Friday June 30

got up at 7 to catch train. got ready, checked out of hotel, got in a taxi, went about 50meters, then turned back cuz JJ forgot her umbrella. i waited in the taxi and listened to the taxi driver complain and complain, but i pretended not to know chinese, so it was fine. she was a complete bitch. we're paying her for the wait... gebus. stupid bitch. then JJ came back, and we left for the train station that was oh so crowded. all the non-chinese tourists were in our car, but on the bottom cuz the Hyatt bought all their tickets together... we asked for the top deck tho, so there were no one there that spoke english. we were on the "super fast" train, 'cept it travelled no faster than 80km/hr... i wanted to drive the train!!! i don't like riding on trains that go slower than i drive... about 5 minutes from shanghai, the train stopped, for like an hour! apparently, something broke. so we waited for an hour! the train ride was supposed to be 2 hrs, but now was 3... grrr... finally, we arrived, and the cab dropped me off at the gas station and i went home... only shortly to leave for the hospital. when we got there, yaya wasn't in his bed and the maid-person wasn't there either. we freaked, and then asked and realized he was downstairs cuz he said he had smt in his throat and they were doing an xray to see if indeed there was smt lodged in there.... when we came back up, yaya stayed in his wheelchair - yay! finally! sitting up!! ... but was tired soon after, so went back in his bed. he ate some watermelon, and then we left for my uncle's hospital (the crazy ppl hospital!!!) ... when we got there, i headed straight for the director's office... but no one was there... so i called him and he told me to walk to the end, so i did... 'cept he told me to walk to the end OUTISDE, and i was inside... apparently, he's not the director anymore... he's retiring, so the new director is in his office now, and they built him this other portable office... my uncle has to train the new director for a year, and plan the move (the hospital and all its patients are moving to another location, another building). ... so ya, that's his job now. ... earlier, when i asked, my aunt said that there's no way my uncle can take me around the hospital (i wanted to see crazy ppl) ... but then when we were there, i asked him and he was like "okay!"!!! so we went upstiairs to see them. ... man, it's sooooooooooooooooooo crowded in there!!! each room (about the side of my room) had at least 4 beds in it. basically, it was all beds, with very little living space. it was packed. it IS packed. the hospital is too small... it's always been like this, apparently. .... nothing too interesting happened, since all these patients are being treated, medically, right now... so no one lashed out, no fights broke out, nobody were yelling, screaming... they were all calmly staring at us... 'cept this one lady, who kept on backing away from us... i think she was scared of us. and everyone who saw my uncle treated him like a king! hahahaaa!!! it was so funny!!! ... anyways ... we then left for my uncle/aunt's place to pick up my aunt, and then went to the restaurant near my grandpa's place...

i called them when we got to the restaurant, and they were still at home... so we waited. and low and behold, 2 of the 4 aunts didn't come. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!!! ... one aunt, there's no way i'm calling her... but the other, called when my grandparents got to the restaurant, and talked to her, and pretty much gave her no way out of the dinner... so then she came. man! 3 of the 4 are so fuckin g annoying with their "bai jia zi"-ness... geez!! i got pretty pissed. ... but my temper didn't break that time. the restaurant had okay food, nothing too too special, but it was in general pretty good. we took many pictures, and then left and then the complicated issue of how to get home came up... and that took so frekaing long to sort out cuz that family makes no decisions ever... so fucking annoying... FINALLY, we left, we went home, while billy's aunt ONCE AGAIN asked me over and over again about billy's love life. seriously, STOP THE FUCK ASKING ME!!!! UGH!!!!! i was glad when we were rid of her... (i hope ben doesn't read this... i want him to form his own opinion of her... she's nice, but really really really annoying)