Birthday

Happy 21st tooo meeeeee!
It wasn't as crazy as some 21st go, but for my 70 year old soul, it was fairly wild. 白酒（Baijiu）does that...Can you say 蒙古王(Mongolian King)?

It started off pretty bad, horrible BCG interview and all, but then I ended up skyping with lots of friends including my lovely suite, Megan, and mom, and that made me feel better. Later, I went to Eyeglass City and got a full pair of glasses (eye exam, frame, and lens) for less than $30. Then I went to this ridiculous second-hand good/handicrafts market/sprawl at Panjiayuan, where I got ended up buying some 粮票 (food currency issued before China had real money, back in the days of regulated markets) from the 70s and 80s. I've never seen them before, but they are pretty nifty!

And then! I had dinner with a bunch of Yalies studying in Beijing, and when I went back to my dormitory, my good friends from ACC threw me a partttyyyy! :) For those of you who are DYING to know, the cake was chocolate. haha. Got pretty tired though because I had been walking around all day and had woken up at 4:30. Nevertheless, we still went clubbing. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) due to the high volume of traffic at Propaganda that night, we ended up leaving maybe less than 2 hrs later.


Man with taxidermy on bicycle


798esque miniture ceramic statues