WTF....seven years and nothing in his pockets?

Hi there, Dude! WTF? Maybe he did, and oftentimes. The guy's relatively young, a fair bit off of forty.
In China, it could well be that all his pay has gone on 'wine, women and song'. A Western male can be relieved of his hard-earned, or maybe easy-earned, pretty quickly in a Karaoke bar. Maybe he likes the night life and the ladies of the night! Your guess is as good as mine. Anyway, good luck to him. I reckon by his never-say-die attitude that he'll be back once he has sorted his financial problems out in Kiwiland.