australissimo

Dan kelas surfing saya pun, untuk semester ini, akan berakhir Sabtu 8/4/06. Mungkin ada baiknya bila tulisan ini dapat didedikasikan kepada classmates saya, impian belaka karena mereka tak bisa berbahasa Indonesia. Buatlah survey random, tanyakan apa...

I wish the pictured dude was me, but it wasn’t. The city of Opera by the Harbour had one of the largest swells in decades. And no surfers and surfettes, gromets and gromettes could ask for more. Kalau saja saya seorang yang percaya tahayul, mungkin saya...

Arnie, make way for John So! If you thought Arnie’s diction of the English language was bad enough that the makers of the Simpsons decided to immortalise it, well, they obviously at the time hadn’t heard of our very own Melbourne mayor. I’m taking the...

Setelah beberapa postings beraroma politik sebelumnya di bawah ini, euh ... saatnya ganti haluan, banting setir, bung Navigator arahkan perahu pesiar ini ke pulau tropis. Kelas surfing tinggal dua minggu lagi. Air laut pun mulai mendinginkan dirinya,...

Is the stupid box getting smarter? Sharper perhaps. But smarter? The people of the wombatland still retain its analogue signal ... in vain, all the while the government is keen to make to permanent move to “diginal “ signal by 2008. Now the proposal has...

Kookaburras are very large terrestrial kingfishers native to Australia and New Guinea. Kookaburras are best known for their unmistakable call which is uncannily like loud, echoing human laughter — good-natured if rather hysterical merriment in the case...

All the enthusiasm and plate glass sophistication nonetheless fail to compensate for a certain competitive edginess in the city’s psyche. After the Australian Federation was created in 1901, the traditional arguing between Sydney and its arch rival, Melbourne,...

They swear it will work...a scene from one of the ads that Tourism Australia officials hope will bring foreign tourists beating a path to the door. Photo: Tourism Australia Article SMH, 24 Feb 2006. WE HAVE tried images of the rock, the reef and the bridge....

... Beberapa minggu terakhir, kota Opera&Harbour ini ribut dengan aksi kekerasan yang dianggap "tidak biasa". Tidak biasa di sini digunakan secara longgar sebab bagi mereka yang akrab dengan tindak kejahatan à la penjahat jakarta yang keji tak terkira...

Tadinya hendak nulis tentang sesuatu yang lain tapi karena ada bisnis tak tuntas (unfinished business) dengan posting sebelumnya, yah jadinya ... vediamo allora! Berbeda dari tanah ibu-nya dan dari negeri-negeri lain, negeri ini tidak memiliki aksen distinct...