So finally the “Smelly shoe” guy has left and I can breathe a sigh of relief, but he has been replaced by another young guy who I may say is civilised but he is also rather annoying. Mind you anyone that comes here at the moment is annoying because they are upsetting my peaceful lifestyle.

He is here for a month, he works in IT at the local bank. For the first few days he used my toothpaste, I mean how fucking invasive and rude is that? Because the house had a few guests I let him use the second bathroom which is only for myself and Sissi, but she is on holiday and is not here. So because the house had a few guests I said “sure you can use it but don’t make a fucking mess”.

Many Chinese people will take a shower wearing plastic shoes and then for some reason come out the shower and trail the water all through the place, I just don’t understand this at all, but even the most civilised of Chinese people will do this. I on the other hand like to come out the shower and stand on the mat or towel and dry my feet, and I’m sure many of you are familiar with this process and so I made it abundantly clear that this is the process and do not make a mess. The first day I go in for a shower there are two dirty shoe prints on the towel, what the fuck!!!!! Can you really be that stupid?

The second habit of many Chinese is even more disgusting and that is putting the toilet paper into a bin rather than flush it down the toilet with the rest of the waste. Now I know why this is done……….many old houses just did not have the correct size of pipes to allow all the waste to go down and so they would not flush the paper………..this is a modern house. Now  “Smelly shoe” guy did this but I didn’t care because it was in the other bathroom and not my problem. I removed the bin from my bathroom to make sure that no one would be tempted to do this if I was not around. You know the Chinese are very clever but some habits just baffle me.

So the new guy is called “Star”, he seems to be comfortable with it but it reminds me of someone that gets a tattoo which they think means wonderful warrior and it really says couch potato. he wants to practice is English for free and I’m not in the mood to be so sociable all the time. I’m watching TV or reading a book and he wants to chat and as many of you know I’m just a miserable bastard sometimes and I have no inclination to be sociable.

Short of saying “Fuck off” my Paddington Bear stare seems to be working OK.

I have classes in the evening and Suzhou is a bit hot at the moment and so you need to use the air conditioning but when I got back the other night I felt that I was walking into a fridge. I looked at the aircon and it was set to 16C, I said “What the fuck!!” and proceeded to up it to 26C,………………….how fuckin stupid are some folk. I’m not paying for it and so I will crank it up and to make matters worse the large expanse of windows that we have in this apartment has curtains but they were not closed and so I’m sure most of the heat just came through the glass and contributed to global warming.

After a brief lesson and a run down of the house rules I left them to their devices and pissed off to my room because yet again another annoying habit was being played out, playing a computer game and not having headphones in and so we can all experience the wonders of battle.

Actually the other day in the bus I told the guy behind me to turn his music down, I just used my native tongue, no need for trying to be a smart arse and using Chinese, he got the message and turned down the volume. Again I say ” why do they think that this is acceptable?” I’m sure it was annoying other folk in the bus too. Some days this country drives me fuckin nuts…………………..