My lesson in ping-pong...Chinese style.

So today I was schooled in ping-pong by the Chinese guys that sit next to me a work.

And when I say "schooled," I mean I was worked over like a little girl trying to play basketball on a court in the streets of Philly...it was ugly.

To be sure, I knew said ass kicking was coming because (a) they had their own paddles (in their own case/bag like a tennis racket) and (b) one of the guys asked me if I was really going to play in my flip-flops!

Also, I tried playing with one of their offered personal paddles, but it was oddly too padded and I was hitting balls awkwardly. I had to switch to one of the "shitty paddles" that Google had with the table - though I felt it was a nice normal paddle and much more like what I was used to playing with.


I might take a video tomorrow so you guys can see what I am talking about...think Forest Gump...twas not much fun to try and play (or defend myself!) against them, but it was fun to watch.

I don't think ping-pong is taken as seriously here as there, but I most definitely ended the event by challenging them all to a game of beer-pong at their earliest convenience :-)