Apres-Birthday
How wonderful! Just when I was thinking my distance from home, coupled with my relative newness over here in Shanghai, would result in a really sucky birthday, friends from afar and friends nearby came through to make this among my best birthdays yet. Again, thank you for all the wonderful birthday wishes over email...
On Saturday night my friend Ariel Gauthier threw together a barbeque in my honour (and also to show off his new apartment/patio/barbeque to some people who hadn't seen any of those yet). In the end, 25 people showed up, some from other friend groups. Also cool was that there were 2 other people who were celebrating their birthdays! So it was a big birthday vibe that night! After finally eating at around 11 pm (coordinating barbeque activities proved challenging), we all went out to two nightclubs - VIP (big and empty, but the DJ was cool) and then later to Dragon (tiny, packed, you could barely move, and the DJ was even better)... I finally got home at 6 am. Pretty successful evening, if you ask me :-)
Another interesting development: I've hooked up with two guys (Dave and Derek) who are renting a very large penthouse near my hotel. They have invited me to join them as a roomate and (if there are no problems with Ubisoft, since they are paying for my rent in Shanghai) I'm pretty sure I'm going to move there. The place is _HUGE_: 3 floors, including a large patio on the top floor, large solarium/greenhouse (which unintentionally turns into a sauna during summer months) next to the patio, 4 bathrooms, many rooms, large open design, slightly outdated, yet reasonably comfortable, furniture... Dave and Derek are super cool/nice guys. And to top it all off, Dave is a house DJ! So musical tastes are in line as well. Can't think of a better switch from my cold, impersonal, lonely hotel room, to live with 2 coolio guys in a swank penthouse suite.
Not sure when I'll move. Hopefully this week sometime.
Well, time to leave work! Cheers...
How wonderful! Just when I was thinking my distance from home, coupled with my relative newness over here in Shanghai, would result in a really sucky birthday, friends from afar and friends nearby came through to make this among my best birthdays yet. Again, thank you for all the wonderful birthday wishes over email...
On Saturday night my friend Ariel Gauthier threw together a barbeque in my honour (and also to show off his new apartment/patio/barbeque to some people who hadn't seen any of those yet). In the end, 25 people showed up, some from other friend groups. Also cool was that there were 2 other people who were celebrating their birthdays! So it was a big birthday vibe that night! After finally eating at around 11 pm (coordinating barbeque activities proved challenging), we all went out to two nightclubs - VIP (big and empty, but the DJ was cool) and then later to Dragon (tiny, packed, you could barely move, and the DJ was even better)... I finally got home at 6 am. Pretty successful evening, if you ask me :-)
Another interesting development: I've hooked up with two guys (Dave and Derek) who are renting a very large penthouse near my hotel. They have invited me to join them as a roomate and (if there are no problems with Ubisoft, since they are paying for my rent in Shanghai) I'm pretty sure I'm going to move there. The place is _HUGE_: 3 floors, including a large patio on the top floor, large solarium/greenhouse (which unintentionally turns into a sauna during summer months) next to the patio, 4 bathrooms, many rooms, large open design, slightly outdated, yet reasonably comfortable, furniture... Dave and Derek are super cool/nice guys. And to top it all off, Dave is a house DJ! So musical tastes are in line as well. Can't think of a better switch from my cold, impersonal, lonely hotel room, to live with 2 coolio guys in a swank penthouse suite.
Not sure when I'll move. Hopefully this week sometime.
Well, time to leave work! Cheers...
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