Yo, all. The primary reason I'm posting at this insane hour is that I aspire to avoid replicating yesterday's mistake (i.e. missed my flight by a mile and a half).

At that particular point in time (10a, yesterday), I felt like I was the stupidest person on planet.

However, upon further reflection, it wasn't all that bad because I earned myself Friday night in BJ. What's more, the part of the night that counts as Saturday is my b-day, which means I will be able to revel over the aging process for a really long time.

Furthermore, I'm flying F back! While I'm not normally one to boast about such stuff, I'm doing so now simply because that 767 I took from PDX to NRT a week back was really crappy.

Since it would be rude for me to complete this post without saying a few things about China, I would like to that now:

-China is an amazing country; while the growth stats might be overblown, they beat the hell out of Portland
-I spent y4000 in Shanghai over 3 days and didn't do anything cool (at all)
-The dim sum place I went to on Sunday messed with my stomach, big time
-I met with jiejie on Wednesday and she gave me the lay of the land
-I'll be back

It's 5:13a here and I have to crash for a few minutes (taxi arrives at 625a; I wanted 640 and the dude was offering 6; I'm pleased with the result,.... won't let him down, ......). I hope to post again from a fancy lounge in NRT within the next 12 hours (interesting, even snide, replies during the interim would be appreciated). 晚安