Shanghai.

Because of the great firewall in China, I couldn’t update my little journal as much as I’d love to do it. So for the couple of days that’s missing, I’d probably would be retrospectively entering them later.

So five days of holidays have come and gone. I went to Shanghai, coupled with day trips to Nanjing (for the first time ever) and Hangzhou (for the 16th time!). The trip was actually pretty good as I got to see for myself how Shanghai has changed for the past two years. Well there aren’t exactly big changes such that you’ll go in and think “wow this place look completely different”, I still very much can get my way around without any problem, just that they’ve got 8 metro lines compared to just 5 two years ago. They’ve also changed some names to the metro stations, so those things needed a bit getting used to.

Most importantly, the trip to Shanghai was for me to see people like Renzhi, Gary and Damon, and I think I enjoyed seeing them very much. Though sometimes it can get a bit demoralizing to be introduced as a “3rd batch NCSH senior” because it makes me feel old, but I guess I could take comfort in that the NOC program in Shanghai is still going so strong after all these while.

Will be updating more about the trip probably later, if I could find the time – I probably want to go sleep earlier today because I reached home at 12.30 midnight instead of 8.30 in the evening because of the terrible flight delay in Shanghai. My flight got delayed for 4 hours!