China and I: the love-hate relationship!

All good things should come to an end - so they say. I felt really sad that I had to leave Shanghai and China. But China still had some surprises up its sleeves for me until my last day there. I was kicked out of my house yet again - just 30 hours before I was set to leave China! Yes, dont ask me how! Looks all my life I have been riding on some dumb luck and it suddenly ran out! So I get kicked out of my house the second time in 2 months!
This time the story was lot better and interesting! Seems the Chinese Security Bureau / Police wanted my house immediately to "spy" on someone! Yeah, I know. I am starting to suspect my 6 months in China is actually something like Jim Carrey's "The Truman Show" movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120382/)!
The manager told me that the apartment has a security deal with the police in case they wanted a house for "spying".... and in my apartment manager's own words ... "especially since a lot of foreigners live here!" Huh, now I am not sure if that meant "lot of foreigners live here so the police wants to spy on them" or "lot of foreigners live here so the police wants to spy in general to provide better security for them"!!! If its the former, something went wrong somewhere obviously. Because I am the foreigner, if you kick me out of the house, who are you going to spy on?!! :)
Anyway, after 2 hours of flat out packing (now after doing this twice, I am confident that I can pack my entire life's worth in the 3 bags and move out in 2 hours max) I moved to a hotel for the remaining 30 hours in China.
Oh, I forgot to mention. I ended up in a police station during this episode, spoke to a Chinese detective trying really hard to see if there is any truth to this story! I was even contemplating if they would throw me in jail if I said I wouldnt move! But all my TV/Movie watching didnt go to waste. My brain dug out all the scenes I have seen over my life. Questions started pouring like if they jail me, will I get that customary one phone call, if I do get it who will I call, if I call someone at work will they be able to get me outon time for me to catch my flight the next day. Or will I just disappear without trace, if I disappear where will I be taken.... ha, I would love to see Tibet or western China... If they send me to one of those places to do manual jail labour, that wouldnt be too bad after all! :) Anyway, reining in my gallopping imaginative horses I kept my mouth shut, got out of the station to go home and do some packing! Hey, this is not too bad, my life's first police station experience and it happened in China! :)
So as you see, even if I cant confidently say that China loves me, I definitely love China! The whole 6 months was one of the best times of my life. So many fun encounters and some really great, sometimes ridiculous experiences!
hmm, I still need to wrap up my China blog posts with one more about stuff and people I would miss...