Hello, farewell and birthday festivities

One more delicious night with Jelena, Mirko and Kass. We covered a lot of subjects; one of them ironically the lack of complete coverage of the facial hair Mirko is trying to grow in an attempt to ... ? Maybe look like a Southern European poet. Other topics were so varied that I can't even recall all of them now, but I remember North Korea, families scattered around the world, KFC, the struggles of completing a PhD, leather dresses and being on the wrong side of the law, Canberra government dental health services or the lack of, yet politicians finding the budget to power the fountain in the lake to reach higher by about a metre, costing hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars, the orange colour of 'real' chai and more.