Mixed feelings....

Well I'm back in Sweden and back on air at Wisby FM!
What can I say but... mixed feelings

Awesome to be on air again - although kinda rusty.
Great to be back in Sweden - in time for summer.
But... sucks to leave Australia - after all home is where there heart is... and the family, beach, good food, cheap drinks etc etc

But never fear Jay is here! With new music, new news and even a few recycled jokes every morning at Wisby FM 8-11 Swedish time and 6-9pm Australian time.

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Zee Germans!!

Well Ladies & Gent so I've heard.... The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as 'Euro-English' .

Hence :
In the first year, 's' will replace the soft 'c'. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.The hard 'c' will be dropped in favour of 'k'. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome 'ph' will be replaced with 'f'. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent 'e' in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing 'th' with 'z' and 'w' with 'v'.During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou' and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a real sensibl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi TU understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

Back in Black

G'day Ladies & Gents!! Sorry for being so lousy at keeping the blog up-to-date whilst on holidays. Not too much is news with me.

Right now I'm chilling at home with the family, and getting ready to hit the beach. As always the day I landed back home in Sydney it decided to rain for a week. Only difference to Sweden was the rain didn't turn to ice an put a dent in your car! But all is good here, enjoying every minute and making the most of being home.

Anyway, never fear Jay is here and I'll be touching down in Sweden late March and back on air on the 1st of April... Or will I?

Well Ladies & Gents - it's the last week before I go on holidays back home for 2 months!

All I can say is:

Sydney
Mostly sunny
Min: 22°C Max: 36°C

Gotland
Windy
Min: -5°C Max -1°C

Nuf Said....

But don't forget to tune into The Breakfast Club this week with me for the final week!
8am to 11am weekdays..

Where art thou?

It's been a while since I've updated the good old blog. But never fear Jay is here once more...

Past: If you're wondering why I haven't been putting up any photos lately. That's because I have joined the ranks of "People with Stalkers." That' right, I have been getting harassed via mail, phone, sms and mms but some crazy person. They even opened up a blog. At first I thought 'well i guess it's official I am a D grade celebrity on Gotland Island' but as time went on the flattery disappeared, and it just became downright annoying. So now I am 'mobiless' if there is such a word and my phone has been left in with the police. No charges have been filed, I am still hoping it will stop, but either way it's out of my hands now.

Present: Well what's been happening in the world of Jay. Apart from work, work and more work I guess the biggest new for me is that in 2 weeks and 3 days (not that I am counting) I will have my butt on a plane heading to Hong Kong and then back to Australia for 2 months! I can't describe how bloody excited I am. It's been nearly 2½years since I was home last home. So now only 1 week left of work and then off to Stockholm to say 'hejsan hejsan' to the in-laws before we go.

Future: So what is the future of Wisby FM? - many people have been asking. And the honest answer is quite simply that we still don't know. Talk about lousy timing trying to open up a new radio station precisely before the global economic crisis hits. Oh well, we still cross our fingers but the way it looks now is there wont be a station to come back to when I return from Australia at the end of March. Am I upset? Of course, I honestly believed we'd secure private funding and sponsorship for one more year to ride out the storm. But at the same time if it all ended now I would still feel content. After all, we opened a youth station on the world's lowest budget, made a significant impact in a short time, enabled the youth of Gotland Island to get their democratic voices heard and managed to make a large dent in the demographic of radio listeners. So, thinking of that makes me feel content in the fact that we succeeded in what we'd hoped for - it just wasn't for as long as we planned.

Anyway: Ladies & Gents of the Jury this week is THE week to be listening to The Breakfast Club on Wisby FM between 8am and 11am weekdays (GMT+1). Why? Because it could be the last...

Oh yeh and the weather back home is...
Now: 25°C Max: 35°C

Bloody Beautiful if you ask me!

And it feels like....

1000 aplications have gone out.

Still waiting on a response...


Will there be anything after the 1st of January 2009.

Is there anyone willing to support the project...


Time will tell... Only problem is that time might be running out...
if it hasn't already?

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Babysitting - redneck style

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Snow Angels...

Nuf said...

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Coworker Has That Excuse That's Going Around

Ladies & Gents, one site I highly recommend you read is The Onion @ http://www.theonion.com/

It is worth checking out and here is a taste of what they write about.

(And just so I don't get sued for copyright
- YES this is directly copied from their website)

Coworker Has That Excuse That's Going Around

ANN ARBOR, MI—Digital Copy Shoppe employee Don Newson, 38, called in to work on Wednesday complaining that he was certain he had come down with the 24-hour excuse that has been going around. "My back is killing me, I feel stuffed up, and I have this pounding headache," said Newson, citing the initial symptoms of the excuse, which often afflicts those who are already late for work. "It sucks, because I want to come in, but I don't want anyone else to catch what I've got. I should be fine after sleeping for a couple days." Newson has placed himself on a strict regimen of watching the past six episodes of Entourage on HBO on Demand to cure the excuse.

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The Breakfast Club

Well since most of the sms's, messages, emails etc I get each day from listeners always say they listen from 8am - Ladies & Gent I am pleased to announce The Breakfast Club with Jay on Wisby FM has now changed times from 7-10am to 8-11am weekday mornings!

I mean why be there and hour earlier if no one is listening? ;)

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Nuf said...

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"Iraq War Ends"

According to Reuters, a group known as the Yes Men have handed out more than 1.2 million fake New York Times newspapers mainly in New York City and Los Angeles on Wednesday with a front page story declaring "Iraq War Ends."

Other headlines declared that the "Maximum Wage Law Succeeds," "Nationalized Oil to Fund Climate Change Efforts" and "Nation Sets Its Sights On Building Sane Economy."

There is also a full page fake advertisement on page three from the world's largest publicly traded oil company Exxon Mobil saying the company applauded the end of the Iraq war and that peace is "an idea the world can profit from."

The elaborate 14-page edition, dated July 4, 2009, is said to be the work of a group called the Yes Men, whose previous hoaxes include masquerading as World Trade Organisation officials announcing they were disbanding the body.

The Yes Men, who were the subject of a book and documentary in 2004, have pulled off pranks including posing as Exxon Mobil and National Petroleum Council representatives to deliver a speech at a Canadian oil conference.

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I'll never complain again...

Well Ladies & Gents next time you miss the bus and have to walk think of this...

Children in a remote part of China are facing a hazardous walk to school like you wouldn't believe. Why? - because it is halfway up a sheer cliff.

The school in Gulu village, Sichuan province, lies halfway up a mountain and climbing up from the base takes five hours. And to top it off villagers say going to school is very dangerous for the children, since the path is only 1ft 4ins wide at the narrowest point and has a sheer drop on one side.

The school has five concrete buildings and a playground with a basketball hoop made of two wooden poles and a broken blackboard. However, the children are allowed to only pat the balls, as if they throw them and they go over the edge of the cliff, it would take half a day to retrieve them.

According to reports in the West China City Daily, the elementary school has only one teacher who has been there for 26 years. Shen Qijun, 45, the teacher, has threatened to quit several times, but each time the villagers plead with him to stay as there would be nobody else to teach their children.

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It was not me - it was the no armed man!

According to reports in Ananova, police in Germany are hunting a thief with no arms who managed to walk out of a shop with a 24-inch TV.

Two accomplices used clamps to fix the TV to his body before helping him out of the store in Munich, Germany and according to the report staff did not realise what had happened until they noticed a TV was missing from its stand and looked back at CCTV recordings.

A police spokesman said: "It's hard to believe that the sight of an armless man walking along with a giant TV clamped to his body did not get anyone's attention."

But then again it is Germany and they never seem to notice much... including bad hairstyles.

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The Supermarket Bbq!

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