Sorry that most of you haven't had an update in a couple of days. i had been down with a high fever suddenly and had to backtrack 60km back to Jinghong - the capital of Xishuangbanna Prefecture.

Well, as usual, its kind of like I've made a whole grand tour of every other darn healthcare place along the journey.

so i booked myself into this Xishuangbanna Hospital (supposedly the largest in town, don't think its the best tho), where the doctors aren't the least bit compassionate and don't give a crap whether you live or die around here, no washing basins in the toilets, people don't flush after shitting in the toilet, bedsheets get laid upon by every other ill person and changed only once a day, everything is cured with drips and injections, they make you drag your diseased body 400m just to make payment for your medications and to collect it and drag your body another 400m back to get shots...

they diagnosed that i have some kind of bacteria infection or its equivalent viral? along with some swelling in one of my lumbar discs... it is extremely worrying since i can't really sit well right now. my fever's gone down a fair bit tho.

so much as i had the grand hopes of going down to chengdu, shanghai and tibet... in lieu of medical conditions right now, i would be returning home very shortly to get proper healthcare and a decent look at my lumbar...

the plan is to fly out of jinghong tomorrow morning and get a connecting flight onto Silkair's MI913. I should arrive in Singapore at about 5.05pm. Well, stay tuned here for details...