you know, i whinge a lot about chinese people but i do try. on my suggestion we make an effort, saturday night we went with one of the haggis' work colleagues, his girlfriend and some other friends in their crew. there were two shining lights that were in the form of a guy who was born in dc but left for jakarta at the age of 9 and a korean guy who was fairly amiercanised. otherwise, the rest of the chinese (both mainland and hk) were remaining to do nothing but pi$$ us off.
it started with us arriving maybe 10 minutes late and they were already eating. the haggis tried to introduce me to his colleagues girlfriend. she ignored both of us. they, as in 4 people, spent the rest of dinner more or less ignoring us so much so that the girls especially would rather get up and walk to the end of the table to get food versus ask us. the chat revolved around cathay membership tiers and why one was more superior than another because he had a higher status...with cathay...because that is what matters in life. then we moved onto watches. "oh, is that a cartier?" one of the guys asked. "yes [nose held high in the air], it is," said in a such a way that you must be a fool to not know and who would dare to wear anything else?
thankfully dinner ended and we went off with the korean and indonesian guy to a whiskey bar. the four of us a lovely chat - both of them interesting and nice. otherwise the whole night could have been a write off. i told the haggis we couldve had more fun cooking at home.
other weekend activities incuded seeing "safe house" on friday which was very good and hanging out with my girlfriend, her husband and their two little girls on sunday. man...a LOT of work. it was fun though and the older one took a shining to the haggis. she even requested him to take her to potty - which he did after a little urging!
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