Category: Places

  • Squatting Matilda

    Mr Miyagi receives his medal for ‘Best Army Blogger’ Army briefings are seldom exciting, and yesterday’s one was no different. My unit mates all asked me, “Are you gonna blog this?” or, “Are you gonna blog about this?”, to which I replied, “No lah! So boring, blog what fuck?” Of course I was kidding. “So…

  • Belated Anzac Day post

    It wasn’t Anzac Day ten years ago when I was waiting for my train on the southbound platform at Wollstonecraft station on Sydney’s North Shore. But I’ll remember Anzac Day to you now because there was a kindly looking old man in a Digger’s hat selling paper poppies from a box that day. It was…

  • A Holland Village epiphany

    I’ve been spending more time than usual at Holland Village, and at one of my favourite coffee shops. The one that sells roast pork, chicken wings and pretty decent drinks. A few afternoons ago, I sat there nursing my second Tiger mug of iced coffee because I had been thirsty enough to order but not…

  • Refrain from using the rubber trees

    Funny lah! One day keep fit, keep fit, next day sick as a dog. I’ve got a flu and a secondary ear infection that’s disrupting my balance, and that’s not good in my line of work, because I don’t know if I’m flying the damned airplane level or not. And you know how that is.…

  • The Xinglong Overseas Chinese Farm: Hainan, Part Three

    This is the third of the Hainan posts (Read Parts One & Two) There is a village on the south east of the island which has been, like most other villages on Hainan, converted into a tourist attraction. It was about the only place my cousins and I thought interesting (whereas my uncle was stoked…