So as you can guess I'm sitting at the computer with photoshop open and having the usual crisis of confidence. Zack Arias described it beautifully in a clip I am going to embed in the next post, but in the meantime I'll just say (again) how hard it is to look hard and objectively at your own...

People in Fiji are slowly coming to grips with the fact the nation’s Rugby sevens team could not defend its World Cup title because it was beaten by upstart Kenya in the quarter-finals. In a very unconventional Rugby sevens World Cup played this year in Dubai, Wales emerged as the winner after the...

No Waitangi post this morning. Instead, I’ll point you to what I write every year: One-Law-For-All Day, since all I’d need to change is the prediction about the protests. And point you to historian Paul Moon’s thoughtful piece from Wednesday’s Herald , which looks ahead to “a post-Waitangi...

Alpinechic proudly presents the release of iChic, the 6th free mp3-compilation by Alpinechic. iChic features some of the most interesting artists of the swiss and international underground music panorama. Release party on friday 23rd january 2008 at Superzero in Zurich with Le Zero, Bricks, The Entr...

The roof of the Suva Market is being rapidly changed because it contains toxic asbestos material. Re-elected Suva Lord mayor Ratu Peni Volavola confirmed to Fijilive that the roof contained asbestos and the Suva City Coucil was moving at a rapid pace to get the roof changed. “We are working only a...

From India: The Rise of an Asian Giant, by Dietmar Rothermund (Yale U. Press, 2008), pp. 233-235: The cultivation of sugar-cane in colonies such as Mauritius and the Natal province of South Africa, in Trinidad, Guyana and Surinam in the Caribbean and Fiji in the Pacific Ocean created settlements of ...

  ...a handsome Fijian from the backblocks met a very attractive French Canadian girl. They fell in love, had a baby, got married in Fiji and returned to Montreal to live happily ever after... and watch and wait for their wedding pictures! Well they are all completed and I will burn to disc and pos...

David Gilmour felt the warm South Pacific breeze caress his shoulders as he followed through with the five-iron. He watched his ball sail into a bright-blue sky and then land with a bounce onto the green of the second hole. It was 1992 and Gilmour had more than a great tee shot to feel good about. H...

I am not the best example of a person who likes to get involved in charity work I have little personal experience with. Breast Cancer? I am so there, but I know people that have/ had breast cancer. I have walked for Lymphoma, but I lost a friend to it. I am a big advocate for Save the Music and any ...

JOHNNY GILL ADDRESSES ALL THE RUMORS: Plus, singer confirms argument between mothers of Eddie and Tracey at ’spiritual wedding.’   *Johnny Gill has finally addressed persistent rumors that he is gay and was the driving force behind Eddie Murphy breaking off his engagement to Tracey ...