Read to Fergie - Glamorous
Why the title you say? Because during the last few days that's exactly what I had to do: stay home cuz I ain't got no money.
For those of you who didn't know, the last two weeks was Chinese New Year. Everything basically shuts down. Schools, businesses, banks, etc. So yes, not having found a job yet, my parents were going to wire me some money from HK/Shenzhen, which is easy enough. Unfortunately, this was right before the CNY. So, due to possibly a backlog of transfers, my parents not naming the specific sub-branch of my account, their using a different bank than mine, and/or gremlins in the financial machine, I haven't received my money yet (as of Feb 12).
Excluding the inaccessible 13.50 rmb in my bank account, my liquid assets was at 8 rmb. Imagine my joy and excitement when I found 20 rmb stashed away in my drawer. That's right, I had a little less than 6 Canadian dollars to my name. Thank God I had a lot of instant noodles and frozen dumplings at home.
So yes, for a few days, I survived on pre-made food. It doesn't sound so bad, but when you have to ration out the number of dumplings you eat so that you had something with meat the next day, it gets a little depressing.
Luckily, I've been hanging out at my cousin Lamont's place. Thanks Lamont and Anna for all the meals! Haha, also, thanks to their emergency bailout loan, I no longer have to skip buying vegetables and water for fear of lack of money.
Oh Beijing, what valuable life lessons you have taught me. :D
Awww...no veggies? This post was really funny though - glad I stumbled across your blog and will continue to follow! Plus, I know how exciting it is to get a comment on your blog - god knows we only got about two legit ones in the history of the allura blog (the rest were me masquerading as other people - ha ha). Hope that despite your recent days living on noodles and dumplings you've been having a good time. Miss you here :(
ReplyDeletedo you have to buy water in beijing? you can't drink boiled tapwater?
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