Where have you been? - Southeast Asia  By Peter Malcouronne
Peter Malcouronne meets the arrivals at Auckland Airport  George
Wilson and Jake Badrick have just returned from a month
travelling South East Asia. Photo / NZ Herald  They promised
themselves, back in September when they were sick of studying
(and sick of every minute being marred by numbers, ledgers and
liabilities), that if they passed their exams - and finished
their degrees - they'd head to Southeast Asia for a month. A
mini-OE they called it. Two friends having one last adventure
before life gets serious.  However, our story starts in 2008
when Rotorovian Jake Badrick met Hawke's Bay boy George Wilson.
It was their first year at Massey University: Jake, now 22, was
studying finance accounting; George, 23, was doing finance and
ag science. Boarding at Colombo Hall, they became good mates,
then best mates.  The buddy narrative is well-worn, but these
lads could be cast in the 'Dukes of Hazzard' (George the dark-
haired one, Jake the blond - albei