On the ground at last..it was about a 15 hour flight.. but it passed quickly and peacefully . The funny thing is that the little interactive ‘how far till landing’ screen got stuck.. It kept telling me that we had 7 hours to go.. then they told me we were landing in 20 minutes. A nice surprise !. An even ‘better’ surprise was that this particular Delta flight didn’t have 110V AC plugs in econmy.. that meant that I couldn’t work the whole way.. instead I read, meditated, slept.. and watched a couple of movies.. ‘Midnight in Paris’ by Woody Allen (cute ) , 8 TED talks, a documentary on Kurt Cobain and .. I must confess.. Juno..which I have watched 5 times . This is one of my favorite movies for reasons I can’t quite explain. I watched it carefully to figure out why I like it so much.. and I think it’s because it’s the best portrayal of a parents unconditional love of their kid.. .. I also like all of the off-tune singing.

I came out of my movie coma long enough to look outside and see the polar ice cap…. a view that is amazingly exciting in the most boring way imaginable. i watched for about 30 minutes without as much as an identifiable feature.. how cool/uncool is that ?

We landed about 7.. but i took me more than an hour to get to the hotel. This hotel is in Pudong part of Shanghai … bit too far away fro the river to walk at night.. I’ve opted to stay hear.. catch up on the work I missed during travel.. and get some much needed sleep.
for that reason.. I don’t have much in the way of cool pictures to share.. .. Here’s the view from my room.. note the fancy multi color LED’s everywhere.. just like my headband.

Ahhh. one more thing.. I tested out the bed as I always do in a nice hotel

ok.. that’s it for today.. more tomorrow..
晚安 all, 晚安 sam

-me