So I’m at the internet bar since I’ve lost my connection at home, trying to write a very complected text and I notice the guy next to me has turned his web camera so its pointed at me, and that he’s chatting with somebody on QQ。 This is a type of Chinese chat software (apparently the code was ripped from the AOL messenger) , that almost everbody uses here – MSN, SKYPE and the others are not so well known and most net bars dont have such programs installed on them. 

 I find QQ a really buggy piece of software and so don’t like it much  (MSN is better)- but I do use it, as it’s an invaluable tool with which to chat with people in Chinese who don’t understand English and also that most the people I know here don’t use MSN.  

The system is all in Chinese so your computer must have language support or you’re just see those squares, apparently there’s an English language version though I’ve never tried it first hand.  

Anyway, he then notices that I’ve seen what he’s doing, and moves the camera back to its original position, not before I asked him what he’s playing at.  He gave me a ‘souurrryy’  ‘souurrryy’ looking quite embarrassed then spouted out‘喝啤酒吗’’wanna beer’.   I replied jokingly ‘当然了’ of course, he then disappeared for a few moments and returned with 4 bottles of Huadan 花丹啤酒 。 It’s Funny how these things go, just another one of those many interesting experiences to add to the list 🙂