Some people even do well just playing bass guitar in some kind of Laowai rock band

I knew some foreigners who did the whole band and gigs thing, though given the way chinese bars are with their smoking laws (or lack of them!), they are not for me.

Yes, to not wasting money. I used to only eat muslim noodles and canteen food and cook in the on campus flat kitchen or with other FT's. Iphones never wanted one, never needed one, much to chinese peoples amusement/surprise. Women will also drain your money.