It's the 20th. As of Jan 15th, no more:
-turning up to work unprepared and ashamed
-Helmet hair
-Bargaining
-Staring
-Kindergarten
-Dirt
-Tall Girl
-hard mattress
-Pollution

But on the other hand, no more:
-cheap great food everywhere
-easy money
-theatre
-scooter
-travel mindset
-learning Chinese

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I think the tall handsome Californian is getting the kindy job. All the ladies were going nuts today, flicking their hair as they breezed past to have a geezer. Don't mention it!

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I had Teacher Wu for the last time today, she said she wants her daughter to have achieved "as much as I have" by age 20 and we had a discussion about the pros and cons of leaving the nest ASAP and leaving when you get married. I said it was all good to leave the country alone without your parents but it gets hard when you meet "bad people" who want to rip you off or take advantage of you, and you try to deal with that shit while the dreams that made you get up and go in the first place never included any bad elements, and you have to think up your own ways of protecting yourself, when you never thought you would have to, and you realise you do. So if you stayed at home with your parents and never had to do anything major on your own you would never have to face that realisation. I guess it just depends on who you are - if you want to be in control of your life then there's a certain price to pay. I've gotta say, it's worth it, but dealing with setbacks and mistakes on your own can be so goddam hard.

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