hello again from China!
had to climb over the firewall
so might as well blog about today
started today early
slept at 2, woke up at 6
and were down exploring
had some street breakfast
then it was a long way
checked out by 9 something
caught an express bus to the train station
managed to buy ticket
departing in 1 hour
that’s fine for us
but to be warned that
it was a “seatless” seat
from the billboard
looked like tickets for the day
have all been sold off
i was trying to console myself that
that’s quite ok as
it’s seatless as in
there’s no proper sofa seat with number
but with some stools next to the windows
to our horror
no there’s none
and for 2 and a half hours
we were sitting on the floor
and blocking the gates
in other words whenever
the train approached a station
we had to get up to allow other
passengers to exit or enter
this is a long haul train from
Shenzhen to Nanjin
so it’s kinda understandable
why the tickets are in high demand
our counterparts on the right door
whenever the train approached a station
we were “competing” against each other
hoping that the door will open on the other side
by the way isn’t that really cool
so we got to Putian by 2 PM
and took a 45 minute bus to the jetty
thank goodness it was a short 10 minute wait
and a 15 minute ferry ride to land on the island
the hotel management was kind enough
to drop me an email that
they provide pick-up service
from the jetty once we land
but too bad i didn’t make use of it
as i wasn’t even sure
what time will I be landing
so we paid 30 RMB
to take a electric car ride
which landed us in the middle of
an attraction and
we had to figure our own way
walking into the village
it was that kind of comfort of
coming home after a long day
lovely, really lovely
thought that was the end of
a long tiring day
but it wasn’t
got an email from client
for a minor task
and i just wanna get it done quick
look i have a modem
and working LAN cable in the room
but still the particular website
i was trying to access didn’t work
not blocked but the connection was really bad
so i had to go on roaming again
to find that the signal was kinda weak
being “stranded” on an island
got my client to send me an
offline copy to work on
but it was locked for some reasons
with quite a lot of complicated macros
thank goodness
the signal on my phone got better
when i moved to the window
and manually selected 3G network
instead of LTE/3G
but it actually took me almost 2 hours
to get these 200 words done
and got emails from 2 client
about invoicing issues
the same goes to our journey here
it took us two days to land here
in fact have visited
nothing in particular yet
but thank goodness
a really awesome room cured it all
and there’s a new
Wangkai’s series at 9PM
<When a Snail Falls in Love>
i read and finished the novel
simply because i can’t wait for it
after the series was announced
7 minutes to 9 PM
let’s hope that’s all for today
what a long day