Amsterdam and London, Take two

I was in Amsterdam and London again the past two weeks. Last week I took the initiative to come to UK to work with clients. It turn out to be a great trip. Not only I got more work done, but I worked less hours. During the weekend, I got a chance to walk around London and attended two shows: Mary Poppins and Fiddler on the Roof. Mary Poppins show was like a magic dream, great music and great acting. I was in a shock when Mary Poppins took out a shit load of stuff from her carpet bag. And what about flying over the stage? "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" was a fun song, and "Feed the birds" was touching, during which I wiped off some tears.

Last Saturday I was jogging in Hyde Park. The first time I heard of Hyde Park it was during the history class during high school. Carl Marx used to be there debating, as I was told. Obviously, the tradition still lives, as every Sunday noon people could freely debate. I did not get a chance to be there on Sunday, but I was told that it was nowadays dominated by middle-easterners and Africans. Probably white people are too content not to really care about debating. Okey, back to Saturday, and Hype Park was full of people. Obviously, there was a carnival sort of thing going on. Adults and kids all together, with tokens of 2 pounds, took part in a massive demonstration of a good time. Jumping castle, haunted house, fake snow gliding, skating ring etc. You know people in UK are quite lazy, but they know how to have fun. Another example is that the same time, while I was near a subway station, all of a sudden about 200 people, all in Santa Claus dress, emerged from the subway, some with beer bottle in hands, and started singing Christmas songs at the fountain next to the street.

Then I went to Amsterdam. It was a tough week, and we slept 4 hours a day on average for four days. On the fifth day, I began to develop a headache, and I fell asleep right away on the plane without noticing the tremble in taking off. I slept the whole way back to Boston, only waking up in time for some meal and half a cartoon movie in the very end. My headache went away afterwards.

Two more weeks on the current project, and then I am heading to California and China. There does not seem to have too much work left, so I do not think I will be super busy. In the meanwhile, I am counting my hotel points. Just in case my friends cannot host me in Beijing or Shanghai, I will just use these points on a hotel.