Catshanghai

Lady Bracknell said words to the effect that to have one mishap is unlucky, whereas to have two is careless. Lady Bracknell would not be amused. She would have looked at me this week and considered me to be utterly careless or even in need of an exorcism.

I have just come back from a school trip in Hong Kong. To keep in contact with China, I took a school mobile phone with an international sim card. This ran out after one phonecall and a few text messages. I wanted to be able to make contact with China, so I bought a new sim card in Sai Kung. This did not work when we were staying in Lak Pak as there was no signal by the beach. When we did have a signal, the numbers I dialled to China did not work. You would have thought that Hong Kong was fully wired, but this does not extend to relatively remote fishing villages.

When I cam back to Shanghai, my own cell phone instantly ran out of credit and my landline/ home internet connection has just been cut off. I thought my ayi was paying the bill and claiming the money back but there were 3 months of unpaid bills. Jenny tried to get the lines back in operation by using 700 RMB of prepaid cards, but she accidentally selected the future payment options. The outcome is I have to do this again and I still have no Internet connection.

From one point of view this is a blessing. I have not been online for nearly a week and I can not get stressed by late night E-mails. I have a horrible cough at the moment and not being online will help me get better quicker.

This afternoon, I have been sitting in Zurigo catching up with news and integrating my web resources. You can now open up my blog from www.catshanghai.com and I put on links to my Moodle, Drupal and podcast resources.

The next step is to integrate the CSS so it all looks like strands of one big site.