Once you've started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are?

I can see the warmth. He's falling for me.

I once tried to give him a friendly little "drugs chat". He politely corrected me on every single fact, then said he'd noticed I drank above the recommended guidelines of Red Bull and did I think I might have an addiction? That was the last time I tried to act like the older sister.

I don't speak Japanese, I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi. But I can't exactly go up to him and say "Sushi!" out of the blue. It would be like going up to a top American businessman and saying, "T-bone steak!

If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?

This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.

A party like this isn't about the surprise factor. It's about someone going to so much trouble that it just... overwhelms you.