Picture the scene, 2000 chinese and me. That was the scene last night, as we descended on Elephant and Castle for the Chinese New Years Party. It’s pretty funny, Sylvane apparently wasn’t ‘feeling’ 100% so he declined to go and Amone decided not to come ‘because she was broke’, so as the night unravelled, it was a party of 6 chinese and me, going to a the most packed Chinese party of the year.

I’ve never seen soo many Chinese people concentrated in one place in my life. It was a whole new experience for me, as before coming to London 2.5 years ago my chinese friends were very limited in number. This was a pretty cool experience, which means I can handle Hong Kong (and China in general) in the future.

Man, there were some seriously CRAZY hairstyles in there. We’re talking the kind of hairstyles that I spent about 2 minutes trying to UNDERSTAND, then I spent a few minutes thinking how the hell you’d explain something like that to your hairdresser, then how you’d make it look the same the next day after you’d washed it. I wish I had a camera in my eyes, taking snap shots because the haircut I’m talking about, damn I’d struggle defining it, so it’d be much easier to show you, but obviously I don’t have a picture.

What’s cool is that tomorrow I’ll be going to the street parade with the traditional dress, and dragons and fireworks and whatever down in central london. One of the good things that came out of the night is that Gladys owes me an apple pie; mental note Jackie better help her out because I don’t trust Gladys to cook a cheese toasty ^_^.