New Balls Please!

Yesterday we took Tata, one of Yaning's cats, to the vet to get his crown jewels chopped off, poor fella. As you can see he is feeling pretty down and he is currently following us both about the flat looking for comfort.. Not only has he lost his nuts but he has to walk around with the orange cone on his head for a week, if it wasn't such a sorry sight seeing him navigate the furniture it would be quite funny. His name Tata is derived from ta, the chinese word for he, she and it. Yaning didn't know if he was a boy or girl when she got him as a kitten so she named him Tata (heshe). Sadly he is more 'she' than 'he' now...lol


I'm getting to grips with Shanghai traffic so today I'm going to take a ride to the university I've signed up with to time how long it wil take to get there in the mornings (8am start...bummer). While I'm there I'll also be popping into one of Shanghai's many B&Q's to pick up some bits for a job at Yaning's office. B&Q is quite popular in China and there are about 20 stores around the country, Shanghai having 4 including the main office. Judging by the pics on the website it looks like there is a bigger range of goods and better organisation than the stores back home too, I think they are competing with Ikea.