I'm sitting in the internet cafe at our hotel- Silver Gold Garden or some ridiculous name like that. Luckily it's close to the airport, around $20, and it's clean. I'm installing skype on the computer so I can chat with my dad about new job stuff. (More on that after I've signed a contract!)
I almost didn't make it here. I've been stressed with thinking about this potential new job and giving my leave notice at current job and somehow packed my recently expired passport in my bag. Anyway, we get there nice and early and zy pulls out the passports and tickets and gives them to the guy and he's like, this passport isn't going to work... And I felt like throwing up right there on the counter. So zy runs to get in a taxi and go home to get it (we're like 25 minutes away- the guy said we had less than an hour before they'd close check in) and about 15 minutes later he calls and says he forgot the house key!! So he had to come back (15 more minutes) and get the key... By now he technically had like 30 minutes to be back and was talking about just giving up. I was trying not to cry.
So I checked out China Air to see if they had any flights and they did but it was the same price for a one way as we paid for roundtrip. I went back to waiting by the check in counter for zy calling every 10 minutes to see where he was and to tell him to tell the driver to drive faster. The ticket guy came up to me and was really nice and asked how soon zy would be back because he wanted to get us both on the flight if at all possible. Usually they're like, you have exactly x amount of time to check in and if you don't, it's too bad for you. So anyway, zy made it back by 5pm and we ran in and made out 5:50pm flight with no other problems. There were no lines in security whatsoever! It was pretty amazing.
So anyway, we are here now. It's 1:50am Beijing time, 12:50am Bangkok time. We have to be up at 6am to leave at 6:30am for our 7:45am flight to Samui. Still not sure if we'll sleep over a night there first or just go straight to where the ferries run between Samui and the other islands and head to Koh Tao or Koh Phangan... Hopefully we'll find a place for the first night and then scope out the other places and find the nicest place within our budget. What we found last time was that in Railey Beach at least you can bargain a bit with the hotels. I want to stay a few nights right on the beach in a bungalow and I don't need a/c. I'm a little nervous there will be obnoxious people over-running the island because next week is the full moon party but I'm going to try to not worry about it. I'm used to staying where there are like 15 resorts to choose from tops but Phangan I think has like 50!
Anyway I need to go. Will update soon...
February 28, 2009
February 23, 2009
Just Another Update... Can't think of a clever title.
Damn, last night I had all of these ideas for blogs seeing as I'm behind on my blogging and now that I'm sitting down ready to write, I can't think of a thing to write about. My brain doesn't work so well anymore and it can be really frustrating.
The most important thing on my mind right now is a possible new job. It is sudden. Just last week I had decided to give up looking for something new and just resign for another year. To get into the nonprofit "world" I had to take a big pay cut and move back to Beijing from Shanghai, which is what I wanted all along. I wanted to be in Beijing with ZY and I wanted to do nonprofit work. At the time the money didn't seem important and it was made to sound like I would have room to grow in this position. It has now been two years with the same salary and as I approach the end of my contract and get ready to resign, I know that my salary will continue to stay the same and it's a little frustrating for me as I begin to think about having kids and how we're going to pay for all of that when I'm the only one with an income.
Ah the pressures of being the bread winner.
I had an interview this past Saturday afternoon in Starbucks and I can't say it went well. I mean, there were no awkward pauses so that's good, right? On the other hand, I have this problem with talking in circles to answer a question when I'm not confident with one short answer. It didn't make things any better that less than a few feet away sat two old foreign men on their lap tops. I could have sworn that one of them was listening to the entire conversation and that made me even more nervous. I started imagining what he was thinking about me! Such as... "Wow, this girl is really screwing up her interview" or "Damn, her face is getting really red. How embarrassing for her! She's never going to get the job."
The man interviewing me was from a headhunter company that is doing some pro bono work for this nonprofit organization. He told me there were a few other people in the running for this job and that we would all be interviewing with this org's executive director when she was in town this week. At the end of the interview he told me that he thought I was too young and didn't have enough life experience for the position but did say that the exec director was more interested in our chemistry. So I have hope yet although I am the underdog! I don't have an interview time yet as he is going to talk to her today and set it up. In the back of my mind I keep thinking he's going to talk me down and she's going to decideto not even meet me which would be a damn shame. For her and for me.
Yesterday met up with Emily and Jess to talk about the interview and they helped prep me. It's really all about me having confidence in my skills and in myself and selling myself. I can be timid sometimes and down on myself and I need to be really confident tomorrow. It was nice hanging out with them over happy hour drinks and nachos. I think we've decided we just have to set a schedule for meeting up or it won't happen. Like, every other Monday night we do dinner or drinks.
Anyway, the interview's tomorrow hopefully and I will soon have an update before I'm off to Thailand! Yes, you heard me right, I'm heading to Thailand this Friday night. I have some annual leave to use before my contract's up and the tickets to Thailand were cheap! Of course once everything is multiplied by 2 it doesn't seem so cheap anymore... but it doesn't matter. We'll start saving when we get back. Like we always do... Right. Ok, that's a complete lie but it's a good intention and we really should try harder.
So we're heading to Koh Phangan. Not sure yet where we'll be staying but I should probably hurry up and at least book the first night! This is my 6th time to Thailand but first time going there so I'm excited and happy we decided to try something new. Thanks for the recommendations Ann and Jess! We love Krabi but we aren't going climbing this time so we might as well go somewhere else. I'm going fake tanning for the next few days to try to work on a base but after 2 times, I'm not seeing much of a difference. The only color I got after yesterday's session are red butt cheeks. Ah well. I'll keep trying. I don't want to get there and be peeling and in pain and shit like usual. It takes me a while to get a nice tan going...
What else? Just went to the dentist and had two cavities drilled and filled and had my crown finally put in. No pain this time surprisingly and no numbing. It's great! And my teeth feel fine and they're not too high so I'm very satisfied with my dentist's work but not by the fact that I'm going to owe them like 2-3000 dollars for the work that wasn't covered by insurance. They only cover USD1000 per year for zy and I and we both racked up some expensive bills at the hospital. That's another reason we shouldn't be taking this trip to Thailand. I've never been good at giving up some things so that I could be responsible and save. I usually borrow until I get the money to pay them back. It's really bad! And to think I think I'm ready to be a mom. I don't know if I'm responsible enough...
Ah, it was zy's birthday this past Saturday and on Friday night we had some of his friends over for dinner. For dessert he had requested I make his favorites: pecan pie tarts and these chocolate covered cake balls. The cake balls are kind of strange but super easy to make. You make a chocolate cake (they say a box mix is fine but the second time I made them I made the cake from scratch) and then mash it up into crumbs in a bowl and add a thing of store bought icing (second time I also made the icing from scratch) and mix it together. Then form balls, put in freezer to harden then dip in melted chocolate (chips). The pecan pie tartlet thingies are super good with cream cheese, butter and flour in the crust and the filling is basically brown sugar, vanilla, and an egg or two. Oh and a few pecans. I didn't have a thing to make tarts so I used a small cupcake pan. Desserts were great and Valentina even made her first cheesecake which happened to be a Bailey's white chocolate cheesecake... Oh my! I was happy everyone was stuffed and couldn't finish the cheesecake and have been enjoying eating it for breakfast the last 2 days!
For dinner he wanted mashed potatoes and I made a huge pot of them. I also slow cooked beef and carrots and onions, made some terriyaki baked chicken, spinach curry, cheesy broccoli and garlic bread. It was a random menu but not one of my most random ones so I was doing OK. The beef and gravy was going to taste wonderful over my awesome mashed potatoes (why are they awesome? because I don't skimp on the butter, cream and salt and pepper). The only problem was that I had made the mashed potatoes the night before and was originally going to cover them and put them out on our balcony to keep them cool. In the end I thought, no big deal, there is no meat or whatever to go bad. I'll just leave them on the counter in the kitchen. Well, as I was heating them up the next night I tasted them and realized they had completely turned sour. I guess all of that milk and cream in them needed to be refrigerated! I tried to add milk and more salt but no, there was no hope for my potatoes and I almost cried. I had been picking at them the night before and they were awesome so it really sucked, especially because zy had been raving about them to his friends and was looking forward to them.
So I learned a lesson the hard way. Cliche, cliche but oh so true.
OK I think I've written enough to make up for last week. I'm going to be adding some new photos on flickr soon so check them out: www.flickr.com/sarahvoss.
The most important thing on my mind right now is a possible new job. It is sudden. Just last week I had decided to give up looking for something new and just resign for another year. To get into the nonprofit "world" I had to take a big pay cut and move back to Beijing from Shanghai, which is what I wanted all along. I wanted to be in Beijing with ZY and I wanted to do nonprofit work. At the time the money didn't seem important and it was made to sound like I would have room to grow in this position. It has now been two years with the same salary and as I approach the end of my contract and get ready to resign, I know that my salary will continue to stay the same and it's a little frustrating for me as I begin to think about having kids and how we're going to pay for all of that when I'm the only one with an income.
Ah the pressures of being the bread winner.
I had an interview this past Saturday afternoon in Starbucks and I can't say it went well. I mean, there were no awkward pauses so that's good, right? On the other hand, I have this problem with talking in circles to answer a question when I'm not confident with one short answer. It didn't make things any better that less than a few feet away sat two old foreign men on their lap tops. I could have sworn that one of them was listening to the entire conversation and that made me even more nervous. I started imagining what he was thinking about me! Such as... "Wow, this girl is really screwing up her interview" or "Damn, her face is getting really red. How embarrassing for her! She's never going to get the job."
The man interviewing me was from a headhunter company that is doing some pro bono work for this nonprofit organization. He told me there were a few other people in the running for this job and that we would all be interviewing with this org's executive director when she was in town this week. At the end of the interview he told me that he thought I was too young and didn't have enough life experience for the position but did say that the exec director was more interested in our chemistry. So I have hope yet although I am the underdog! I don't have an interview time yet as he is going to talk to her today and set it up. In the back of my mind I keep thinking he's going to talk me down and she's going to decideto not even meet me which would be a damn shame. For her and for me.
Yesterday met up with Emily and Jess to talk about the interview and they helped prep me. It's really all about me having confidence in my skills and in myself and selling myself. I can be timid sometimes and down on myself and I need to be really confident tomorrow. It was nice hanging out with them over happy hour drinks and nachos. I think we've decided we just have to set a schedule for meeting up or it won't happen. Like, every other Monday night we do dinner or drinks.
Anyway, the interview's tomorrow hopefully and I will soon have an update before I'm off to Thailand! Yes, you heard me right, I'm heading to Thailand this Friday night. I have some annual leave to use before my contract's up and the tickets to Thailand were cheap! Of course once everything is multiplied by 2 it doesn't seem so cheap anymore... but it doesn't matter. We'll start saving when we get back. Like we always do... Right. Ok, that's a complete lie but it's a good intention and we really should try harder.
So we're heading to Koh Phangan. Not sure yet where we'll be staying but I should probably hurry up and at least book the first night! This is my 6th time to Thailand but first time going there so I'm excited and happy we decided to try something new. Thanks for the recommendations Ann and Jess! We love Krabi but we aren't going climbing this time so we might as well go somewhere else. I'm going fake tanning for the next few days to try to work on a base but after 2 times, I'm not seeing much of a difference. The only color I got after yesterday's session are red butt cheeks. Ah well. I'll keep trying. I don't want to get there and be peeling and in pain and shit like usual. It takes me a while to get a nice tan going...
What else? Just went to the dentist and had two cavities drilled and filled and had my crown finally put in. No pain this time surprisingly and no numbing. It's great! And my teeth feel fine and they're not too high so I'm very satisfied with my dentist's work but not by the fact that I'm going to owe them like 2-3000 dollars for the work that wasn't covered by insurance. They only cover USD1000 per year for zy and I and we both racked up some expensive bills at the hospital. That's another reason we shouldn't be taking this trip to Thailand. I've never been good at giving up some things so that I could be responsible and save. I usually borrow until I get the money to pay them back. It's really bad! And to think I think I'm ready to be a mom. I don't know if I'm responsible enough...
Ah, it was zy's birthday this past Saturday and on Friday night we had some of his friends over for dinner. For dessert he had requested I make his favorites: pecan pie tarts and these chocolate covered cake balls. The cake balls are kind of strange but super easy to make. You make a chocolate cake (they say a box mix is fine but the second time I made them I made the cake from scratch) and then mash it up into crumbs in a bowl and add a thing of store bought icing (second time I also made the icing from scratch) and mix it together. Then form balls, put in freezer to harden then dip in melted chocolate (chips). The pecan pie tartlet thingies are super good with cream cheese, butter and flour in the crust and the filling is basically brown sugar, vanilla, and an egg or two. Oh and a few pecans. I didn't have a thing to make tarts so I used a small cupcake pan. Desserts were great and Valentina even made her first cheesecake which happened to be a Bailey's white chocolate cheesecake... Oh my! I was happy everyone was stuffed and couldn't finish the cheesecake and have been enjoying eating it for breakfast the last 2 days!
For dinner he wanted mashed potatoes and I made a huge pot of them. I also slow cooked beef and carrots and onions, made some terriyaki baked chicken, spinach curry, cheesy broccoli and garlic bread. It was a random menu but not one of my most random ones so I was doing OK. The beef and gravy was going to taste wonderful over my awesome mashed potatoes (why are they awesome? because I don't skimp on the butter, cream and salt and pepper). The only problem was that I had made the mashed potatoes the night before and was originally going to cover them and put them out on our balcony to keep them cool. In the end I thought, no big deal, there is no meat or whatever to go bad. I'll just leave them on the counter in the kitchen. Well, as I was heating them up the next night I tasted them and realized they had completely turned sour. I guess all of that milk and cream in them needed to be refrigerated! I tried to add milk and more salt but no, there was no hope for my potatoes and I almost cried. I had been picking at them the night before and they were awesome so it really sucked, especially because zy had been raving about them to his friends and was looking forward to them.
So I learned a lesson the hard way. Cliche, cliche but oh so true.
OK I think I've written enough to make up for last week. I'm going to be adding some new photos on flickr soon so check them out: www.flickr.com/sarahvoss.
February 11, 2009
Nothing Too Exciting
I used to blog like every day but since my first and last blog post, I've been finding it harder and harder to write again. I think part of the reason is that my life is pretty boring.
Well, going to Shanghai was nice. I went for meetings and to visit a foster home and made it into an overnight trip (per my friend Ann's urging) and I'm glad I did. The first night we went out for awesome Italian food (and cheap draft Stella at Dimarco's) and then to H&M. The next day, after I finished work, I went to another H&M. I love that place. I spent way too much money (that was supposed to be saved up for a vacation) but I got some great work clothes and cute accessories. It was just nice being back in Shanghai. I miss it. There's something about the air that feels/smells different and cleaner and wetter. It's definitely more humid down there which you really notice in the summer when you're always drenched in sweat and in the winter when your clothes don't dry (we don't have driers over here in China for the most part). But I do love the city. There's something about it that just makes you want to go out and spend money so maybe it's a good thing I'm back in Beijing! The dangerous thing is that an H&M is supposedly coming to Beijing (The Village!) in March of this year... meaning everyone's going to be wearing the same things!
What else happened last week... last Friday, after I got back from Shanghai, I met up with my girl friends at Alfa for 80's Night although it ended up not really being much of an 80's night as the dj played hits from the 70's and the 90's. Strange but not necessarily bad... I wore a new, cute H&M dress that was a bit too short and did my best to wear 80's style make up (pink cheeks and aqua/gold eye shadow). I snuck an old bottle of Thai whiskey I found in my cabinet from last year's honeymoon in Thailand and a can of diet coke into the bar and drank that. It wasn't as bad as it sounds actually, though no one wanted to share it with me. Couldn't handle it like hardcore me, I guess. Found out my friend is pregnant so she went home early and the others eventually went home as well. Val, Emily, Bekka and I headed to Tun and on the way Bekka's cell phone was found to be missing. When we went to look for it, Val disappeared and I got a message shortly after saying she had gone home as she had to work the next day. We still went to Tun despite being one phone short and once we got there and did a quick walk-through Emily decided to go home. Bekka and I had a good time with the help of some shots and drinks from a long lost "friend" I knew from Lush gigs. As I remember, I was just talking to some nice guy the whole time, trying to be a good friend and set him up with Emily. Bekka was alternating between dancing and talking to guys who were hitting on her. They swarmed around her but the assholes quickly ran away whenever it came out that she was married. No one could believe their luck that we were BOTH married. Luckily Bekka got down off the table just before two people fell off. It was a bar table and quite high and some people were dancing up there. I don't know what happened but they both fell off and seemed to be in shock afterwards. It didn't look fun but Bekka's right, it's probably better they were drunk when it happened but damn, the next day they had to be hurting! So that was our big night out. I rarely ever get drunk and have a good time and relax so I'd say the night was quite successful.
Saturday I took it easy. We had dinner with some friends and then went to The Bar, Cang Ku, for a few hours but I went home early. Sunday I cooked dinner and we had my brother, Bekka, and Taylor to eat, play Little Big Planet (or Big Little Planet??) and to talk about this new project Taylor wants to start doing. I'm especially excited about this. This could be what I needed as a hobby. I think it'll be great for zy to get to work with him and get to work on some new ideas. He is kind of set in his ways and this will force him to think more creatively about filming band videos, etc. I will write more once things are set up! This week I've been calling some bands to set something up for this Sunday. Hopefully it works!
Monday we went to eat with Hu Song and friends again because it was Yuan Xiao Jie which is the last big day of the Chinese New Year holiday. You're supposed to eat dinner with your family and you're supposed to eat yuan xiao (little boiled gummy rice balls filled with sesame or peanuts in a clear soup) and jiao zi. It's the last day for fireworks too so the streets were covered with the remains of fire crackers. Since zy is not speaking to his sister right now, he didn't want to go home so we ate out with friends, our second famiy, who also weren't with their relatives. Went to Cang Ku (again!) and hung out until we heard the building next to the big CCTV pants building was burning. By the time we got there, the fire was out so zy only got to film the smoking building but I guess it was exciting for him anyway.
Yesterday had to register again at my local, friendly police station. Foreigners have to register whenever they arrive in China within a certain number of days. I have been kind of slack about the whole thing but haven't ever gotten in trouble for it. My passport expired last month, after 10 years, and so I had to renew my visa and in turn my registration form. It was easy and pain-free as we had a copy of the housing contract, the landlord's ID, and the housing certificate all ready to go. I'm just now getting the hang of it. This is kind of a random post but at least it's a post and Ann can stop bugging me about it. :)
Oh and no more about the diet will be on this blog. Ugh. I will try to do it on my own but the last week has not been a good one for the diet. That's all I have to say about that...
Well, going to Shanghai was nice. I went for meetings and to visit a foster home and made it into an overnight trip (per my friend Ann's urging) and I'm glad I did. The first night we went out for awesome Italian food (and cheap draft Stella at Dimarco's) and then to H&M. The next day, after I finished work, I went to another H&M. I love that place. I spent way too much money (that was supposed to be saved up for a vacation) but I got some great work clothes and cute accessories. It was just nice being back in Shanghai. I miss it. There's something about the air that feels/smells different and cleaner and wetter. It's definitely more humid down there which you really notice in the summer when you're always drenched in sweat and in the winter when your clothes don't dry (we don't have driers over here in China for the most part). But I do love the city. There's something about it that just makes you want to go out and spend money so maybe it's a good thing I'm back in Beijing! The dangerous thing is that an H&M is supposedly coming to Beijing (The Village!) in March of this year... meaning everyone's going to be wearing the same things!
What else happened last week... last Friday, after I got back from Shanghai, I met up with my girl friends at Alfa for 80's Night although it ended up not really being much of an 80's night as the dj played hits from the 70's and the 90's. Strange but not necessarily bad... I wore a new, cute H&M dress that was a bit too short and did my best to wear 80's style make up (pink cheeks and aqua/gold eye shadow). I snuck an old bottle of Thai whiskey I found in my cabinet from last year's honeymoon in Thailand and a can of diet coke into the bar and drank that. It wasn't as bad as it sounds actually, though no one wanted to share it with me. Couldn't handle it like hardcore me, I guess. Found out my friend is pregnant so she went home early and the others eventually went home as well. Val, Emily, Bekka and I headed to Tun and on the way Bekka's cell phone was found to be missing. When we went to look for it, Val disappeared and I got a message shortly after saying she had gone home as she had to work the next day. We still went to Tun despite being one phone short and once we got there and did a quick walk-through Emily decided to go home. Bekka and I had a good time with the help of some shots and drinks from a long lost "friend" I knew from Lush gigs. As I remember, I was just talking to some nice guy the whole time, trying to be a good friend and set him up with Emily. Bekka was alternating between dancing and talking to guys who were hitting on her. They swarmed around her but the assholes quickly ran away whenever it came out that she was married. No one could believe their luck that we were BOTH married. Luckily Bekka got down off the table just before two people fell off. It was a bar table and quite high and some people were dancing up there. I don't know what happened but they both fell off and seemed to be in shock afterwards. It didn't look fun but Bekka's right, it's probably better they were drunk when it happened but damn, the next day they had to be hurting! So that was our big night out. I rarely ever get drunk and have a good time and relax so I'd say the night was quite successful.
Saturday I took it easy. We had dinner with some friends and then went to The Bar, Cang Ku, for a few hours but I went home early. Sunday I cooked dinner and we had my brother, Bekka, and Taylor to eat, play Little Big Planet (or Big Little Planet??) and to talk about this new project Taylor wants to start doing. I'm especially excited about this. This could be what I needed as a hobby. I think it'll be great for zy to get to work with him and get to work on some new ideas. He is kind of set in his ways and this will force him to think more creatively about filming band videos, etc. I will write more once things are set up! This week I've been calling some bands to set something up for this Sunday. Hopefully it works!
Monday we went to eat with Hu Song and friends again because it was Yuan Xiao Jie which is the last big day of the Chinese New Year holiday. You're supposed to eat dinner with your family and you're supposed to eat yuan xiao (little boiled gummy rice balls filled with sesame or peanuts in a clear soup) and jiao zi. It's the last day for fireworks too so the streets were covered with the remains of fire crackers. Since zy is not speaking to his sister right now, he didn't want to go home so we ate out with friends, our second famiy, who also weren't with their relatives. Went to Cang Ku (again!) and hung out until we heard the building next to the big CCTV pants building was burning. By the time we got there, the fire was out so zy only got to film the smoking building but I guess it was exciting for him anyway.
Yesterday had to register again at my local, friendly police station. Foreigners have to register whenever they arrive in China within a certain number of days. I have been kind of slack about the whole thing but haven't ever gotten in trouble for it. My passport expired last month, after 10 years, and so I had to renew my visa and in turn my registration form. It was easy and pain-free as we had a copy of the housing contract, the landlord's ID, and the housing certificate all ready to go. I'm just now getting the hang of it. This is kind of a random post but at least it's a post and Ann can stop bugging me about it. :)
Oh and no more about the diet will be on this blog. Ugh. I will try to do it on my own but the last week has not been a good one for the diet. That's all I have to say about that...
February 2, 2009
Stomach Bug
Ugh, I don't know what I ate but last night I was in the ER getting fluids pumped into me. Yesterday was Sunday and at noon we headed down to the famous Wang Fu Jing Foreign Language Bookstore. I was pleasantly surprised by the selection. In my excitement to find English books for about the same price as what they sell for in the States I bought ten books, including one on Barcelona.
I am planning a trip to visit my dear friend Kim in Barcelona. She's been there for the last year and a half and if I want to see her within the next 5 years, I'm going to need to make the trip. I have put it off for too long. I called today about ticket prices and they are RMB9000 (stopping in France!). That's like $1300! Damnit. If I'm going, I want to bring ZY along as neither one of us has been to Europe before. So I'm kind of bummed about that. Not sure how we'll make it there but we'll keep saving and looking for better prices. Argggg!
Anyway, after the bookstore, we walked around Wang Fu Jing and inside Oriental Plaza where I tried to find the Wagas. It turned out Wagas is in another building so we ended up eating at this Shanghai xiao long bao (a type of dumplings with soup and meat in the middle) place instead. I'm not sure if this is where I got sick or what because zy was fine and he ate the same stuff. Anyway, on the way home I started to feel sick and tired and went straight to bed at 4pm. By 5pm, I had a fever and it got worse and worse. ANYWAY, I felt much better the next day and was at work and the following day I felt like I had never gotten sick in the first place... So I had the 24 hour bug I guess.
Man, my blog entries just get better and better. :)
I am planning a trip to visit my dear friend Kim in Barcelona. She's been there for the last year and a half and if I want to see her within the next 5 years, I'm going to need to make the trip. I have put it off for too long. I called today about ticket prices and they are RMB9000 (stopping in France!). That's like $1300! Damnit. If I'm going, I want to bring ZY along as neither one of us has been to Europe before. So I'm kind of bummed about that. Not sure how we'll make it there but we'll keep saving and looking for better prices. Argggg!
Anyway, after the bookstore, we walked around Wang Fu Jing and inside Oriental Plaza where I tried to find the Wagas. It turned out Wagas is in another building so we ended up eating at this Shanghai xiao long bao (a type of dumplings with soup and meat in the middle) place instead. I'm not sure if this is where I got sick or what because zy was fine and he ate the same stuff. Anyway, on the way home I started to feel sick and tired and went straight to bed at 4pm. By 5pm, I had a fever and it got worse and worse. ANYWAY, I felt much better the next day and was at work and the following day I felt like I had never gotten sick in the first place... So I had the 24 hour bug I guess.
Man, my blog entries just get better and better. :)
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