Grass that throws poo at you

Woke up this morning feeling fine which is always a boost after having drunk a few the night before. There was a bloody racket going on outside my room though as some of Benjamin’s mates had arrived to play. Took the pressure off me at least. A nice surprise arrived in the mail a card from my mate Rowan and his girlfriend Shona, aptly entitled “Beer” with some Aussie money inside for purchase of said refreshment. Cheers guys! 😀

My breakfast (note: brunch) was Papa John’s Pizza. I surfed the net and read a bit until around 3PM when Benjamin and Co. went out too play. I said I would join them a few minutes later, Benjamin said they would be near the baboon. Haha! (Bamboo by the way) When I did leave I couldn’t find them anywhere in the compound, no baboon’s that I could see, so I proceeded to kick about the football I had brought for over an hour.

With the air going bad I returned home to find Benjamin and his mate playing away, fudge knows where they had went. His friend stayed for tea and overnight so that meant I didn’t need to entertain the wee man at all, except when he needed my password to download an iPad game. Yu came home later on in the evening (6 day work weeks, arsed) and told me Ben should be arriving tomorrow, cool.

Overall it has been a very chilled Saturday, if the weather is good tomorrow I’ll try and make up for it.

Ill again. You cannot be serious?!?!

Well last nights “sleep” was pretty rubbish, my throat doing it’s best to keep me awake. I woke up this morning feeling a tad shite. Seems to be a different breed of ‘cold’ than the other two and came on quick. So it’s been nearly 6 months I’ve been here and this is the 3rd time I’ve felt ill, totally crap as back home I could go a year with maybe one spell of illness. For this China I dislike you.

Because I felt crap I stayed in today, try and rest up this time (drink plenty of fluids, etc) rather than power through it like the other times. It was by no means an uneventful day though as Kathy (Benjamin’s mate) came over and I was soon mucking about with them. The main game we played was ‘Detective vs Thief’ where the thief hides an item in the room, leaves a written clue and the detectives hunt for it. Quite fun actually, was good to spend almost a full day with the little ninja. A Christmas card from my Dad and co arrived, that was nice and Benjamin got the stamps. 🙂

Lunch was Papa John’s pizza’s and for tea we went to a restaurant in the mall. Stuffed as usual, favourites were the stuffed bing and sweet sticky rice ball things, nom. Afterwards Benjamin bought (note: his mum bought) some playdoh. Most of the kits there, and the advert that was running, all amount to making food! Pizza, ice cream, cakes, fruit, spaghetti, etc. Jebus H, it’s bad enough telling kids not to eat it without this.

Leaving the family I popped past Costa and paid the extortionate price of 31RMB/3.10GBP for a mocha. The plan was to leech their wifi and have a Skype chat with my mum but it turns out no one was awake, it was after 12 noon there! Michty me. Anyway I got home and (when they got up) chatted to my mum and younger brother, was good to catch up with them. I haven’t spoke to my mum since I’ve been here, oops sorry mum.

The rest of the night I chilled and watched ‘The Shawshank Redemption’, such a good film. 🙂