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Photo of the Month: Can I please see your FailTicket?

Posted by Wilson in ...ofthemonth, pic, pwnd, sports, student on May 2, 2010

Alternate universes exist. These universes exist independent of each other, the people in them merrily carrying on with their own little lives, unbeknown to them the reality of another version of themselves is alive, just outside their realm of reality. Science has always scoffed at the idea that there is more then one version of Mr Jone and his reality, but at last, we have real irrevocable proof that out there, hidden from all our senses and technology, is another universe, very similar to ours, in close sync with us, mirroring our lives with intimate accuracy, save for a few scant details that differ on a minute basis. This ticket…is from the other side. In the alternate universe, they are having the very same event, the Coca-cola Games. Their ticket is the exact same copy as ours, right down to the venue. However, the only (major) difference between their ticket and ours is this; their month of April has 31 days in it. That’s right folks, an extra day for the alternates. Isn’t it just amazing.

That…or it could be a simple typo. A rather expensively simple typo.

I think I’ll lay off the Fringe episodes for abit.

Thanks Gurumi!

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Lol Photo(s) of the Month – Vehicle Pwnage

Posted by Wilson in ...ofthemonth, Digicel, Vodafone, advertising, competition, funny, pwnd on July 20, 2009

Begun, the Mobile Phone Wars has. At least the road warrior part of it.

For those who came in late, the two vehicles shown in the photos below belong to Fiji’s two mobile phone operators, Digicel and Vodafone Fiji. Judging from the angles at which both vehicles sustained damage (CSI training tiko vei iko saraga), the Vodafone truck had all the fun of owning the Digicel car. As to who exactly who’s fault this is – we can only imagine.

For the meantime, enjoy the photos and bask in the knowledge that this price war is only starting to heat up.

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Shiny policeman is shiny.

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The front right tire looks slighty sad

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Sacre Bleu! Fiji Bati Pwns the French!

Posted by Wilson in games, pwnd, rugby on November 2, 2008

Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle’s left…leg.

There’s bad news, and then there’s good news, of which the later variety comes in several incarnations.
There’s good news where a family member gets married (huray! little nephew/niece tykes!) and the whole family, extended and all gets to join in the ensuring celebration.
Then there’s great news, like you getting the promotion, allowing you access to that car you’ve always mourned at in the display window.
Then, there’s news that is so awesomely awesome, that you’ll be naming your kids after the fateful day just so that the event will be remembered down the dark, musty halls of time.
Yes. In the world of the Rugby League World Cup, the Vodafone Fiji Bati, in their first pool match, has taken the French Team and rubbed their faces in the pitch, seven times over. An epic score of 42 to 6 has made the 500-1 Fiji team now hot favourites.
Seven tries people. Seven awe inspiring, heart warming, this-aint-over-the-best-is-yet-to-come, grog swirling, patriotic pride inducing tries. If I didn’t know any better, I would have thought that such a hugh scoreline would have belonged to a sevens match between say Hong Kong andMalaysia. Scores with that big a margin don’t translate well to a supposed 1st rate rugby country such as the French Roosters. If anything, 6 points to the French means that they were forever stuck on the back foot. The french coach John Monie was right. “They had too much enthusiasm.”
For those of you who missed the game (me included, blame halloween), fear not,for thanks to the power of the Internet, a few of the tries are available on Youtube, and thus, here! Big vinaka to rugsta15 for uploading the videos and sharing the love. All thats left now is for the torrent of the full game to be made available.
/wish

Fiji – 16 France – 6
Akuila Uate’s 1st Try
Commentor note: “Anymore of this and they’ll buy him an island!”

Fiji – 22 France – 6
Akuila Uate’s 2nd Try
Commentor note: “YOOUWAATEE!!!“



Fiji – 30 France – 6
Semisi Tora’s (Commentors were refering to him as ‘Tori’) Try
Commentor note: “The celebrations will be emotional once if they cross the line – AND THEY DOOO!!!!” Gotta love the timing in that one.

Fiji – 36 France – 6
Jaryyd Hayne’s Try
Commentor note: “Get out the bowls, get out the kava, its going to be one hell of a party!“ Lol ^_^

Fiji – 42 France – 6
Akuila Uate’s 3rd Try
Commentor note: “42 points to 6! What? Who would have thought?!” Fuck yeah, you’d better recognise ;)
Points worth pointing out:
1) Akuila Uate is the next ‘insert-great-rugby-icon-from-fiji’ player. That guy gets rugby team scouts all hot and wet.
2) I’m not going to miss the next game against Scotland this upcoming Wednesday. And if you count yourself as a true rugby patriot, you wouldn’t too. Not for all the cheap barrel nights in the world. Or beer katis.
3) Vodafone Fiji is going to be so happy. Queue another media blitz about who exactly is sponsoring that winning team. The sevens team now have extra pressure to perform from their Digicel sponsors in order to look just as good.
4) I’m just so god-darned proud to be Fijian right now that it hurts ^_^
To keep that patriotic fever pitch going, here’s a great song written by Igelese Ete for the Fiji Bati and performed by the ever amazing Talei Burns with the Pacific Voices choir.

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Lulz Photo of the Month

Posted by Wilson in ...ofthemonth, advertising, funny, pwnd on October 1, 2008


50 Brownie points for whoever can point out what’s wrong with this picture.

Hint: It has something to do with the previous post ;)

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Picture of the Month – Spiderman hangs out at the Fiji Club

Posted by Wilson in ...ofthemonth, funny, pwnd on March 9, 2008


This is what greets everyone who visits the local ‘country’ club, the Fiji Club. Thanks to Sharky’s ever present camera, Spiderman’s latest adventures in the friendly islands of Fiji turned out for the worst.

Yes, that is Spiderman being hung by his neck with some very nice white rope. Either the infamous web-slinger overstayed his welcome at the tennis court, or he was kicked out for improper attire, with Halloween still a long way off.

Either way, this serves as a warning to all costumed crusaders hoping to kick back and enjoy a Fiji Bitter or two at the Fiji Club.

I guess that rules out me and my BDSM suit.

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Harry Houdini Makes Fijians Look Bad :(

Posted by Wilson in Tourists, history, pwnd, suva on March 3, 2008

You have to admit, nothing beats magic like old school magic. Top hats, wooden coffins, and the distinct lack of bad 80s music to kill the atmosphere. Also, showmanship was on a whole other level back then. Sit in an ice cube to get the family jewels frozen? Bah! Try chaining yourself up, locking yourself in a crate, then have said crate chained for maximum effect, then tossed into the local river.

Of course, I refer to one who was both a magician as well as one of the greatest, if not the greatest escape artist of time, Harry Houdini. Stuntman, actor, and sported a nice hairstyle to boot. And no, this isn’t a post dedicated to him, but rather about his somewhat curious interaction with Fiji on his travels around the world.

I came across this story while browsing Google Earth’s pics of Suva, Fiji, which Thrashor of Digital Fiji complained were not updated recently. I noticed that there was a yellow dot indicating a link to a story about the area, and clicking it revealed the following:


Whats this? Harry Houdini came to Fiji? Thats right. The infamous escape artist, who’s name is synonymous with handcuffs and seances, really did drop by our sunny shores, enroute to Vancouver, Canada aboard a cruise liner.

According to the blog Houdini reappears, when the liner arrived in Suva, the locals (thats us! >< ) "put on their usual show of diving for coins and catching them in their mouths." Now, this is where it got tricky. Apparently, Harry realized that the locals (thats us! ><) weren’t catching the coins in their mouths at all, but using their hands. Thats when he issued the smackdown. 1 dive against the best diver, hands in rope, and they'd go for separate coins. So some poor Fijian, probably oblivious to Harry's name and fame, "In the water, the Fijian soon gave up, but Houdini freed one hand and grabbed both coins, popping them in his mouth and resurfacing." Well I'll be damned. Not only did Harry visit Fiji, but he ended up making the local divers (thats us...damnit) look like amateurs at their own gig. To put it into todays standard, think of some random asian guy who manages to not only out-run Sir-revi, but does the infamous goose-step along the way. I’d burn houses if I ever saw that happen.

Nobody likes to be shown their limitations, especially if said victor is not a local. I’m surprised the divers, after being shown a big pote (embarrassed infront of everyone else), didn’t just grab Harry and dump him in the nearest lovo pit. Or maybe they just weren’t hungry. That or they were quickly fired on the spot by whichever boss they were serving at the moment.

Moral of the Story?

Don’t accept challenges from anyone with nice hair. Especially tourists with a name that ends in ‘arry’.

Note: Paul of Houdini reappears, upon request from one of our readers, was kind enough to send two page scans from Harold Keller’s 1928 book “Houdini: His Life Story” which goes into detail about the “diving with Harry Houdini” event.


Also, Harry Houdini was kind enough to mention the local firewalkers in his own book, Miracle Mongers and Their Methods.

Enjoy the light reading.

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You have officially been pwnd. Badly.

Posted by Wilson in bloggers, hack, internet, porn, pwnd on November 7, 2007


Brought to my attention by Chris of Digital Fiji (he’s always the one notifying me of these things…I really need to get out more often), the anti-military government blog Resist Franks Coup has officially been hacked. And owned. Hard.

Note: Link NSFW. You have been warned.

Posting local porn pictures that have already made the email rounds, they call themselves the “SuvaRaidrz”, and seem to be almost full of glee, as they post bad txt speak paragraphs with seemingly reckless abandon.

I doubt this site has been hacked in the traditional, high-tech, nerd-culture way, since if our local guys could hack into a site such as WordPress, then we’d all be surfing grog-shop sponsored rugby game reruns and nothing else. Based on the latest post, all the relevant login info was apparently (and unintentially I’m sure…either that or someone at RFC was bored) given out by mistake.

One password change later, and this is what we get. A few attention-grabbers, yesterday’s local porn and a blog that isn’t a blog anymore.

Moral of the Story?

Make sure that your sex sessions are always camera free.

That, and don’t give your passwords to your blog out to friends who are more computer literate then you. And hail from suva. And own a phone.

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