Before Jakarta

Alright, I am back in Shanghai. It took a long time getting back. Started at 530am! Replied emails, showered, the usual.... Then headed out the door at 7:15am. My ferry was at 8:15am; but with no taxis in town, I just couldn't take a chance; you could wait for an hour and nothing came. But I lucked out this morning; by 7:16am, I got one; by 7:28am, I got to the ferry terminal; here lied delima, should I chance an earlier ferry and got stuck to the "back of the bus" along with all the gamblers - "hecking" from their throats, listening to their gambling experience the night before in a very rough Cantonese local slang? In the end, I decided just to start quieting down from the running around to HK the last two days.

Everything was pretty much the quiet down, from slow walk to the Hong Kong Station, to the checking in, to the walk getting a coffee, to wait for the guy picking up some documents for me, to the Airport Express, to thru immigration and finally, sat down in the lounge overlooking one side of the runway. Got over an hour and a half, just read. And I had discovered that I am not a beer drinker. 1/2 a can.... Max. Too early for Scotch, Doug!

The Dragon Air flight was packed to the hill. We got delayed on the ground at HK due to Shanghai traffic control; u see, the military takes over everything in the air, so you get this tiny little corridor for the ever growing flight services into China. Just wait until Olympics and the 2010 World Expos.

Alright, signing off; my head begins to spin either from the sloshing around at the HK harbour after boarding ferry to Macau, or not enough coffee. It would have nothing to do with flight; Do u know Dragon Air has air filter that can filter things out as small as 0.3 micron?

Side note: There was a Lo's Board of Directors meeting in Macau two nights ago; due to the share structure, the two most senior directors have decreed the "no-host" lunch on Feb 4/08, will be a "hosted" lunch. Promised, this lunch will have a "meat" component! ;-)