I’m back. It’s been a while, but I haven’t forgotten about you. The uni year is over and I have free time…lots of free time. Fortunately, I have much to keep me occupied. Most of it revolves around cricket, iced coffee or drinking beer, but hey, I likes what I like. Speaking of cricket, the [...]

You may have noticed that there is an ever-increasing amount of Christmas bullshit appearing around the place. I have and it pisses me off. ItÂ’s fucking October and some of the shit has been there since July. In a move welcomed by me, my family has decided to largely ignore Christmas this year. Sure, when [...]

Well, let’s clarify something straight away, they are neither natural or cool. It’s a chip, a potato chip to be precise and the flavour is bordering ever so close to being an abomination. This is but one of many different flavours in Inner Mongolia but they aren’t fooling me, it’s all about the artificial additives.

If youÂ’ve been paying attention, youÂ’ll know that Scott is changing jobs. I find that to be highly selfish. Who the hell else is going to organise the Fatloaf Karting Bonanza? IÂ’m not, and I am sure as hell not flying to Perth to participate. Especially since I never actually race because of my back. [...]

Yes, that’s right, I’m changing employers again. This time I’m doing something fairly drastic, I’m moving to Perth.

The weekend before last saw me head over to the west for the first time in over a decade to watch the mighty Wallabies take on the Springboks at Subiaco Stadium. Not only had I never been to Subiaco before, I hadn’t seen a live rugby game outside of SA in quite a few years.

Whoever you are, who stole my iPhone. It happened a couple of weeks ago now and the sadness has dissipated somewhat since then but it’s still disappointing and violating. Of course, the insurance claim has already been put in and the money for it is on its way back to me so that I can pimp myself out with a new iPhone as soon as the quagmire of choice the telco’s have laid upon us clears up a little. It’s just too damn murky to see what you’re actually getting at the moment.

My body has the annoying habit of staying awake when we all know that we should be asleep. As I begin to type this nonsense, it is 1:18 am on Wednesday 25th of June 2008. I got home about two hours ago after seeing The Incredible Hulk with Kiz and The Duck. The movie was [...]

And the gunslinger followed.

If you recognise this quote then power be to you because it means you know the book series that I talk of. I have finally finished probably the greatest science-fantasy series that I have ever read, Stephen King’s The Dark Tower.

In this part of my coverage of my trip through Italy and Switzerland, I’ll go through some of the cultural quirks and things that I came across. In some cases it’s funny, in a few others, sad. Mostly amusing.