IT'S MONDAY, 'CAUSE I-I-I-I'M IN SEOUL TONIGHT

Annyeong! My first out of Oz travel in years, and it's to beautiful Seoul for regional overseas voting training.  Now, other than some Squid Games, Snowpiercer and BTS to annoy the LLDD-Baby, I haven't really dabbled in the Korean pop-culture juggernaut, so I can only recount my trip by randomly yelling out various K-genres (or as they call them here, genres) and hope they land properly.  Fighting!  

but first, shout out to the K-OMELEC seminar

K-BBQ! (and other post-training food)

K-Drama!

K-Vibe!

And of course can't leave without some quick-fire nods to

K-Pop! 

K-Beauty!

K-Toon! 

and K-Ka lang?

 

K-fine

EPISODE IV: A NEW HOP

 Andor's foreshadowing, of course, was spot on 

Sydney! They were placed in Sydney, Mon Mothma! We just received them at the airport!

As you can see, we made sure to blow their cover/cloaking device. But why are they here, and why now?  I mean, yeah, we had some work done on the Residence and Chancery, but everything there was properly planned, programmed and documented, as were all other operations during this AHOP's stint.  

And yes, this audit was actually routinely scheduled a long time ago in a home office far, far away and only postponed because of lockdown. Still, it is clear to this overdramatic fanboy what needs to be done in his own fanfiction saga 

First, as the good Chandrilan Senator herself would do, we must welcome the finance people to a big official function -- in this case this year's Paskombalong...

...where perhaps the audit team could be distracted into investigating how the Consulate's ragtag group of singers placed second in the choir competition

(and while they're at it, they should inspect this Paskombalong visitor's barong usage, amirite?)

Second, and more importantly, I must cede all power, authority and responsibility to some other party, say....the Consulate's NEW HEAD OF POST

While the new Consul General's appointment was known in advance, her actual arrival gate was not - nagulat na lang kami na nasa likod na namin siya sa airport. Anyway, we made sure that one of the first things scheduled for the new HOP right after her touchdown was a meet-and-brief with the audit team where she could face their findings (never more than 12) and front the Consulate's response.  

Happy to say in the end, scanners detected no renegade activity. We run a tight starship here, ma'am.  

So my one way out of audit and AHOP was navigated properly, and I now give up all trappings of the position.  S'all good, because the experience was invaluable, the service was the reward, and this overdramatic fanboy gets to put on in the end the coldest, hardest bars in the history of Star Wars: WHAT DID MOI SACRIFICE

Great Acting!  Abangan na lang ang next episode =)