I'm here. Just busier than usual with mundane concerns.
Re: The East. I'm not part of it, so I dont, generally, care much about it. Call me provincial, or small-minded, etc. I dont wish them any ill; I'm just not that interested in the Eastern peoples, their religions, their culture, or their civilisation which is, frankly, completely alien to ours.
(Well, okay, I think the Samurai/Bushido-thing is pretty neat...)
That said, I have heard (and I cant remember where) that the SSPX in Southeast Asia is producing a lot of vocations.