Yet again it’s been a non-stop whirlwind week in the office and it hasn’t helped that I’ve been ill with what one of my co-workers mentioned as “Shanghainese flu” (lol) – don’t think the amount of pollution in the Chinese air has helped. So whilst I took a couple days of bed rest, work carried on with event planning left right and centre.
In addition to that we were moving offices on Friday (no more town house!) as well as our designer Sunny leaving us L. As a result, we had a mini-leaving party in honour of not only Sunny, but the office that SHEX have occupied for nearly 11 years! It was an end of era for them as our resident ayi/chu-shi would no longer have the facilities at our new place to cook us lunch everyday (noooooooo!!!!!).
Me and the SHEX crew infront of the town house...
Bye bye Sunny!
Friday night was also SHEX’S Halloween Party, where ghosts, ghouls, beer and go-karts mixed resulting in a crazy & random night! Here drinking and driving was encouraged (for one night only though!!!) with prizes for the best driver and best costume.
Me and my supervisor Flora
Since the event ended early at 1.30am Matt and I decided to have our own after party with the few remaining people that we had met there – the end result was hilarious! We ended up going to a Chinese club and playing a Chinese drinking game (called Liar dice in English and Shai Zi in Mandarin) which involves dice, tumblers, whiskey and green tea. The game is very similar to bullshit where each player has a tumbler with 5 dice in it. You shake the tumbler and see what dice you have. You then have to guess how many of each dice you and your opponent(s) have. For example you would say “two fours”. Your opponent then has to up the ante with a bigger set (“three fours”) or a bigger number (“three fives”). Something that must be taken into account is that ones can be wild, and therefore any number. At any time you can call their bluff and the dice have to be counted. If there are less dice than the person has claimed, that person has to “gan bei” (down their drinks), if there is the exact number, or more then the person who has tried to call their bluff drinks! Simples!
4 hours later (yep… 5.30am) we emerged out of the club, blurry eyed and knackered. Note to self, whiskey, green tea, dice and Chinese opponents make a lethal combination to say the least…
Zai jian!
Marie xox
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