sam’s brother + friend Josh got into town on Friday, and to celebrate, we headed out to a banquet dinner at southern barbarian where everyone stuffed their faces with yunnan food, the braver of us sampling a dish of deep fried bees (”bees?! BEADS. bees?! job’s not on board” aharharhar). afterwards, we walked for ages trying to find a cab, and instead ended up seeking refuge at the garden hotel, where we were treated to a view of the city, and bizarre, mid-90s-esque lounge singing sung by a Real Live lounge singer. from there, we walked (WALKED! shanghai, whaddup w/your lack of cabs?) to park 97 for the diesel party, another terrible brand party saved only by the fact that diplo + steve aoki were dj’ing. good music, douchey people, late nights. thanks, shanghai! xx. (ps. photo above by kidplastik).

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKE MOU!!

1. love hanging out with this guy.
2. sam got AMAZING new rims!
3. sunday pho love with the family.

<3 <3 <3

our friends rodney and natasha held a house party to remember on friday. they put in loads of effort to make their amazing home look even more amazing and because we all love them, we made an effort to look our arabian bests. xx

survived yet another crazy monday, and this week is gonna be pretty nutso. looking forward to cooking and biking, the ultimate in post-work relaxation techniques. the photo above is unrelated, and of adrian lai. for some reason the dude is always carrying around cucumbers. he likes them raw, and he always makes a point of buying the prickly ones.

after a stressful day at the office and a delicious dinner at di shui dong, john and i went to go see my friend ben houge play last night at logo, which was 5 songs of pop syrupy awesomeness. i love the bizarre dichotomy of his seedily endearing sex tourist like appearance (ben, i mean this in the BEST WAY!!) and his amazingly sugar sweet voice. go check out his neocha page to hear his music. some of my favourites are ‘jessica’s scissors’ and ‘love on tv’. also, if you’re good at the internets, try and find that video floating around of him and my friend aric doing an incredible rendition of purple rain, you won’t regret it, i promise.

an insane marathon of a weekend, i’m looking forward to a week of being good humans and going to bed early.

massive weekend in beijing for the strawberry festival. also got to go to hot pot & also the 3rd anniversary of one of my favourite bars in the world. d22 awesomeness. carsick cars awesomeness. overindulgence and unbelievably ridiculous happenings. i don’t think we went to bed before the sun came up once. there was alot of strung out insane behavior. it was so fun!!

i uploaded a ton of photos from the weekend to flickr, so check out my strawberry festival flickr set. i’m gonna need a couple days to recuperate. my body will never be the same. chase the dream, not the paper!! xx.

ps. i forgot to mention, i fake dj’d at c’s bar on thursday night for their indie night party, it was so fun! someone needs to teach me how to mix properly. now that kidplastik is in town, i think that someone is going to have to be him. internets forever yo.

i’m going to assume that we are singing madonna in the first photo. very stupidly decided to go out for one cheeky after-work drink last night (after work meaning that i didn’t get out of the office until 11). shit escalated and all of a sudden it was 5am and i was crawling into bed after a long night of shuffleboard, bike rides, karaoke and too much food. we even managed to slip into richy, which i think we can agree is the worst club in shanghai.

ps. before walking into the karaoke room, we ran into a classy man and lady fucking in the hallways of party world fuxing park. no, seriously. who does that?!! check adrian’s flickr page, i’m sure there will be photos up soon. also, the photos from this entry are from adrian’s camera, i can’t find my battery charger, so sad.