Baggage Loss

I encountered my first baggage loss after travelling for a year.

There's a reason why I never like to check in. Even if it's whatever you deem call it: Star Alliance. Its got nothing to do which airline or what Star Alliance at all sometimes. Just never secure because my backpack has no locks, no safety measures at all.So this time, I lost a green canvas bag, together with:
1. tommy colonge 100ml
2. 4 bottles of excellent wine from spain Torres torress toress :(
3. guo shi gai yao which belongs to mr lolli
4. all my notes from lectures
5. food.
6. toothpaste, shampoo, tooth brush
7. other things i cannot remember.

So, where does all this lead to? Its not safe to check in a normal bag nowadays if there is no bag? Or issit just depending on which country you visit? Comeon, its Europe. Not some poor country who need to TAKE daily life stuffs from strangers.. .-.even the luggage track system sucks. "still checking" "come back next time"confidence man, my friend. do your job, baggage tracking system. zZzzzZzz

School Term started; will I be able to graduate on time?

School started for a week.

What did I do during these holidays?

No work. No job.

I went to Guangzhou. Took a bus down with Teng to HongKong.

When I got back, Mid August went down to Hei Long Jiang with Song Bai Hua

I moved house. I am living in the city now. French concession Area. Its a lovely district. Just somehow, you start to realise you dun belong really in here. Everyone looks rich and properly civalised. I look more like some beggar who somehow got himself into Sunset Boulevard.

I did not manage to go to Greece as planned.

My Star Alliance Gold Card will expire Feb 2008. There was no imput of any mileage since October 2006.

Guess I will lose the Card soon no matter what.

Meanwhile I hope those points i accumulated will still be on time for a trip next year to Greece. I will take a gamble, and book 2 tickets there. Whether a not, I am going, that is another story.

About the trip to Hong Kong and Harbin, I will write about it when I am more clear-headed. I am depressed. Somehow.

Edgar might be coming to Shanghai this October/November. He will not be coming in for the Special Olympics as planned. I wonder whether he will be comfortable sleeping on the couch in my living room. Bad ventilation, and most probably a cold period as Autumn breaks into Winter. Shanghai is a bloody cold place. No central heating system. We all just freeze like chickens in freezers.

Star Alliance Gold: Will you be able to choke out 50,000 mileage points before Feb 2008 miraculously? o.O