Today was Chinese New Year's Eve. So you're thinking 'the home of fireworks, must let off one or two?' right? Well it started at 10am which annoyed everyone except me J I get up at 8am each morning but if Kelly and Paul aren't working they - and Vincent - prefer to stay in bed until 11 or so. At 10 am a few firecrackers went off. I thought it must just be excitable children. By midday it was clear that unless they were very rich children they couldn't possibly be...

Surprisingly karma had it say today and after getting a taxi all the way to the front door of the Sony shop the laptop was there waiting with everything installed the way it should have been! Paul had an essay to write so we mostly spent the day continuing to repair and reinstall our own laptop and trying to stay warm in the freezing cold.Nowhere in China has radiators. They all have an AC unit in each room that serves to cool down the hot 38 degree summers and t...

Today we had had laptop problems. Paul's had been formatted a while back by a guy who didn't have all the software to put back after so we had to take it to the Sony shop and mine decided to have a full on crash and not turn on anymore. Having backed up most things it wasn't the end of the world, all the photos were backed up which was the most important thing, I decided to start again from scratch and format too. Vista and I have been having regular disagreement...

Today we had to brave Auchan again, but first we had to clean the house from top to bottom as it was still pretty dusty and full of piles of half sorted DVDs. Auchan was the same nightmare as before but this time we had added problems. Firstly the men who pushed the long trains of trolleys were literally mobbed by customers for the trolleys as they were of a premium. Secondly we had to buy crockery and cutlery as Paul didn't have enough for 4. After searching for...

Today we were invited to Kelly's parent for dinner. Paul assured us her dad was an amazing cook and would try and feed us to death. We opted for not eating lunch and going out for a long walk before dinner to walking street again where Paul found some trainers. I also found pharmacy and as I had Kelly with me decided to try and get some cream for my foot. I had an allergic reaction to something in India a few months ago that started as red dots on my toe and spre...