day 283: [北京 (Beijing)] = 0km

Juli had left me alone today and went out to see her best friend.

Friends are important, and she told me she’d be back tomorrow, so I spent an afternoon in a café in the 五道口 (wudaokou) university area:

Then I realized I needed a new cell phone (mine already showed some serious corrosion damage from being outside all the time).

I looked all over town…

…in the department stores…

…and in the infamous 中关村 (zhongguancun) electronic market:

I just wasn’t able to find a decent mobile with basic resistance to shock, dust, and splash water.

Do people don’t need outdoor phones anymore?

…and because friends are so important, I was very happy that my main man 小黑 (xiaohei – help from inside and outside, running inversely, lounge & destroy, rounding up the capital) finally had time to get together for dinner:

The poor guy works in advertisement and seems to be busy as hell during the Olympics.

Boy am I glad that I’m just a tourist.

Soundtrack: Fugees – “Ready Or Not”

—total: 3555,1km