Karate Kid and Stallone

Weather: Cool and drizzling
Caption: Going native! My new favourite snack, Royal Sesame Mochi

I made a friend today! Hooray! This afternoon I went to look at some apartments and one of the estate agents and I got on really well and now Jason is going to help my with my Chinese and I'm going to help him with his English. :-)

As it turns out I'm not a natural teacher. I talk too quickly, I assume that people can speak English... The critique was quite thorough. So I have to prepare another presentation for next week. That's fine. Whatever. I may take Irma's advice and go for kindergarten rather than corporate trainig. But then I'm always up for a challenge... But I guess the real question is if I want to teach or go try and find a corporate job.

The other sucky part of my day is that it's 9:50pm now and Frikkie is still at the office and he'll be there until the early hours of the morning, obviously working. No, I can't believe it either. I really didn't feel like going out on my own in the miserable weather, so I'm stuck at home, watching absolutely RUBBISH TV. HBO Asia is really disappointing. The only cool thing on is the Flying Conchords. Right now I'm watching Demolition Man... and before that it was Karate Kid, as in the first one.

More exciting is Diesel's 30th birthday. Or more precisely that fact that Diesel will be selling Dirty Thirty jeans for 390RMB tomorrow. The stock's limited though so I can just imagine what a stampede it's going to be. Should I even try to get a pair? It does count in my favour that I'm, how shall we put this, slightly bigger than the average Chinese. Check out www.diesel.com/xxx/beijing Apparently there is going to be a massive party in the 798 art district tomorrow night - part of the world-wide party to celebrate the big event.

I got a bit of a shock the other day trying on some clothes. I have gone from a Small/Medium to a Medium/Large in one quick flight. And I shrunk 2cm according to the nurse at the medical centre in Shanghai. I don't know which one I'm more upset about - that I'm now not nearly 1.7m tall or that I'm officially a large lady.