It’s 3
o’clock in the morning on a Saturday night and the only one who’s in a party mood
is my head. My humble self is actually trying to get some sleep in a cozy big bed in an awesome hotel in Shanghai. Yes, I’m in China. I think I
wouldn’t have so many troubles with sleeping here if I didn’t come back from a
one-week trip to Miami with my epic friend Anna. I’m totally jet lagged, this
may sounds funny coming from a Flight Attendant. Everyone thinks we get immune
by the time but it’s not true. I try to deal with a 13 hours’ time difference
from Miami to Shanghai which isn’t easy to handle; believe me. I fell asleep
around 6pm, woke up shortly before midnight – starving. So I put on some
clothes and went on food hunting. A family mart right next to the hotel made it
a bit too easy. Packed with ice cream, cookies and green tea I fell back on the
bed. I have never been happier to have my computer with me – and all 6 seasons
of Sex and the City. Being sleepless in Shanghai isn’t that bad with Carrie
Bradshaw and cookies.
5:15 a.m.
and I’m still wide awake. I have 15 minutes left until my alarm clock is
ringing and making fun of me: “Come on, wake up!!” Haha – I’m laughing my ass
off -.-
After this
exhausting day I should've literally fallen into bed like a sack of potatoes. In the
morning I went to this underground market right at the subway station “Technologie museum Shanghai”. I wanted to buy a warm down
jacket, a fake one of course. But I already woke up tired so I wasn’t really
keen on bargaining the whole morning and not at all on talking to hundreds of
Chinese who want to sell me a watch, some shoes or a vacuum cleaner. I spent 10
minutes there and ran back to the subway – followed by dozens of Chinese shop
keeper waving with their business cards “miiiiss, com baaack, seeeee, good
qualityyy.” RUUUUUUN!!
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| Subway, Shanghai |
Then I
thought about taking a relaxing sightseeing bus tour with the “Big Bus”
company. It was far from relaxing as I was running from one bus stop to another
– all day long – only to miss the bus by
a minute and wait for 30 more minutes. This happened on every stop I got off
the bus to see the skyline, a Buddha or just to grab some food. My Karma sucks. The only
relaxing stop was the one at the beautiful Jade temple where I was looking for
Buddha. He wasn’t hard to find as he was sitting in every temple, hanging around in every niche and was printed on every tourist’s T-shirt. While passing a Tamil family who’s having a
spontaneous fotoshooting in front of a temple (hahahahahaha) I recognized the strong smell of
smoke, it came from thousands of incense sticks. I’m pretty familiar to thhem as my
brother used to smoke out our whole house when he was a child. He was walking
through every room – like on a religious procession. Thank you my lovely brother,
thank you… :P (you know I love you)
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| Jade Temple, Shanghai |
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| Buddha, Jade Temple, Shanghai |
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| Jade Temple, Shanghai |
10 minutes
left. *sigh* I hope the return flight won’t be so stressful like the flight to
come here. I mean the flight was quite okay and I wasn’t acting so bad on my
business class introduction but there was this passenger. The one on 12k.
Chinese, middle age, acting like a king. Sorry, like an emperor (we wanna be
correct with all the history stuff here). The flight was more than 11 hours and
he really managed it not to talk to me, not to look at me and just gesturing
for like 10 hours. 90 minutes before landing, the sun was rising, we were just
about to serve breakfast I saw him smashing his pillow into his face while pressing
the call-button like crazy. I sighed, looked desperately at my colleague and made
my way to his seat. With a frozen smile and clenched teeth; I asked him what’s
going on. And guess what? The sun was shining in his precious face and he
wanted me to close the window blind. The window blind on the other side of his
row. At another passengers seat (awesome). So I went to seat 12a to close the
blind, he took away the pillow without saying thank you. He should’ve left the
pillow on his face.
Haha, sorry about that, I'm just so tired. xD
Haha, sorry about that, I'm just so tired. xD
8 minutes
to go… I just made a coffee with sweetener and milk powder. Tastes strange (awful to be honest) but I hope it will activate my brain cause I feel like a Zombie. Everytime
I was turning off my computer and put on my eye shades (To explain: I can’t turn off a lamp
in my room, I literally tried everything. Even to remove the hotel card but
this tiny little bastard is shining like there’s no tomorrow) my head was
having a party. “LEEEET’S GET THIS PARTY STARTED!!!” All night long. Computer back
on, some cookies and a green tea with Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda
(I’d die for a Cosmopolitan but yeah you know, work and stuff).
Alarm clock
is ringing. I don’t wanna get up. Please…… I should go and take a shower; maybe
it’ll make me human again…
*zombie-grunt*
Ari
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| Skyline of Shanghai |
