So I'm not hanging around any longer. There's only so much time a man can cope with his parents for, and I passed that amount of time about three months ago. It's finally gone far enough, so I'm leaving tomorrow. For Thailand. OK, so it's not really just the parents that have made me want to leave the country for a while. The sun, the beaches, the temples, the jungle, the mountains, the trekking, the food, the people... All perfectly good reasons to head to Asia for a few months. Am I running away from real life? Possibly. But what's the point of working your arse off for years, caring about nothing more than getting a slightly bigger house and car? That's not the life for me. So I'm not as rich as some of my friends who've been working as investment bankers or something for a few years. But I've had what I consider to be a much better life. Doing a job I enjoy for the last few years, and working hard enough at it to get the money to pay for this. My life never has been, and hopefully never will be, ruled by making money. I've got the chance to spend the next few months having the experience of a lifetime; it would be immoral to turn down that chance, wouldn't it? It's weird, when I tell people I'm planning on going travelling for a while, I get two responses. Either they say I'm wasting my life (hardly, I've had more of a life than anybody devoting their life to an accountancy firm will ever have); or they say they're jealous (in which case, get off your arse and do it yourself! Saying you've got to keep your job / house / money whatever is just an excuse. If you really want something, go for it!). I'll be thinking of you (not least when I'm A Cuckoo becomes B&S's first top ten single next month... And why not? It's their best, and most radio friendly, single for years). And who knows, maybe you'll think of me, when you look out of the window at another winter's day, and I'm living in a beach hut off the coast of Cambodia, or trekking in Nepal. And you'll decide, sod this, I'm going to do the same. Because you can, you know. Don't dream it, be it. Right, I'm leaving first thing in the morning, and it's now 9pm. Time to start packing... Big Stu _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with cool emoticons - download MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+