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... what could be more romantic?

 

The answer: a cosy weekend with Pi-kid in Shanghai.

 

(I will write a good one on our Langkawi story some time later, by the 1-year anniversary. I promise.)

 

The good thing about Shanghai is that I can find anything when it comes to food. The better thing is I can find many good food in the neighborhood. The best thing of course, is that, recently, I discovered that we can find the best food at home. My darling cooks! I was as surprised as she was. I guess some people are just gifted, and I won't be hungry for the rest of my life. :)))

 

Besides food hunt in the kitchen and in the city, there are just so many fun things we can do during a weekend. Swim in the pool to shake off the stress, and once, even yoga (yes, me and yoga, never thought possible but it did happen! I am Adidas' living evidence that impossible is nothing). Shopping for random stuff to fill up our apartment. Meeting friends for coffee. Or just stay home and do nothing. I am happy.

 

The hard part is to see you leave. I want you to stay but I know it is not your dream here. Neither of us has a real sense of belonging here. I probably feel more home in a spaceship than in Shanghai. Oh well, separations make reunions sweet. I should know better.

 

What I seem to understand less and less is my job. Maybe there are more known unknowns as there are more known knowns now. But crap aside, I can't help but begin to search for the "point" again. Well, there is none. Why can people live with such hypocrisy? Since it is about making money for money, why do we still pretend there is a greater good? I am sure I am ahead of many people in the race for a soulless, meaningless and unprincipled career. And the nightmare is I can't be bothered. I think my real passion was to become a lawyer, a defense attorney. Then ironically, I would truly become the absolute leader in that race. Well, maybe I can only thrive in the absence of ethics. Bad boy.

 

Year 2009 ... and Lunar Niu Year is coming. Anyone coming back to China for holidays? Drop me a note if you swing by Shanghai. Last month, I met li hao, liuhang, sheep, pig, xiaodong and co, haidong, ding'an, laoda and co, selina and xuxiao. This month, so far, I know Qingyue will be back.

 

I am suddenly having the hots for soccer again.

I am troubled with words lately. Must be the weather. It's too cold. Living in a tropical country for some years, I guess I still need some adjusting. The more I write, the less it sounds like a blog to me. Just some random thoughts put together.

 

I am still in Shanghai. Moved to a place only 5 minutes walk away from work. well, that didn't change my working hours. But living close to work and knowing that you can be in office within 5 minutes in times of emergency does add some comfort and peace to my inner world (and my boss's maybe).

 

What else does the change of address change? oh, no more need for taxis, so my most frequently used form of motorized transpotation is the D-train now. Very frequent visits to hangzhou lately. Met this guy sitting next to me on a trip back home - him in shanghai, girlfriend in hangzhou - guy making most of the trips, just like any guy should. When we got off the train, I saw at least one of his legs is artificial. Bless him. From then, the distance between the two cities seem ... considerably shorter.

 

Travel was fun. Langkawi, being a less well known island, was a good experience. To top it off with the locals in their own homes celebrating the hari raya festival, it felt like all the beautiful streets and beaches of the island were just for the two of us. Come to think about it, there were other tourists and people, but it was all blurry, didn't matter. In an unfamiliar world, two P-kids got each other. What could be more romantic?

 

To be continued