2007.04.16 – 14.53 UTC+08 (Singapore Time)
It’s the end of an era folks; Mad Mike Masters and Frank Nora have suspended the Anything but Monday podcast / audio magazine / new time radio programme. From what I can tell their blog is still currently online, but the main page has had it’s colourful orange screen replaced with this as of 11:00am Singapore:
I also received an email from the ABM management:
Dear ABM Subscriber,
I wanted to let you know we are shutting down the Anything But Monday Show. Mike and I would both like to thank you for taking the time to check out the show with the free coupon. The site will shut down soon, but you will be able to access the premium content a little while longer.
We wish we would have been able to continue doing the show, but it was a project that became much bigger than we had originally projected, and ultimately we did not have enough time in our lives to keep it going.
Thanks,
Frank Edward Nora
This really is a sad day. I admit the first couple of episodes I didn’t like as much as the Overnightscape (Frank Nora’s other radio programme) but I just felt like I’d got into the rhythm of it and had started enjoying it.
Given what Frank has said on his latest Overnightscape episode it seems he’s under a lot of pressure and the time, effort and planning you need to create two weekly podcasts when you have a full time job just didn’t seem as feasible. Anyone who has listened to the Rubenerd Show knows how much of a difficult time I’ve been having myself with all my current commitments, but arguably Frank has far more on his plate than I, and it’s to his and Mad Mike’s credit they were able to pump out such polished programmes.
So to Mad Mike and Frank: thanks for the fun and good luck with your future adventures. Who knows, another 20 years of self imposed exile may pass and we can hear you again :D.
Goodbye from Singapore, Anything but Monday.
2007.03.24 – 17.43 UTC+08 (Singapore Time)
If you listened to Rubenerd Show 221 you would know that while I think the Anything but Monday radio programme is good Mad Mike’s comments on Kuala Lumpur were no good lah! Anyway since then on Anything but Monday number 5 Mad Mike explained his position, we had a good laugh and everything is just peachy :).
Now I must take aim at my good buddy Frank Edward Nora, the other host of the Anything but Monday show. On the same aforementioned episode he commented that New York is the greatest city in the world. Only one problem with Frank’s logic: New York isn’t the greatest city in the world! It’s actually a tie between Singapore and Tokyo! Remember, you read it here first!
Think about it, Singapore is the fourth biggest centre for currency trading in the world, and it has only 4.5 million people… per capita it would be the biggest! It’s also been rated number one place in the world to do business according to The Economist according to Wikipedia. Plus it’s one of the few places in the world that will allow the import of locally-untested medicines at the recommendation of qualified doctors, meaning my mum is getting some of the best cancer treatments in the world! YEAH!
And Tokyo of course rocks because… well, because the Japanese girls I met in KL thought I was cute and Tokyo would be full of them… ahem. No further explanation necessary ;).
An added bonus as well, people in Tokyo and Singapore also drive on the correct side of the road like us Aussies and like the Brits: on the left, they both use the SI/decimal/metric system along with their decimal currencies and they’re both much cheaper to access from Australia too. Plus the Japanese send more tourists (and tourism dollars!) to Australia than anyone else, and the Singaporeans are amongst the biggest investors in Australian real estate and financial services, so they must be on to something! 
So Frank, I agree that New York is awesome, I’d love to go there one day, and it’s certainly one of the greatest cities in the world, but it’s not the greatest city in the world!
Now who wants to go get some prata or bento?
2007.03.16 – 15.23 UTC+08 (Singapore Time)
As of today I’ve been offered a part in the next Anything but Monday show, the podcast by Frank Edward Nora and Mad Mike Masters through one of their Skypecasts. Booh yah!
I reviewed the Anything but Monday programme on Rubenerd Show 221 on Monday (I thought it an appropriate day of the week), and I posted regarding the dilemma I faced with paying for it back on the 21st of February.
As a sign of thanks Frank even gave me an Anything but Monday present as well! Here’s hoping I won’t be verbally torn to shreds by Mad Mike for my Kuala Lumpur comment retaliation :D.
Space this watch, um, watch this space.
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