today’s entertainment is: max

a friend who appreciates humour yesterday sent me the link to this guardian travel blog. it’s fucking hilarious so you have to read it, especially for the comments. i wish my travel blogs could elicit such passion.
in 2006 when i was hanging around india nepal and tibet i met ’max’. i liked ‘max’ a lot [though i have [...]

mains and dessert, at the same time thanks

 Available for a short time only from Kikuya, a ramen shop near Tokyo’s Kitasenjyu Station. Other items on the menu include white ramen (yogurt), red ramen (tomato), natto ramen, milk ramen, hot cocoa ramen, and pork kimchi ramen.
 oishii, ne?

chomolungma

edmund hillary died on the weekend. my updated banner image was taken on a flight between tibet and nepal in 06. in my opinion, ALL mountains in the himalayan ranges are impossibly high and impossibly dangerous and impossibly impossible to ever contemplate climbing.
when i walked to everest base camp [tibet side], in the two or so [...]

“Why is my teenage daughter dressing like Yasser Arafat?”

 
quiz: who of the above is the real arab? 
an article published in the Guardian this week.  and here i was thinking that the keffiyeh was some bad melbourne kiddie fashion statement, like the Melbourne shuffle.  but no, it is a bad worldwide phenonenon.
“ The appeal of keffiyehs in the west grew in the 70s, when they became proof of one’s [...]

“real mayor for a false marriage”

that was the headline for the newspaper article on dallas and mick’s wedding in nimes [france]. yeah nice.

dim sum in honkers

i dropped into hong kong for lunch. it was worth it. as auntie #1 noted, the roast duck in hong kong is far better than the dry version they serve in melbourne.
auntie #2 took me shopping in the afternoon. she took me to the ultra hip with the kids Bape (pronounced ‘baypee’) and Evisu stores.  she also told [...]

skylarks over chiba

 in this most recent trip i didnt have that many insights or amazing discoveries (though that is not to say that i didnt have an excellent time). here is the exception:
hanamitsu san, the father of the japanese family i stayed with in Chiba (Tokyo) has only just started learning english. the family has a small [...]

a wedding in france

dallas (yeah I know, great name I wish it were mine) and mick hooked up at the nimes youth hostel about 6 years ago. so it was only natural that their wedding should occur at the same venue.
what i will try to put into words wont do justice to the beauty of ceremony, which was presided [...]

summer vacation almost at an end

im kind of writing randomly here because i dont want to write anything much about it when i get home this friday. dont have that much to say anyway, except that 5 countries in 19 days is fucking hard work and something that i would not recommend to anyone or attempt myself again. it has been [...]

exit night, enter light (summer and bogans in helsinki)

my arrival into helsinki last night coincided with the metalllica concert in the city. as such, my introduction to the inhabitants of this land as i looked through the windows of the airport bus as we passed the concert venue, were throngs of pale and pasty youth in bogan/emo attire.
but also realising that the 2006(?) winneres of [...]