Li Kun told me he’d be at his studio just before midday and I woke up 5 minutes later to tell him I’d be around. Not for lunch though as he’d already eaten so I got some baozi and told him I’d be over shortly as Xixi had a few things to order from Taobao like the last couple of times I’ve been here. And indeed he did the order for me and it came to 530 kuai which to be fair was a fraction of price genuine items would have been in the UK.
He then told me to come to watch him perform by the supermarket at the corner of the guangchang later on, so I said I’d go over there later. But there was something important to do at the moment. Since the back of the bike had come off some days after I’d been crashed into, now I didn’t even have a number plate. But back home Tan Shiyun was there and wanted to play with me, and she’d been given literally hundreds of stickers, mostly of some sort of princess character (white of course) with flowers and birds to boot We spent the best part of an hour sticking the said stickers onto paper until there was no space left, at which she started sticking them on me, first on my clothes then on my face. Ok, it was quite fun, at least with a beer it was, but eventually I needed a break so I told her I was going to try to fix the dian dong che and did she want to come? And indeed she did.
Surprisingly, the first two places we came across said they couldn’t fix it.This was disappointing as there is normally some ingenuity regarding solving such issues, and indeed at the third place we came across the bloke took a long look and started drilling holes and patching the pieces together, then came out with some tie tags to fix the main bit that had fallen off. It was about as much as a good job as could be expected and I was glad when accepted 20 kuai after he asked for only 10.
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Before fixing the dian dong che
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Well that was eventually a successful 45 minutes or so, and Tan Shiyun didn’t seem to mind it as I took her to the shops too. So once home, after tea of the leftover jiaozi from two days ago I went to get ready to go out to see Li Kun’s gig, and noticed in the mirror that I still had a sticker stuck on my forehead. We’d been out for well over an hour, talking to quite a few people, and no-one had batted an eyelid about this. Ha…well…whatever.
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After a shower I went over much later at 9.45pm to find Li Kun’s gig had already finished. Well I pinged him and he said to come over to Bar 3000 du as you do. Here I found him with his wife and second daughter, along with some members of the band. It ended up being one of those great nights, and for good measure I accidentally pulled down the curtain that covers the entrance to the toilet, which seemed to cause more amusement than it really merited. Then Ma Yong, who had turned up in the meantime, took the said curtains and danced a bit of a jig as you do...ha...silly things that just seem a bit more interesting here...at least acceptable...imagine doing that in an English pub.
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| Li Kun and family/friends at Bar 3000° as you ° |
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