Footage of me and a birthday meal

Of course I was up at 8.30am wide a-bloody-wake. I did ping Nong as she'd said to meet up in the morning and I was sort of glad she suggested the afternoon as it would be easy to get back to sleep wouldn't it? Yeah right. At lunch I went out early and got a portion of jiaozi and xiao long bao and managed most of them, washed down with a couple of drinks as I knew the night wouldn't happen if I didn't get some more sleep. And eventually I managed from 3-6pm after a slight pill.

Well finally I didn't have a plan for tonight so finished of the xiao long bao. Then at gone 8.30pm Nong pinged to say it was her elder sister's birthday and was I coming over? Well why not? I asked what I should bring and she said to get some flowers so I grabbed a shower and picked up some beers before going to the flower shop where I picked out some purple and pink ones and the ladies arranged a bouquet and charged me 128 kuai for the effort.

During this time Li Kun sent me a link to the article about yesterday's concert, together with four mini-commentaries from the performers and two members of the public of which I was one. Gosh, it was pretty unnatural from me, but also the locals didn't seem that natural either. Interestingly, I was simply name as 彭先生 (Mr Peng) on the tv and there was no mention of my origins or anything, just as if I was a normal member of the audience, which I was really.

Totally unscripted praise of the concert...I wish I could have smiled while talking...

...well the one shot they put of me in the article sort of caught a smile

Luckily, Nong's sister loved the flowers and posed for pictures with them, and I'd thought to bring some sweets and toys for the youngsters too. Well that was dinner sorted, as we had some of Nong's mum's sheep feet and duck, plus a single glass of her yellowskin fruit alcohol which I found rather palatable. 

Nong's sister's husband had clearly had a few beers and stumbled to the settee to watch his phone but soon fell asleep to it. Nong tried to make plans to go to KTV but surprisingly couldn't find people who weren't already busy, so at gone midnight we started to wind down. In fact that wasn't a bad thing at all as I recognised that I was starting to flag too, so left at 1am before a brief chat with the lads as sleep set in bang on 2am.