Beijing.

Reached Beijing early in the morning and our first task was to get to the hotel. Managed to do so after walking around aimlessly, and did some preparation work before taking a nap.

Went out and started work at about 2.15 in the afternoon and was kinda glad that we got today’s job done. Now we’ll just have to wait and see if everything is going to turn out just as alright as today.

Came back to the hotel and changed into casual wear before going out to Tiananmen. Was there to witness the flag lowering ceremony and felt kinda impressed by it. Then we moved over to Wangfujing for a bit of walkabout and dinner. Tha amazing thing over at this part of China is that it gets dark pretty late in summer. I mean, the sky was still bright at 8pm! Dinner was roast Peking Duck and I must say both me and Lee Tong had a pretty decent dinner at a reasonable price, so I’m not complaining.

Came back to hotel in preparation for tomorrow’s work. The weather forecast says that the highest temperature tomorrow could reach 38 degrees Celcius. Well, it was 35 today and I already felt that it’s unbearable (according to the hotel staffs the weather bureau has a tendency to report the highest temperature at 3 degrees lower than the actual, so it could well have been 38 today), so whatever’s going to happen to me tomorrow remains to be seen. Probably have to drink more water or something.

With a bit of luck we can be on our way back to Shanghai tomorrow evening, but it looks like we’re going to leave Beijing only on Wednesday. We’ll see how things are going to turn out.

And yup, Yvonne, I bought you another set of pins. I can’t remember if you already have a set like that, but nonetheless look forward to it, ya?