Boss meal at Boss Zhou's and this time I didn't smash the bottle

Jeez of course I was up at 6.30am as awake as a button. It didn't make sense as it was 10.30pm in the UK so I wasn't on their time. I guess waking up at 6.30am isn't that bad really, but I knew I'd have to negotiate more sleep some time. I ended up using the "it's 10.30pm in the UK" excuse to finish off what I hadn't finished last night but I was still awake at 9.15am when the American football started and I managed to get about halfway before dropping off again. To my horror it was 3.45pm when I awoke. Now I really was worried that I was back in UK time. But at least I hadn't taken any sleeping pills.

I recalled that on Sunday at Li Kun's place the northern bloke had invited me to his to eat today. But I'd not heard from him so I put that chance at 15% due 100% to experience. Drunken invitations are like that, unless they are from one of my five main friends. So if anything else was to turn up this evening I'd go for it.

I managed a boiled egg and tiny sausage I'd picked up at the supermarket the other day. Then at 5.15pm A Wu asked where I was and I said I was home, so he said to go to eat at the chamber of commerce. Fair enough, I knew this meant Boss Zhou's office but I'm still not sure if this is really an on-running joke or not. I asked when to go and he said "now" but I knew this wouldn't be the case. Indeed he said he'd come to pick me up but I said I needed a shower first. So he said ok he'd pick up the kids first and I said we could meet up at 6pm but then he countered with 6.30 and I knew I wouldn't be there till 7pm.

That gave me time to have a beer and chat with Awl, and this time I brought my remaining bottle of booze as a present; Bombay Sapphire is generally a good one as it looks good on the shelf. Boss Zhou was happy to see it, and I was happy not to have broken it on the journey over. I was the last to turn up and sat next to Boss Zhou and immediately beers were ganbei'd.

Boss meal at Boss Zhou's in full swing

Of course it was fantastic food and I loved the raw fish particularly. But I also noticed despite being only 2.5% I was feeling a little drunk, so at around 8.30pm I did what is perfectly acceptable here and found and easy chair and lay down in it pretending to sleep...but really just avoiding beer for 45 minutes or so. I got up and re-joined as if nothing had happened (well, it hadn't), and a few minutes later it was A Wu's turn to lie down but he really did sleep and snored too to prove it. But he came back to the table too to continue drinking and a very jolly time was had by all, including the two banking partners in their suits. At around midnight I gave A Wu a lift back home and finally home I must have taken some melatonin as I was asleep by 1am according to my app.