Hello all

Currently uploading 9 meg through the eye of the needle so have a little time to blog at you.

Yesterday had spicy kimche noodles for lunch. Interesting but not particularly highly recommended. Visited the site in the afternoon, which is currently a very quiet hole in the ground. Considering how hard the Koreans used to work us in S'pore, they finish bloody early when they're at home. I think there is a strong union presence here, not sure. Traffic seems to be in a constant state of gridlock. The city gives me an impression of Tokyo crossed with Taipei, which is a good thing. Quite a lot of low-rise, but with decent design intent to a lot of it. 12 lane main roads with tiny alleys feeding into the very large city block areas. really makes you feel like you're in a quiet area once you're a couple of alleys away from the main drag. The main drags are, of course, another story.

Went out for Korean barbeque last night. I don't know why I don't have Korean food more often, I quite like it. Never will it reach the heady hights of mee goreng, roti prata, chilli crab or lamb madras, but a sight better than the cantonese nonsense we get in honkers. Someone recommended a korean resteraunt in Causeway bay (HK) so I'll have to try it when I get back. Korean BBQ, for those unfamiliar, is strips of meat (in our case marinated beef) cooled on a skillet above a smokless wood fire in the middle of the table. Condiments include just about every type of vegitable imaginagle, separately pickled with varying concentrations of chilli paste (collectively called kimche)and presented on separate dishes. All very good for the fresh breath, let me tell you.

This meal was followed by some very expensive and not very good beer, which I will have to fill you in on later 'cause me uploading's complete and I have to dash off to another meeting

Bomber out

Quickly

so busy, here's my first entry ing the B3ta rebranding competition


Guinness; nice beer, shame it makes your poo black

This also demonstrates that I have finally worked out how to postr my own pics full size here FOR FREE. Now there's gonna be trouble...

Bomber out

Hi from sunny Seoul

Well, Seoul is, at first glance ... err ... a bloody great big city actually. Not actually left the hotel yet, travelling business culture involving never ending meetings in the basement coffee shop (cheaper than renting a conference room). Currently uploading a bunch of drawings to someone through "narrow band". I swear I will never move to a city that doesn't allow me a broadband connection. I remember Beijing the first time and fixing my bike hubs while I waited for the hotmail portal to load. It could take 1/2 a day to check email. Just not good enough. The Appollo missions were run on less computing power than I have in my mobile phone, so I NEED BANDWIDTH.

Had a shot at the local english language paper this morning and can confidently report that nothing interesting is happening here at the moment. No doubt a Korean airliner will flip itself upside down on the runway before day's end, but I'd need access to the international press to see that and what with trying to send all these drawings up the "pipe" I don't think I've got the band girth to spare.

Dunc, cash donations always accepted mate, assumed you hadn't answered sooner because you were penning something especially offensive, but lo; you were polite. Who are you and what have you done with my offensive friend, you polite fiend. Cheers for the heads up about QEII's B'day. Not a holiday out here, one the Chinese got rid of, I dare say. We do have next Tuesday off, much lying about to be done as Andrea is off on her summer travels on Sunday so I will have no mates for a month (after which I will recommence having one mate...)

Enough; I'm bored.

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Morning tight arses

Well, my funding drive produced nothing but hot air so I can't quit my job. Thanks a bunch.

Wired has some cool pictures of Phoebe, one of Saturn's moons. Everyones excited because they think there's water there. Look closely at the picture, isn't that a caravan in the bottom of that crater? Pikeys, I hate bloody Pikeys;



Off to Seoul today, back Friday. Phones don't work in Korea, they're so belligerent that they chose a different frequency to the ones the rest of the world uses. Will have laptop with me, though so should be able to keep you up to date on my flight schedules.

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