独一无二, 无尽的爱

Some time after 6pm, I tried to sms my fudao to arrange to meet after dinner, but found out that I could not send any message on my phone. After checking out, I realised that both of my mobile phones were out of credit - I had used both of them during the early morning call with my friend in SH, and the long conversation had resulted in both phones running out of credit. I then went to buy a recharge card, but to my horror the service would not let me recharge my mobile phone account. So no meeting with my fudao. And it left me wondering if I didn’t lose any important call meanwhile. I know a cousin called me in vain during Friday.

After getting back home, I asked another friend in Beijing via MSN to check why I couldn’t recharge, and she later replied that the service provider was doing some maintainance and that the recharge service was out that day from 5.30pm till next day 8am.

Saturday, I went to have lunch with some relatives in Beijing. My mum had asked me before to go and see a distant cousin of mine as he has some contacts there and could probably help me in finding a job. Well, we met for lunch, together with 2 other cousins, and got to know each other. The thing is, he knows people and can probably help for making business, but finding me a job is completely different. He recommended me stuffs that I already knew - that is need to be able to speak good Chinese, need to get to know people who are of the same field of me, attend conferences, etc… relating to that field, and make contacts (guanxi). Oh well, more or less back to square one. I’d better keep checking out with my own circle of acquaintances.

Saturday night, after watching Liverpool eeking a disappointing draw with Blackburn, I went back to my favourite ‘ma la tang’ joint. It was around 12.15am but I was surprised to see some 15 people out there chatting and drinking (plus about the same amount at the other joint opposite the street). But then, it’s true that Saturday night there would be people out late at night. Lamb skewers sure taste good that late, and the beer to wash it down was nice too.