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update:
I have been all excited since last Wed when I got that factory job, and it has made next year far more a reality for me. Since then I've been getting into some hardcore planning and hav been getting really excited about everything.. started getting worried when I hadn't had a callback by Sunday. then.. Got an email yesterday saying there's unlikely to be any work in the factory till after the Xmas break. That means not until Jan 17... That means that I'll effectively be working for 6 weeks before I leave and I don't have a cent yet(exaggeration, but not far off).... After I heard this I was completely down again. Its so worrying how my mood is so easily affected by external things. Understandable to an extent, but imagine what I'll be like when something more serious than having no money happens... But anyway, then I called my boss this morning just to follow up and emphasise my keenness and he said I was at the top of his list for work and he'd probably be able to get me something this week. And once again I'm happy.
Next year:
I've come up with this. I want to go to India. Much more than south-east asia. Actually that's not entirely true. I'd quite like to go to Thailand, and I'd really like Vietnam, but I just reckon if I'm going to England and I'm gonna stop along the way, it may as well be somewhere closer to England because after I get back I can go to Thailand or Vietnam any time I want for like $1000... Anyway, the plan at this point looks like it will be leave in early March after my birthday, go to Sri Lanka for 2 weeks with Hana. Then she has to go to Abu Dhabi for a week or so to visit her dad, and when she's there I'll do an organised tour of India. I've been scouring the only tour brochure I have and have reckon it'd be cool to go overland from Dehli to Kathmandu. Its either that or head down to Goa, through Mumbai. I'm interested in seeing Goa, but i reckon I may be beached out after Sri Lanka. Anyway, I also want to come home from England via South America, where I really want to do the Inca trail in Peru. If I have enough money by that point, I'd also like to go to Rio, and see a Boca match in Buenos Aires.... but I doubt I will..
I also want to go to Egypt, and for a while was tossing up between Egypt and India for a stop-off on the way, in the end I decided, Egypt was probably close enough to do from Europe, so hopefully, I can earn enough when I'm there to get me that far.
In the Asia brochure I have, they give a prize of free two-week trip for the best photo they receive from their tours (they use people's photos for the brochure). I have now made it my task in life to win that prize. Accordingly, today I bought a digital camera. Now before you all start calling me up saying I'm a fuckwit for spending all this money before I have a) solid plans, b) a plane ticket, c) any shifts at the factory, hear me out... I bid it at an online aution site, got a 5.5 megapixel camera which retails for $560 for $200. pretty sweet, huh. anyway, I know I have no money, I know I have more important things to be saving for, but i don't care. Its on the credit card and I'll pay it back in instalments. And you'll all thank me when instead of a dull-as-shit email about what I'm doing(that's right Steve, the only one we actually read was the threesome one), I can send you pictures of my ass... or at least pictures of the shit I'm doing... (which will most likely be just that in India).. And you guys will see it all via the marvels of technology.
Meanwhile, either I'm completely ignorant, or shit all's happening in the real world at the moment. Do you reckon there is genuinely less news at the moment, or do you think that they're just not trying as hard because ratings have stopped? I guess Lleyton Hewitt has started boning Bec Cartwright... Good on him... Except she has no chin... like Mr (K) Fisher...
