Mike Riversdale

From the Web 1.0 days I bring you  The Forum . To preserve them for posterity as Geocities can no longer be found but also it's fun to re-read some of them. ----- 23rd February, 2001 Hey you, it’s here, finally, my last day at good ole, world famous for its journalistic integrity, CRI...and I’m thinking back over the past, very weird, 12 months. Sure I’m going to miss the special treatment afforded to us foreign experts, the chauffer driving me to and from work every day, the sweet girly who comes to clean my room and pick up after me, the “immunity” from everything bestowed on foreigners, or “freaks”, – but godammit, I’m so looking forward to being back in a real country again. Although, I’m not Australia’s ready for me, and all those bad habits I’ve developed here in the middle kingdom....assuming no one can understand me, so talking about them in front of them, smoking through dinner - or for that matter anywhere I damn well feel like smoking, spitting bones on the table or flo

From the Web 1.0 days I bring you  The Forum . To preserve them for posterity as Geocities can no longer be found but also it's fun to re-read some of them. ------ 23rd February, 2001 Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (China/Taiwan/US 2000) Directed by Ang Lee With: Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Cheng Pei Pei Running Length: 2 Hrs. Best to get a simple truth out in the open straight away: Hong Kong actor, Chow Yun Fat is as close to God as you're likely to get, even on a bad hair day. If you've never heard of him - never mind, billions of Asians have. Before we get onto the subject of today's lecture, let me recommend some Chow primers (much as I'd recommend viewing the entire Sergio Leone back catalogue of Spaghetti Westerns, including the ones without Clint Eastwood, if I were to talk about the mighty Unforgiven. Which is on the cards for the near future). I digress.... Check out these John Woo directed/Chow starring flicks: The Killer (starts

From the Web 1.0 days I bring you  The Forum . To preserve them for posterity as Geocities can no longer be found but also it's fun to re-read some of them. ------ 23rd February, 2001 (February 2001) Again, the quality of British foods has come into the international news arena following the recent BSE scare. Foot & Mouth has broken out and all meat products are banned for export. Why this should be defies any logic. The British way of cooking 'Meat Products' consists of either deep frying everything till 'golden-black' or roasting until texture resembles tanned leather! Any opportunities for bacteria to grow are eliminated within the first 2 minutes of incineration. The carbon content of the average Brit is approx 50% with beer and chips making up the rest. Do we eat a healthy diet? Experts are saying that 1 in 4 children are obese with 'Fat Camps' being the favourite holiday location of today's youth. TV at the moment is full of 'fly-on-the-wal

From the Web 1.0 days I bring you  The Forum . To preserve them for posterity as Geocities cam no longer be found but also it's fun to re-read some of them.