Sunday, February 17, 2008

An historic day

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Its a bitterly cold, snowy but sunny day in Mitrovica. Car horns, fireworks and folk music fill the air and traffic jams abound in the south...
Friday, February 15, 2008

An eery unease

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It may be just me, but I feel an eery unease here at the moment. Kosovo is likely on the verge of declaring independence from Serbia this w...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Sorry

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Another surge of that fluttery heart feeling of a kind of pride today as the new Australian parliament said sorry to the stolen generations...
Friday, February 01, 2008

Status?

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"Status" has been imminent ever since I arrived, almost a year and a half ago. Every few months a new date was rumoured to be the ...
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Friday, January 25, 2008

Phenomenal Woman

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Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model...
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Monday, January 21, 2008

So close, yet so far

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Possibly my favourite journalist, Jane Hutcheon, has presented a brief story on Australian tv about the Kosovo situation and the Serbian ele...

Pining for the Pacific

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I've just watched a very sweet kid's movie called The Legend of Johnny Lingo . Its almost like a travelogue for the pacific islands,...
Sunday, January 20, 2008

Food in Kosovo part 1

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It's the Balkans, so you have to expect pastry, meat, cheese, oil and pickled (or relish) vegetables... But its also Kosovo, where very ...
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Friday, January 18, 2008

Desperate times...

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... call for desperate measures. I ran out of Vegemite . I forgot to pick some up on my recent trip home. How I could do this, I'm not s...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

YAY

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I stumbled across this little tid-bit on The Age website : One of Melbourne's most loved roots venues, Fitzroy's Rainbow Hotel, is s...
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Sunday, January 13, 2008

Hottest 100

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'Tis voting time in the Hottest 100 for Australian ' yoof' radio station, triplej.... I like to take the chance to support Aust...
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Saturday, January 12, 2008

Hottie vs Love of your life

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What is the blog etiquette about copy/pasting a particularly excellent comment left on someone else's blog? Well, this was too ace to le...
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Friday, January 11, 2008

A further walk in Mitrovica south

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The groovy old Lux building, now houses a library and business support centre... On the Lux theme, this is inside the Majestic restaurant......
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Thursday, January 10, 2008

A Frosty Welcome Back to WTK

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"Oh this is not cold, it was -15 degrees last week!" a colleague insists as my teeth chatter and fingers numb in the -5 degree mor...
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

What happened to my transport zen?

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Sometime back in June of last year, I had a shock end to what had been, at least in recent times, a pretty smooth and organised travel and t...
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Saturday, November 24, 2007

Finally!

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After sitting on the edge of my seat all morning, listening to the rrr fm election coverage and watching the AEC online tally updates, the...
Thursday, November 22, 2007

National Loyalty

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How far should you go for the sake of national loyalty? Will reason and logic ever win through? Would there ever be true integration and equ...
Sunday, November 18, 2007

A quick walk in Mitrovica north

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The view from just above the new church - looking over the centre of town. Is this where they got the Ghostbusters car from? The UAM buildin...
Friday, November 16, 2007

What people are wearing in WTK

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Gervy has urged me to look at what people are wearing... Dapper white suit and a serious mullet... Wedding outfits, but this was not her we...
Thursday, November 15, 2007

Not that I'm nearing middle age, but for those that are:

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A (Secular) Prayer for Those Approaching Middle Age Oh Almighty Charles Darwin, We who are staring down Forty, beseech thee to aid our pa...
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