A Different Drummer

I have added a blogroll to the sidebar on the right. It is underneath the messageboard, and I have added links of some of the more interesting blogs going around.

One of the best things about AIESEC is that you end up knowing people literally all over the world. And one of the best things about weblogs, is that the experiences of all these people are now out in the open for everyone to enjoy. So I have linked to a group of the coolest people I know, all around the world doing their thing.

Digs is working in Singapore, although it seems like part of his job decription is to travel all over South East Asia every weekend climbing mountains. He's a great guy and a great writer, and his blog is one of the best as far as giving you an insight into cultures and adventures. His thoughts on facing up to Mount Fuji before climbing it are memorable:

I looked at the sacred mountain and said "you are going down, Fuji-san."

Joe is a fellow Adelaide boy and has spent the last few years based in Mersin, Turkey. He is fairly immersed in Turkish culture now and has some really strong insights into the country and its people:

I had previously visited newly-weds, Efkan and Devrim's place several times for dinner but they had not visited mine once. I'm not sure of the exact logic but it is a cultural thing in Turkey to for couples and families not to visit/have dinner at single people's places. Can any Turks elaborate?

He also earns mega Aussie points by managing to watch the AFL Grand Final (Australian rules football), live, in Turkey. And then extra points for wearing a Port Adelaide jumper and scarf into work and bringing in candles and a victory cake after Port Adelaide's glorious victory.

Apart from having the dubious honour of being my girlfriend, Thea writes a cool blog from her new home town of Alexandria, on the north coast of Egypt. Her reflection on love, Egyptian style, are especially worth a read, coming after the great weekend of three weedings.

Speaking to these women has also made me wonder what exactly is love, how do you define it, who exactly is the right man,is there anyone you can call the right man? or just like every Egyptian woman is he only in our dreams???

Thea's fellow Maltese buddy Maria is now back home in Malta after a year in Prague, and is blogging up a Maltese storm. And her connection to the previously mentioned Digs is best summed up in the image, stolen from her website:



Heh. Flic is another Adelaide expat, and like me she is in one of civilisations greatest cities, Beijing. It sounds like she is having the time of her life there and she certainly is experiencing everything China has to offer:

Taste of Beijing - this week's feature is a fruit - apparantly. I bought them off the street the other night, they're black and look like tiny bull's heads with horns, you can hold them by the handful. They're kinda dirty, i think they grow under the ground. They're really hard to open, and inside is solid kinda purple-whitish stuff...

Sounds great Flic. Make sure you save some for me.....

Jesus if I keep going at this rate I'll never stop. I tell you what - I'm just going to name check to rest of them ones I reccomend, and profile a few interesting people when the time is right. Other Aussies around the world include Mazzy in Montreal (Mazzy is one of my favourite people on Earth) and Jen in New York (with about the best job in the world right now). The Irish, like Aussies, make good travellers, and Una has been blogging like crazy for the last year in the Phillipines, and is now travelling throught South East Asia, where I'm sure her and Digs will meet at some point, probably at the summit of a Mountain. Karola is living it up in Slovakia, and just got to spend a weekend in Budapest, my spriritual homeland, with Peter, my spiritual brother. Bitch. Trent, Kait and Holly all spent the summer in Egypt, are all fantastically cool, and worth reading. My former Argentine house/teamate and good friend from Ireland, Diego, is now in Copenhagen and blogging it up.

Oh, and Adam Lemmon is a fiend and a whore, and should be wrapped in barbed wire and shot into the sun. Coming to Egypt any time, mate?