So much more could have been done...

Still trying to recover from this thing that hit me like a truck since I got to Shanghai... Part of it, I think might be allergy...

As I was checking the progress of the washing machine after looking up some theme song from a Korean drama I battled to finish watching last night while sipping my cold medicine in the middle of the afternoon...

I thought to myself... so much more could have been done had I not been sick... then... oops... doesn't it speak for the story of my life so far.... 8-O and... wait... seems to be a statement so very generalizable to the others as well... 8-O 

On a second thought, most of the places I have visited so far... I think I might have mostly forgotten.... What makes trips memoriable... I guess... are events with events as such.... 

gotten bitten by fishies in DR... even torn my swimsuit... 

followed bus driver's direction wrong, climbed up a semi-cliff in semi-high heel to get lost in the desert of Alberqueque...  

passport taken by the controller at the border of Austria and Italy...

started my first road trip by car in the North East of the US by walking into a huge hole... landed my right kneel on a rock on our way to Yale B-school, I think...

and ended in Yale hospital with 3-4 stitches... finally gotten the stitches taken off in a hospital near Mackinaw Island where they filmed somewhere in time...

landed in Miami for the first time in pouring rain in the night sick to the stomach... so sick that I had to throw up in the garbage can  first thing I did in South beach while waiting for a bus that never came... had to bang on the door of a closed restaurant to call for a taxi, which took me to a hostel ended up spending the night in a 4-bed arrangement with a broken door to the washroom with 3 strangers... men...  

Just a few examples that came to my mind....

So... in bright daylight, doing laundry, sick in Shanghai and listening to music from a Korean drama I didn't even know till I came to Shanghai... something to remember I guess.... 8-O lol

At least one thing I have learned is this Korean phrase... ho do ka jio... ho do ka jio.... ho do ka jio.... sa ram he yo... sa ram he yo.. sa ram he yo... if Korean can understand... 8-O lol

How much more could I have done... then?  8-O lol

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTMwMDc2MjA0.html



The first song with English lyrics...

Happy Ending

Spent the whole night finishing up the episode I missed at the beginning.... 原來是美男(미남이시네요)

My favorite part of the whole show... Happy ending...

어떡하죠 如何是好 What should I do?

어떡하죠?

如何是好? 

What should I do?

Speaking of my mind right now I guess.... 8-X

My boy friend on stage... what a pretty boy! except for the he was serenading someone else... 8-O #$%&

http://lancyparkedge.blog.sohu.com/155890853.html

I am in love

I decided yesterday that I am in love... with 張根碩..... know him through... 原来是美男

What could be even better... the man even has the same family names as me.... 8-O lol

A bit to old to be doing this kinda thing I guess... 8-O lol

Walking in the Rain

Today is the third day I started my mission to tour around in Shanghai on my feet... (Just in case you wonder... This has always been how I like to see a city... believe it or not... 8-O lol)

Took off earlier since the weather is milder... than... as I arrived at my destination... God granted my wish... sort of..  "let it rain down so that the temperature could cool down..."

Rather, it poured.  8-O lol

Getting a lift

One thing differs this trip from my previous trips is that....

I spent a whole lot of time looking for disability access... escalator, elevator, or taking detour... 8-O lol

One day, I was stuck at a subway station in Seoul because there was no elevator going to the ground...  The gentleman working at the booth found out I was having so much problem bringing myself up them stairs, he graciously pushed me all the way up through all those stairs till I was up to the ground... 

I was and remain extremely thankful to him because, otherwise, I might be struggling to get up till the day break next day.... 8-O 

At the same time... a different definition of getting a lift... I guess... 8-O lol

Accomplishment

Been sick like a dog since I got to Shanghai.... second day I arrived... I laid flat for the entire day... and have been laying low till yesterday.... when I decided to accomplish what I came here for... a determined though sick tourist... 8-O lol

Anyways, finally, I am growing out of this cold/flu thing slowly and sturdily... 

Been able to get out to see the city a bit more... 

Today, I came to the realization...

My biggest accomplishment this trip.... giving directions... 8-O lol

I don't know where I have not been to but I know the roads I have traversed... and... I actually gave people directions at least twice correctly today....

Even in Seoul, Korea, where I was absolutely illiterate...  can't read and understand korean at all... I successfully gave people directions twice... one time in the subway where a lady sitting next to me was looking for the bus station.  

The other time... a lady who spoke no English at all approached me to ask for direction...

Somewhere among the korean sentences I heard something like... "Lotte"...

So I asked, "Lotte department Store?"

Apparently, yes.

Since I spoke no Koren, I walked her to the corner of the block and pointed to the big sign on the building down the Road... "Lotte."

She was happy and appealled to be thankful... 

So I thought... Did I just give directions to a Korean lady who I could hardly understand in a city I hardly know? 8-O lol

 

朱家角

Brother in law went to play golf with his friend today... and he dropped me at 朱家角.... 

The first thing I accomplished after I arrived at the front entrance... I made a great entrance...  I took a really ugly fall and got this not so nice booboo...

Then I got up and kept on going.... 8-O lol 

Sick in Shanghai

Arrived in Shanghai late in the day yesterday... supposed to be working on touring around by now... except for... been sick and... gotten really sick overnight... chest congestion, nose running, my head all stuffed up, and, in addition to the pain associated with my neck, back and knee conditions, another kind of ache and pains... I think that is what they call the body aches...

Thought I was about to die when I saw the color of munus coming out when I first woke up in the morning.....  8-O lol

If you ask me at this specific moment, it is far worse to have a cold or flu like this than to be suffering the disability associated pains.... 8-O lol sigh

Yet, I have been working really hard on popping whatever pills I could pop to get myself feel better soon.....

(Trying to see whether I will be able to get this message posted through blog-by-email from Shanghai)

On my way to Seoul

On my way to Seoul... free internet access at the airport....

12.25 mg

Dosage has gone down again... now... since over two weeks ago because I was zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.... most of the times....

Somewhere around 12.25 mg of Seroquel since it is impossible to really cut the pill in half or in quarter with pill cutter...  Haven't been on dosage this low since... I guess... 7-8 years ago..... 8-O

So I went to see a psychiatrist here... already twice since I got back on the 20th of July... he seems to think that I am doing pretty fine.

The added benefit of doing nothing more than... walking, exercising, TV watching and eating.  Not using my head too much, I guess. 8-O lol

In addition, I have an interesting observation... when it is too hot, my head also starts to get overheated and being in a cool place cools my head down.   Also,  when things get on my nerve... the head would start running and running and running.... I would let it run its course in my head and it does run through eventually.... 8-O lol

Sleeping problems did resurrect for... like two days.... I went back to my lavender etc tea or essential oil body product and it worked...

Regardless, I, again, realized... all these years of busy trying to devise a efficient way to cope while trying to live my life and pursuing the goals I have already forgotten....

The most strangely efficient way so far... do what others do for all these times. 

Nothing new. Sort of like... regression to the mean... I guess... 8-O lol

Why did I have to go running around in circle before getting back to this conclusion?  God knows... I guess... 8-O lol

Travel

I haven't gone traveling since January 2007.

OK, I did travel between Taiwan and the US in 2008 and three weeks ago.  Yet, that is called transportation.  Not travel.

Finally, I will be going traveling for the first time this Saturday.

Seoul first and Shanghai second.

Why Seoul and Shanghai?

Also.... free accommodation available and the cheapest most economic way to fly...  8-O lol

The only problem... give me a road and I could keep on walking till the cows come home provided there are restrooms available.... 

Yet, I can not carry weight.... It slows down my speed and causes problem to my back and, then, the whole body.

For instance, before I left NYC, I had to move some stuffs and it killed my body so bad that... 5:00 AM, curb side, outside of JFK... People in the airport had to pick me up with a wheelchair..... and, from there on, they carried me all the way back to Taiwan...

Well, I WAS really in pain and it really was sort of miserable then... especially having to deal with excruciating pains on a 25 hour trip....  Sounds pretty funny now since, 3 weeks later now, I am back to walk relatively fine and mostly pain-free again.... 8-O lol

Since I intend not to waste too much time recovering... I have to travel.... REALLY light to prevent any potential damages... while... since not making any money.... budget traveling.... 8-O lol oops...

In addition, although I now can "walk"---- 80 Manhattan blocks or more kind of distance--- I still have problems and mucho problems with stairs.  Unfortunately, based on the pictures I have seen for many of the tourist attractions, there are stairs and stairs.... slopes and slopes....  Well, it is not until I became disabled did I come to realize that... this world really is not designed for people with disability.... 8-O lol sigh

At the same time, if I can find ways to walk in NYC and in Taipei, I should be able to walk in Seoul, Incheon, Suwan or Shanghai.... After all, walking is walking, right?  8-O lol

Regardless, it would be really interesting to see what it would be like to travel on a budget, disabled.

And... this would be the first time I go traveling with my strange kind of disability....

Ain't like it is the kind of "first time" experience I would like to have... Yet, well... even if my body could heal till I could carry some ordinary weight and do stairs like a robot, for the time being, I want to travel and I will learn to travel my way again.

What is even better... my brother in law will be on his business trip while I am in Shanghai... I will have a two-bedroom apartment all to myself for a week... could finally through a house party... though not gonna have too many people to party with in Shanghai... 8-O lol

鬼太郎

樱桃小丸子 Chibi Maruko

小丸子今天不回家
http://www.56.com/u35/v_Mjg5ODkxNjA.html

小丸子 plays yoyo

Under the Taiwan Sun

At least two days in a role, it hit over 100 degree here in Taipei...

According to the forecast, it would already start to "feel like" in the 100s as early as 9:00 AM tomorrow morning.... ouch....

http://www.weather.com/weather/hourbyhour/TWXX0021

In addition, radiation is bad....


http://tw.weather.yahoo.com/uvindex.html#01

As a result of the combination of heat and radiation, yours truly would 撐洋傘抗UV even when walking in the shade as early as 8 o'clock something in the morning.... 8-O lol

Regardless, when in Taipei and taking my walk, I now either take it to the underground shopping mall (東區地下街) or the Sogo department store right across the street....

An avid participant of the national sports called... 美白 frenzy...  8-O lol

If you ask me, the Taiwanese sun seems to be much scarier than that in NYC though... um... should be the same one.... 8-X