Happy Holi*hic*
Fave sport in Shanghai is drinkie drinkie. So that’s basically how I spent my Christmas and New Year. I celebrated Christmas eve with an eat all you can and drink all you can fest with hot Catholic girls at the Marriot (we were downing vodka and champagne like crazy, coz we smile at the waiter and he’d keep serving us drinks even after cut off time). That’s me (I need to lose weight), Jenn and Leah. Of course being good Catholics, we went to mass. 
New Year’s eve was with Matt in a cab. New Year’s night Colin and I had a few drinks. He just came back from his world tour to promote his new company The Shanghai Job (creatives, get him, he’s cool to work with) and has so many stories to tell. But my fave one is close to home, he was talking why he’ll never date a Shanghainese woman again. Each of them may seem different at first but at the core, they’re all the same, he says. Controlling, manipulative, and materialistic. Hahahahaha! (And the men, no matter how successful, are henpecked at home and expected to do all housework, cooking, driving etc.) 
Speaking of, there is a new dating service in Shanghai catering to millionaires. Entrance fee is rmb30,000 and millionaire geeks who have no time to find love are all gathered on a yacht. Pretty girls are screened and can come in for free. Trophy wives for millionaire husbands. According to the news, a recent survey asked women if they would marry a rich man and a lot said yes. It seems to be some sort of requirement nowadays. What about friendship? conversation-skills? Breeding? Shared values? Love?
While money to a certain degree is important to lead a comfortable life, it can never buy happiness. Nor love. Or maybe it can. In Shanghai anything is possible. Oh well, people get what they deserve. Happy New Year!
