Its hard to believe but Burma’s fleet of vehicles appear to hail from WWII. Its like travelling in a time machine!
I snapped this photo in Mandalay.
Archive for December, 2008
Burmese Buses
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged burma, mandalay on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Surprising Economic Growth in Africa
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged africa, aid, development, fareed zakaria, imf, politics, zimbabwe on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s an amazing and little known fact that there has actually been significant economic growth going on Africa in recent years. Usually referred to as a development basket case, many African nations are surprisingly outstripping their international counterparts. There is definitely a story in this.
I heard about this while listening to lecture by Fareed Zakaria [...]
No Unilaterism on Carbon, Mr Rudd
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged australia, climate change, global warming, kevin rudd on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As I’ve been saying climate change is a global problem and demands, by its inherent nature, a global solution. Mr Rudd’s attempts at introducing a carbon emissions scheme are proving the fact that in a global economy companies will simply pack up and move to other Asian countries that do not have any equivalent scheme.
Here’s [...]
Wedding Advice?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged sydney, wedding on December 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As you probably know I’m getting married on Sunday. I’m a little nervous there might be something we haven’t thought of yet. Is there anyone who has been through it all before can you think of anything I might be forgetting?
Is Unlimited Clean Power Possible?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged climate change, energy, energy efficiency, fusion, global warming, iter on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My lil brother Mark who is about to graduate with a PhD in nanoparticles from QUT at the beginning of next year at the ripe old age of 24 shared with me a mind-blowing project going on as we speak in Europe. Its been making big news over there but I haven’t read anything about [...]
Freedom and Sovereignty: First Steps in Calvinism
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anglican, arminianism, calvinism, christianity, christians in the media, sydney on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After listening to all the debate on my first calvinism post, I finally purchased on everyone’s recommendation Chosen By God by R.C. Sproul today at Moore Books. I’m really looking forward to leaping into this theological subject that still seems all so new.
Before I start I want to put down on in my blog the two paradigms [...]
What do you call someone who prays?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged christianity, english, grammar, language, prayer on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently its a “prayer”! Pronounced “prey-er” rather than “prair”.
pray⋅er 2
/ˈpreɪər/ [prey-er]
–noun
a person who prays.
Origin: 1400–50; late ME preyare. See pray, -er 1
UChannel Academic Podcasts
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged podcasts, politics, princeton on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just a quick plug to those who want to get there hands on quality academic podcasts from around the world. Try Princeton’s UChannel. Looks interesting!
A Rational Look at Global Warming
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged al gore, an inconvenient truth, climate change, global warming, lord lawson, lse, politics on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m on the record as recognising the reality of climate change in the 21st century. As a result I am throughly disappointed when I so rarely see very serious and legitimate discussion of climate change in the media. Inevitably the ‘discussion’ sits somewhere between bumper sticker slogans and thinly-veiled hysteria.
The most popularly demanded response is the amorphous call for ’action on [...]
