All quiet on the Eastern Front

Weather: warm and clearish

Frikkie went back to work today. Not because today wasn't a public holiday for the rest of the people, but he has a big project with tight deadlines, so back to work he went. And he'll be working the rest of the weekend too. Blub. This meant that I had to entertain myself.
But all was not dull and dreary for housewife Henri...
Mr Quan, Frikkie's client took us out for lunch. To a vegetarian restaurant, which apparently is a bit weird for the Chinese, because vegetarian restaurants traditionally are associated with some religions. The food was great, although I dished my food into the wrong plate. I should have paid closer attention to what everybody else was doing, but nobody seemed to care.

We also discovered today that next year the Chinese New Year falls around my birthday. Yeah. We're looking at going somewhere in Thailand. Can't wait. I don't think we'll get Christmas off though. So, sorry Jewels - I don't think we're going to make it for Christmas in NZ.

We did more bike window shopping today. The prices at the Carre Four for a matt black start at 400RMB (about R480). Leung, Frikkie's colleague told me today that I could get an electric bike and I don't need a license. Way cool. It's almost like having a bike, but one that you occasionally need to pedal to charge. The styling on the electric bikes are a little, shall we say, local for my liking, so perhaps we'll just stick to the matt black bicycle for now.

I miss my cats. I'm eternally grateful to Rebecca who is looking after them for the time being. I need to get my residency permit sorted and then it will take another week or two to get the flight sorted and then hopefully we can get them into the country. I fly to Shanghai on Sunday night for my medical on Tuesday morning. And then we need to see a Ms Brits and the South African embassy to try and sort out some documentation to prove that we're in a serious relationship...