Monthly Archive for December, 2008

Photos from Tonic Live’s Little Black Dress party at Whisper in San Francisco on December 26. Photos by me and guest photo­grapher Jen.

(I’m us­ing Flickr to host these pho­tos for now be­cause my site is hav­ing some up­load problems.)

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Yesterday I went to San Francisco to take care of some Chinese visa stuff, and I had Al be my un­paid in­tern and tour guide. This was my first time strolling San Francisco with some­one who ac­tu­ally lives in down­town SF. Normally I’m with other tourists from the sub­urbs and we’d al­ways end up ask­ing for di­rec­tions, but she was to­tally fa­mil­iar with the area and knew where to get cream puffs and stuff. Her tip for find­ing the Chinese Consulate was to look for the demon­stra­tors out­side. (Since I want my site to re­main ac­ces­si­ble in China, I didn’t up­load pics of the demonstrators.)

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第249天：再见, 上海
(Post kindly trans­lated into Chinese by Fiorna Song. Thank you!)

Waiting for my flight to San Francisco at Pudong Airport’s Terminal 2 Gate D59.

我正在浦东机场2号航站楼的D59号门等待飞往旧金山的飞机.

I re­quested some­thing other than Air China and the com­pany let me take Jet Airways, an Indian air­line. This will be my first time tak­ing this air­line. Shanghai is a pit stop for this flight (9W210 Mumbai to San Francisco) so I hope the plane isn’t too crowded.

我请公司不要给我定中航的飞机, 他们就给我定印度捷特的飞机. 这是我第一次乘坐这家航空公司的飞机. 上海是这趟飞机 (9W210 孟买飞旧金山) 的暂停站, 因此我希望飞机上的人不要太多.

The flight is at about 9:30 PM and check­ing in at night has been rather pleas­ant. It’s a Saturday night but there’s rel­a­tively few peo­ple here. Check-​​in at the counter was quick (and the Jet Airways guy was very cour­te­ous), se­cu­rity check had no line and went by very fast, and there’s only a hand­ful of peo­ple around me right now wait­ing to board. Another good thing about fly­ing at night is that I should be able to fall asleep more eas­ily on the plane.

飞机大概晚上九点半起飞. 晚上乘飞机是件让人愉快的事. 今天是周六的晚上, 但是这里的人并不多. 柜台登记的速度很快 (而且, 捷特的工作人员很有礼貌). 安检的时候不用排队, 因此速度也非常的快. 现在我周围只有几个人在等着登记. 晚上坐飞机的另外一个好处是, 飞机上我更容易入睡.

Thanks every­one for the farewell party last night, even if my leav­ing is just an­other ex­cuse to get together. :)

谢谢参加昨晚派对的每个人, 尽管我的离开只不过是另一个聚会的借口. :)

Less than an hour to go. Bye Shanghai. See you next year.

时间还有不到一个小时我就要离开了. 再见上海. 明年见.