Umbrella Culture

We’re currently in the middle of a very rainy Autumn here in Perth and i’ve noticed something very strange. No matter how many days in a row it rains, most white people don’t go out with an umbrella. This is in stark contrast to almost every Asian person that does carry an umbrella.
It’s funny, when [...]

Disconnected

I made a pact with myself to turn my mobile phone off for the whole of this week in order to have a break. I’m constantly “on call” to whoever calls my phone, night and day, and i’m just sick of being able to be contacted, basically.
So, Monday morning i turned my phone off. And [...]

WordPress Problems

I’m having problems with WordPress in that my toolbar at the top (containing dashboard etc) is not appearing. It’s been happening for the last couple of weeks and i’m not sure if i’m the only one who is experiencing this or not.
I didn’t touch anything so i don’t know why it’s happening, does anyone know? [...]

Fantastic Four

Through my membership of an online community i scored two free tickets to a pre-screening of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer last night so hubby and i went to see it even though we have never seen any of the previous FF movies and are not particularly interested in the genre. I have [...]

Making friends and keeping them

Recently, in an endevour to improve my Japanese i posted an add on About.com looking for Japanese friends in my area.
A few Japanese females replied and we started chatting and making plans to meet, until…they found out my husband is Japanese. Then they dropped me like a hot potato.
What is with that? I don’t understand [...]