Beijing is HOT.

Roads are forever changing, but some things never change. What’s strange is that this is my 3rd time coming back in 10 years, and this time I feel the most like coming home yet feeling there are things I feel most averted to.

A girl who has the perfect Beijing-accent (or so I’m told) but has such limited Beijing slang volcabulary, told the cab driver the name of the street my home is on but unable to lead him how to get back.

But in any case, I still love it here.

This time I actually enjoyed going to Forbidden City, even though the weather was as hot as ever. I also had a White Russian at a San Li Tun bar, saw the many foreingers and terrible smell of smoke filling up the dance floor.

Many people, many cars – not as many bicyles now.

My computer for some reason cannot connect to the internet, so it’s slightly inconvenient for me to post pictures. Maybe I’ll purchase a netbook soon so I could do that.

’til then, ciao!

Flight in about 8 hours. NYC-BEIJING.

Updates to follow!

最后一个论文，最后一场演讲，我的研究生第一年结束了。

接下来的又是一通收拾东西准备搬家。

5.28 Sex and the City 2 要在纽约放映了，擦肩而过让我有些惋惜。腰酸背痛至于坐下来看一集Sex and the City好了。

Central Park.

In case I haven’t said it enough times: I LOVE NEW YORK CITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7:17am.

It was a bit too hot in my room. I heard birds chirping their happy song, somebody from the neighboring building showering or cooking – and I opened my eyes, looked through the curtain and saw a piece of cerulean sky.  What a beautiful morning. Such an amazing gift God had given me to be alive and healthy, and be surrounded by peace beauty.

The beauty of having a birthday on May 5th is that usually final exams slash some important performances are around this time, and once this tough part of the year is dealt with success, I can burst out with happiness and enjoy the beautiful spring/summer day.

Especially – this year has been one of the hardest years in my life, I am full of thankfulness of how the end of the year turned out. Yesterday, after playing an amazing jury, having a great talk with a professor, Sea and I headed to SoHo and had Shanghai 小笼包 in Chinatown.

He started dancing after seeing me raising my camera.

I wasn’t sure if this was a simple parking lot or an open field car show.

My beautiful friend Sea.

Well, happy birthday also to my friends Charles and Ivan, and Mr.Charles Rosen (and also Mr.Karl Marx, if he’d still like to celebrate it).

We are supposed to be one year wiser, so let’s not disappoint that. ; )