packing and booking a hotel

i think our holidays are deliver guys' torture days. they have to work from morning until night to deliver the packages to numerous crazy online shoppers, like me.

i bought some gifts from macy's more than two weeks ago, and it finally arrived today. i was thinking of other possible alternatives if the deliver guy failed to show up tonight; i might just go to the local macy's to buy another sets of gifts and then return whatever i ordered online once i get back from the trip. but after few days of delay, the deliver guy showed up and dropped off my package, which was signed by a stranger... and the package was open but nothing was missing. my friend spotted the package when she went out to dump her garbage and called me. i was lucky, i couldn't imagine what would happen to my package if it's left outside for a night. anyone could just take it.

anyway, so i don't need to go for a last shopping. and I finally finish packing, well, almost.

I also booked a hotel in guangzhou online. i searched for the hotel's phone number for a couple nights, and surprisingly, i couldn't find any. finally, i found something i thought it would be the number, and as i called, a lady with a sweet voice answered my phone. an agent, i supposed. I requested for the hotel's direct phone number, so i can contact that hotel and booked a room. But she said the phone # was not to disclose.... Can you imagine that? You want to live in that hotel for a week and you are not allowed to get in touch with that hotel prior to your check-in. Time pressed me, so i gave up and booked a room through her. she sounded sweet, and i tried to tell myself that everything would be okay; i just booked a room, i didn't give out my personal identification, i didn't disclose any sensitive information, i should be fine. the worst case is that i arrive in the hotel and try to check in and find that i have no reservation, and i am asked to book a room with doubled price, or leave. if that is the case, i will be happy to leave.

I am cleaning my room.

Thanks Diana for the pictures posting on your blog. I took some of them and add to my online album, so I can have a piece of memory of that night as well.

Leon was and is a big "!". An adorable handsome smart and good tempered boy, Amy, you and Tom are amazing!

Today is Sunday, so I am cleaning my room. Two days before leaving for China, I decided to clean my room so my sister can have my room after I leave.

I've been cleaning it so slowly because I am taking a million breaks. I've had some food, gone online for a while, talked to Max for a little bit, read some letters that i found under my bed; some of them were written by me but for some reasons never sent out; some of them were written by my cousins and you, my friends. Among those letters, there was one birthday card with some Korean words on it, signed by Jen. I tried to figure out who Jen was and I still have no clue...there were also some post cards sent by Winnie and EY from Italy and France. One of them had mini black and white pictures of EY and Winnie on it. Those treasured memories, happy moments...

I don't know why my life has become so plain in recent years. This is never my intended life... Sign, I hope my life will become a little bit more colorful after I return from China.

Oh, by the way, what are your new year resolutions? Mine was to stop procrastinating. So to fulfil this resolution, now, I need to leave to continue cleaning my room. Sucks. I don't like to clean rooms.