Guess Who's Back??

I am back in the good old PRC again.

I arrived in Shanghai on Friday morning, in a daze! Partly due to time difference, partly due to lack of sleep on the plane and probably mostly to do with the fact that I had been enjoying myself too much over the past week in Ireland!!

I thought my laptop was a goner. I turned it on in Dublin airport on the off chance they offered free wireless internet (there is free internet in airports in Korea, via internet terminals. don’t know if they have wireless access) but of course there wasn’t. There was only some Eircom scam! Well, it’s the same in Heathrow and Beijing, so can’t knock Ireland too much for that one. Anyway, I tried the same in Copenhagen airport only to see my computer failing to start up! I kept getting the infamous “blue screen of death” when booting up! Well, there was nothing to be done except to get myself a Carlsberg. It was quite tasty. O, and the laptop mysteriously started up fine here in Shanghai! Sweet!

I flew Scandinavia Airlines (SAS) from Dublin to Copenhagen and from Copenhagen to Shanghai. I was very impressed. The air hostesses vere very pretty and blonde! Also, the entertainment system was great. I like the forward and downward camera angles. You can see how the pilot is getting on when he is taking off/landing! Saw that before on South African Airlines. They actually had wireless internet as well, for US$29 for the flight! I don’t think that’s too bad a rice to pay for internet a mile high!

I had intended to travel south to Nanning/Guilin/Yangshuo this week. However, my friend has to work and I didn’t fancy travelling on my own. I will need to come up with alternative arrangements. I will be going to Beijing anyway some stage next week. I might just hang around Shanghai and chill here or else go somewhere nearly for a trip. I need to continue the research!

It’s bloody hot and humid here. Worse than Beijing last August. I think it’s on a par or worse than Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia! It’s 3-shower-a-day territory! Good job there is air-con in this apartment!