Tianjin Day 2 and 3

oh yea the train to Tianjin takes 29 minutes and the ticket is 58 rmb which is $8.50. i guess it takes over an hour on a regular train. i guess i dont really see the need since its only an hour on a regular train to have this massive project that costs millions to cut the time down to half an hour.

the first night the economic forum people put everyone up in this hotel on campus at Nankai University. I went out exploring and looking for a wireless signal for my laptop which was hard to find


being in that cafeteria made me miss being a student again and the massive amounts of unlimited food at SUNY Albany. here its not unlimited but so cheap it may as well be. that tray down there cost me $1.75. there were 3 floors of really long rows of chinese food that all looked like yummy comfort type food that most westerners would even dig into if they are squirmish about chinese food.


and the students there all looked super young. some of the girls looked like they were 12. I mean at FIT i was started to be alarmed at how young the girls looked but here was pretty bad.

by the dorms. amazing that you can leave your laundry out to dry and no one will vomit on it or sheit on it or any other kinds of pranks that i would do when i was in college.

i thought this was the tallest building in tianjin but i was wrong later i saw the olympic tower and it was taller. oh yea i think the olympic soccer games were held in tianjin which would explain why they spent tons of money making that bullet train to come here.

the new hotel we stayed at was this international hotel an hour away from tianjin! its in an area called tangu. its a special economic zone, tariff free zone. all there is there are hotels. it sucks.

they had a bowling alley which i used a couple times. they have about 6 people working there to attend to your needs. only thing is yoon was working his economic forum thing all day and late so i was just wandering around by myself. everywhere i went there would be employees just staring at me and waiting to do something. I don't like being the only single person in a bowling alley with them standing behind me watching. anyway i made friends with them later

finally the second time i played ping pong in china

they even had shoes for you to wear

and finally i get to play ping pong in the place where my ping pong bat was supposedly made, Tianjin. yes i brought my ping pong paddle because me and yoon always play each other. i lost 2 games to 3

Tianjin Day 1

So i've been gone for a while. I moved to a new apartment and there has been no internet for over 2 weeks. I have been super angry for 2 weeks because of this. i have to move my whole desk to a cafe everyday to work and drawing and doing illustrations in these cafes in Beijing where they leave the windows open and its freezing is not the best. I also went to Tianjin for a few days to visit my old buddy and old roomate from korea and rooomate in NYC for a few months, Yoon. he was there on business doing the "East Asian Economic Forum". i stayed at his hotel. Here is a Tianjin primer. it has 10 million people making it one of the 10 cities in china that has a population larger than NYC. it is famous for is goubuli baozi. that is all there is to tianjin. the buildings are all really short, like 2 storys or less, and I can't really recommend Tianjin.

look at the waiting area for the bullet train to tianjin! look at those chairs!

there are rumors that this is the fastest train in the world but it only matches the japanese shinkansen at 300km/h there is a train in france that goes 320 km/h

cute stewardesses too.


this is probably the coolest thing in Tianjin


went to karaoke and then a lounge/club later, should have been the other way around.

drank one of these things


all the places i went in tianjin were in this format. these "bands" would "play" "sets" where they sing over a dj/cd track and a guitar and bass player lay down thumpin' lines. I don't know how you can go to sleep at night knowing you're in one of these "bands". anyway I have one friend who lives in Tianjin and she is friends with these guys so it made it ok.

pei yi and anton

and no night would be complete without yoon being a jerk and falling asleep