Went to Chinatown today with Wei.  I was wired the whole time from coffee on the bus ride there, it felt terrible.  It was an over-2-hour ride there, too...

I have to say, i hate China town.  There was a reading i did for Bascara's class that mentioned how Asian ppl (especially Chinese) crudely imitate white ppl, in attempt to make them like and accept us.  However, most end up making fools out of themselves for they fail to see they're the butt of e.o else's jokes or they just lack the language abilities.  Anyway, Chinatown feels like that- colorful, as though to feign a sense of establishment over what might be known as shit; .  The souvenir shops had all sort of odds &ends, things you would normally throw out, not spend money for.  One shop sells e.t. from bottled water, yu-gi-oh cards, to fake jewelry, numchucks, and Halloween costume, all in one dingy, dirty random shop.  Most of the things there look like they've been there for at least 10 years!  Never mind the dust, i see things that i haven't seen since i was in 2nd grade!  Things that i used to want, but never got.  Seeing all of that just sickened me.  I began to feel a strange sense of insecurity swelling up; it reminded me of the past and what a hopeless, depressing world that was.  It wasn't just a single shop though, the entire China town seems as if they've been wrapped up and sent back to live in whatever old time they came from.

Then we went to dinner, which was also so-so.  He offered to pay for dinner, but exchanged quarters for a dollar with me squarely rather than giving me 50cent for the bus ride.  At one point his friends showed up in the same restaurant &he was embarrassed that they would think we're dating.