More mixed news!

The not-so-great news: I'd booked my tickets to HK so that I could be with mum and dad, only to find out that I had to go to Korea for work straight from HK... and I'm going to be there for 6 weeks!!! Ugh. Well, it could've been worse - it could've been India for 6 weeks. (I'm dreading that that will be the next one...)

The great news: Well, I arrived in HK and went straight to the hospital. Jo, Si and Sandy were there, as well as dad and jus; all very cheery and apparently pretty chill. The surgery was all fine, though they're running some more tests which won't come back till next week, but so far so good. Mum actually came home this morning, looking fit and happy as though nothing had happened! She's even lining up a game of mahjong for Wednesday! Incredible. I'm going to stay until Wednesday so that I can be here for mum's b'day on the 31st, and then hop on a flight to Seoul.

Back to the not-so-great news: This trip is kind of a hassle - being away for that long is pretty disruptive, especially since I'd just started to feel settled in SG, and had just started seeing Claire. Thankfully, she's been a champ about it, and she's going to help me take care of a few things while I'm away. I'm going to try and get her out to Seoul in a few weeks. But, to be positive about the whole thing, I had a look online, and it gets down to -15°C (a bit of a shock) so I reckon I'll bring my snowboard and make the most of it... And, the other bonus is that the food is great. The other other bonus, the 'unmentionable' one, is that Korean girls are supposed to *kssst* hot. Hey, eye candy is eye candy right? You're always allowed to look... But, I'm going to be good. Claire is a really sweet girl and we have a lot of fun together - she doesn't deserve an asshole boyfriend! Luckily I'm not an asshole, eh?