sydneyfriends party
SydneyFriends new community site!
Sunday, November 16th, 2008 | Meeting people, Sydney Events, SydneyFriends StartUp | No Comments
Recently I have made a new Community site for SydneyFriends, using the ’Spruz’ Sydneyfriends Community. It’s a 100% free service, why not be one of the first to sign up :). I hope it may help others find happiness in their lives.
I welcome any comments to the quality of the new community site, and hope all users can make the most of it.
If you would like to contribute in SydneyFriends forum about the community page visit the forum page today:
SydneyFriends Forum
Besides working on that page, I’ve also been working on a Japan shopping service, as I am still in Osaka, so if anyone wants some Japanese goods check out: MechaJapan.
I think I will have to make a new site, focussing on Japan, instead of writing about it here 
so I’ll try to keep the focus on Sydney here. If anyone would like to contribute to this blog with articles relating to Sydney, please: Mail me.
Besides attending interviews and making websites, I’ve also been teaching English at a school and privately, which I usually enjoy doing. However I prefer working on web sites, so my time spent (working) online is usually more than the time I teach English.
I often think of the SydneyFriends and SJLG (Sydney Japanese Language Group) community in Sydney and hope everyone is enjoying late Spring weather! I am still organising the monthly SydneyFriends Party for Friday the 21st of November, which will be at Shark Hotel again.
All the best,
Lindsay
Here are a few other projects of mine:
http://www.sydney-friends.com
http://www.japanshoppingservice.com
http://www.wherecaniadvertise.com
http://www.ideason2012.com
Sydney Friends Party!!
Saturday, September 13th, 2008 | Meeting people, Sydney Events | 1 Comment
Last night - Friday the 12th of September, was SydneyFriends first get together !! For most people it was mainly drinks at Shark hotel, those that arrived early ate dinner there too. Later on in the night was some pool playing, more drinking, socialising and a bit of dancing.
At first I came with two friends - two Japanese girls, and we got the tables ready, then a short while later I noticed two others had arrived early (my English teacher friend and his Japanese friend), so they joined us, we ate some pizza and wedges and had a few drinks.
I didn’t have many real confirmation of numbers, maybe 10-15 I thought so it was a good surprise to see that around 30 people turned up in total.
I only put up a few ads at jams.tv and one ad at gumtree, the rest was word-of mouth at a language exchange group, or sms to old contacts on my phone. Most of the people who turned up were either Japanese or Australian, however two people who saw the ad from gumtree were welcome additions to the group - a man from India, and a lady from England, two very friendly people.
Basically it was a fun night… two conversations I remember… one about a person being a “yowajin” weak drinker/ weak man, so I asked what was the opposite in Japanese, so I was given a word about a hard-on, another funny one was I thought I heard someone say “uwaki kusai” -> smells like an affair. when they actually said “waki kusai” smells like armpits. anyway, you had to be there.
Overall most people seemed happy with the night with plenty of nice guys, and beautiful women a good start to what will hopefully be a monthly / every 2 month party, with regular outings in between such as next weeks (20th Sept. 08) walk in the Botanic Gardens. See Sydneyfriends events page for more details.
If you are from a non-Australian culture, and you know of a website where I can invite people from your country living in Sydney to come to one of our future events, please let me know.
-Lindsay
www.sydney-friends.com