I love Triple J

Happy Australia Day!!
And what does that mean? Triple J Hottest 100 time!!!

So I was obviously really sad I couldn't listen to the hottest 100 at a barbecue somewhere in Hobart. But, I did compensate for it a little.

This morning I got up at 5:30 and at 6:40 walked to the hostel near my apartment and logged onto their wireless internet. I listened to Triple J via their internet stream from 6:45 til 8:10am, which was 4:45 - 6:10pm in AEDST, hoping to hear the thrilling end of the countdown!

I was a bit disappointed that they took so long because I recall number 1 being played last year before 6pm, I ended up hearing from song 16 down to song 5 and then had to run to the tram stop and only just get to work on time.

I predicted Kings of Leon's Sex on Fire would be number 1 and after I left, having found out MGMT's Kids was at 5, I knew Electric Feel would be still to come, as well as another Kings of Leon song, Use Somebody. So that means Kings of Leon and MGMT got 2 songs each inside the top 5! Well done to them. Mostly I was happy with the rest of the countdown that I read on Wikipedia.

I'm in group 11/12 today at work and these kids are a bit older than the kids from groups 3 through 8 that I was in last week, 5-7 years old or so. I find it better in a way, once they get to know me we have some conversations and they show me what English they know. I also read to them from a book about reptiles (in German of course) and had them all enthralled.

On the weekend, Erin was in Berlin and Milly and I played Monopoly amongst other things. It's the newer German version where you can buy things like the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The money is increased to millions of Euros. Milly ended up winning but at one point I had hotels on all orange and got up over 25 million Euro. But Milly had hotels on other things and I ended up giving her all my properties and cash. Was fun though!

Quirky fact you say? Umm... you know the mobile ringtone company Jamster that has annoying ads on TV? Well in Europe it's called Jamba instead, and sometimes on MTV they have like 10 mobile content ads in a row.
That wasn't a very good one.