For some bizzare reason, the computer desk I am using in this internet cafe conducts electricty. So if I move my mouse too far to the left, I get zapped. And I keep zapping myself by accident, it bloody hurts! Only in Vientam...

Anyway, next week in Vietnam is their equivalent of Australia Day. We get two days of holidays, yippee. From what I've heard, hoards of people leave Saigon to go visit their families, or to holiday in Nha Trang or something for a few days. So I think I'll be sticking around Saigon and enjoying the relative quiet. The plan is to bike it to this beach city called Vung Tao, which is about two hours away. It's gonna be my first roadtrip on my pretty pink bike and I'm pretty excited about it.

I have this crazy idea to ride up to Hanoi and back by motorbike some time before I leave Vietnam with a few mates. Apparently it's quite dangerous and lots of people get run over by speeding, drugged-up lorry drivers. We'd be taking our bikes on the train for the longer stretches though, so it wouldn't be so bad. Experience of a lifetime, I'd think. And I'd love to ride on into Southern China, down into Loas, Cambodia and back to Saigon. I don't even know if that's feasible at this point, it's just an idea. But that won't be for a while, so more on that later.

I've been here for ten weeks now to the day. I was told that after three months (which will be in another two weeks time) that your 'honeymoon' period is over and you start to miss everything about home. And then the three months after that are hell. However...I'm feeling nothing of the sort. I love my life here, I love my job here, I love the people here, and I have no desire to leave any time soon. Sure, I miss all you guys from home but I think if I were to come back now I'd become a moping sourpuss. "Oh, in Vietnam, this would never happen." "Why should I pay that much, when in Vietnam I can get it for a fraction of the price". "If I were in Vietnam now, I would dah dah dah dah dah...".

So myth busted. There is no magical three month limit to enjoying life as an expat abroad. I'm loving now as much as ever.

And now I have to get away from this electrified computer desk before I catch cancer.

Taynos out.