the blushing cat

Day eleven

We got to the airport and the queue to check-in was ridiculous. We wanted to sit together and the only seats available were the emergency exit row ones. We were allowed to have these seats despite neither of us being able to speak Mandarin which seemed like a flaw in the system to us. We played our game of spend our remaining cash at Starbucks in the airport, got on the plane and arrived in Shanghai.

We stayed at the Grand Hyatt Shanghai on the 77th floor and for the first few days, we were scared of how ...

I love Weezer, but I am appalled that they were ok with that. How was that allowed to happen? People paid money to see them and they got that. That’s how you decide to debut your new song? Shockingly poor judgement. The person in question doesn’t seem to realise how terrible they were, which seems incredibly arrogant to me but then if you have the sycophants telling you that you were great, maybe you just decide to believe those voices? If Weezer associate with people like that, it makes me question my love for them. I am quite disgusted by ...

Do socks that don’t fall down exist? I’ve certainly never found any. It doesn’t matter which brand I buy, how much I spend, which size I get, none of them stay up! I must have weird legs or something because no one else seems to have this issue. It’s the bane of my life! ...

Day five

We arrived in Kaohsiung, Taiwan and we were here for 1 night. We went to a temple and then to a night market where there wasn’t much vegetarian food so we had mushrooms to share and a passion fruit drink each which tasted like Um Bongo. At the temple loads of coaches and lorries started pulling up and blasting out dance music.

Day six

We had breakfast at the hotel and it wasn’t too great. They had a jam that looked and tasted like Lucozade. The staff were really friendly though. We went to the Dragon and Tiger ...

There’s nothing like a one-on-one language class to give you a confidence boost! Maybe I’m too easy going with non-native English speakers? I’m more of the opinion, if I get what you’re saying, that’s good enough for me. If I don’t get what you’re saying, we can work it out together. This rule also has to be applied to natives, so why not to non-natives as well? Add today’s lesson to the saga yesterday and I’m feeling just really great! Aren’t people the best? Oh, and my watch broke. ...