extremely sleepy now

because I couldn't really sleep well last night...

because my brain was overwhelmed by the fact that...

TICKETS ARE BOOKED TO GO HOME IN CHINA!!!

yeah, this is happening, for as long as more than a year by then, I am finally reaching home sweet home with my mom's warm dishes and hopefully promising decent tempreture in the city where I was born and lived for the previous 18 years before going to univ.

so the time's set: Jan 28th 8:15 in the morning I will be embracing my homeland again. The distance has made life hard sometimes, but I hope these short yet nice 2 weeks can make it up for you(mom,family,life-long friends,well-cooked food,chinese books etc), at least for a small tiny part.

also in the plan - small island trip to Thailand, with not so decent budget in my bank account but who cares?! (at least not for now...)I hope to see some of you in Bangkok/Phuket from 6 Feb to 11 Feb before I returning back to neat but less fun Germany and work.

sad that this is an e-ticket I can't just frame it to the wall and smile at it until the trip finally starts; lucky that it is an e-ticket, so the 'accident' of forgetting-to-bring-the-actrual-ticket-but-the-payment-paper-thing won't happen again. this time.

Bring it on!

“If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.”
— Bertrand Russell, Roads to Freedom

Misc

movies watched this weekend:
Country of My Skull: I found the love story a bit cheesy in a way that it was not neccessary and somehow distracted, but as the kids in South Park always said 'I learnt something today', I did too, a great deal. Any suggestions for following reading?

Dancer in the dark: for the 3rd time but the only time that I was actually able to finish the movie, maybe because this time I watched it together with someone else. 2 previous attempts failed because I found it too crule and real. Life is hard, it forces people to the conner.

Current reading:
Veronica decides to die - typical Paulo Coelho I would say, not much surprise yet so far, but still have like 100 pages to go.

Extremely loud and incredibly close - Jonathan Aafran Foer (he was born in 1977, which made 2 people shouted 'he's born in the same year of mine' with a not-too-happy-but-what-can-I-do look). This book looks like a huge red block but very easy read, for the weekend, I already finished more than 250 pages. I love this book, it feels like falling into a secrete passage, and I have the feeling that I don't want to read it fast cuz once it finishs I will be sad. The same when I was reading 'the hours'.

Currently good news:
after paying another 50 euro to the 'Alien'office here, I finally got my visa till end of Feb...50 euro for a few more months' worry-free of how-long-i-can-stay is probably worthy.

Rhein is beautiful by its river bank if winter is not that harsh...and the Sunday myth in Beijing (sun only comes out in SUNdays) also happens here, rain strikes back today firecely again.

wish you have better weather, or at least heating in place.