HAPPY NEW YEAR!

So, for my New Years in China I went to house party at a foreigner's house. It was pretty sweet, met lots more people, drank some cheap knock-off beer, attempted to sing along with the Chinese performer at the countdown concert (on tv), and played the most international game of Kings (Sociables) ever.

I spent the day in the city after having far too little sleep. I went back to the DVD store owned by the Chinese Mafia - very friendly people, by the way - where I bought the first four seasons of Nip/Tuck and a couple of movies. I also spent a few minutes recommending Johnny Depp movies to some more foreigners.

It's like a total floodgate of foreigners, now. I swear, I think they're stalking me. I'm gonna be so sick of them soon that I'll choose to lock myself in my room with all my pirated DVDs bought from the Mafia, I'll have my Tweety Bird slippers on, and be huddled under my pretty duvet eating superhero cookies.

Later in the afternoon I saw a movie in the cinema called The Warlords. It was entirely in Chinese with Chinese subtitles, so I couldn't tell you if the plot was any good, or if the actors were too forced. I can, however, tell you that it was cinematically beautiful and hands down the most gory war movie I personally have ever seen. So, y'know, if ya like blood and guts and Chinese men screaming at the top of their lungs go see it!

Afterwards, we did some more shopping where I bought a jacket, a sweater-thing, and 2 scarves. We then went to McDonalds where I somehow accidently ordered two of almost everything: one large fries and one small fries; one large cola and one small cola; and only one chicken burger. I have absolutely no clue at all how that happened.

Eugh, but it is the hardest and most self-esteem damaging thing: shopping in China. As a foreigner anyway. My boobs are absolutely ginormous out here. I feel like Pamela Anderson but without the multiple marriages and slutty ho reputation. And this is just for buying tops, I'm gonna put off buying pants for as long as I can as there is no way I'll be able to fit my derriere into pants made with Chinese people in mind.

So I did some comparison shopping, just to further rub in your face how cheap China is. In total, my day's purchases included the following:

• Whale Rider - Special Edition
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Special Edition
• Hard Candy
• Season 1-4 of Nip/Tuck
• A heavy wool jacket from Nimsense (I think)
• A cotton sweater-thing from South Beach
• A wool scarf
• An acrylic scarf
• McDonalds meal

For all of the above I paid 728RMB. Or, to put it in perspective, $99.43CAD. Ooh yeah, baby! For the DVDs alone it would have cost me $253.18 on Amazon.ca.

Don't you hate me just a little bit right now?