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November 4th 2008 the American people will choose a new president. The president of the United States of America is the most powerful person in the world. We would like to know who would be the next president of the United States of America - if the world could vote! In the presidential election in […]
I’m very humbled to be told that I’ve been nominated for the Australian Alumni Friendship Award presented by the Vietnam Graduates from Australia Club and the Australian Consulate-General Vietnam. This award seeks to recognize an Australian citizen who has made a significant contribution to the relationship between Vietnam and Australia and/or to the development of […]
George Orwell blog For a confirmed Orwellian like myself, the publication in blog form of George Orwell’s Diaries, 70 years to the day after he had written them, is exciting news. Links to Google maps allow us to follow events geographically, plus links to relevant articles, (I’ve included the link to Morrocco below), will only […]
Currently I’m in Vientiane in Lao where yesterday I was happy to watch as Hamish and Nang confirmed their commitment to each other in a traditional Lao ceremony.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. - Christopher Morley
Last night I began re-reading Robert Pirsig’s “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”. It must be at least 12 years since I last read this book, and it was one of the books that I decided to bring back from Australia with me because I want to find out how I relate to the […]
We all have bad days, or bad parts to our days. It’s how we deal with the aggravation those bad things engender that makes the difference. Today I began my day with a “bad traffic event”. Usually I can drive my motorbike in the peak hour traffic and not worry too much about the congestion, […]
we males don’t really stand a chance… At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. - PG Wodehouse
Since moving to Viet Nam 4 years ago I have enrolled in 3 Vietnamese language courses, 1 in VN and 2 while back in Australia. I also own 4 different self help learning kits, have 5 electronic Viet-English dictionary programs for laptop and Palm Pilot and 2 reasonably large hard copy dictionaries. But I have […]
Recently, a friend of mine updated his Facebook status to read that what he wanted was “to be happy”. Since then I’ve been thinking a lot about what happiness is and what it takes for us to “be happy”, and I’ve come to a conclusion. In order for us to be happy we simply need […]
I am now back in Sai Gon and was going to write that my flight over with the Qantas owned discount airline JetStar was arguably the most comfortable and friendly (staff wise) flight I have taken over here, and the fact is, it was. However, for approximately 15 passengers including myself it was disappointing to […]
In Townsville, Nth Qld, going for a walk along The Strand, Jay is wearing some of the bright new gear I brought him from Sai Gon.
Well, it hasn’t taken very long for people in Sai Gon to begin flaunting the new helmet laws. It was only on December 15 that nearly every person remarkably complied with the new law requiring helmets for drivers and passengers of motorbikes to be worn everywhere in Viet Nam. The police were out in force […]
The first Mai flowers of the season remind me that Tet is on the way.
For me at least the trauma of witnessing my neighbour beating his dog and daughter is over. The family sold the house and moved out last week. The father of the new family looks far less likely to give repeat performances.
Saturday morning and the streets of Sai Gon are awash with a new array of shapes and colours in the form of helmets. Yep, Saturday 15 was “helmet day” and finally, after many thwarted attempts, the powers that be here have finally convinced the population that they must wear helmets when travelling on a motorbike. […]