Tempus fugit too fast

I really need another full week to do everything I want at a leisurely pace, but of course time isn't like that when you're having a good time.
I go to probably my last Mongolian English pub quiz tonight. Last week was special. First of all, I was doing it as a guest questionmaster and by and large it was a lot of fun. Second, since last Thursday fell slap bang in the middle of Naadam, it was put back to a Saturday, so I had the rare honour of conducting my questions not on a Thursday (and Thursday is quiz night in Ulaanbaatar, no questions asked). I gave the nine teams a maximum of 92 points available from three rounds of fifteen questions plus a 25-pointer table rounds - how does that work out; well, many of my questions had subsets of bonuses, plus there were big questions such as name the 'new seven wonders of the world', a point each (there were surprisingly many who put down the Grand Canyon). Overall, the bottom team finished with 17 points but they were barely out of nappies, while the regular winners topped it with 60 points, comfortably outpacing 2nd place by 5 and a half points. I wanted a different team to win, but I can't deny the best team won. My table round was guess the film from 25 taglines (with year of release added for helping people). The films were also arranged in alphabetical order, but four of five began with 'the'. I also had to shout across Dave's Place's verandah which is not as easy as it seems without a microphone - I think most of Sukhbaatar Square heard me though!
The previous week some an American couple had done it and - surprise, surprise - Americans won it. I suppose it was Fourth of July though. Our team, also finished fourth, out of 11 teams. The week before though we had mullered the opposition, annihilating second place by a massive 20 points as we finished on 67 points. This all sets up tonight - winner takes all.
Last Sunday night, I went out for cocktails with Altaa. We met up with her Danish film-makers in a bar called the Blue Martini. Previously, this had been on the fifth floor with a 1950s diner-look and a view over the UB skyline. Now, they've shifted it to an upholstered corner of the ground floor, with nothing like the original atmosphere. We also met there one of my fellow teachers from Engram, the London-bred, Welsh-named Angharad (or Ana as she prefers) and her Mongolian boyfriend Sol - they had met two years ago in a London Wetherspoons, aahhh, how sweet. After that, we went for dinner in a Korean restaurant and thoroughly enjoyed the three big meals we shared.