I'm Dayle Kerrigan, and this is my story.

Yesterday we went to this Longjiang town, where the school (a big fuckarse fancy one, too - 3000 kids at tha sucka) invited us to a dinner thing for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Got very very drunk. I loathe that baijio crap with a passion. some dude made me skull a glass of that shite - I think it was the guy that looked alarmingly like Jackie Chan, but I'm not sure - he was making sure everyone got pissed.

came back to this shack, went with a couple of people to this karaoke joint where you rent out your own little rooms. the place is a little reminscient of a brothel, with its dingy lighting and many doors.

I went to sing "Blue Monday" but it was the wrong bloody song - i was so stoked when I thought they actually had New Order on the karaoke thing, i should've known better.

Actually tried Newcastle Brown Ale for the first time last night. It's ok, but expensive for beer in china. In case I haven't mentioned, most beer here resembles cat piss, in taste, consistency and alcoholic content. I've found one good beer which is Mingdueyao (the local brewer) white or V9 - it actually tastes like beer.

Went to a gay bar the other night with a whole bunch of people (Patrick, one of the people here is quite possibly the Biggest Gay Stereotype in History) ... So, now I can cross 'see Chinese drag show" off my list of things to do in my life.

Jessica (my lady-friend) came along and was quietly terrified for most of the night. I went home soon after she left, since it was a little strange hanging around at closing time without a woman or beer to hold onto for comfort.

Today is pretty slow. I'm on-call today, which hopefully means I won't have to teach today. Nurisng a bit of a hangover.

Had to listen to someone screeching into her mobile phone in the corridor at 6am, talking to someone in australia.

I swear she was just talking that loud so everyone else could hear her. If i had more energy then I would've been angry.

"fixed" this computer this morning, but the system is still in conching chinese, so only the psychics and somewhat computer-savvy amongst us will be able to use it.

I've Realised that I'm going to have to drink black coffee from now on, since real milk is virtually impossible to find.