I’ve decided to work my way through the BBC’s top 100 books of all time…in no particular order. Of course, Catch-22 is still my personal favourite. I feel like I’ve gone back to highschool, since that’s where I read many of the books for the first time. Right now I’m barreling through ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ again. What a great book. I think everyone should be forced to take 10th grade English again in their 20’s or 30’s….they’d get so much more out of it!

Ironically enough, Oprah was on Larry King Live tonight (which I don’t usually watch) and she was mentioning a conversation she had had with Harper Lee (author of To Kill a Mockingbird). Oprah asked why she never wrote another book, to which Harper Lee replied “Because, I said everything I wanted to say”. It’s true…she certainly packs a lot of life and wisdom into such a tiny novel.

Coming to you live from Seoul…..It’s Saturday night. Liam is in the kitchen making Thai Green Chicken Curry for supper and Gina is next door having a nap. We’ve just returned from a jaunt down the bustling and colourful market street in our search for fresh produce and a can opener. (I’m told it’s for the baby corn).

Yum, I just got to smell a fresh lime leaf that’s about to go in the mix, and the smell of the long grain rice has already made the apartment smell cozy and warm. Later, after we all eat, we’re going to crack open the cans of Strongbow that Liam brought back from the UK (mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm) and do Rock-Scissors-Paper to decide if we’ll watch Indiana Jones, or Twin Towers. It’s going to be a quiet evening, since we’re all suffering from different ailments – mostly of the Cold&Sinus variety.

Afterwards, we might do some shopping in the super night-market (it closes around 3am , if it gets around to it.) I’m in search of some ‘professional’ clothes, and purple hair.

Okay, the smells coming from the kitchen are too good to resist. I’m going to go find out how he’s doing it.

So what on earth do you tell your cellmates when they ask you what you’re doing time for……

HOUSTON (Reuters) – A Texas woman was sentenced to 10 years in jail for running over the manager of a McDonald’s with her car because she wanted mayonnaise on her cheeseburger.