Rememberer of Friends

This time round, for Shanghai, i took a picture of each card i gave out.
So that i can remember what each person meant to me, in 2009.

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Sam's Favourites Shanghai

In this post are my top 10 handpicked 'favourites'!

A 'favourite' is not necessarily someone i hang out with, or necessarily someone i like. A 'favourite' is someone who has a certain weird/strange/funny character quality that stands out to me. So if you are in the list, it doesn't mean that i like you =] (!!).

Anyway...

For each person, i will use a few descriptive words to describe them.

Take a look.

1. Zaya - Mongolian, aged 21
Tags: Hugely good at dancing, cute expressions, one of those girls i just want to take photos of

Like a little kid

2. Aditya Dirgo - Indonesian, aged unknown
Tags: Looks funny


3. Clara (Claz) - Australian, aged 22
Tags: Energetic, bouncy, moves and stands funnily sometimes

Looks like a bird!

4. Mika - Finnish, aged 24+
Tags: Simple and innocent, makes funny actions
The below is a sequence of photos showing a tired Mika trying to sleep on a long public transport journey. But it was hard. Hohoho.

(what the!) ??

5. Ryu Ei - Japanese, aged 23
Tags: Tremendously shameless and pure laugh, finds more things funny than the average person


6. Michael - Chinese, aged 20
Tags: Big big smile, bounces up and down when he sings, doesn't mind people touching him (great quality)



7. Claire - Korean, aged 26
Tags: Genuine and 天真, cute small actions, has an American/Chinese/Korean English accent which is very imitation worthy, totally ignores guys who like her (good quality), my cell group leader

Small feet

8. Mark Cai (阿蔡) - American, aged 23
Tags: Says random things, witted humour, unconformed perspective of life


9. Xiu Yan (Soo Yeon) - Korean, aged 22
Tags: Cute, cute small actions, shy, 天真, the one who took up the biggest percentage of my camera memory




10. Geoff - Australian, aged 22 (the guy on the very right)
Tags: Hilarious Chinese, fair conduct, very sociable

Big Experience Saturation

For one of our final exams for a subject taught in English, a student asked the Chinese teacher whether it is an open book exam or a closed book exam. And the Chinese teacher replied in English: "Even if it was open book, do you have a book to open?" (Since people prefer to use money on things other than books =])

Hong Kong's Hillsong band from Hong Kong City Church visited our Church in Shanghai. As they played the song 'Did You Feel the Mountains Tremble?', i noted the significance of the meaning of the lyrics sung in this particular song. That it is time for the Chinese underground Church to open up the doors and let the music play, and not be afraid of the authorities because the Church of Jesus Christ is a Church that carries power.

Here is a letter to my mum to summarize my overall experience of Shanghai:

Hi Mum,

Number of girls slept with in China: Zero.
I think that 花花世界 is not in the city.

Love, thanks and bye.

Son, Sam.