I'm suffering from insomnia on my first night in Shanghai. My new place is amazingly luxurious! Somehow I ended up renting a room in the very richest, busy downtown center of the city. I'm on the 27th floor. My room has a porch with a gorgeous view of the city. You can see a great field of lights and skyscrapers, and a river close by. I still haven't had a chance to be lonely yet. My cousin A Yu and her boyfriend came w/ me for the weekend. It's so spoiling. They bought 1000RMB (almost $150) plane tickets to come here for 2 days. We got picked up from the airport by their friend, met another friend for dinner, who offered to show me around the city, etc... My first thought when I got out of the airport was, damn, another new city to navigate, why did i come here again? why do i keep moving to new places? But then I remembered, there's really nowhere else in China for me to be for such a long time. My hometown is so little, everything is less than a 15 minute ride on the 3-wheeled bicycle/rickshaws. Fu Zhou is much bigger, but there's still not much meaningful things for me to do. After walking around the city tonight, I'm pretty excited. It's so huge, cosmopolitan. And expensive. Apparently real estate in the area I'm renting right now is 2000RMB/$3000 per square meter!