Thursday, 7 June 2007

Just 2%?!?

Oh, man! Just signed up for a TrevBuddy world map to see what percent of the world I've been too and.... 2%?!? I need to travel more, asap!

Future plans include heading back to Australia after Christmas for my sister's New Years wedding and then to Melbourne for Chris' (never been to Melbourne before funnily enough!) and then on my way back to Japan very likely help Koky out building and orphanage/school for children in Cambodia. It'll be a great experience and it's something I've been wanting to do for a while.

Before then possibly Fiji to finally use my Tribewanted island tickets and a proper trip to Hong Kong and/or Singapore.

Am itching to go to New Zealand but might wait to do that until I get back to Australia [for good] (have been thinking a lot this week about when that may be) and South America has always been a place I want to go to.

So many options so little money and too much work with no time off.

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Labels: internet

Monday, 4 June 2007

It's alive! ALIVE!!!

Someone told me to copy and past the following into my browser's address bar because it would make all of the images on any webapge start flying around the screen..... THEY WERE RIGHT!!!

Give it a go!

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++ }setInterval('A()',5); void(0);

Anyone else thinking it's a great way to freak out your parents? ;)

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Labels: internet

Saturday, 2 June 2007

Three Ways NOT to Watch TV in Japan

After the novelty of crazy Japanese game shows, 10 year old girls being portrayed as sex symbols and mindless shows about tv personalities telling you how "oishi" or "sugoi" everything is, most people come to the realisation that there really is nothing interesting on Japanese tv and that they want to get back into watching the shows they miss from back home.

Luckily, being stuck in a country which seems to be in "Hey Hey it's Saturday" mode 24/7 the internet offers several ways to save your sanity.

The first place to check out would be TV Links. There you can watch shows from all around the world. Some old, some online to view 24 hours after they air. Want to get the latest LOST or 24 episode? TV Links is the place to go.

Sick of the Japanese gyms that sound more like a fish market at 7am? Do what I did. Quit your membership, save yourself about 100 bucks and try a free daily exercise video podcast! I found Yoga Today in December 2006 and it's changed my life. Adi, Neesha and Sarah are three professional Yoga instructors based in Wyoming, each with a unique style who offer daily 1 hour Yoga lessons which you can download of the site directly or subscribe via iTunes (which is what I do). The quality is amazing and is great for beginners and experienced Yogis. Give it a try!

The third favourite option of mine is via a new service from the makers of Skype (if you're living overseas and aren't using Skype I can't recommend it enough!) called Joost which claims, and I think it is, the very first online television service which broadcasts shows in TV quality almost instantly! It's like have Pay TV (Cable) on your computer and it's absolutely FREE! Currently it has a handful of channels, my faves being MTV, Lime, IMF Asia and IMF Australia. Warner Bros just signed a deal with them the other day and the thing's still in Beta! Unfortunately because it's in Beta it's open via invite only. Lucky for you I have plenty of invites to give away, so if you're a friend of mine feel free to reply to this post with a comment and I'll email you your Joost invite asap.

Hope people find this post useful. Just because you don't watch tv, doesn't mean you have to be bored!

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Labels: fitness, japan, Joost, tv, Yoga Today