Hono Begging For Your Patronage (Writing Course This Saturday)

I’m not kidding! After my book launch on the 6th of October where about 60 or 70 people descended, drinking hundreds of bottles of beer in the quiet time of the restaurant, the owner of Honolulu has begged me twice to have another “gwailo party”.

Hm… okay! If he promises to dim the light somewhat. But actually yes, we will have a party there soon, when I finish my new project about how to navigate the Silk Road. I will show a short extract from this extremely useful, funny and, guess what, Mandarin-filled opus … and we’ll drink heaps of beer.

But what I wanted to mention was the crash course in Chinese writing we’re doing this Saturday (November 12) in said Hono. 3pm to 5.30pm, bring your own pen and notebook. When you sign up I will send you the course material and tell you the price (low of course) as this depends on how many people are coming. If more people we’ll throw in an extra half an hour.

When you know how to look up Chinese characters in the dictionary, everything will be so much easier and you’ll have no more existential angst, basically.

Honolulu Coffee and Cake Shop, 33 Stanley street, Central

Here is the dictionary you’ll need. The only one around, basically …