Your day starts of quite normal. It’s any other day. You wake up. Have a shower. Get dressed. Do some work. You start to think “this day is pretty good”. You don’t expect that it’s going to get so much better.

You then decide that it’s time to take a risk. You have a chance; an opportunity; you grab it. Before taking that risk you think “Should I take the risk? This person has been a good friend to me. I enjoy chatting to her. I don’t want to lose such a friendship if my risk fails.” Finally, what you feel inside is to great. Your heart beats fast. It’s going to jump out of your body. You accept what you feel. You take the chance and hope for the best.

As soon as you do, your happiness begins to take off like a rocket. It’s like something that shoots you up into space. So high that you can touch the stars. You feel light. You’re flying.

When you hear that the person cares about you as much as you do and that person wants to give you as many smiles as you give her, you just want jump with joy. I will do my best to give her many more smiles.

Yesterday I decided to cook a cake. It was perfect! I don’t know if it was because she gave me power. I don’t know if it was just a coincidence, but I just want to think about the positive. All I know is that she gives me smiles. *you know who you are*

Take a look at it! (there are some cupcakes too)

Yesterday I had to go to the Japanese Language class. I stayed there for a while and chatted a bit. When I got back home I just relaxed. I ate. I smiled.

I’ve been sad for so long. Now I feel like I’m smiling inside as well as out.

Oh! I was able to sell my flat! I’m so happy! I was able to sell it for a profit! It’s great news! I’ll be moving into a nicer and better flat. It’s already designed. I’ll add some pictures as soon as I move into it. It’s only 5 minutes from my old flat.

I’m so glad that my life is full of luck at the moment!

These past 4 days have passed so fast. I tried to fix my sleep cycle but some things have happened to me that have made me stay up late, sleep in the afternoon or sleep all day.

I have to say, these past for days have been great. I feel alive. I feel excited. I feel like nothing can stop me. Don’t you like that feeling?

I’ve cooked some great food these days too! I tried making my father’s Smoked Turkey with Tagliatelle covered with pesto, cream, basil, oregano, and fresh herbs picked from the leaf. It’s flavour was great. Be carefull though! It can really fill your stomach up.

I’ve also cooked some nice breakfast. Sweet egg (Egg, milk and sugar), butter fried beef sausage, some chicken and baked beans with ground pepper on it. Filled me up nicely.

I went to the sauna yesterday and totally relaxed. I had a smile on my face the whole day, was it because of the sauna? because I was relaxed? or was it because of something else?

Omar called me quite alot these days. It gets a bit annoying when he repeatedly calls, but I know he calls me because he likes my jokes.

Everybody… smile! Even if your sad. Even if your angry. Just force your face to smile! If you can do that, then you know there is hope for your future for sure!

This song.. maybe shows have I feel at the moment. Do you understand what the song says? There are no words… but you can just feel it.

Today I ate Japanese Curry! My friend cooked it for me! It was very nice of her! It was beef? (or maybe lamb.. I always get confused), potato, carrot and rice. Tasted very good!

To eat it made me feel happy. When someone cooks for you, it means they care. They took their time to make something for you. It doesn’t matter if they are a stranger, a friend, or family. The meaning is always the same. So next time a friend offers you some food, don’t think about your stomach, think about the kindness in the food ^_^.

I finally downloaded My Name is Fame to show my friend. Was it enjoyable? Yes! If you’ve watched it, please share your opinions!

Ok I need to relax now, I still feel tired from my trip. -_-
(more…)

I’ll be adding Day 7 and 8 as soon as I manage to type it up then add ALL of the photos.

So coming back was extremely tiring. I had to go to the airport and pick up a black bag for Vanessa. Vanessa live’s close to my home and studies at the same universit as me. She’s been a great friend to me. It was kind of heavy but at least it wasn’t big. I already had one peice of hand luggage with me and I didn’t realize that the her bag was going to be a bit big so I had to put my hand luggage in the cargo. Thank God nothing broke ^_^

When I was on the plane I watched some of a Chinese movie called My Name is Fame. I SERIOUSLY recommend it to anybody wanting to watch a good movie. It’s about a washed out actor who makes it big again but along the way he helps out this girl make it. I know it doesn’t sound great, but just please believe me when I say it’s great.

After the movie ended, I started to feel a slightly greater respect for the Chinese culture. I started to reflect upon all of the things I did in Shanghai and started to think about what was special about it. Chinese people are loud and sometimes a bit direct. Some would say that this is a rude quality, but I don’t think so. I think it’s pure. The people show what they feel and don’t hide their emotions. I like that.

After arriving home from the airport I relaxed. I took it easy and ate some food. My house felt different. It felt empty. It was strange.

I then went to Vanessa’s home to drop off the bag and simply chat. I tried my best to share my experiences, my knowledge and my opinions on different subjects. I hope that what I said gave her new insight on her issue. We chatted until 4 am in the morning! At the end of the day, I walked home with a smile on my face.

Well today was a very crazy night! I don’t know what the hell happened.
To be honest, I think I’ll wait for Saleh to wake up tomorrow and let HIM type it up

So it’s Chinese New Year today! Happy new year to all those who celebrate it!
I woke up at 8:30 am today. My sleep cycle is fixed. To be honest, I woke up because of the hotel house keeping. I didn’t understand why they came so early. Later on Jianan told me it was because everybody wants to go home early so they can celebrate the new year.

Anyway, after getting up and having a shower. Myself and Saleh decided to go to McDonalds to get something to eat. I’m sorry to all those I’ve disappointed. I know I know, I should eat Chinese food, but I am just worried to try something when I’m VERY hungry. I usually try everything at least once. You will forgive me once you see the pictures of the food I had for dinner.

So after eating something fast, we walked on the street and looked at some stores. To be honest, we got quite alot of stares. Maybe it was because we were two foreigners walking around a little city. Who knows. I didn’t feel very comfortable, but I relaxed.

GuangZhou is rainy at the moment. It’s not heavy rain but very light mist. Tiny drops that go into your eye and annoy you. Just enough rain so that the floor is muddy. My shoes got dirty. After walking to the end I decided to call Jianan. It was already 2pm and he didn’t call me. So I gave him around 5 calls. No answer. We walked back to the hotel and went to print some papers. I’m working on a legal dissertation at the moment which I am getting research for.

At that time, I got ONE missed call from Jianan, so I called him. He said “Why don’t you answer your phone?” I said “I am the one who called you 5 times, and I sent you a text too which you didn’t reply. Come to the hotel and I’ll show you.” When he came I showed him my phone to prove what I said. Then he said “Yeah I went to shop with my parents and I arrived at 12:30pm, then I called you”.

So we went to the temple. I am told that it was built for the first ‘empress’ of China. It was quite big. There were alot of Buddha’s there. I decided to try and do the traditional prayer. You take some candles, light them, put the wax onto some incense, then light the incense so it’s a big flame. You then face North, bow three times, East, bow three times, West, bow three times, South, bow three times.

Saleh did the same. It was exciting to try it. Jianan asked me what I prayed for. I told him that I hoped that anybody that I met or had anything to do with my life, would have a great future. He asked me “how about yourself?”.. I thought hard.. “I want…Hmm… I want someone to love me as much as I love them.” I kneeled in front of the Buddha. I wished hard.

Jianan said that if you pray to a buddha and you mean it, you get good fortune. I hoped so.

Later on we looked around the temple and saw different areas, just as I was talking about love I received a text message. It said [Hi. Hope you are having a happy new year in China. I hope you have a warm heart] I thought it was strange, because I was just thinking about my heart. Then as I walked near an old temple building, I was telling Jianan about the price of a dog, then I felt something fall on my head. I looked on the ground and it was 10 Yuan. What??? Jianan and Saleh were in front me and there were no people there… I told them. Jianan said, your fortune is coming!
I was amazed… Did it fall from my pocket? Did something fall on my head and there was already 10 Yuan on the floor? I didn’t care. I want to believe that Buddha is giving me good fortune. So I will believe it for now.

I closed my eyes for a moment. I wished hard that I could meet someone special or that I could have a special relationship with someone I’ve already met. Please let it come true soon.

After we were done from the temple, we went to eat dinner with Jianan’s parents, their friends, and two Japanese guys. It was a fishing boat style restaurant. Sugoi! The food was on a spinning round table and it seemed like it was endless! So many choices! Different fish, prawns, vegetables, soup, egg, chicken, everything! I’ll show the pictures. I tried my best to communicate in Chinese and Japanese. So hard!

The Japanese man was a bit old. He said his name was Hiro Mitsu from Kyoto. He was a senior manager for a Japanese company in China. It was strange because there were Chinese managers and a doctor sitting with us on the table and they all were quite laid back and perhaps a bit serious, but the Japanese man was fun, tried his best to speak Chinese and English and laughed when I said something funny in my poor Japanese. He asked me if I ever went to Japan and then asked me why I went. I told him it was for Aiko… I told him Aiko was now gone. He smiled and said ‘open heart’. I didn’t understand. He smiled and raised his glass. “Ganbarei”. “Cheers”. I understood now. He was saying that I should have an open heart and he was wishing me that with his ‘cheers’.

As I was eating, fireworks started outside the restaurant. It was great to see the colours in the sky. Why couldn’t it happen everyday? After eating, we went to go light some of our own. It would have been more enjoyable if the rain had stopped, but it was still lightly falling.

We lit some fireworks, watched them, then left.

We were supposed to go to a club called SOS to dance until the new year but Jianan decided to go home and sleep. So now I’m left with the rest of the day wasted and it’s only 9:30. I think I’ll work on some assignments then maybe go out.

Happy New Year. It’s the year of the pig…

Jianan disappointed me again. Twice now he’s just made me waste time. It’s nice of him to take me around but it was his idea that I come to China. He convinced me that everyday he’d show me new and exciting things, but so far things have not been what he said it would be… Here are some examples:

1) Jianan said “Let’s go to my city. Don’t worry my driver will take us and bring us.” I said fine. Then today he said “Oh by the way tomorrow we need to buy the ticket for the train” (He means to Shanghai). I stayed quiet.

2) Yesterday Jianan said “lets go tomorrow to the club called SOS”. I said “cool! Lets do it!” He got me excited. Then today he said, “we have to choose chinese fireworks or the club. Fireworks start at 11pm”. I said “Oh ok. The fireworks are better because it’s special.” Then the fireworks started at 7:00pm…. so he said “we’re going to the club”. I got excited again “cool!”. So we went to the hotel room and decided to have a 1 hour relax time. Then he said “actually, I need to be with my family now. I can’t give you my time.” In my mind I was thinking “what the hell….”. A person should be with his family… but he’s going to be here for a month, I’m here for a few days, and he promised a few things. I said “no problem. see you later”.

3) Jianan said “My uncle just called and said there is a party on the 19th do you want to go?”. I said “it’s the 19th though… thats the day we go to Shanghai… I booked the hotel….” He said “it’s up to you.” I said “I’ll think about it and I’ll get back to you”. He was quiet for a few moments then he said “I haven’t seen my uncle in a long time so we have to go. We’ll go and then at 8pm we leave to Shanghai”. I don’t want to go to this party! It’s a family party… I want to be in Shanghai. I don’t want to waste so much time!

Why does he do this… he’s my friend but sometimes I get annoyed with this.

Maybe I just like to do exactly what we say we are going to do. Is anyone else like this?

Today started as any other day. I woke up a bit happy. I had the most greatest dream.
I dreamt I met someone. Everytime I held her hand I would be in another city. Once Doha, once Shanghai, once Tokyo, once London, once Sydney…. I just kept moving. Although I felt happy, I couldn’t see her face clearly and I kept trying to focus to see it. Just as her face was becoming clear, I woke up.

What could the dream mean?

Anyway, I woke up with a smile on my face. I checked my phone then went to the living room. I saw Jianan and Saleh sitting there. I fell on the sofa like I was a heavy brick. Jianan said “my father comes in 2 hours”. I thought “I don’t want to go to your city, I want to stay in Shanghai”. But I didn’t say it. I started to tell myself why it’s good to go to his city. 1) somewhere new. 2) maybe more traditional. 3) I can see how chinese new year is with the family.

Ok.

I get up to go to the shower and pack. Just as I am about to go into the bathroom, the bell rings. Jianan’s neice and her friend come. I guess that we are all going together to Guangzhou.
After having my shower and running everywhere to make sure my stuff is packed, Jianan tells me that there is no room in the car for my Jeep because he’s got two big bags, and two small bags… I got a bit annoyed because I only had one medium one and no where to put it. He told me to leave it at the hotel. Fine. No problem. So I left the bag at the reception and we all went to a chinese restaurant while waiting for Jianans father.

I ordered something called Pepper Steak. I thought it would be like a tradional pepper steak, but it wasn’t. The meat was amazingly soft. It was covered in a bean like sauch and onions. I loved it. Please try it if you ever go to China.

Jianan’s father arrived and after eating we all got in the van and drove to Guangzhou. Saleh turned to me and said “Jianan said it takes 2 hours and a half to get there.” I said “are you sure? ask him again” Saleh said “no.. I don’t want to, everytime I ask him he says it takes longer to get there, first it was 1 hour, then 1 hour and a half, then two… if I ask him anymore it will become 10 hours…” I laughed. I put my ipod into my ears. I looked out the window. I smiled. Life.

When we arrived I went to a hotel to get comfortable. It was quite nice. Apparantly Jianan said it was the best hotel in his city. It did look nice and the price was very amazing. For a double room it was 400 RMB.

After relaxing we went to his parents house to eat some dinner. I was sooo worried because I thought I would end up eating something strange. Thank God it tasted quite good!! Peace! ^_^Y. (you can see the picture of it).

We ate, chatted, and laughed.

When we were done we went back to the hotel because we decided to go to a club. Before then, Jianan was sitting on the chair smiling and silent. I said “why are you si—” *the door knocked*. I opened it and there was a girl… I said “What’s this?” I got worried… he said it was a chinese massage girl. I relaxed. I got a nice massage! It was great! She couldn’t understand any english so when I told her to massage my back stronger she didn’t know what I meant. So I got up and said “turn around, let me show you what I want.” As I was showing her, her eyes closed and she looked like she was enjoying it… So I said “I think you need to be paying ME…” I got up and common, my turn!! We tried to communicate and laugh and finally she wrote something in Chinese on a paper. I didn’t know what it meant. She pointed at my mobile. I said “my number?” she said ‘yes’. I thought “why not… it’s just a number”. So I gave her mine. An hour later I was so relaxed and decided to go to the club.

As I was getting ready my mobile got a message. It was from that girl. It had one line “IloveYou”. I got scared…. uh oh…

I didn’t want to think about it so I went to the club to dance. As I sat there, I was enjoying the bar, listening to the music and looking at the people. I turned to Saleh and Jianan and said, “the girls look prettier here than in Shanghai”. Jianan was happy I said that. Just as I picked up my drink to have a sip, Saleh said ” I know why”. “why?”. “They look Japanese”. He was right… The girls had a Japanese style. I started to think to myself, ‘am I Japan lover? Do I just love Japanese things without thinking?’.
Doesn’t matter I’m in China now and the girls were cute. I wasn’t going to do anything, but it’s nice to be surrounded by beauty. A nice atmosphere can make the mood more enjoyable. I just want to say that I don’t care where a person is from for me to be attracted. Attraction is attraction.

Remember! Give everyone a chance!

So I danced, met some people and they practiced their poor english with me and left. The people were so friendly to me!

I went back to the hotel, lay on the bed and I fell into my pillow. My head was like a rock. Dream time again.

Some taken from an email sent to Anri

At the moment I’m sitting down on the sofa while waiting for my friend to wake up.
(he slept late so he wanted a nap before we go out tonight). The thing is yesterday was valetine’s day and Jianan spent the night with a friend of his. I told him not to do anything with her because he might ruin his friendship with her, but he didn’t listen to me. So he ended up not scoring, confusing their relationship and sleeping at 9am… I was sure that we weren’t going anywhere that day.

I woke up around 10am. I was feeling tired from the day before of walking. My feet hurt from so much walking.

I decided to go to a road called Hua Hai Road. It’s basically a road full of shops. It’s a mix of traditional and modern style. It shows that they tore down quite alot of old stuff to put the new buildings up. I was enjoying walking down the road. The sun was not hot but it was bright enough to make me wish I brought my sun glasses. There was a cool breeze that was on my face.

I walked into a few stores and just looked around. Mostly window shopping. Along the road you could see trees, advertisement screens and golden pigs everywhere. Some looked cute, some looked ugly. When I reached the end of the road, I had to go over a bridge to cross to the other side. I told my friend Saleh to take some pictures. I felt stupid taking pictures on a bridge. Many people were looking at me. I felt like they were thinking “why are you taking pictures? It’s just a bridge!” I didn’t care I want as many pictures as possible. It’s nice to take alot of memories.

When I reached the other side, I saw a small road that looked very old. I decided I wanted to walk through there to take a look. It seemed traditional. Nothing exciting at all. All of a sudden I saw a place selling dvds. Great! They had DVDs for around 60pence. You know I dont understand how it could be so cheap. The packaging looks good. They use cardboard, good printing, plastic, and the cd looks good. I feel like it must cost at least 60p to make it!

After buying it I just walked back to the main road and looked around. There weren’t many shops, but the first thought that came to my mind as I reached the end again was “There are not very many pretty people”. Sorry I don’t want to sound like I am rude haha but I thought “1.6 billion people in China, why can’t I find any pretty people in Shanghai?”. My friend Saleh agreed with me. I mean, I’m seen some pretty girls back in the UK from China, why couldn’t I find any pretty Chinese girls in China? Maybe I wasn’t looking….

Before going back home, I noticed something from the corner of my eye. Mr. Donut! Yay! So I went inside and told my friend about the store and why the donut has the shape of a flower (Pon De Ring) and that it tastes very good! We bought some with some tea and we sat at the window to watch the people passing by.

As soon as we were done we decided to take a taxi. I must say that although alot of stuff is in English, alot of people don’t speak it. Getting a taxi was hard! (because they were all taken), but getting a taxi that could understand me was even more difficult!! Also, chinese people are not as patient as Japanese people. If you take more than 3 seconds with a chinese taxi, he leaves!! So remember that if you go to China!! No time to say hello! HEH HEH

example:
(Anri is a friend)
Anri: Hello…
Taxi: WHAT?!?!?!?!
Anri: Can you take me to –
Taxi: NO TIME!!!! I’m GOING!!
*Taxi drives away*

Now I’m back in my hotel. Waiting for my other friend Jianan to wake up. Hope the club will be exciting. I need
more stories to happen to me.

Update: well Jianan said he’d wake up at 10pm and we’d go to the club, it’s now 11:30 I think I’m going to go sleep early… I’m sad we wasted time. Anyway, tomorrow is another day.

15th Feb. 11:02am: Pictures added.

My first valentine’s day alone. Yes.. believe it or not this is my first valentine’s day alone since 8 years.
It’s not really a nice feeling. I know it’s obvious but having been used to being with someone for so long, it’s hard to imagine that you don’t have someone to share sweet moments with on this special day.

Today was a simple day. After waking up and sending a few valentines day wishes this morning, I treated this day as any normal day. I received some messages wishing me happy valentine’s day. The first two people were from people I didn’t even know that well! First one from Vanessa and the second one from Anri. I felt a warm feeling in my heart. I decided that I’d send out emails and text messages to all the people I know. So if they didn’t get a happy valentines card or wish, they’d at least get ONE from me.

I went to People’s Square. As soon as I arrived there my face immediately started to search around for great landmarks. All I could see were couples. Not one… not ten… but dozens! Just walking around. Hugging. Kissing. Rose women selling roses. What made me sad was I had nobody to buy a rose for.

So I looked around and enjoyed the area. There was a historical museum which closed. I took some photos and then decided to walk around a shopping center near by. Everything inside was red. You could see Golden Pigs (because of the new year) and flower petals everywhere. Most of the girls wore red jackets. It was such a nice view. As I was relaxing Jianan asked me “Do you remember what you did for your last valentine?”. I remembered. I didn’t want to today. I said “Yes. But I don’t want to think about it”. He understood.

We joked a bit about how me, Jianan, and Saleh were all single guys but a few moments later we were all silent. It was an uneasy silence. It was as if we all suddenly realized that it wasn’t funny.

Jianan told me his neice and his friend ‘Apple’ were coming over and they wanted to eat some Japanese food. I said ok. As we went the place was FUUULLL! We had to wait for 1 hour and 20 minutes to have a seat. It was called Sumo Sushi. I ordered some steak food which was sizzling, however the top half was raw…. I asked for it to be cooked for me and when it was brought back it tasted quite nice! The rest ordered sushi’s and sashimi.

After we were done we then went for a walk at the bund. The bright lights. The architecture. The couples.. -_-; again. It all looked so nice. The icey cold breeze blew on my face as I walked by the river. What a place it was. It was perfect to hold your love’s hand. Keep her close to keep her warm. My hands were empty. My heart was full.

No matter… I hope life will reward my patience and goodness.

To all those who read my blog or didn’t get a message from me. Happy Valentines Day. I mean it.

Copied from an email I sent to a friend called Anri.

I went to some shopping centers at first. I wanted to walk around Shanghai and see if I could buy anything. The first place I went to is like a technology mall. Lots of stuff! My chinese friend wanted to show me where are the best deals. Luckily, I know quite alot about technology and I can see if something is fake so easily. Actually, I really wanted to buy alot but I was too worried about buying fake stuff.

At the end of the day he said, ok I’m going to buy an external hard disk. So I said ok. After 5 minutes he said, look! I got 50RMB discount. Good bargain. So I smiled and said, please stand on the side let me talk to him. Two moments later and I came back and I said “Ok go buy it”. He said “what happened?”. I said “250 RMB discount.” I felt very happy and he was a bit shocked.

To be honest bargaining in the Middle East in tradtional markets is very important so I learned it at a young age.

Anyway, after that I went to buy some clothes. The funny thing is, I ended up buying some shirts from Uni Qlo. I know I know, I am Baka. But today I’ll be going to “People’s Square” so I can buy some Shanghainese stuff. After that I went to a shopping center and it was full of different stuff. In the middle though is a huge section full of Japanese stuff. So I went there and bought some Pocari and snacks. (As you can see, Japan interests me more :P) Well to be honest, in Doha, you can get alllll Japanese foods. The pocari was 1 pound here! In Doha it’s 20pence

When we were done we sat next to a juice stall and drank some juice. (I drank Mango and Orange which is Doha’s traditional drink when it’s hot outside! Try it please!)

Finally we went back home and relaxed. Later on we went to a famous restaurant called Shintori. (sounds Japanese neh?) But it’s all Chinese and Korean food. At the door there is NO handle, no opening. My friend smiled and said, if you can get in I’ll buy your dinner. So I looked around, and I saw a statue. I guess the statue must mean something. So as a joke I saw a crack and put my hand through it. The door opened! Luck!!! (Dinner time!)
This place was very nice but maybe a bit too dark. The fun thing is the bathroom. To go there is a maze of mirrors. So you can get lost and hit your head on the wall because it doesn’t show! Sugoi!

My friend’s friend from university came with us and we decided to go to a club. They said it’s a special VIP club so I said ok. It was called CD. I walked in, it looked cool. As I was having a drink and playing a game called “Dice”, I saw a line of girls come in and they lined up and a guy chose one. I didn’t know what this was. My friend said that they were party girls. They sit, drink, and say nice things to the man to make him feel cool. I thought it was a smart idea for the club so they could get more money from the man! After having a drink, I noticed the people dancing were boring. no moves. no special thing. So I decided to go break dance and show them how to be free hahaha. I got some smiles and claps. Enjoyed. Sat down. We then decided that we’d go to another club called “windows”. It’s not really a club. It’s basically a bar where people dance. I didn’t like it so much because it was all OLD music. Like old Rap. I can’t dance with rap music.

My friend Jianan got a drink from the bar. Bacardi shots. He gave one to his friend. Her name is “apple”. They tried a small sip and they thought it was a chinese drink. They said it was too strong. Actually it was quite strong because I sipped it. I said no it’s bacardi. My friend went to the bar to complain. The bar woman said No it’s bacardi, look at the bottle. There were some girls at the bar and they were looking at my friend. My friend looked like he was starting to get embarassed… I couldn’t let him be that.

So I quickly went to the bar, grabbed the drink and said “Common! Man time!” I said “one… two…. GO!” and he drank it. They clapped for him… Success!

There were many foreigners there, mostly black guys. I guess they are there because of the rap. I liked CD more. The DJ at Windows doesn’t even know how to mix the music. I wanted to go and ask if I could Dj a bit, but there is a rule for DJs. “A DJ should never make another DJ look bad”. No problem

So we drove around Shanghai looking at the night life and we then went home. I changed my clothes, went to bed and fell into a deep sleep!

So a few people know I’ve decided I needed a break. I needed to go somewhere to relax, get my mind off of things and take it easy. Oh if any family members read this, please don’t share this information with anyone… I have enough stress.
Solution? Shanghai. I’ve always wanted to go to Shanghai.
Luckily my friend offered to take care of everything I went so I said fine.
So I took a taxi to the airport. It took me 1 and a half hours. From the airport I had to wait for 3 hours. Then on the plane it took 11 hours. At shanghai the taxi took 1 hour to the hotel. So thats a LOOOONG journey.

I don’t need to say this but I was VEEERY tired. I decided that I’d take a little nap. So I told my friend to wake me up in 2 hours and to set an alarm. I wake up 4 hours later…. uh oh! I slept late. Ok I might as well sleep 1 more hour. So I go to sleep.
I wake up again, I look outside the window, it looks a bit darker. I thought “Oh it’s the next morning, I should sleep more until it’s time to go out”. So I sleep again. I wake up and I look at my phone, it says 2am. I thought it was England time. I look outside the window and it’s VEERY dark. I thought it was 9 am. I started to think….”is Shanghai this dark at 9am?”

I then discovered that my phone updated the time automatically. So it was really 2 am Shanghai time. A few moments later my friend wakes up. We start to watch some Chinese stuff on tv. I don’t know what the hell I’m watching, but I tried to understand what’s happening. It seemed like it was a comedy cooking challenge game show. I dont know…

Anyway, had a shower, ate some noodles, sat down, and now I’m on the blog.

Enjoy some photos of my hotel room. I got a good deal. 3 bedrooms, lounge, kitchen, two bathrooms. It’s called Celebrity Shanghai.

For those who read my blog, I want to share some wisdom. I looked at my photos of when I first went to England 5 years ago. You could see the innocense in my eyes, you could still see that there was 100% power glowing inside of me. Looking at my current pictures, I still look happy, however I feel like the innocense is gone and I’m at 75%.

As time passes by and you grow older, that is what happens. It is then that you realize that the only way you can recharge the power inside you is to have goals and to actually acheive them. I am requesting to all my readers that you all sit down and think of at least 3 goals you want in life. Go on. I’m waiting…

Done? Great. Now I want you to organize them by importance. Now you have something to aim for. Reach those goals and you will see that the power inside you will rize. I’m sorry to say that you will never be 100% again, but you say that 99% is good enough? No! I ask you to always reach for perfection. Even if it is impossible, that is what will drive you. That is what will give you a reason for doing what you do.

One day, you’ll find a person that will be the one you care about most in the world. At that point, think about it. Two people become one source of energy. So hopefully, your combined power will be over 100%.

Is it easy to understand what I’m trying to say?

Smile.