Matts blog

So after finishing work today, there was only one thing to do….. Have a leaving party, so I knocked up that old classic - Spag Bol and invited my best buddy Sting and his girlfriend Yang around, and Lizzie’s friend Ramona also came. As its -7 or so, we decided the only viable option for drinks was mulled wine and a quick search round the supermarket turned up Cloves and what I think is whole nutmeg. The mulled wine went down a storm!!!! It seems cheap Chinese wine is the vital ingredient

So once everyone was suitably Inebriated I took my chance to ask Yang what my nick name they had chosen for me was, and it turned out it was 蚂蚱 (ma zha) or in English grasshopper, the general consensus was that this is very similar to ‘Matt’ and I have long limbs like a grasshopper, I’m pretty keen on it as a name

Lizzie also received a new name, which was thought to be more fitting to her than her current Chinese name. So Lizzie is now known as 荔枝 (li zhi) and in English that means Lychee or Litchi chinensis Sonn if you prefer a bit of latin, this fruit is native of southern China, which is about the only bit of China Lizzie hasn’t visited, a must of next time obviously.

Right, guess its bed time, no more mulled wine left, and lots of cleaning and banking to do tomorrow.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 13th, 2005 at 11:12 pm and is filed under China life, Beijing.