tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:12:38 +0000Khan and Marika's travel blog.http://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/noreply@blogger.com (mazspazz)Blogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-7331173334672124364Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:46:00 +00002008-06-05T07:32:21.917-07:00So we've just completed our massive road trip...phew! two weeks in a new place every night is hard work! not to mention all the stuff we've been doing as well...we went a bit round about in places, check the map of our journey here. I will now attempt to give you a blow by blow account... Day 1Leave our beloved Fernie...we know she wanted us to stay by breaking our trusty lil car but lil car http://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2008/06/3000kms-and-14-days-later.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mazspazz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-5931139010575003937Sun, 18 May 2008 15:54:00 +00002008-05-18T09:11:33.680-07:00One of the lessons i've learned (forcefully) over the past few years of my life is to not take bad luck personally. Well, Marika and I are trying to practice this philosophy now. Yesterday while taking a 'last' drive around Fernie and it's outskirts we encountered some car trouble, I wont go into it in too much detail until we find out just what the problem is. Being a long-weekend it's not http://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2008/05/so-it-goes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (khan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-2039977821820999787Thu, 15 May 2008 15:47:00 +00002008-05-17T08:41:20.667-07:00We have booked our tickets back and fly into Brisvegas on the 10th of June at 11am. Our plans until then are that we leave Fernie this Sunday (boo hoo) then head to the Yoho National Park where we intend to do some hiking, canoeing and bear spotting. After a  night spent at the Cathedral Mountain Lodge (noice!) we'll head to Lake Louise where we're meeting a buddy we met in Japan, Tom who will behttp://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2008/05/now-taking-coffee-beer-breakfast-lunch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mazspazz)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-4819454386472511632Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:23:00 +00002008-04-29T09:40:16.794-07:00What can I say except that the rumours are true, Marika and I are indeed planning on returning to the wide brown land. Yeah, the one that's girt by sea. After being away for nearly a year and a half we'll soon be heading back to Melbourne again. We've had an amazing time here in Canada (and all most of the other places we've been!). The area that we are currently living in has won a big placehttp://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2008/04/put-kettle-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (khan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-4082550942777797926Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:27:00 +00002008-04-29T10:07:09.980-07:00Hi Well, I thought I'd better write something on here as we don't seem to write much on this blog anymore...suppose it's because we haven't been doing too much and to keep on telling people that all you are doing is working and snowboarding every week is a little dull... The season is winding down, there's only 2 weeks left! The melt is happening...Boo hoooo! because of this, we have been doing http://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2008/03/hi-well-i-thought-id-better-write.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mazspazz)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-7890597187794215643Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:56:00 +00002008-04-29T09:47:32.596-07:00 We've had some problems with the blog lately, for some reason a lot of our photos have disappeared off the server. I'll try and get around to fixing them up in the near future. In the meantime here's a panoramic pic I took today, it's pretty low quality as it was taken with my phone but it still shows how amazing the scenery is here.http://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2008/02/technical-issues.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (khan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-1790093882352123652Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:18:00 +00002008-04-29T09:49:33.666-07:001. Keep blog updated. Since we've stopped traveling it seems like there isn't as much to write about, things seem much more mundane. Not that it's a bad thing but it rarely makes for interesting reading. 2. More Road Trips. For NYE we decided to go visit our old friends and workmates at Nakiska, we loaded up the car and made it there in just under 4 hours driving . Not so bad, made a bit of a http://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2008/01/resolutions-for-new-year-v-10.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (khan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-9180882317833236197Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:43:00 +00002007-12-07T10:46:11.048-08:00Ok, don't ask... Lest I get into another rant about telecommunications for which i'll be reprimanded by all my Canadian friends. Just know this, the new(est) phone number is: +1-250-531-0482http://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2007/12/new-new-number.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (khan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-851807369844967788Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:47:00 +00002008-03-17T12:53:24.378-07:00I love our new couch...it's awesomely comfy...It came with our rocking new place which I am also in love with. Could be the beautiful huge trees and deer in the backyard, the stainless steel applianced kitchen with a gas stove, yes gas stove...yayyyyy...when we first moved in it was a bit weird, the place just feels too good for us, like one of those holiday apartments that you rent for a week http://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2007/12/sniffly-noses-and-new-couches.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mazspazz)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-4793091774099739238Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:07:00 +00002008-03-17T12:51:52.592-07:00After being in Canada for a few months now it seems we'll soon be hitting the slopes and testing out our new boards. We arrived here in Fernie a few days ago and joined the hordes of ski-bums looking for somewhere to live. Apparently last year there was a surplus of housing but no jobs, this year it's quite the opposite. As we had employment sorted out before we arrived, well, let's just say the http://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2007/11/bring-on-snow.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (khan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-969253941382738103Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:33:00 +00002007-11-16T20:37:03.543-08:00Yes, we have come into the possession of a '96 Ford Taurus LX...wooot! Here's hoping it's not like our last bomb... We leave for Fernie next Friday, doing our first boarding of the season at Whistler/Blackcomb before heading south. Getting excited now...a winter in the snow...yay!http://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2007/11/new-car-woot-woot.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mazspazz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-7712623990644528572Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:27:00 +00002007-10-19T18:35:07.717-07:00Marika and I will no longer be contactable on my Australian mobile number as it will soon no longer exist. Well, i'm sure the number will exist...I mean I doubt that the customer care guy really has that much power. Anyway i'm sure you follow. In summing up, +61403766133=Bad/wrong/incorrect/sad. +17789906520=current. Telecommunications here in Canada are stuck in the dark ages, so not only will http://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2007/10/contacting-us.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (khan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-1647515230850576207Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:47:00 +00002007-10-16T12:39:09.745-07:00Well, since our last post which was almost a month ago...Can't believe we've been here that long! We're still enjoying a hood, found an awesome coffee place that won best coffee in Vancouver after being open for only 3 days...Ben you'd love it... The house has been a little bit of a nightmare...Never knew bedbugs were real! Oh boy are they...We've had the exterminators in to get rid of them but http://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2007/10/decisions-decisions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mazspazz)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-5811869417545751388Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:17:00 +00002007-09-22T21:10:19.854-07:00Ok, so we were going to the sale just to have a look...but oopsie, we kinda bought ourselves our new winter babies, thanks to Matt and his friend Mikey's excellent assistance... So here are the pretties... Mum, don't worry, I didn't pay the price on the tag...They're '07 models so a loooootttt cheaper... For those who are interested Khan's (the longer, b&w one) is a 157 Salomon David Benedek (myhttp://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2007/09/he-henew-snowboards-yaaaayyyy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mazspazz)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-3137614921645121160Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:22:00 +00002007-09-12T18:22:55.331-07:00hello, soooo after 7 months we've made it to a (maybe) final destination (for at least a while) of Canada. For those who like figures, in the past 48 hours we've been in 4 countries, spent over 15 hours in planes, paid $130 for a cab ride through Moscow, 5 hours going through customs and immigration, 3 of those in 2 lines in Canada have 7 different currencies in our pockets and have spent ooooohhhttp://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2007/09/new-photos-now.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mazspazz)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-2685292407727676633Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:35:00 +00002007-08-23T20:42:30.969-07:00Until we get our computers back we will not be uploading any of our photos so I thought i'd post a link to a few that were taken when we did a half-day bike tour in Bangkok. http://www.realasia.net/ Select daily biking pictures from the menu on the left then 4th of august, our photos are down the bottom. Better ones to come soon. http://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2007/08/bangkok-bike-tour.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (khan)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-6212807856147268978Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:35:00 +00002007-08-16T23:33:28.587-07:00Hello from southern Cambodia... WOAHHH...what an amazing place Cambodia is...breathtakingly beautiful and insanely old temples (some date back to the 7th century!) so much poverty, such nice people, such a crazy mixed up history... I can't post any photos right now...we have over 350 on our camera including some from climbing Fuji but I'll get to it when I can... Sooo, quickly summing up since wehttp://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2007/08/stuck-in-sihanoukville.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mazspazz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-6195477284701783490Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:37:00 +00002007-07-25T21:45:59.528-07:00Just letting you all know that Marika and I will not have our computers with us for the next few weeks and as such will be checking email infrequently and probably not blogging at all. I know, how will the internet survive? It's ok, i've been logging some serious hours this past month and I think i've contributed enough for the both of us. We will be ditching our Japanese phone but I imagine thathttp://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2007/07/brief-intermission.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (khan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-69785422319196804Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:03:00 +00002007-07-22T01:09:10.861-07:00Marika's bike is the silver one, it even has three gears! Mine is the clapped out blue one which has one squeaky brake and a whole lot of character. I know, not my regular style but I like them, plus they were half price...bargain!http://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2007/07/bikes-and-new-sneakers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (khan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-3965406486249477382Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:12:00 +00002007-07-20T01:53:10.908-07:00 Hello friends, I thought after the bulk-email I sent out recently i'd better make a post to show you that fun times are still being had here by us in Japan. It's not all doom and gloom. Today Marika and I had an awesome day. She found out that one of her classes had cancelled which meant that we had untill 4pm to hang out together. Well, we jumped on our newly acquired bikes and we did ride. Okhttp://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2007/07/bikes-make-me-happy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (khan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-122492349361634817Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:56:00 +00002007-07-15T06:57:03.524-07:00Damn Straight!http://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2007/07/new-photos.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (khan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-732137842079173224Sun, 15 Jul 2007 03:53:00 +00002007-07-14T21:35:26.381-07:00A few days ago I was lucky enough to head deep into the hills of Fukushima with a few friends to learn how to make Soba noodles. It was amazingly simple and the whole process (from soba flour to steaming bowl) took around half an hour. They tasted pretty amazing too! After the soba workshop we walked a little ways down the hill to a little village named Ōuchijuku (大内宿). It was pretty amazing withhttp://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2007/07/noodle-making-strange-gifts-and-endless_15.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (khan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-8099986250000513144Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:39:00 +00002007-07-10T19:40:29.405-07:00My partner and I signed up with this company through an internet ad on an Australian job site and have regretted it since. We found JHIP, AAA and the Australian Student Pipeline (who does the recruiting in Australia) to be incompetent, unhelpful, unlawful, inconsistent and only concerned about making money off the interns. Below I have listed a few of the instances that we encountered whilst http://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2007/07/jhip-japan-hospitality-internship.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mazspazz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-3013427238350268053Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:50:00 +00002007-07-07T07:18:35.611-07:00We've had so many decisions to make in the last few days and everything seemed to be going against us... What have we done?!? So the story is in point form: I started work for GEOs on the 18th - Small children and me...hmmm...interesting. This place is such a shithole, Khan can't find work as there aren't any english schools here, not even a NOVA!!!. Last week I handed in my resignation as Khan http://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2007/07/okgo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (mazspazz)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18384243.post-6141854946649275183Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:03:00 +00002007-07-03T01:18:29.874-07:00The blog that is, it's been a while since I posted last and there has been stuff that I think is kinda blog-worthy. At the moment things are nuts, but more about that at a later date. Anyway, here's a few pics of Marika, Danny, Yuichi and myself in Utsunomiya. We ate and did drink a little too. There is a fantastic Indian restaurant there and a bunch of western style bars. I was excited to be http://www.3littlepenguins.com/blog/2007/07/bit-backed-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (khan)0