It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, describes today...
Started the day by chatting to Sunny on qq in work. One of her colleagues were leaving so the office were going to meet up and have a going away dinner party, Sunny wanted to go and of course I'm fine with that , I know that work social functions are more important than at home, she would like to spend lunch with me though.
So I met her at the Panyu square station at 11:40 and she had until 1:30 free (she left as early as possible) . We had a nice lunch and sat in trhe shade in Panyu square watching the activity, its was crazy hot and actually sunny with blue skies today so staying in the shade was the order of the day. When we walked to the restaurant earlier Sunny help up and umbrella to shade us, i offered to hold it but she said I dont know the right way to place it....I didnt debate the point, it seems I'm the rain umbrella carrier but not the sun one
Sunny said she wanted to stay with me as long as posible and decided that she would ring her boss and ask could she have the afternoon off. This is a big deal to me as she told me beforer that any leave she takes apart from public holidays is not paid for so I really appreciated the gesture.
The boss said ok, Sunny will be busy tomorrow catching up with her work...
We sat in Panyu square takling romantic stuff, it was all very relaxing and pleasant.
So ended the best of times....
I wanted to buy Yamaha some Olay stuff that these ladies seem to love so much so asked Sunny to help me pick some out for her. We went into the Panyu town centre and bough some cosmetic stuff I got Sunny a couple of bottles too which she was real delighted with ( i had to force her to take them and even then it had to be the cheapest stuff). After thaT we went for some drinks - I had coffee and she had a fruit drink, we held hands across the table and just enjoyed the sensory input.
It was now coming up to 18:00 when she would have to go back to meet her colleagues after work, we had a hard time getting a bus or taxi and eventually got a taxi back to the train station..when i realised my wallet was missing from my bag....ohh fuuuuuuudge (that is not the word i used..)
One of the street we walked down to getr the taxii had not street lighting and was pretty busy so it must happened there. Ling used to make me give my wallet to her for safekeeping in her purse and I just never got into the habit with sunny..lesson painfully learned. We got a taxi back to the café where we had drinks before the taxi to the station in case it had somehow droped out of my bag..but of course not. Ihad a moments lapse and placed it into the front pocket of my bag not the back one...and would be easy for a pickpocket to rob me if my atten was distracted ..which it obviously was. I only had a bout 200 rmb left in there but it also had my emergency 300 euro fund in there..i forgot to hide the money in my hotel room and now paid dearly for that..it would have been enough to get me to the end of my trip just fine and i'd only be down 200 rmb and a nice wallet...
I know what Sunny earns so i'm totally freaked out..how am i gonna last to next weekend on a couple of hundred which i assumed is all Sunny could afford. She kept saying to me don;t worry she will look after me, all i kept thinking was about how fudging helpless I felt. The only positive was that the hotel was paid already for cash upfront and the deposit money could be used to pay Sunny back the money she lent me.
We went back to the hotel and i looked up my credit card company emergency number..the "international toll free number" apparently isnt toll free in China..my phone credit ran out while they were taking down my address here ...second time I rang them with Sunny's phone and the same thing happend, the second lady i was talking to kept putting me on hold and obviously was out of her depth.
Sunny went down to the FamilyMart store outside and bought some credit for her phone and I rang for a third time..this time got through to someone more clued in who took Sunny's name and work address and mobile number and said they would arrange and express courier delivery of a new card to her, but it would take 3-5 working days, i'll be impressed if it does, so may arrive by Friday if i'm lucky and if not monday or tuesday next week. So mightly relieved.
Sunny then surprised me and handed me 2900 RMB and said its a loan. I'm thinking WTF??!! Then she apologises and says she can only take out 3k any one time and she used 100 topping up her phone sim!!
She's been saving like an eager beaver and has a truely surprising cash pile which she says is mine to use as she knows I'll pay her back.
I really like this girl.
She calls her work colleagues and apologies for not being with them but her boyfriend needs her. She said not to worry, its a good reason and people would expect her to take care of me in such circumstances.
We goofed about on the sofa and watched Chinese tv, Sunny complained that i was to stubbly so I asked her had she ever shaven a man, she said no so I let her shave me, she really enjoyed doing it and wanted to do my head too but I respectfully declined! Its quite a sensual thing having a woman shave you and examine you so close up, I quite enjoyed the sensation as clearly did she.
Eventually it was time for her to head back to the train station to get the last train back home so I walked her there and we said our romantic goodbyes.
I have found a keeper.
