I didn’t really do much today.

However, I did make an amazing discovery.

After spending all morning looking for an internet cafe (with no avail), I came back to my place disheartened and longing. I plopped down on my bed, turned on my laptop, turned on the TV, and while channel surfing, I heard a sound. A familiar sound. It came from my computer.

I received e-mail.

The astonishment was unreal. I didn’t know what just happened. Maybe it was a ghost. Or maybe, it was a gift from the heavens. Apparently, someone nearby turned on their access point.

It was slow though. Slower than dirt forming. But it was something. And now I can update to my heart’s delight. The reason for the slowness, I found out, is because some quake in Taiwan took out some of the undersea backbone cabling. That stinks. My dad couldn’t even get on MSN Messenger these past weeks. What has the world come to.

Only thing interesting that happened today was that after coming out of Starbucks this morning (I’m 19 RMB poorer now, but that Americano kills whatever the one at Brookhurst and Ball serves up), there were a ton of cops all over the place.

I wondered if they were coming after the white guy that I was sitting next to at Starbucks earlier, but all of the sudden, this female cop jumps on a stage and starts belting out some song. She’s a little tonedeaf.

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My dad decided to give me the full taste of the culture here in China, so he took me to a pizza buffet for dinner. It was actually surprisingly good. My body was craving vegetables, so the first picture I took of food is of celery. If you look carefully, you can see a slice of pizza on the other side of the plate. Sorry I’ve been so bad about posting food pictures, I’ve been too consumed by eating instead of photographing.