awaken to a long long journey.

having been away for a week at the pearl of the orient, i find myself landing back to reality. how heavenly 'twas the past week...

nothing comes close to zhejiang food, perhaps with the exception of the cantonese counterpart, and god bless the poet for his DongPo marinated pork and the WangPu river for the yummy shrimps. aside from good food, the service also gets a face lift... waitresses doning dinner gowns, personal dinning space with soft leather sofas and a toilet just for you... how good can it get.

getting to places was never easy in this hot, sticky summer day. but i didnt hav to sweat too much, taxis were everywhere and they were cheap, so cheap i use them just to get to the end of a block... :] life can be too good sometimes.

but all things good do have an end i suppose, this morning i find myself awaken by the searing morning sun through the window. the fan didnot help a bit i find myself longing sorely for the comfort i had left behind.

back in beppu much has to be done.
to break a little good news, my application for lodging at tokyo has been granted, a decent dorm for 30,000yen including 2 meals (roughly RM1,000 or USD300). it will be quite a big sum now that i m stripped off a scholarship. but alas, a place i can call my own in the busy metropolitan tokyo.

another news is that i shall attend the Southeast asia seminar in Kyoto university in 5-7th September, hooray for an opportunity to visit my favourite city in Japan. i ll b there for 3 days to listen to papers presented and hopefully discuss about my research in Japan.

because of this, i shall hav to double my effort in perfecting my paper for the seminar. still much to read and write. read i must for the 2 year ahead and write well i must if i should get funding in tokyo. ahh... such is uncertainty in life. but as they all say... ce la vie

coming soon, photos of shanghai and xihu of hangzhou.

cheers,