Discussing in Chinese with bored shop assistant in Wangfujing. Temperature reaching 32 degrees celcius. Every Chinese ever born apparently decide to go out on this hot May holiday and shop until they dropped dead on the melting pavement.

Shop assistant: This is real silk. Is it for you?

 Me: No, for a friend. But this is quite short and she’s very tall. You have bigger size?

Shop assistant: BIGGER size? This is big size.

Me: I know. But she’s tall. This is too short.

Shop assistant: Is your friend fat?

Me: What? No, she’s TALL, not fat!

Shopassistant: Not fat?

Me: No, just very… I mean, not super slim… (Looking at tiny Chinese shop assistant who could wear my necklace around her waist.)

Me: OK, she’s fat. Tall AND fat.

Shop assistant: Ha ha ha! Yes. I get bigger size.

Can’t believe that it took me around three days to set this thing up. Seems like the Golden Seal is working like magic when it comes to blogging. First tried to open a blog at wordpress.com. Registration went just fine, but after trying endless amount of times to log in without any other result than ‘page cannot be displayed’ I gave up. Went to blogger.com and was automatically redirected to the Chinese version. Nothing worked, not even via anonymouse.org.

Finally, here I am. But thanks for that China, guess I should be grateful for feeling how it really matters to be able to write whatever you want…