Have been watching a bit of the Australia Masterchef, which has become really intense now that they're down to the top 10 competitors. The news over the past week, which finally surfaced on the show in last night's episode, was that Mat had to leave for bringing a smartphone into the house ( Read more... )

Some friends have previously said that most current JETs don't know what a cold Okinawan winter is...maybe we're finding out this year.

Well, a picture says a thousand words: here's Great Britain frozen over...


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by accident of course, but with something like this happening, do you still think that guns are necessary for the ordinary person ( Read more... )

Australia is melting whilst Europe is freezing over. It's also strangely warm in Okinawa this week, though my landlady expects that more cold waves will swing through later this month.

So...climate change? Global warming? Are we heading for another ice age, since we're reportedly overdue anyway?

This story caught my eye as I was trawling the net for a news piece for 英会話. I'm sure all my Perth buddies have heard of it by now - it's the kind of sensational story that Channels 7 and 9 would love to cover, but anyways...

A British man (well, that's what a British link said...he has an Aussie citizenship too) living in Perth, Western Australia, ( Read more... )

CNN is taking forever to load...the server must be being hammered. Having seen an MX article (looking at news stories on the web, that free tabloid was surprisingly...honest about it) about the situation in New Orleans after Hurrican Katrina, SC and I discussed the problems the US is currently facing briefly yesterday. Whilst some people not ( Read more... )