There’s nothing worse than walking home and seeing someone’s discarded shopping trolley upturned on the side of the path or sitting there rusting away lodged in a river. If there was ever a perfect symbol for urban decay then surely the discarded shopping trolley would be a strong contender. I’m not exactly sure when they [...]
It’s been just over a year now since I had my lasik operation and one article I’ve been meaning to write is my own personal experience with the most common complications of lasik surgery. I decided a while back to narrow this list down to the top five most common complications reported by lasik patients [...]
I don’t profess to know about the horrors of war. Following the second world war and arguably Vietnam, my generation has only ever been involved in faux wars that, for the most part, have been fought on television screens. Despite this however I can appreciate the unique environment that a military occupation creates. One in [...]
When I came to Taiwan to teach English I brought with me my assortment of office attire I’d been wearing around the office at my previous job. Nothing too top of the range, but I became quite fond of Geoffrey Beene’s slim fit shirt offerings and paired them with some fitted Taro Cash trousers. Cheap [...]
Like most Australians, I get a swell of pride when I see the green and gold battling away on the sports field. Doesn’t matter the sport, event or who we’re playing again. Despite not usually enjoying watching sport, when it comes to competing against the world I enjoy nothing more then seeing the green and [...]
Melissa Neylon was a passenger in her boyfriend’s car back in February 2009. Her boyfriend, Jayke Baldwin was speeding. Not surprisingly Baldwin eventually lost control of the car and hit a tree. Melissa presumably wasn’t wearing a seatbelt and was thrown out onto the road upon impact. The car Baldwin was driving then crushed her [...]
Foreword>: The following article is a continuation of ‘Taiwanese girls and crazy ex-boyfriends‘. You’ll probably want to read that to get the proper context of this article. If you want to experience the worst of a culture, forget travelling off the beaten track, forget booking holidays to places you’ve never heard of and forget moving [...]
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