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Part of our 2008 European Trip. See the explanation and summary entry.

In the past few days we returned to my family here in Cyprus, and today is the main reason why we came here in the first place. Today is the wedding day of my cousin, and the place here is abuzz with preparations, cleaning, and last minute organising.

It's been a relatively quiet past few days since we returned here; we've sort of just taken it easy. Yesterday we did go and inspect the family land, and also did a few other miscellaneous things.

The night before … Read more →

Part of our 2008 European Trip. See the explanation and summary entry.

We have spent the past few days on another part of Cyprus staying with Des' relatives.

It's funny, because in making the journey we have almost crossed the entire island, and it's barely a couple of hundred kilometres. We had this big map, which looked quite big geographically, but when you look at the legend, two finger widths equals 20km! The distance we drove would barely get us past the Tweed in driving south from Brisbane (although it did take a lot longer than that trip because … Read more →

Part of our 2008 European Trip. See the explanation and summary entry.

Yesterday here in Cyprus was a pretty quiet one. We pretty much went for a day-trip into the tourist area of Nicosia where there were many strange and exciting things to see. It was quite tiring walking around. Strangely enough I did see a graffiti-stencil of Sam (of Sam & Max fame, pictured) sprayed on a wall there; it was surreal and surprising finding that.

I did spot my first McDonald's though. I have this tradition in which I try to eat a Big Mac in … Read more →

Part of our 2008 European Trip. See the explanation and summary entry.

Well it all started Saturday afternoon as we took the first leg of our journey to Cyprus, and for me and Des, a little side trip to other miscellaneous parts of Europe.

I know i have been almost utterly silent about this trip prior to these posts, but one of the deficits of having a non-anonymous blog is that you shouldn't really give people advance knowledge that you are out of the country. The summary entry sums up well what we had planned before it all started.… Read more →

Since the huge game wave that was the latter part of last year, other than Smash Bros. and the occasional Telltale Games episodic, nothing really much has been released since January that has really interested me game-wise.

So we're coming into game season now, and i've recently gotten the expansion to last year's epic Crysis, Crysis: Warhead. I enjoyed it, but for me it was much of the same as the original, which you can't really complain about considering it is an expansion.

Unfortunately, what also was the same was the general buginess of the game that I experienced … Read more →

Finishing the working week, last night we went and saw WALL-E.

I'll leave out my complaints about having to wait almost two months to legally see this movie in Australia following the US release, but this movie is fantastic.

It was a masterpiece of story-telling. The fact that much of the movie does not have any dialogue at all, and that they managed to bring so much life and emotion to what is essentially a robot, is really amazing.

It's the first Pixar film i've really enjoyed since Finding Nemo (although I haven't seen The Incredibles), and it … Read more →

from convention, the acronym in the title actually stands for Stuff The Force Unleashed, LucasArts. *warning! angry Star Wars fan rant!!*

Being a Star Wars fan, I normally gobble up anything that Lucasfilm, and especially LucasArts (George Lucas' game company) throw out there.

But this time I am pretty p'oed.

I play a fair bit of games, and my preferred hardcore gaming platform (sorry Wii, you are definitely not hardcore) is the PC. Normally that isn't a problem, because other than the exclusive mostly manufacturer-developed titles (ala Halo for the XBox, Metal Gear Solid … Read more →

This weekend was the first 'normal'-ish weekend we've had in a while, and being not well for the past few.

Probably because of that, there hasn't been too much blogworthy material of late. Last night I ended up going into the the Pig'N'Whistle in the City to watch the Arsenal game with a few of the guys from the Arsenal Australia supporter's club. We're going to England later this year, and Arsenal Australia have very awesomely arranged tickets for us to a Premier League match at the Emirates Stadium (which is normally not an easy thing to do!).

It was … Read more →

Well i've just spent the second working day in a week home sick. It seems like it's going around at the moment, but that doesn't make for much of a consolation.

My body has always had a pretty good immune system, and it's usually been the case that I manage to avoid these type of things. So it's quite unusual that in the past year i've eventually succumbed to most of them. In these cases, having a strong immune system sucks, because the situation ends up being that my body tries to fight the virus for about half a week … Read more →

It's not often that I do two blog entries in one day, but i think that both this issue and the previous entry deserve to be separated.

Not many Australian's will know or realise it, but today in Australia is Flag Day. I thought that I would take this opportunity to express my thoughts on Australia's flag. *puts on flame suit*

I know that a lot of people will vehemently disagree with me on this, but it is my own opinion that the flag of this great country should be changed. Now before the obvious responses to that … Read more →