Back in Shanghai now - for the weekend that is.

Yes, only for the weekend. Will head down to the Singapore on Monday bright and early. Audrey has to teach a course and I'll take the opportunity getting myself focus back to my own work and finishing up my Total Immersion intro swim sessions.

I missed the HK and Macau Olympic Torch relays. Event likes this, too many people and too many things could go wrong. Best to skip. Apparently, the route for Macau runs passed the street just a skip from my apartment.

I left Macau early for HK on Friday morning so I could get all my banking done in HSBC. Well, good thing. Doing things normally would have taken me 1/2 hours, it took me over 3 hours! 3 hours! To activate a credit card, a new one, took over 45 minutes. Good that I made the HSBC staff to do that for me. I wasn't going to waste my LD charges from Shanghai trying to call the HSBC credit card calling centre. Even the employee was frustrated. She kept getting cut off or routed to different department because the other end "refused" to answer the call. Then trying to reactivate my business account's Internet access, I had to go to a different and waited. And to get it working, I have to get back to the bank to the basement to obtain half of the info; the other half, the bank mails to you. Talk about security to the nth degree. But that's not security, that's dumb.

Had too much bad food in Macau. Rushing around for the funeral and all. First night back to Shanghai, we went to a new Chinese vegetarian restaurant; nice; felt good; maybe that was the reason we slept until 1030am.

It has been a lovely day here in Shanghai -> 27C or so. Summer is definitely here. We walked all over doing our errands. Got lots done. As "visitors" to Shanghai, one needs to register with the police; so off we went. Well, it turns out we need to register each time we arrive back to Shanghai. I am not dedicated. Since I am in and out every 3 days or so, I'll do it after all my trips. Most likely in June.