What a day...
Started with Ling asking me for a document she left in my bag, I checked and sure enough there was one in there, so went to meet her early after Starbucks and gave that to her, I could see she was barely holding back the tears as was i, we only maybe spoke three or four words.
I went back to the hotel and cried for a while, I had a long history with this girl and its a lie to say there still isnt feeling between us, but it would never work.
Thankfully it was going to be another couple of hours before meeting with Sunny to move to the new hotel that Yamaha had sorted out for me.
So i dozed in bed and calmed myself down.
Sunny brought me to the new hotel and OMG is all i can say!!!! Its palatial, its really a fancy apartment!!! Its got a cooker, a washing machine, a fridge freezer, microwave, a kingsize bed room come living room on the 25th floor with a huge window that you can stand on the sill its so insanely big. Yamaha seems to know people in places everywhere and organised this for me at 260 RMB a night on condition that it was cash up front.
The brochure prices this room at 880RMB a night.....lets just say I owe her bigtime.
Its about a 10 minute brisk walk to the metro in the city centre, this area is all financial type buildings and posh apartment skyscrapers, I'm living it up !
We went for lunch and Yamaha rang and chattted to Sunny and then me, she said if Sunny didnt like me don't worry, she will set me up with another date, my heart sank, I assumed Sunny had told her it wasn't happening for her....and she was trying to let me know as gently as possibly.
I didn't say anything to Sunny but felt a bit sick and depressed what with the mornings events with Ling and all.. Anyhow, i was going to keep a brave face and see if i could turn it around.
We then went to find painting shops, but compared to Tianjin everything here is about five times the price with paintings so I didn't get any. It was a long walk to there and we had another few hours to go until the prebooked Pearl River cruise, so I suggested checking out a movie. There was a theatre real close by as luck would have it..little did I know it but this spur of the moment decision may have just changed my life...
We bought tickets to see "Knowing" as it was starting soon and was in English with Chinese subtitles so that suited us both just fine. We went into the wrong screen by mistake and stumbled around in the dark, it looked like it was mid movie so I asked Sunny to ask the person beside her if we had missed the start, apparently it was over an hour into it, we stumbled out in the darkness, and after Sunny asking a load of attendants for help we found the right screen and settled down to watch the movie. I was feeling in the dumps and a bit sick to my stomach in the dark ...little did I know what was coming...
This movies has a few BOO!!! type moments with the dramatic backing track building up the tension, at one moment Sunny let out a yelp and buried her head in my shoulder, as if afraid to watch, i took her hand said I'd keep her safe (corney I know but a mans gotta do what a mans gotta do). I love this movie. She held my hand and at the scary bits she squeezed it tight and her head never left my shoulder and my other hand rested on one of her legs. This ain't a typical date movie, but fellas, it got the job done!!
The ice was broken, the should I or shouldn't I go for gold and grab her hand fretting was done. She took my hand as we left the theater when I offered it with a shy smile and we were stuck together for the rest of the night. There was another hour to the cruise so we just sat on a bench by the Pearl river and fooled about a bit and talked about relationships and stuff, much more personal than the superficial small talk before. She read my palms and apparently I earn good money but don't know how to save it (true enough), i will live a long life and have a long marriage, she wont earn much money but will have a long life and marriage and is good with money so we are a good match I declared to giggles and a playful shove of the shoulder.
The time came for the Pearl river cruise, last time I had got no pictures because my camera battery was flat this time it was because Sunny said she would rather sit inside with me (and nuzzle into my shoulder and examine my hands and arms)! Man oh man was this day turned around just great! I was on top of the world.
It was near 22:30 now so we just about caught the last metro back to our places. I held her back at the escalator until everyone had passed then held her close and gave her a surprise peck on the cheek and playful flick of the butt, that got a huge smile and laugh and we went out ways home.
I'm meeting up with Yamaha for lunch, no doubt she will want to know all the gory details and for all her help the least I can do for her is buy her lunch. Yamaha said she was brining a friend with her that was single if I was interested...I was a bit surprised then the penny dropped about earlier .. Sunny doesn't want me to tell Yamaha about our romance just yet as the whole of Guangzhou will know right away apparently as Yamaha has a lot of friends haha and I was just to say we were doing well as friends...so shes been telling Yamaha this and Yamaha reads this as her not being interested and being my friend wants to set me up with someone else...haha, funny problem to have. I'm gonna tell Yamaha that I like Sunny and that I am not gonna give up the fight, Yamaha is a friend and even if she thinks its foolish will respect this and not interfere.
So, my rocket has just left the touchpad!
