Guomao Hotel Zhangjiagang

... your trash out the window of your house, your car or bus you are on
You would rather SMS someone than actually meet to talk ‘face to face’
You wear nylons when it is 30 degrees outside
You honk your horn at people because they are in your way as you drive down the sidewalk
You regularly fumble for five minutes to find 10 jiao despite 10 people waiting in line behind you
One of your fingernails is an inch long
You ride around on your bicycle ringing a ...

... thailand, india and japan. she said it'll have to be in rmb.

she just came over. they're all too old. it has to be from 2009. *groan of frustration* what to do now??? she said that an option would be to call the booking company and ask for a receipt with a red official stamp on it. so i immediately called and they said that it's going to take a week for them to mail it to me. i only hope that after a week, this will finally be resolved.

... jimmy. i've been excited for that. would be nice to see him after almost a year. sure i saw him in feb that seems like a lifetime ago. so much has happened. like both of us agreeing to move back home within the year. he said he'll be back by the summer of '10. i know a lot of people in nola that's going to be happy about that. it's awesome that i'll be getting most of my friends back when i get back. (jason and lil also said that they'll be back in jan.)

but i am worried ...

... those two groups think
- saw a couple still madly in love with each other despite 10 years of being together
- learned a little more about growing up as a "generation y"er
- had my faith in my travelpod restored. ppl are reading this, dammit!
- got reacquainted with old classmates and made new friends

i can honestly say that i'm gonna miss them when they leave tomorrow morning. but not before we spend another night singing in our own private room at ktv.

Bonjour à tous,
c'est si simple de passer d'un bout à l'autre du monde, il suffit de monter sur un escalier roulant passer dans un tunnel amovible, montrer pate blanche un peu partout( en fait c'est cela le plus important) puis s'asseoir pour un bon moment dans un fauteuil confortable bien qu'un peu étroit et hop 11 heures plus tard vous étes au pays du soleil levant où il fait chaud les gens parlent chinois...Toujours bien accueilli j'ai d ...

... had $2000-3000 in cash laying around. don't ask me why it wasn't in the bank.) plus all the electronics, jewelry and anything of value. they even took off with stephen's baseball cards. he doubts there was any cards there that were valuable but it goes to show you how desperate they were. locks weren't tampered with so the cops think it someone that we know. *sigh*

... our stay in Rugao City as comfortable as possible including four ‘walkie talkies’ for the children so they could play and venture away from us now and then.

Once we rested we were treated to a magnificent traditional Chinese dinner only to be topped off with two large boxes of firecrackers being set off in the middle of the street outside of our hotel. We were amazed how close we were and how loud ...

Wow! Where to start this time? There is sooooo much happening to me everyday; I almost have to pinch my arm to check that I'm awake and not dreaming. We went to look at a car for me last Friday. I had seen the car before but all software interfaces was in Chinese and they could not change that so I was prepared to order a new car, and wait between 2 weeks and 4 months to get it. When we arrived someone had managed to update the software and the ...

... traffic that you want to "secure you spot", i.e. you then start driving on the far left side of the road so you do not have to wait until meeting traffic has passed. I met a forklift the other day going against the traffic. That is by the way the second rule in Chinese traffic - Bigger (or harder, like a fork lift) has always the right of way.

... Angel Wash. The performance was similar to a Cirque du Soleil. It was worth staying up late for, so you know how good it was. There was a live mini-orchestra and a live female vocalist. The music was similar to Cirque du Soleil for us because we couldn't understand any of the words, except for one song which was in English. There was everything you'd expect: a strongman; those rubber-jointed acrobats who ...