Shenzhen

November 9

I realized that I put November 10 as my last entry in Guangzhou...oops.  lately dates, days and time have been mixed up for it. I don't have a watch nor a phone so often times I have no clue.

So shenzhen is a relatively new modern city that was once a fishing village. To me it's a bit posh and pretentious. Enough about that.

I met an Indian friend at the gaga in Guangzhou who happens to live in shenzhen so he told me to drop in on him. Shortly after checking in at the grand theater hostel, I met a girl who told me she stayed at the GaGa too and knows the Indian guy and would gladly take me to find him. So we set off to his place and hung out for a bit. Vibhu was a great host and showed me around town. We met up with his Cantonese friend Edmond for dinner. He's a super nice guy and they have great chemistry together. Overall an early night since I felt very tired after Guangzhou.

November 10

started the morning with dim sum with Vibhu and Edmond. It was quite tasty and probably the only unique dish that I have never had before was something that looks like egg tart but is filled with frog ovaries. Not bad...

After dim sum I took a super long nap and just chilled. David from the GaGa was also in town so we made plans to meet up. Remember my prior experiences with meeting up with people in foreign places. Yep it is always a challenge. So David tells me to meet him at McDonald's in this area and provides me with GPS coordinates latitude and longitude. David you are such a nerd. I hope you are reading this. The problem with coordinates is that it's slightly off and the problem with picking McDonalds to meet at in china is that there are tons near each us. I passed along the info to Vibhu to meet us too. For 2 hours we all could not find one another and it didn't help that we had no phones too. Somehow while walking back we all managed to run into each other. Oh shenzhen....

November 11

in China they have a special singles day on 11/11...get it all the lonely 1s?

today I leave for Hong Kong. Yep short stop oh n shenzhen. Originally I was going to spend a week here..luckily it ended up being just 2 days.

As I was packing my bags, the dude in the top bunk leans down and points at my beard. Then he proceeds tl take his hand and strokes my chin. Did I mention he was only wearing tight white briefs? Oh shenzhen...