Not long now

I know that I talked about coming back to Korea. I actually told people that I would be coming back to Korea before heading off into South East Asia. But in this world of endless oppportunity and year round tickets, I had forgotten that tickets come with an expiration date. And that date is 12th May, in this case. That is the last date that I could change my ticket back to Korea for and I just can't leave here the day after tomorrow. So I am back to the original plan of going straight to Singapore on 31st May (it is such an effort to write the date that way around after so many years of May 31st).

Then on 2nd June (June 2nd), I will go to Vietnam. If I hate it then I will come back to Korea after all. If I love it (more likely) then I will be there for around six weeks, or as long as it takes to feel that I have my money's worth out of the ninety quid visa (which does look awfully exciting, tucked away there in my passport).

I am sorry that I won't be seeing my friends in Korea on my birthday this year. From previous experience they would have made it a birthday to remember. But I am sure that even I couldn't have topped last year's fortnight long extravaganza. For one thing, my birthday wouldn't have been on a public holiday this year (damn that lunar calendar and its every-changingness) and for another I am IN my thirties now, rather than just a toe over the line. Therefore, I am sure that I will be spending my birthday knitting, crocheting and generally sitting around on the old spinster shelf... as if!

I have an idea that I might send some stuff to Korea so that my mates can celebrate without me but I will have to see.

But at least I will be saving myself the price of a ticket from Seoul to Singapore. Which means that I don't have to feel so guilty about spending money yesterday on a rather natty little gadget, which will probably get nicked before I have reached Perth.

It was time for me to get something to listen to music on and I got a bit carried away and spent more than I had planned. I got a Philips HDD070, which is a cute little white thing that will let me store a whole lot of music and listen to the radio too.

I like it today but yesterday I was all for hurling it out of the window in frustration. It would have been better if I had catalogued all the music on my PC over the years and put it in some semblence of order but, fool that I am, I was too busy being out there having a life. But I have no life today so spent a good part of the morning trying to figure the little fella out.

How well I have done remains to be seen. What I do know is that I have put some music off my PC and onto it and some of the tracks even have song titles and stuff. Most of them don't. Ah well, win some, lose some.