Well, the Tahoe trip didn’t end up exactly how I planned it….

But it could have been worse.

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I think from here on out, I will have a few simple goals:

1.) Reinvest my earnings (gravy) to earn more earnings (mo’ gravy).

2.) Self-improvement for identified weaknesses (such as kryptonite)

3.) Meet more people

Smells like New Years resolutions… except, lifelong resolutions

Funny story…. I went off to China to spend my 2005 Christmas and my 2006 New Years with Karen, Jenn, and Marisa and could not have had a better time. Many thanks to Karen’s family for taking such great care of us and showing us all of what Shanghai, Suzhou, and Hanzhou has to offer. If it weren’t for them, we would probably only have seen the tourist rendition of each city, instead of experiencing the real Shanghai life.

There’s too much to talk about in a simple post so I created a simple list of highlights from the trip.

• Vip Karen
• meeting Sagon
• meeting Lei
• dim sum
• duck king
• crab
• karen not knowing how to eat crab
• baos
• dough
• more dough
• more dough in beverages
• the crowd
• shopping
• cheap shopping
• counterfit shopping
• counterfit shopping in a shady “warehouse”
• temples
• buses
• subways
• karaoke
• bars
• expensive bars
• local bars
• hip hop bars (guan di)
• terry
• terry getting drunk and blacking out
• underage Brazil chicks
• funny stories
• funny bets
• running to catch a train
• rain
• snow
• Suzhou temples
• Hanzhou lakes
• Hanzhou restaurants
• Hanzhou shopping
• explaining BCL to 2 non-believers
• eating
• eating
• more eating
• Gu Wok Jai 10-disc DVD set!!!
• becomming more in than ever! (just kidding)

And last but not least

• Hanging out with 3 chicks (what a pimp)

Okay, so maybe I’m just kidding about the pimp part… kind of kidding anyway. I don’t have all the pictures yet because I ran out of space on my memory card on New Years, so more pictures will have to come later. But here’s what I got so far:

http://www.imagestation.com/album/index.html?id=2115043451

Enjoy