Hello from Shenzhen!

In my hotel room at the Crowne Plaza, Shenzhen, China.

Almost set for China

Well, I'm almost packed for my trip to Shenzhen tomorrow. The only thing I have not packed is my shoes. I'm not putting it in yet because I'm airing it out in our garage/laundry area.

I ended up bringing my huge suitcase because I packed a *lot* of clothes. I know I'll only be in Shenzhen for four days, and then I'm spending half of Friday till Sunday in Hong Kong with May, but I packed more than 4 days' worth of clothes. I'm still thinking about whether I should only bring my trusty white Keds (it saw me through my trip to Munich last year) or bring another pair of shoes (flats).

*sigh* I hate thinking about whether I have enough space for the stuff I will shop for in Hong Kong. There's not enough space left in my suitcase. But I really would not be able to shop that much (now that I think about it) because I did not save for this trip to HK.

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My tummy's still buggy. I feel slashes of pain in the stomach area every now and then, and I haven't told my mom about it because I don't want her to worry about how I'll be when I'm in China. My UTI is almost gone. I got checked Thursday afternoon and the result showed very significant improvement.

Not too great

I have what my doctor says is bad urinary tract infection. Pus content was seen in my urine sample and it's pretty high. My tummy's been spasming really bad. I wish this would be over soon. I have a ton of things to do at work and my being out sick and the trip to Shenzhen (hopefully) next week takes even more time away from my other tasks.

Yeaaah, it's all about work, isn't it?

This reminds me of a question I was asked earlier. The dude asked me what activities outside of work I engage in that helps me do my work. Honestly, there's none. Nothing physical or anything that involves physical interaction with other people anyway. After work I'm either at home, in the mall, or at home on the computer again. What could I tell him? Well, guess what I ended up telling him? I told him that I'm online all the time on forums (Plurk is what I mean! haha!) and my virtual interaction with the peeps there help me handle the virtual interaction with the team in other parts of the globe. I know, it sounds kind of lame, but there was nothing to say!

Gingerbread

So cute, yeah? I felt like a kid when I saw this at Starbucks the other evening. My friend bought it for me to eat while she got a Christmas frappucino drink.

The Starbucks gingerbread cookie wasn't as good as the gingerbread house I got at the Christmas maret in Garmisch. But it's an okay substitute.

The sock is done!

I just gotta crochet the other stuff that goes on it. I hope you can see what goes on it if you click on this link.

Excited!

I am excited about something, but I can't tell you what it is yet. I don't want to jinx it. I will tell you about it when there's something more definite to tell.

I am praying that things push through, that this is happening because God wants to make it happen for me.

It's working!

Unbelievable. If I had just stuck to following the pattern, I wouldn't have had to frog my first attempt to make this Christmas sock!

I'm happy that I got it! Yay! Can't wait to crochet the snowman!

PS. This is not finished---not yet anyway. But I'm getting there!