Entries filed under: 'Australia'

Australian Open Final 2008

Brisbane Time (+10 GMT) 6:35pm: Tsonga to serve. 6:47pm: First serve a little wild. Novak wins the first point. An omen? 6:49pm: Djokovic breaks in the first game. Not such a great start for the Frenchman. 7:00pm: A nervous start for both players. I’m predicting Nole will win! We are back on serve. Fourth game [...]

January 27th, 2008 at 06:52pm

Snapshot of Australia – ‘Wordplay’

(Source: David Dale – Who We Are – A snapshot of Australia today) This kind of language I can handle. What really bugs me: ‘Mundy’, ‘Toozdy’, ‘Winzdy’, ‘I done some shopping today’ and ’10 k’, ’3 pair’ and ’50 tonne’.

December 19th, 2007 at 11:37pm

Snapshot of Australia – ‘Booze’

(David Dale – Who We Are – A snapshot of Australia today) Which is weird because I always thought that people drank when they were feeling depressed. Who can afford three glasses of wine per day though? These people obviously have high disposable incomes. Do you feel delighted, pleased, happy, average, unhappy, discontent, or terrible? [...]

November 9th, 2007 at 12:17am

Dodo to go the way of the dodo

Hopefully. It has been revealed that Dodo, an Australian internet service provider and telecommunication company, has had a 700 per cent increase in complaints launched with the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman in the last 12 months. The Ombudsman recorded 50,000 complaints for Telstra, including landline telephone, mobile and internet services, while Optus had 20,000. Dodo had [...]

November 8th, 2007 at 01:50pm