Ol' green eyes

As daylight breaks through my barely drawn curtains you wake me up with a kiss on my forehead. Woke up everytime you did that throughout the night. Light sleepers, you and I. First gaze as my eyelids sleepily struggle to open were your eyes. Hadn't realised it before many times with full light - they are green.

Another food post

So yummy it hurts not to be able eat this and

Like soon-to-be-roadkill that can't stop staring at oncoming headlights, I can't stop reading this.

Connecting hearts

Didn't expect tearing at what you said on the airplane. But at that moment, I felt you, as if it happened to me as well.

Overheard in Shanghai

"Of course I stay at the French Concession! I'm French." (Deadpan expression with a glint of tease in eyes)

Nevermind they may be born out of little remnants of loneliness or habit. Friendly missing you's, kisses, hugs and bigwidegrins are sweetest after a few weeks of absence.

Holiday: Useless gadgets

Nobody rants on a holiday. Most rants on holidays are masquerading as adventure stories to impress friends after a long journey.

It's an unforgivable sin when technology fails on you. IPOD camera connector, my curse is on you! Not only have you caused my ipod to die; I have to spend an interminable amount of time at the computer terminal to upload my pictures. And it's so fucking cold sitting here and not in the nice, warm sun.

(At this point, there's still 48 min of uploading time. Fuck.)

Luckily I brought my trust point-and-shoot (ok, hope it doesn't screw up too)

New travel item to pack: CD Re-writeable or 1 Gig memory card.