| And so, in honor of today |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|01:26 am] |
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| [ | The music in my mind... |
| | Matt Nathanson : Fall to Pieces | ] |
I'll stop faffing about and spend today as it is meant to be spent--with friends and family ♥
Happy 22nd, me!
*Take a cha-cha-cha-chance!* |
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| "The Official State Beer of China" and (not) Sleeping with Girls in Boots |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|10:59 pm] |
Purportedly, "The Official State Beer of China" and oh yes it must be because it officially made me sick to my stomach--so sick I did not want to walk the length of Temple Night Market for the third (fourth) time this year. After one glass. Trivia: I once drank ten bottles of Red Horse beer in one sitting. Anyway, back to official matters. Yanjing Beer isn't so bad; it is, in fact, better than most beers I've tasted and was unanimously deemed by all (3/4 of our table) beer drinking colleagues as "better than Red Horse." Imagine the lightness of San Mig Light and the flavor of Red Horse, minus the aftertaste and consequently, bad breath. Sarap, no? Pero, para que pa ang sarap if it does not sit well with me?
I admit I'm not being totally fair here. After all, that day alone, I have traveled a few thousand miles on an hour of sleep and five hours of errand-running. Not to mention luggage woes that come with having to pack ten eleven days worth of clothes in a 10-to-15-kilo stroller bag. At least a third of my luggage space went to TWO pairs of shoes. There were also the few worrisome and restless days prior to trip. So naturally (?), I wanted to unwind by kicking back with a glass of beer. But naturally, I ended up with weak knees pre-bath.
Yay for me though, tonight was a better night for alcohol. Dinner in El Cid in Knutsford Terrace gave me vegetarian paella, lamb chops, Filipino and Spanish serenades and reddish purple sangria. It felt like the best mushroom soup on the coldest night--only, substitute water with alcohol and croutons with fruits. But again, the fairness bit. In all fairness, tonight was bound to be better than last night. Because: I completed a mountain of work (Comm strategy paper, AVP approvals and revision points, to name a few) with relatively less worrying, teased R about his new fantasy of boinking a girl in boots (and the odds of this happening are about 80 times better than his chances at home; every other girl here is sporting an awesome pair of boots), and brought up boys, smoking, and a boy and taking up smoking--and this put me in an infinitely better mood.
Tomorrow, the rest of the team arrives here in Hong Kong for another bout of FIGHT!. It's time to up the ante, revive Magis (ulk), invent hope because it's time for curtain... In three days... Two... One.
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