a matter of hours and cannot traipse down to Wujiaochang or Xintiandi or the French Concession as and when I like any more. Excited about going home, but terrified of the journey to the airport - Xuhui to Hongqiao, ( Read more... )

Oh no - the countdowny emo-ness of leaving in slightly more than two weeks is settling in. Very soon, I'd be done with H&H - the only place that has kept me from ballooning into an obese pile of lard in the xiaolongbao-filled heaven that is Shanghai; very soon I'd be spending my last night in my dorm which right now is more familiar to me after ( Read more... )

FREEDOM IN THREE HOURS' TIME

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多半个小时就要开始考试了，虽然是开卷考，但还超级紧张！

我是个很喜欢仪式的人，所以还是要说：没能力的我，付出最好的精力就足够了！

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Thoroughly unproductive bout of pretend-study; I have spent more time twirling my leg hair and mouthing wordlessly to the angmoh outside the window trying to park his bicycle. Bumped into a Singaporean woman with her year-and-a-half-old daughter, who desperately wanted to try her black coffee, which totally reminded me of Sharrelle :(. Decor is ( Read more... )

The panic comes in the middle of the night, or in the other pockets of lonely unoccupied silence, when you awaken in the helplessness of there being nothing you need to do, when the messy unregulated uncontrollable claustrophobia of life, of time wasted and money spent, of things left undone, of love lost and unappreciated, close in upon you, and ( Read more... )