guangdong mornings & shanghai nights

it's vera's birthday.
give her love-ish.



in guangdong they speak mandarin & cantonese, i cant keep up with all of this.. i thought i was cool because i could say thank you in chinese - this is overload for my brain! heres my view from the window of my hotel room on guangdong - and no this isnt just landscaping for the hotel - it is like this EVERYWHERE, its such a beautiful city:







it was sunny and 75 today, amazing. we had alot of driving and i swear my face was glued to the window everywhere we went - my camera was being tempermental again, so i dont have many pictures -- bleh. there was a beauty store downtown with mena survari (sp) plastered all over it, there were strawberries next to her head and they were selling fish out of a cart below the awning underneath her chin- it was a pictoral moment - too bad i didnt get to document it.

went to the "american grill" for lunch with a client, the ceasar dressing made me feel like i was going to boot (ha). i seriously thought i had food poisioning for a minute. or maybe it was the "cheeseburger".. ugh, dont ask dont tell, dont look. i got to give it to them though, they had ads up for an "original turkey dinner" and a big wooden indian statue in the lobby. E for effort. har.

my first chinese money!


its equal to like 10 bux i think...
edit:that dude looks like he needs to get laid, damn talk about a mug

guess what i bought!
HA.not telling.

im sleeping ON shanghai tonight, wish you were here ;)



outie.

L i have mints on my pillows and an empty bed in my room 7

you're my disco

long fucking day. gah.

hello, did you know im blonde? well apparently i am because i was putting in the batteries upside down. i can't even blame that on being american in china. im just blonde. har. but these batteries run out quickly so i have to shoot and run.. na'mean.

i had chinese "LA PIZZA" today, unfortunately that was BEFORE i found out about the camera working, but i have to tell you.. its better than effing euro pizza on shaolin.. it even had corn!

while at the first factory today i learned how printed earrings are made, i saw a pair from start to finish.. at start they were all white and just a strip of metal, and now.. viola:




they are special:)

i also learned, and saw first hand how molds are made and who metal is made from liquid into an actual piece, right down to the hand polishing, it really is crazy.. i mean we strive for 10,000 piece orders- but teh HAND work that goes into a 10,000 piece order is unthinkable.

NEXT! the bathroom i used while at the second factory, well lets just put it this way- there was a window with NOTHING covering it to the stairway of the entrance of the building.. um, can we say gross?! thank god for wet wipes - i still cannot (and probably never will) grasp the concept of no toilet paper...or even the fact that they refer to the bathroom as TOILET.. thats just soundsss gross.

this is the "thats so chinese" mousepad at the airport internet center.
(i really bet she IS a lovely girl):


and these characters were on the door of the soda machine at the business lounge...i love their "american eyes":


the flight was about 3 hours..in total because it was delayed for an hour - in which time i organized my picture folders on the plane (i feel so accomplished now). i passed the FUCK out, and when i woke up i was pissed because i was dreaming i was home - and something amazing was hapening and the kow meng cha woo ka ping sheshai BANG im on an airplane flying over hong kong. wasn't a happy moment.

at the airport in guangdong there were no american toilets, so i came upon (eggroll please..dun dun...):

but i couldnt use this one, so the mystery inside will never be uncovered!
so....the legend:

low and be-gross,the inside of a chinese bathroom stall..whtf?!
of course there is this friendly reminder on the wall before you leave:

and this lovely polite illustartion not to fall when you are leaving the toilet:



LATER>>>>>>>....
sanck time!
a chinese mcdonalds double cheeseburger:


this is my hotel:

it looks like LA here (does that sound cliche because there are palm trees IN the hotel?!), but all of the buildings are lit up like casinos.. the weather is amazing, its probably like 60. where i am is quite developed, but tomorrow the factory area is the remote part i guess - we'll see.

on that note i will leave you with my in room photo shoot of me attempting to take pictures of the view, but only getting my reflection.. har (blonde!:)







until shanghai! <3