I know some curries can be rough on you

…. but is that something you want to highlight when naming your restaurant? This one was in the Akihabara district in Tokyo.
I got back today, flying from Seoul yesterday via Tokyo and into Canberra this morning. While I got a bit of sightseeing in Tokyo, on the weekends either side of the work […]

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Democrats dead in the water

The Australian Democrats certainly are. Undoubtedly their highest profile Senator, Natasha Stott-Despoja, has announced she will not stand for re-election and will leave parliament when her term expires in 2008. Her decision to leave politics is due to wanting to focus on her family and recent health problems seem to have made up […]

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Sake

Our team from work went out last night to Roppongi. We ate at a yakitori restaurant (grilled stuff on skewers) and drank plenty of beer and sake. Then off to some downstairs bar where we settled in for a few hours - beers, spirits, Cocksucking Cowboys, cigars ……. At roughly $A10 a drink its an […]

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Ocean Grove Fuckwits Football Club

How do these guys manage to take the high marks in a game of Australian football while their knuckles are dragging on the ground?A busload of them coming home from the races saw a Jewish man, Menachem Vorchheimer, walking along the street. They greeted him in traditional anti-semite fashion … “Fuck off Jews” and “Go […]

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Small world

Tonight in Tokyo, I　ate Indian food served by a Nepalese waiter, who had been to Australia and spoke English and Japanese.Last night was at a Japanese BBQ place. I　wish I’d taken my camera, its a bit of a show the way the cook prepares the food at your table. Also, one of the dishes really […]

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Here in Tokyo

got here about 6.30 this morning and into the city (I’m staying in Nihonbashi for those that know Tokyo). The hotel was good, letting me check in early so I could dump my bags in my room, and have a shower before going off to do some touristy stuff. I　then proceeded to get hopelessly […]

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AWB - the fun is about to really start

John Agius, counsel assisting the Cole inquiry into the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) payment of kickbacks to the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, has reportedly recommended criminal charges against up to 16 AWB executives and board members. Among those expected to be charged are the memory impaired twins, Andrew Lindberg and Trevor Flugge, and a […]

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Spongebob

No reason for this post, other than I like this picture of Spongebob Squarepants that was in yesterday’s SMH.

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Ice Ice baby

A guy here in Canberra got sentenced to 37 years jail for a series of rapes with a 25 year non-parole period. This is most unusual for Canberra’s court system, as normally you’d expect him to have got a good behaviour bond or something … well maybe I’m exaggerating the courts’ leniency, but you […]

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Religion and tolerance

A teenage girl in Queensland tells her father she wants to opt out of her Islamic faith and convert to Christianity. The result, father goes beserk with a knife and kills his wife, mother of the daughter, when she stepped in to protect her.I’ve always thought religion is supposed to be about values like peace, […]

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