Daily Dose of Brain Acid

It’s been more than 20 days since I left the states, saw countless faces, one after another dinner gathering, and yet to devote some time to myself just get my shit together and finish some of the projects that I’ve promised to finish ages ago ( to those who know what I mean, I swear I will finish it before head out to india.)

Things that I have been seeing around here changed yet again, more foreigners in the mass public area, the metro, mall, restaurants, even the area where I’m currently staying. Shanghai has become like the hub of international flash gather point, some rooted here, some are here for short gigs, some are just here for their biz trip, and the rest falls into tourist group。

Free internet, there’s no such thing as free wifi here, after some serious hunting, coffee bean is the only place that offer free wifi (if you don’t mind the slowness). And both smoking/non smoking indoor rooms. Starbucks offer wifi, but not free, iphone owner will find themself get away with slow/crawing wifi connections, free eh? you get what you paid for.

there are things i meant to blog, but they kept on skipping my mind like fadded pages in a notebook. i might as well need to jog down the thoughts on my phone while i still holding onto it. otherwise it’d take me some thinking in front of a computer. after all i cant carry the laptop with me everywhere i go. thurs goes with the notebook. but i think i will have some more free personal time once i arrive india.

the price to india for one way from shanghai is redulicious. 4500 RMB estmated. i’m like wtf.. that costed more than what i paid for my one way trip to here from DC. another idea is to enroute tibet and cross nepal into india.. but i dont have much time here, my 30 days tourist visa for this time expires in 29th, and that leaves me less than a week and half to travel from shanghai to india via land.. doable but it’s going to be stressful and rushed. i’d like to stay in Lahsa for few days and enjoy the sun from high above. *sigh* next time then. and i hope india is going to grant me more than just 30 days stay once i landed, if not… i’m screwed, i’d have to do a short overland trip else where and come back to india for a longer stay. i will worry about that later.

the internet addiction withdraw is still hard to shake off, im still holding on my phone for some web actions, offten i find myself looking at facebook’s latest status, news on cnn, wapo etc. *sigh* we are i am totally hopeless without the internet. still hours before i hit the hay still stays with book reading and games on the phone, there’s no network reception on the bed :/ no tv at all, there isnt cable in the apartment. pretty much sucked. i tried to visit my aunt’s apt which is next block to mine, but with her crappy attatidute, facital express toward my visit for using their internet, i’m not gonna put up with it, even if i have to suffer slower than 56k speed with the phone in my apt, or the internet bar. so see you later auntie.

more to come…