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Super Mario Brother is in Toowoomba!
So at the Easterfest launch last week, I officially got launched into a world I know nothing about!!! Japanese pop culture… Anime… Manga and mega ‘Super Mario’ brothers! Two young, hip entrepreneurs, Chrys (Yes, he has cool, unique name spelling!) and Cameron decided (of all places!) to open a Japanese pop culture store called Neo-Tokyo in Toowoomba! Seem’s like [...]
Continue reading...Behind the festival scenes…
1. April 2011
It’s 8:30pm on a Friday night… I’m still at the Easterfest office… the dad jokes are getting worse – considering all the males in the office have ACTUALLY gone home early tonight! There is a nervous sense of excitement looming as the days before ‘bump in’ close in on us. The program is being designed… [...]
Continue reading...Lacking creative juices
20. February 2011
I’m Running out of creativity… Easter is getting closer… Work hours are getting longer… Easterfest is just round the corner… Hopefully I will find something more meaningful to say before all my readers run away! PS… are you coming to Easterfest? Free Premium ticket upgrades are available till Feb 28! Or if you just wanna [...]
Continue reading...Preparing for disastrous Cyclone Yasi
2. February 2011
It’s hard to believe my awesome country is about to be hit by a second disaster for the year! Cyclone Yasi is brewing and is said to be bigger then anything we have ever seen. Above is a picture comparison Cyclone Tracey which hit in 1974 which killed 71 people, caused $837 million in damage (1974 AUD) [...]
Continue reading...Escaping death but in the nude!!
1. February 2011
On the weekend I met an elderly couple that lived to tell their story of survival after the ‘inland tsunami’ swept through their little town, Grantham. Graham and Helen were having a normal day at the Grantham farm they were caretakers at… oblivious to the fact that half an hour earlier, a significant deluge of [...]
Continue reading...Australia Day watching an American band
26. January 2011
For the first time in four years, I was home in Australia for ‘Australia Day’. It was HOT! Spent the morning with family and then went and saw the American band, Skillet play at the Tivoli Centre! Here are some links to memories of my ‘Australia Day’s’ in the US… Australia Day 2010 at Outback [...]
Continue reading...A week after the 2011 flood
18. January 2011
It’s the ‘day after’ a week since the ‘Inland Tsunami’ reeked havoc on the streets of Toowoomba and the neighbouring towns of Grantham and Murphy’s Creek. We watched this amateur video in horror as cars were swept away like match sticks by a raging torrent of water in an area that is normally a small barely running creek. I [...]
Continue reading...Social Media’s impact on Floods
14. January 2011
Yesterday was a bit of an emotionally daunting day… (thus the failure to blog!) We came over to my bros house for power and brekky… The floods waters had begun to subside and I got really restless and hated the thought of sitting around and doing nothing. The night before I had posted a blog [...]
Continue reading...Ipswich flood Peaks 2011
13. January 2011
It’s so surreal saying things like “The flood peak is expected 5 hours from now in the Brisbane river” and “now is the time to evacuate” … Scott McDonald Last night, Ipswich was inundated with the murky, brown sea of water. At 2am, the two guys stranded at my house (Dave – Easterfest work colleague and Andrew his friend [...]
Continue reading...Update on Aussie floods
11. January 2011
Yesterday I posted about the flash floods that hit Toowoomba, an inland city about 2 hours from Brisbane City. They were described as an ‘inland tsunami’. Today, 10 have been found dead and there are at least 70 unaccounted for. Whole towns have been washed away as the water from Toowoomba made it’s way down [...]
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6. April 2011
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