Acabó de celebrar mi cumple de 24 años, por fin 24! Qué número es! Gracias a Dios y mis familias y amigos de todo mundo! Tenía una fiesta de puta madre! Aúnque majoria de mis amigos en mi escuela se fueron, era una fiesta con muchas copas de champagne, wisky, vodka, y gracias a René por un regalo de deliciosa tarta con helado! Echo de menos a mi ciudad, shanghai, y también a Los Ángeles…Lo que yo quería hacer es regresar a las ciudades con mis amigos pasaremos más tiempo.

Voy a madarme a Madrid en septiembre, y empiezaré una vida nueva sola. Sí, una vida fabulosa. Necesito estudiar mucho para aprender el idioma. Luego quiero viajer a muchos lugares, y espero que vaya todo bien :)

No hay otra palabra!! ABSOLUTAMENTE FABULOSAS!!! Mi cumple, mis amigas en shanghai, mi vida ahora!!!

thank god, my friends all over the world, i was so touched seeing a full page of birthday wishes on Facebook. Also talked with my mom, with David, Kim and More. Altho i had a bday without those people, i was with my friends here. Had a lot of champagne, whisky, vodka and thanks to rene i made the bday wish on the icecream cake. yummy yummy..haaa!

I’m gonna move to Madrid next month, n start to have a new life. Yes, an absolutely fabulous life! I need to work hard on my master studies, that’s for sure. And will take care of myself in many ways, then after that, will start a couple of trips throughout the euroland. Hope everything’s well with me.

Again, thank god for my healing and hope Kim and More also doing well at this moment. We are the warriors n we r unstoppable!

I can’t wait to start a new life, so let’s get ready! Miss shanghai, miss LA miss my friends n families, miss the foods miss the taxi miss my perfumes n clothes, bags, even the highspeed internet…Hope Madrid could get better, n of course with a better weather! haa..

Muakkk, my life is ‘dabuti’! I can’t ask for more, im completely grateful for whatever im having now!

Love the whole world, being open minded and smart!

yeahhhh, we r gorgeous, aren’t we? kisssses btw went to see the 3D movie <UP> ystday and its wicked! with the 3d glasses on, a fun colorful world i was in…my life is like that toooooo, HAAAHAA!

background musik: Jason Mraz ft.Ximena sarinana’s <Lucky>.

had a lot of things wanna write down in case i forgot this chapter of my life, not that the life here is fast paced but its been awhile not putting on any pics. now that i got new camera, actually is a second-handed consuming 2 AAA batteries sort of nikon. it wasnt that bad, huh? check out those pics above. i went to a flamenco concert with a french gal, it was all about culture taken-in n succesfully made my early friday night.

before the flamenco i went to my new aptmt n chatted with new roomies n some friends visiting from madrid all in spanish n a little english, now my english is getting really rusty…hah..no..not really.

coz i still talked a lot english with friends here, not that many friends, shamely there r only 20ish people on my cellphone’s contact list. before i lost my sweet cellphone, there r solid nearly 300…with who i could always managed to send out a msg to say hello or calling for parties. now im a loner.

so lucia gave me a mercy call coz i was super ‘down’ at sat morning. she asked me not to ‘full of myself’, good thing is she’s right. im overspent my money in a bad way, always losting things n money n even marlboro lights. and the bad thing is, i’m just this ash, fucking crazy n always led by her moment-living theory type of person. life is too short, im cherish every moment taking care of my feelings, but always failed to take care of myself in a healthy way.

slept late, didnt study that hard, party but got too drunk waking up next day with bruises all over my body, smoked too much too much. let alone the slut but also longing for romance’s craziness, i really dont think im that kinda simply-easily-satisfied people. i dont wanna be judgemental, but judging myself im always doing the best job. i love my body, love my face, love my friends in shanghai, love the blue sky in salamanca, love the gelado in plaza mayor, love hearing voices from my babies’ calls all the way around the other side of the world, love music, love fabulous men n women, love tvshows.

speaking of tv shows, i have zero internet here in my aptmt, only tv show im watching is <sex and the city>. ta-daa! imagine how different feeling i got after its like the 2nd or maybe even the 3rd times i watched this adorable show. i was bored ystday so watched all day long even till 3am..yeah, my tv show’s addiction is still with me.

but pepsi addiction went down a bit, along with internet…but i do need the internet, making me closer to the shanghai world. ohh i really miss everyone..after all im stuck in a small town, nothing compared with my gorgeous shanghai.

last fri i got drunk right after taquila shots, throwing up, falling on the floors…yeah, i did that all over again..music really suck so bad but i was so happy coz some spanish girls spinned around me asking for taking fotos together with them coz they all thought im hot. yeah, thats also one of the reason i got drunk that night, im un-flattering-tolerent people. besides, i love girls, especially also hot girls in the bars too. unpleasant thing was the drunk n lost money thing…then stupidity next morning was cant remember everything except only can remember i was fucking drunk. looking at those bruises n a painful backhead, couldnt remeber a thing. damn the drinks here r just incredibly cheap, like water…

so i punished myself whole day watching tvshows on sat didnt even go out, i missed shanghai till death, was even crying a bit for having no friends around me.

sunday, which is today, technically was ysterday, learned many sexual words from my new close friend rene, a married bi-sexual mexican guy who’s also having a crazy life here. he was married to a spanish guy for residence plus study plus a new life. we went to sunday market, then i had a lazy siesta with another friend nicolas at a park near my aptmet. a parisian 20 years old boy whos also my classmate, with an angel face n innocent look. after that siesta, went to plaza mayor alone having my icecream, bumped into nicolas’ roomie n also a friend visiting.. so they could cut the queue with me…anyways, i walked home around 730pm with sun still up.

life is always full of questions like those in sex n the city, carrie kept asking questions about men n relationship. im looking at my life, which also with lots of questions, but undoubtedly im fabulously living in my way. spanish girls love me, nicolas thought im fashionable, n my mexican friend…but maybe im really too full of myself.

yes, i gotta turn down a bit, low-key low-key… n i will never take tequila shots again, not say forever, but at least for foreseen future. will try to control all kinda urges, incl. sweets, cigarettes, internet, sex, weeds…yeah glad im not a shopaholic or alcoholic..that really lighten my sins in many ways.

my roomies will be back tmr from paris, im happy for them, altho myself not ready for ‘big paris’ yet. i luv travelling, but to paris, is not one of those fantasies. but to rio or egypt or italy that is my fantasy. oh i miss those french friends in shanghai too, cant believe i usually hate them mostly now that i could even start missing them… woman is just too emotional…ah..im happened to a woman.

now im gonna go to sleep, kiss goodbye, my babies. will sending more pics :) i really miss u, n miss my last year’s wonderful life.

Ash

hey my babies!!! i’m in salmanca now, as if nobody knows…drrrr..hahaaaa!

the first day when i arrived here, i saw a bee, gosh bee is like my lucky sign! i was so excited that i saw bee again that means im gonna have great life here..yeaaahhh!

internet is a problem so far, but it will be fixed very soon becoz im gonna move into another aptmt in next 20ish days. the aptmt im living now is quite far from the city center where my school n all those bars r located in, now it took me 15mins to walk from house to center. altho i enjoy walking, it is still not that convenient for me. so looking for another house is the first thing im gonna do after my school opens tmr.

i took a bus from madrid to salamanca, in the ticketing office of bus station, a spanish guy asked me how to write his name in chinese that was fun. the taxi driver was also kind not detour or tried to rip me off coz im a foreigner n dont speak that much spanish. i know im a lucky gal, thank god for it.

went to bar hopping last night, it was my first night out, went to 4 bars. the music here cannot beat shanghai at all, but the drinks r cheap n the most of the people here r good looking. i practised my poor spanish in the noisy bars, also saw lots, i mean lots of people on the street for party at 5am. parties here r crazy haa..yeah, its spain, isnt it?

before going out parties, i went to play frisbee with multi-national friends, thanks to zhuzhu who’s a warmhearted chinese gal who hooked me up with the school here. she introduced her best 2 chinese friends here to me, so im getting to know more of salamanca, this small heritage town. many scenes reminded me of macau from time to time, i felt like backing home. living like a local is what im longing for, so yeah call me a spaniard i wont disagree at all ;p

didnt do a lot shopping coz im gonna stay here for long time, obviously will have enough time to do it later. everything is in euros, so its more expensiver than in china except the beverages. drinks r so cheap that i couldnt believe it, now i seriously think i spent too much money on drinks in shanghai, lol. it’s a small town but still having carrefour which means i could get all the living essencials n neccesities. wanna check out more later, coz i’ve only been here for 4days. i walked half town already, only took 3 days..amazing town, nice atmosphere, people here r so nice altho mostly r the foreign students. i havent gone to school yet, but surely will meet up with more people soon..haa..cant wait for it!

icecream here is called helado, like gelado with lots of cream inside, sweet! sky is always blue, beautiful afternooons, lying under the sun getting tan is the topdrawer! i still smoke..i know its bad for health but i luv smoking..sorry for it.

miss my friends in shanghai, looking at those fotos we took incl many party fotos just now…trying to forget the timezone difference but guess i will always remember it. i wont get many chances to chat online from now on even if i will get internet, coz im gonna feed my life up with activities n studies. i wont let mysel n my families now for sure, but still will be in touch.

my new cellphone number is 0034633214204, if u miss me or try to reach me, pls feel free to call. i tried to text msg to china, but it doesnt work altho i could receive msg from china…weird service.

ok will report more next week, pls check out my fotos later :) luv ya! sending loves from spain, besos!

Ash @ Salamanca 2009

background musik: Eleni Mandell’s <Miss Me>.