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Balut
Name – “balut” What it really is – boiled duck foetus Location – Samantha’s house, Manila, Philippines
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Over this long hot summer it was tempting to think that coming to this city would be a universally positive thing for any ‘foreigner’, but as the autumn term arrived so did two new teachers from Australia who showed us … Continue reading
The mouse I am using has buttons on the side that press the ‘back’ and ‘forward’ keys in internet explorer for me. This is not an innovation, it is unbelievably fucking annoying.
I am very impressed with Hong Kong. The island itself seems to be one of mankind’s success stories. It’s modern but attractive, busy but not too hectic and seems generally to be about 20 years ahead of the UK. Public … Continue reading
Last day of September and the first day of the week-long national holiday. I was planning to go to Brent & Samantha’s wedding in the Philipines, but that didn’t work out. Then I was going to try visiting Adam in … Continue reading
China questions #4 plus
brokenjoystick asked “what’s the most unusual thing you have eaten whilst in china and is there anything you regularly eat now which you would never have imagined eating whilst living in the uk/europe?” Funny you asked that as for a … Continue reading
