After four and a half years in Shinkoiwa, we are moving again: Cissy has accepted a position at a Norwegian bank in Shanghai, which starts off with six months of training in Singapore, beginning from October.

So we have now started packing up the various treasures of our household, in order to ship them to Singapore, or directly to Shanghai, or just get rid of them.

There is no new address or telephone number yet, but please already mark the current one as expiring, and hold back on sending postcards or packages for now. I suppose we will be able to set up some kind of forwarding service, but who knows how reliable those are. Online channels will continue to work, of course.

For those of you in town, expect an invitation to the Sayonara Shinkoiwa party next month.

Dear Friend,

I am James Barry, an army contractor attached to the army force in Iraq.

On the 27th day of June 2009, I and my men discovered a metal box containing US Dollars, which is a total figure mark $8.2 Million. We believe the box was owned and linked to late Saddam Hussein.

We hid the box containing the money in untraceable location, and we are now in a desperate need of a reliable and trustworthy person whom will receive and secure the box containing the US Dollars. We can't afford to leave the box here in Iraq for any reason since Iraq is getting unsafe and dangerous every day. We have no idea what could happen next as everything remains inconclusive at this point.

I am fully aware of what your thought would be, I will forward you my picture as well as my Identity, for you to know who you are dealing with.

You will be compensated with 15% of this fund, please assure me of your keeping this topmost secret so that my job would not be jeopardized.

My Sincere Regards,

James Barry