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September 4, 2005
A night out with Zhang Mi aka MIMI
Who is Mimi you may be wondering?
Well, the closest comparison I would make is that she is the Madonna of China, a Pop Star, Model, Actress, and Super A list celebrity.
So there I am sitting in my apartment when I get a call from my good friend Johann of IdeaFactory that we have a night out planned with Mimi and one of her friends.
Must say it was an amazing experience, just imagine that you spend from 8pm > 6am with someone like Madonna, Jennifer Lopez or Angelina Jolie.
The evening consisted of dinner, followed by a crawl of Shanghai's finest clubs and ended up at the famous Dragon Club where the sun had risen by the time we left.
Kinda weird when you walk into a place and people stop and freeze, and you can see them going "is that HER". I even had a few people come ask me if I was Mimi's bodyguard :)
I had a very interesting conversation with the lady on topics ranging from Life in China, Being a Star, the TSUNAMI, her Charity work, her New Book, Desire to go to the USA and learn English and also her wish to meet a nice foreign boyfriend.
She very kindly taught me some Chinese during the course of the night, which consisted of stuff like "You are very beautiful" and "Can I treat you ladies to a drink" in Chinese.
So all in all an amazing first Saturday night in Shanghai.
And to keep the post on topic, I did ask her whether she used Baidu or Google, but I was met with a blank look on her face, so I assume she doesn't use either.
Posted by shak at September 4, 2005 3:54 PM