Day 23:
I feel sluggish today. Maybe it was the 4 tablespoons of MSG I had for dinner. Or the litre of grease I washed it down with. Or perhaps it’s because I miss you and how your skin smells of salsa and an 8-hour work day. Either way, Chengdu is the Panda Capital of China. And I refused to leave until I see one of these devil creatures.
From the beginning, things didn’t go my way. I wanted to go to the Special Place of Pandas, where you can play with them and wrestle with them and bottle-feed one of the 8 new cubs while cradling them in your Gorilla-like, yet pillowy soft, adoptive motherly arms.
Instead, I got dragged to the Zoo. Where the Welcome sign posted strict rules of ‘No Spitting and No Pornography.’ The logical place where I can feel like less of a freak show. Nonetheless, I wanna see a damn Panda.
I’d go further, but as I organize my photos, I see they didn’t turn out as well as I thought:
Maybe it was the flash. Or the devil. The whole Karma thing would make sense here.
It’s best we end now so I can go get sick.
I feel sluggish today. Maybe it was the 4 tablespoons of MSG I had for dinner. Or the litre of grease I washed it down with. Or perhaps it’s because I miss you and how your skin smells of salsa and an 8-hour work day. Either way, Chengdu is the Panda Capital of China. And I refused to leave until I see one of these devil creatures.
From the beginning, things didn’t go my way. I wanted to go to the Special Place of Pandas, where you can play with them and wrestle with them and bottle-feed one of the 8 new cubs while cradling them in your Gorilla-like, yet pillowy soft, adoptive motherly arms.
Instead, I got dragged to the Zoo. Where the Welcome sign posted strict rules of ‘No Spitting and No Pornography.’ The logical place where I can feel like less of a freak show. Nonetheless, I wanna see a damn Panda.
I’d go further, but as I organize my photos, I see they didn’t turn out as well as I thought:
Maybe it was the flash. Or the devil. The whole Karma thing would make sense here.
It’s best we end now so I can go get sick.
