Hi again blog. I want to try and get myself into regularly writing in here. With regular writing can also come regular reading from other people. Many moons ago, many people read this blog. I was talking a bit while back in Australia, that I kind of acted as if nobody was reading it, even though all those people were reading it ( Read more... )

I decided to get back in to reading Ulysses. I don't think I have made any progress this year. I read another book, The Secret History, in the course of the weekend. This one I started midway through last year, and have made it to about 300 pages. There are a lot more to come...

Anyway, here is a passage from it

The figure seated on a large ( Read more... )

Yesterday I wrote a story bout this massive brawl that happened in Melipilla. Today it was in the Daily Mail in England, quoting my story. You know what, I enjoy a good all in brawl, particularly around State of Origin time, but this was so far on the wrong scale that it can barely be described ( Read more... )

So this morning I was going about my business when I could hear a loud noise, some kind of banging or something. So of course the first thought was, una marcha, the regular marches of students, or fishermen or copper miners or nurses or whoever else feels it's their day to get angry.

My particular favourite is when commuters have to wait too long ( Read more... )

So, I just reviewed my New Year's Resolutions and I guess some of them have gone ok, some not so well. That's the usual way it is. These goal setting exercises have really come in handy, but I would like to break it down further, and get myself really running like clockwork into next year.

So this is the final month of the year, our friend and ( Read more... )

So tomorrow I find out about the Start-Up Chile application. If I get it, that would be great. If not, too bad. Next step. I have some pretty high hopes for that one, but I know I can't get the hopes too high in case they come crashing down ( Read more... )

So finally I got down to bashing out a few letters of my collection of stories, which will make up my final project in my Masters. After a few lines I came up with the idea of writing something like "bush poetry", something extremely "Australian ( Read more... )

Went to the Colo Colo game today, the first time I have been to Estadio Monumental. Neither team played very well, it finished as a 3-3 draw. They played with Deportes Iquique ( Read more... )

Well it seems less likely that I will get my list complete - however that top priority of fixing the internet seems to be into action now. Let's see how it goes in the morning when I really need it ( Read more... )

As I mentioned, we headed down to the beach - El Canelo is the name of the place. We had a very relaxing time - didn't really do too much, just eat some food, have some drinks and I went for a good long walk, to the next town El Quisco. Just getting along walking along the beach, through the streets of a town I was not at all familiar with, that ( Read more... )