Post date: Jun 9, 2011 4:36:36 PM
Not entirely sure what to write about today. Not a huge amount has happened outside the normal getup and get driven to the lab.
The restaurant meal is going to be tomorrow, so had more of the mass-cooked bought in meals at lunch.
Found out one great thing... I was reading my Kindle while waiting for the driver to be free after work, and randomly decided to test the browser again. To my absolute shock, I'm able to use the Kindle to get on Facebook and Twitter (I'm not using to update the website, the keyboard on the Kindle is nowhere near good enough for this amount of typing). The engineer over here was just as surprised, and is now looking, almost desperately, into getting one for himself so he doesn't have to rely on potentially dodgy third party hacks to get past the Great Firewall.
A quick check online confirms - the *free* 3G on the Kindle doesn't go through China's firewall. I really should have looked at that before coming out here.
This evening went really quickly. I had a small wander outside round the hotel, loads of little garage-looking shops (as in with the garage style shutters and the owners living in the floor above). It was interesting to see, but not much interesting to buy yet. I'm still trying to find out where the best places to go over the weekend are. I want to spend at least one day (Saturday pref.) in Hong Kong, but not sure whether to stay in the Shenzhen area or head over to Macau instead. Will try and find out tomorrow.
After that I kinda fell asleep for a few hours, guess I'm still not quite adjusted yet. Still, meant I'm now up late enough here to Skype my fiancée and have a proper chat :)