Some Video for you to watch

Some video of Australia. It includes some tourist type shots of Sydney as well as some video from my birthday, as well as feeding the cat, going on the sailing boat and going to a load of gigs (more on that later, we drank at the bar with some people

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Birthday Karaoke

After a day of emails back and forward we finally got a venue for my birthday celebrations. I booked a karaoke bar in the city with no knowledge of what it would be like. We started off in the Fitzroy for a few social drinks to get us into the

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Ahoy and Pub Golf

What a fun weekend! Probably the best one in Sydney so far for me! To continue the celebration of Chris’ birthday we went on the pub golf tournament around Woolloomooloo. It was 9 establishments, one of these being a pie shop (change beer for pies). I personally managed to finish

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Our House

Thanks to Chris’ 30th Birthday, Esther (his girlfriend) got him a trip in a plane over Sydney. They took my camera. So here is a picture of where I live from the sky!

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Mishima / The Machines of God

I have been put in charge of Mishima the cat. She requires feeding twice a day at her home at an undisclosed location in The Rocks. Here she is eating her dinner – Today we went to the Aroma Coffee Festival in The Rocks. I think I am going to take

The Monty Hall Problem

One of my friends here in Australia left ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ at our house. So I started to read it and have finished reading it and it is excellent! Anyway there’s a point in the book where they talk about The Monty Hall

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The Rocks and Finger Wharf

How I fill the working week. This is where I have spent most of the day when not doing any work. First off I have helped Tony and Heike move out of our flat and into their new places in The Rocks. For those not in the know, The Rocks

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Canberra - The Nations Capital

I set off this morning at an early 07h30 hours for the 300km drive to Canberra. Canberra is Australia’s capital, a ‘new city’ that had to be built as part of Queen Victoria signing the Constitution Act that created the Australian Commonwealth. The town was designed by a resident

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Sky Advert

Is it a message from god? Or is it just we will never be able to get away from advertising!!!

The Yes Men

The Yes Men is a film about a couple of guys that run the website GATT.ORG. The site is pretty much a copy of WTO.INT the proper World Trade Organisation website. The film is about their appearances as WTO officials on television and at conferences around the world.

Abjad (the first letter)

“A rebellious teen from a devout Muslim family discovers everything he likes is forbidden: music, poetry, and of course, movies” This film was good. A autobiography from Iran. I recommend seeing this it has some great shots of Iran and the story line is good. My only problem was with

Gmail update

Recently I mentioned I got a GMAIL account and that I had to ‘trade’ something for the account. Well thanks to some help from C******** I have made the sign. See below –

James' journey to Jerusalem

Having only a few days left of the film festival, but 4 tickets left (and not getting up in time for the ones I planned on seeing or them selling out) – I went to see this film with no expectations. The film is about a guy that is choosen in

Anthem

“Film-makers Tahir Cambis (Exile in Sarajevo, SFF ’97) and Helen Newman’s brand-new documentary is a free-wheeling expansive study of democracy, western civilisation and the relationship between America and Australia. The film also analyses the intersecting of Australia’s refugee policy and the war on terror.” This film was ok,

Control Room

This documentary covers the Al Jazeera news network from before the start of the American/UK War against Iraq. The film gives an insight at what goes on at Al Jazeera HQ in Qatar as well as in Iraq during the war. It proves the channel is not the propoganda

GMAIL!!

I am now a Gmail account owner, my email address is – I got the account via GMail Swap – I had to offer something for Swap. My offer was to hold a sign up with anything the person wanted (within reason) outside the Sydney Opera House and then to take a

Nothing

Nothing is a film about two losers that end up wishing away everything they hate. Eventually they are just heads in a nothing world. There’s nothing good about this film apart from the fairy tale type sets which looked really cool (until they became nothing). The ‘lets kill 20

The Corporation

The Corporation at the Sydney Film Festival was given an extra screening today. Having missed it on Sunday and Monday due to a hang over I was lucky enough to learn the window of opportunity had opened again. The film is based on the definition of a corporation but gives

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and... Spring

After signing up for a book of 10 tickets to the Sydney Film Festival I have decided to keep this site interesting and do some film reviews. The first film viewed was ‘Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and… Spring” as part of their World Cinema line up, here is a general

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Food Fest.

Went to the Manly Food Festival this weekend. Although actually we were in the festival for about 5 minutes. I went with my a friend who made me climb dangerous rock faces, but it was worth it, what a great view in in the end. This is looking up the

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That Lazy German

This is my German flatmate Toni who lives with his girlfriend Heike (who has a twin sister wow!) in the loft. The water has not been working for 2 days so has not washed and even though now the water is back on he has still not washed, he just

Fishing Update

2.2 Pounds Leather Jacket Fish 0.22 Pounds Bream 0.3 Pounds Bream Bate Used – Prawns Location – Rose Bay Time – 16h00-17h00

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Football

When I say football I mean Rugby. I went to the Telsta Stadium with some of my flatmates yesterday for the ‘State of Origin’ New South Wales vs. Queensland. It was a great to be with all those Ozzies. I supported NSW as that is the state I am in

Found Nemo

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Fishing!

Yes and I caught one!!!! It was a Bluegil, otherwise known as a Brim. We were fishing out of a place called ‘Rose Bay’ and it had some marvellous views of Sydney and is in a very quiet area, here is a view over the water – When I reeled the