B(if)tek: Big in Hungary? Happy Chinese New Year! On 23 January, the world ascends into the mystical Year of the Dragon. According to a Chinese astrology site I selected after throwing digital yarrow stalks into the air several times: “A dragon is a legendary creature. All legendary stories about Chinese dragons are from the sky, [...]

I had this fantasy as I dozed off last night: Episode title: Gas bagging Scene: The Emergency Department of All Saints Hospital, New York (fictional setting of Nurse Jackie). The usual crew are hanging around the nurses station. Zoey (mustering courage): Umm. Jackie? How come we’re a major metropolitan hospital and umm….there’s only like…you know…like..there’s [...]

The Band of Discovery’s first live gig While Wall St protesters make history in their brave defiance of corruption, soaring income inequalities, poverty and grotesque perversion of democratic process in the corporate fiefdom that is present-day America, two Australian women were quietly making their own statement against turning 40 in the suburbs of Melbourne. It [...]

The Wind in the Suburbs In Thornbury, an inner suburb of Melbourne which is more suburb than inner, there is a little two bedroom flat, and in that flat, there dwell two women and two dogs. Its winter in Australia, a place the rest of the world chuckles at because its upside down, but the [...]

As we start to jet down the runway of a new year, I feel the need to press my nose against the economy class window and fix the past year in my stare as it starts to roll away. Although I know 2010 can’t see me anymore, I nevertheless find myself mouthing at it: “I [...]