No, it's in a hotel and it looks exactly like in the pictures. The hotel had the same theme going on, with purples and whites.flowersofnight wrote:LOL it's in the Red Moon? Did you go to the Chinese food place in there?
... Because I have, and let me tell you, it was garbage XD
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LOOK AT THOSE FACES.
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WO DE PENGYOUS.
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Before my dad left for Peru, he picked up a DVD of my elementary school's graduation ceremony. There's a group picture of all of us on it. He said, "You wish that people would always stay the way they are in pictures, right?"
Wow, that's right.
This is why I'm glad I asked Kevin to take pictures of us at the hotel, so I can remember that things actually happened! When I see pictures though, it all seems so far away. Not in terms of time, but the distance, the lifestyle, the mindset, the people, everything. I still find it hard to believe that was my life since it's almost completely different now. I'm not even sure what would happen when I return to China. Would I feel just as excited? Would I be overcome by nostalgia? Would it be great even without wonderful people as my constant companions? I don't know. It'll never be the same and China is always changing, so I have to get that expectation out of my head.
We were talking about China constantly changing, and someone said they don't have any attachment to the new buildings. That's not my opinion, haha! The World Financial Center, which the Park Hyatt is in, I'm definitely attached to it. Although it's not even that "new." Anyway, we would call it the "bottle opener" because of its shape. Then we were allowed to explore the hotel after the brunch and we were let loose to do whatever we want. So I took pictures of everything, served myself some milk, spoke to Strickland, walked around, explored the bathrooms with Laura and Ting Ting, walked around, etc. We were so excited!
I sat down on a bench with Laura and we talked. She said she loved my outfit, and I said thanks, my dad bought me the jacket and the shoes, and I got the dress with my mom. The necklace and bag I bought myself. Laura said that's interesting, people don't usually shop with their dads. I remembered stressing out right before I left, skyping my mom, "MOM, which necklace goes with my outfit?!" I had no idea how great that day would be.
Actually, I'm attached to a lot of the new buildings, now that I think of it. The hotels, malls, bars, etc. It's not even that I've been inside of all of them, but because of their proximity to where things happened, being part of the backdrop.
I wish I had a dance partner at Jessica's party though, haha. I was like, "Eep, everyone gets tired easily!" At the same time, I'm sort of glad Jessica didn't invite Strickland. I never thought of anyone as genuinely sexy before him though, ahem. I rarely describe people that way since I don't think of that stuff. One time we were karaoke-ing, and he got up to sing, and then started dancing in a sexy way for me, and I died. I'm glad I recorded 10 seconds of it and me going, "Oh my God!"
One of those times I rolled my eyes at Rachel, we were sitting on the third floor lounge. I was sitting with Kevin on the couch. Rachel said something nerdy, so I called her a nerd, rolling my eyes. She said, "Did you just roll your eyes at me, Adela? " and Strickland looked up and went Christian Grey on me. I kind of died and thought, "OK, did anyone else hear that??" All I could do was blush and say, "Strickland!!"
My love's a revolver, my sex is a killer, do you want to die happy, do you want to die happy *dances*. TOTALLY addicted to this song.
Jessica said it was her first really good time in a while, and I think the same! She said the semester has been "blah," stressful, crashing. I know, it's been weird, but her party was really great. We all have our ways of coping.
Meanwhile, my mom was partying and dancing the night away (she's just like me) here:
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Majorly procrastinating on this paper. 3/6 pages. 5 hours left. AH FANG YAAAAAN. WHYYYY ARE YOU SO WEIIIIRDDDDD. Seriously, I want to rant about Fang Yan in a non-scholarly way
I do think it's sad that Fang Yan can't remember the type of person he used to be though. Isn't that sad, to not be able to remember? I think it is. OK, back to work.