When I think of cycling in Australia I like to think that whilst we’re no Europe cycling mecca, we’ve at least got it better then a lot of other countries out there. Having lived in Melbourne I was admittedly spoilt with the abundance of bicycle lanes and large cycling community. Over in the suburb of [...]
I’m all about helping third world countries develop and progress up the modernity tree but a few stories about Africa recently have left me scratching my head. Two of the stories broke in the last 24 hours alone! The first story from Mozambique involved two young guys, a goat and the goats owner. Yeah you [...]
Between Christmas and New Years last year I found myself with a few days to kill so I hit up the museum to see what the best of Chinese science had to offer me. The Taiwan National Museum of Natural Science is located in Taichung City and hosts a series of scientific exhibits with education [...]
After the recent spate of attacks on Indian students in Melbourne, the Australian governments solution was to fly twenty five Indian journalists to Australia. Presumably the idea was that we’d show them firsthand just how Indian friendly Australia supposedly is. After looking at the itinerary of the journalists and the costs involved I’m now certain [...]
Barbecues, making out, watching the world go by and creating your own virtual garden. These are all just some of the things you can do with a balcony. When I heard the first apartment I’d be staying at featured a balcony I got a bit excited. I’d never had a balcony before and started to [...]
Let me paint a picture for you. It’s late at night and you’re walking back from a bar with a hot girl on your arm. As you get closer to her place you realize that you don’t have any condoms on you. You don’t know the Chinese word for condom and you don’t know this [...]
One of the stops I made during the 2010 Chinese New Year was a little town in Taichung County called Tachia (also spelt as Dajia). Tachia is in central Taiwan and is home to the Chenlan temple (Chenlan is also spelt Zhen-lan). In Taiwan Chenlan temple is the place to go to if you’re interested [...]
The concept of Chinese New Year in Australia has always been a novelty for me. All I really knew about the day was that in school some Asians would take a day off. Down in Footscray there’d be some fireworks and dragon displays and for some of my friends got little red envelopes stuffed with [...]
Chinese new year happened over here and I didn’t have any internet access over the last week or so. So naturally one of my wordpress plugins realises I’m not around and decided to go rogue and place undue stress on the hosting database. Hosting company then realise this and disable the database until I get [...]
Despite having the lowest birthrate in the world there are signs of promiscuity all around Taiwan. Some of these signs like to turn up in the most unlikely of places.