Day 8 - Who's Watching???

Today was uneventful, for the most part. I went to work, ate supper at a Korean restaurant with two HNI Asia members, returned to my hotel, and then headed to my room. When I got out of the car, the hotel bellhop open my door as usual and then he went to the trunk to get out my laptop and backpack. That is where things got a bit odd. As we walked into the hotel, he kept carrying my bags, so I let him. When we got to the elevator, he walked in and and punched "19"...My floor. On the way up, he made small talk and asked me how long I am staying and if the weather is too hot. When the door opened to the 19th floor, he walked out and said "room 1908?". I do not remember talking with this particular bellhop in the past, so his question caught my attention. When I pulled out my room card, he said "allow me", but I went ahead and tried to open the door myself. Unfortunately, my card no longer worked. He tried it twice and then said, "sir, I get new card" and sprinted down the hallway. I heard him talking on a phone before he sprinted back and said "one minute sir".

As we stood there waiting silently, I looked up at the security camera (they are everywhere) and thought to myself "am I being set up?" Did they plant something illegal in my room because I have a book about the underground church in China?" A long few minutes later a hotel employee showed up with a new card and opened my room. I thanked them and they left. After a few paranoid minutes looking around my room I decided that I must have unknowingly ingested some Korean hallucinogenic during supper.... or maybe not.