Sleepyhead Mornings

Currently Listening To :: Zhi Shi Hai You Ni (At Least I Still Have You) :: Lin Yi Liang (Sandy)

Ahhh...back in the balmy humidity of Malaysia *grin*

Having sufficiently thawed off from my trip to Shanghai (I arrived here on Saturday night), it's been a lot of waking up late, eating well, and generally taking a good break from what has been a whirlwind trip. But althought I'm feeling well rested and relaxing in the familiar surroundings of family, friends and a familiar environment, there are things still weighing on my mind.

But I won't go into them right now. As I've been told numerous, I think too much, and right now, I can't do much about them anyway. Some things just take some time to show, while others need a bit of a personal touch to bring to a resolution. And everything else? I just don't want to deal with them right now...

I'll be spending one week in Malaysia; back in Sydney on the 28th of Jan.

Oh yeah, I should be developing my pics soon; gotta update my little pic in the corner soon. Digital camera action at it's best will be one its way~ And of course a full retrospective breakdown of my trip. I hate getting sentimental when I'm on holiday; it just doesn't seem right. There's plenty of time for that when I get home.

Flying Blind Below The Radar

Currently Playing In My Head :: Random Chinese Tunes :: Missing my MD player...

I can't seem to access my site itself here in China. Perhaps they have started to block all blogger sites? Hmmm...

I've decided not to take the trip to Beijing. In this weather, I'm thinking it will be cold, miserable, and downright dangerous if I try to trek there on my own and then see the sites in the biting winter cold. I'm only just getting used to the cold here in Shanghai, and although below freezing temperatures are all good to me now, snow is a different matter entirely.

Shanghai is an awesome place to visit though. My friend Alwin has been great to take me and my other travelling buds around, but today we have all gone our seperate ways. Matt, LiShuai and Bill have jetted to Hong Kong, while by now Kev should be on his way back from Malaysia to Australia.

Going out, eating out, clubbing out; but thank God not passing out has been the order of the nighttime activities. Karaoke here is just as large as in Taiwan, and it's good to belt out a few tunes at 4am in the morning after a rnb music at The Stage. I've also managed to meet some really friendly locals here, and it's great to be able to practice my Mandarin and give the language skills a workout.

I'm off to a place called HangZhou this afternoon with some friends for the weekend. Should be a good trip, a chance to get out of Shanghai for a bit. Loads of film spent from my new Nikon F55 SLR; hopefully the shots will turn out. Perhaps I should read the manual more too...

Ok, gotta roll. Train leaves Shanghai in about 2 hours; gotta eat and pack, then get tickets. More soon, and keep posting the messages!

Shanghai Baby

Currently Playing In My Head :: Push :: Matchbox 20

I'm still here, still alive. Just

The past week or so has been a whirlwind of highs and lows, a sine curve of joys and pains as I travel around Malaysia, Singapore, and now Shanghai. I touched down in Pudong Airport today, starting the longest part of my trip; China.

From night club antics, to catching my flight to Shanghai with only 30 mins to spare; from finding out our prebooked train tickets to Singapore were cancelled, to meeting a model and actress by the name of Jo Jo Struys (look her up from the movie Chicken Rice War), it's been a great ride thus far. Two weeks in China, and then back to Malaysia for a few days. That's the MO.

More posting later...I gotta get ready to hit the Shanghai clubbing scene! It's cold as hell here right now, but then what did we invent thermals and gore-tex for eh?