Thursday 11th October, 2012          2200

Well, well, well - seems as if Kevin has started something. There will now be a run-off between the top three contestants (I think from the non-English majors because there was no doubt the top two English majors deserved to go to the finals, albeit in different places) at another competition to decide which two should really have won. Something stinks here and it is now making me think of the implications of my refusing to judge or participate in future ones unless there is transparency.

I took Pepsi to the doctor this afternoon and paid another 60y for three injections and some liquid the vet applied. She now looks like a punk as she has bright blue streaks all over. I must take her back for more jabs next Tuesday, and I suspect twice more at five day intervals after that. As long as it works that’s fine. Pity there isn’t a drug that could make Robin come home at night - she stayed out last night and seemingly is doing so again tonight. The only “good” thing is that lately she has been barking all night outside the student dormitory blocks instead of ours. Apparently some are moaning but the Chinese never care about disturbing my sleep when they have conversations at full volume outside my door so I fail to see why I should feel guilty.

I intended to go to town shopping tomorrow but instead I may just take it easy. Today I had a call and the kids’ school have two lessons for me on Saturday morning (the break was great!) so I will probably combine the two along with some lunch.

Friday 12th        2200

Not a good evening at all. Daisy wants to change her speech - yes, the top three from English and non-English majors will be having a re-run in a fortnight, hopefully judged and scored by Prof Fang, to sort out who SHOULD go to the finals. With her being Kevin’s good friend, naturally he has given her great help but he himself will admit he is not exactly terrific at making speeches. Teaching a class, yes, standing on stage and entertaining - no! So he suggested she come to me for ideas. Fine by me because it gave me an excuse to combine it with dinner and sweet pork and we have fine tuned it a bit, plus I delivered her speech to her to give her an idea of where to pause, place emphasis on certain words etc.

Unfortunately though, when we were riding to the restaurant with Pepsi aboard and Robin racing along on paws, she chased a moped being ridden by a woman. Robin did her usual thing and decided to attack the bike. The woman panicked and I watched in horror as she completely forgot she was in control of a moving vehicle and rode straight at the kerb and into a lamppost. I stopped of course and mercifully both the lady and the bike were unharmed although not unnaturally she was not best pleased. This, coupled with her recent habit of staying out and barking all night, gave me cause for concern because everyone knows what happened when the Korean bitch complained about being afraid of three month old puppies.

However, worse was to come. Back on campus when I was sitting having a beer a Chinese teacher came and after translation I learned that probably a complaint has been made about the barking. That’s bad enough, but solvable by driving her miles away and letting her go feral away from here, but even worse was to come.

Yesterday a student from the PE department was bitten badly on the calf and needed hospital treatment. I am now awaiting confirmation as to whether it was Robin or not. If it was her then she will be departing this world very shortly - as much as I won’t want to do it I will not give her a second chance to bite anyone else. You may imagine I am not in the best of moods as I type this.