Testuya Wakuda
Tetsuya Wakuda is a Japanese man who came to Australia. He worked in restaurants and eventually opened his own restaurant in Sydney. Wakuda’s Sydney restaurant is consistently rated among the top ten in the world, which is a long way for Tetsuya to come from his first job in this country as a fish-boner. It’s [...]
Posted by Aidan under News - Australia, News - Japan, News Articles | Permalink | No Comments »Spanish Blogging Grandma Dead at 97
A Spanish great-grandmother who described herself as the world’s oldest blogger – and became a Web sensation as she mused on events current and past – has died at the age of 97. Maria Amelia Lopez died May 20 in her hometown of Muxia in Spain’s northwest Galicia region, according to her blog www.amis95.blogspot.com. No [...]
Posted by Aidan under News - Australia, News - Japan, News Articles | Permalink | No Comments »Ayutthaya
In 1999 I visited Ayutthaya, the old capital of Thailand. Ayutthaya is one of Thailand’s highlights – an ancient city of temples and palaces. The city was built in 1350 and for hundreds of years was regarded as one of the great cities of Asia. After many attacks, Ayutthaya was partially destroyed by the Burmese [...]
Posted by Aidan under News - Australia, News - Japan, News Articles | Permalink | No Comments »The Millionth Word in English
A company that monitors new words, says there are now a million words in English. IT COULD have been Jai Ho!, n00b, slumdog, cloud computing, or carbon neutral. It could have been something really special, memorable and evocative. Alas, the millionth word in English – the language used by Shakespeare and abused by George Bush [...]
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