Top Gear Live @ MPH, London

Top Gear Live is a live show by the Top Gear crew, performed on stage at the MPH Auto Show. This is the start of their first world tour, which will visit Dublin, Hong Kong, Sydney and Auckland! Continue Reading…

Keiko, Jack, and the Stevans. Fribourg, Switzerland

I met Keiko in Japan, and she now lives with Jack and their baby in Fribourg. Continue Reading…

Chinese New Year 2008, London

China Town, and seemingly the rest of central London, was locked down & dressed up for a huge Chinese New Year Festival!
Thousands of people showed up for food, music, fireworks, dance, and of course my favorite, Kung Fu!

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MIKA @ the Fiat 500 Launch Party, London

Naomi scored a couple of tickets to the Fiat 500 Launch Party. The idea was at 8pm, exactly 500hrs into 2008, the car would “arrive” at the London eye and make its debut to the UK. It was named the European Car of The Year, with one of its best features being the lengths you can customize it, with over 500,000 combinations apparently!
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Nanta!

What do you get if you mix Stomp with the set of a Korean Kitchen, add a pinch of Korean Drama and comedy, and a dash of martial arts? Cookin’ NANTA! Continue Reading…

RTW: p56 - Edinburgh Fringe Festival

After 10hrs on a bus, sighting bright orange sheep, I made it to Edinburgh. Finally meeting up with Phil after a few “missed ya by about a week in Fiji” moments. Phil was living in a lounge room which I was now also sharing. He worked at 1 of the 4 Cow themed venues, Underbelly, the logo being a purple upside down cow. Seriously. On this 1st night we managed to catch 2 shows! For free!

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RTW: p41 - Beijing, Red Lantern house

Everything you have heard about traffic in China is true. More so.
I was literally scared to cross the street. I just joined the locals and ran when they ran. There is absolutely no attention paid to any kind of road rules! All colours mean GO, any space of road (or sidewalk) is up for grabs and their horns may as well be switched permanently to ON.

Red Lantern House is a nice hostel in Hutong area, it used to be a temple and has indoor gardens and is quite peaceful. Its a sanctuary within the chaos of Beijing. Maybe a little too quiet though, not exactly the best atmosphere for meeting people and hanging out, “relaxing” is not my thing! They serve food and can organise flights, shows etc. Not the friendliest of staff at times, but they get the job done. Ordering a plane ticket was quite funny, they made a call, then a few hours later they talked to someone on a CB Radio and he showed up on bike with my ticket!

Me and a Dutchman managed to make it to a Chinese Acrobatics show and it was pretty damn good. I hate to think the childhood these kids have had most of them were quite young and performing all kinds of acts of balancing, strength and more.
AND they perform EVERY night! Amazing.