My Asiana Airlines flight arrived in Seoul around 3:00 p.m. on Thursday afternoon. The airport wasn’t too busy so it only took about 20 minutes to get out ot the main terminal’s waiting area where I sat down and waited for Jisue to arrive.
She arrived a few minutes late, but it turned out that she had to attend a funeral / memorial service for a friend of hers from school. It was sort of sad — apparently he suffered from chronic headaches and received surgery to fix it — supposedly a very simple proce...Read more
I am finally able to get a decent connection (I’m in Korea right now) so I’m retroactively posting up these entries from the last week or two. Enjoy!
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Since the day after Christmas saw the end of the world as we know it (or “no internet” as some people refer to it) I haven’t been able to blog about my adventures with Peter in Xiamen. I will give you the brief skinny here …
Tuesday, December 26:
In the afternoon we walked over to the nearby super-mall (whic...Read more
It's been a while (16 days, in fact) since I last posted on my blog. To be honest, I just haven't that much drive to update anything here -- either because I have too much going on and don't want to bother writing it all down, or because nothing much is really happening so I don't have much to write. But really, it's a combination of the two -- at times it's quite hectic and at time it seems a bit slow.
The main line of continuity through my last 2 weeks is the daily...Read more
During the rest of the week my illness continued to slowly improve. I spent pretty much the whole week either at the office or waiting for furniture to be delivered. Ikea was supposed to come on Wednesday, which was written on two different receipts I had from them, but for some reason it was put in their computer for Thursday. So I had to wait two days for the furniture to be delivered.
It was worth it though. It's nice to have things to fill up my home. My favorite item was the table, which I reall...Read more
I arrived in Shanghai around 9:00 p.m.-ish, made my way through customs and grabbed a cab for my apartment. Waiting for me there was Tiffany who, as you know, has been staying at my place while she's training with Yang Laoshi and Zhu Wen Jun. We caught up for a bit and I watched a bit of my downloaded torents on the computer. The next day I went to watch her practice. The school had moved the wushu athletes to a new wushu guan, which is just across from the rhythmic gymnastics hall. It's nice to see ...Read more
We arrived, safe and sound, at Jinan International Airport and grabbed a taxi to the Shan Yin Da Jiu Dian (the taxi driver laughed when he saw it and said "it's not a da jiu dian! It's a xiao jiu dian!". Waiting for us in the lobby was Lu Laoshi (a.k.a. Wang Wei's uncle) who helped us check in and get settled in our rooms. He helped us talk to the restaurant people and also confirmed that practice was at 8:30 the next morning in the wushu guan. He had to take off for a meeting so he left us to...Read more
The flight was delayed, but I still managed to arrive at a relatively decent time. The main problem was the line for the taxi. Granted it goes relatively fast, but it was REALLY long this time. I ended up waiting about 40 minutes for the taxi. I guess if you factor in the taxi waiting time, then it's almost the same as flying to Pudong airport. If I took the bus from Pudong for 20 rmb then it's actually cheaper from Pudong. Anyway, I had a list of things I wanted to do before I left the next day so I had ...Read more
When I got out of the Airport Express with my 4 pieces of luggage I decided to just take a taxi straight home and unload all my stuff before heading in to the office. When I got to work Boon was there! For those of you who don't remember, Boon used to work at Design Reactor and Rotten Tomatoes as a designer, and he's moved to Hong Kong to work for AliveNotDead as our Creative Director. It was nice to see a familiar face again. Work was good. It was work -- not much to write abou...Read more
Over the weekend I did a lot of catching up on my sleep. Friday night I got about 13 hours of sleep and Saturday night I got another 12 hours of sleep. It did WONDERS. Saturday I spent the afternoon in the office working.
Sunday I spent the afternoon cleaning up my home and also bought a TV and microwave for my home. The TV is nice as it has VGA-in as well as the standard other inputs. It's a flat screen and is 20", which is a perfect size considering the size of my living room.
In the even...Read more
There are actually no pictures from this entry. I haven't been carrying my camera around as much as before and even when I do it's usually in my bag and I forget to bring it out.Anyway, as I mentioned before I went back (again) to wushu on Friday evening. After the previous week's observation of Pat's class I was feeling like I should get back in to gear with some training so I, as well as Stephen, joined in on the teen wushu class at Li Fai's school. Li Fai was actually there too, participating ...Read more
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