I couldn't make such a big move. I'm warm and cosy in Australia, and the exchange rate is lookin' up, so I figure I'll live and die here (which doesn't rule out international travel of course, me and my friend Jase have a Scotland trip planned 4 years in advance). Whatever you do will undoubtedly be the best decision for you, regardless. :)

do it.

I certainly couldn't be the one to tell you no. I think it sounds exciting.

Are you thinking about actually moving there, or just visiting for a long time?

:(

New England is pretty weird and unknown compared to the West Coast. Just try walking down Boylston Street in Boston and make eye contact with a stranger. It's almost a new language out here. Don't believe me? Define these:
Frappe
Triple Decker
Dungarees
Pisser
Soda

And we practically drive on the left out here. You'll love it.

this is the perfect time for you to quit calling yourself a fish. it induces you to think romantically about uprooting yourself and going to an almost warzone. the north says ",the south's looking mighty tasty these days. let's cook it with a couple of nukes." have you seen taegukgi? "Cookin' " is what they do best. (tongue in cheek)

Alan, Australia is amazing, and I'd love to visit and/or live there as well. I probably wouldn't leave if I were you.

Rowena, you are a hard act to follow, Miss World Traveler!

Lyndse, I have no idea what my plans are, but I know I wouldn't be able to leave until early 2007.

Ken, you have ulterior motives, punk.

Tryo, yes, I own the dvd, Tae Guk Gi. Did you know that movie is set in 1950? Also, please do not tell me to watch a fictional movie about an era my own family lived through --my grandfather was a surgeon during the Korean War!-- so I can get a better idea about what is going on politically. Yes, Kim Jong Il is a nutcase. Does that make South Korea more or less safe than Japan or the United States? No. Also, if you live your whole life worried about crazy people with WMD, you might as well be W Bush.

I hear ya. Eventually I'd like to go back to the Philippines for a few months if not a few years. I say go for it :) This planet isn't as big as everyone fears :)

If you feel that's what would be best, I think you should go. In any case, I know you'll make a decision that'll be good for you :)

I said Tongue In Cheek. double meaning... swimming around without direction isn't the best. cook that fish (preferably barefoot) for your husband instead of embodying (it is iamafish.) I don't make my faults a contention of pride. yes! Dubya's the best right now this country has. No one lives in fear. We have a different sort of war. We can still travel and I can be sure that if i'm in a room with a nutcase...that room is going to be nutty. All else in this commentary have been encouraging you to pack up. I don't advise on fear but with whats good. One wanders what your significant other would say that you've slated him as a matinee (not prime time!) You both know definitely you are renting each other's body the same way as one would rent DVDs. With a pridefilled name such as "iamafish" it gives off a vibe that fidelity is a remote control and relationships are a minute over twenty of stale programs. it isn't hypocritical I'm republican catholic male; have premarital sex. big difference is it's biological that i (go to confession and ) can get over it.

Ulterior motives??!?!!?!? Me?!???!

Troy, it's a fucking domain name. Domain name. It sounds cool, and it's easy to remember. Stop reading so much into it man, it's just kind of weird and scary.

It's a domain name. Its cool to the point that it is intuitive. We remember it. In the same way we remember names of products, the aesthetics (looks) of a person, that describe them. It's a lot like a guy who always appears with dull pale clothing and is always sullen, then days later all the sudden wears something really flashy, trendy while upgrading their personality along with it. I wonder what's going on in the head of that person. Fish wants you, Alan, the reader to connect those dots. I'm right because she fashions herself really well as a fish. Criticism of profiles (accounts) is my job description. We repo past due. I am, in that sense, a lot like Macheath. Not weird, it ain't scary. "And he shows them, pearly whites" that's right.