It's always a pleasure talking with you, Russ.

Still a couple of things to take care of:

-cancel my National Health Insurance
-cancel my Labor Insurance
-cancel my phone line and ADSL service
-exchange currency

It's important to cancel the first two otherwise they'll keep on charging me and I don't wish to end up with a huge bill should I ever make my way to Taiwan again. The only way to cancel the Health and Labor Insurance is to show them my airline ticket.

Mapanoy "Da Dude" will insist on boarding a plane so I need to bribe him with ice cream. Can't blame him for his daddy and mommy love ice cream just as much.

I've got some ELS (English as Second Language) magazines and books plus some other books for the monks as they're always interested in such.

Weather forecast for Vientiane (Jan.5):

28C/83F Nice!

While you guys are freezing your asses off I'll be working on my tan.

Regards

Taike




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