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It’s Academy Awards time!  It’s that weird awards show that usually disappoints but occasionally gets it right.  Some years the host can be pretty awesome and other years the host can be James Franco.  Whatever happens, there’s usually some good talking points after the show and if we’re lucky, some memorable speeches. This year I didn’t get around to seeing ...

A clip from Inside Llewyn Davis, one of the award season movies which sadly was mostly overlooked for Oscar nominations.

Adelaide United 2 Central Coast Mariners 0 Sydney FC 2 Perth Glory 1 Wellington Phoenix 0 Melbourne Heart 5 Brisbane Roar 0 Newcastle Jets 1 Central Coast Mariners 1 Wellington Phoenix 4 Newcastle Jets 0 Sydney FC 2 Melbourne Victory 4 Adelaide United 3 Perth Glory 0 Western Sydney Wanderers 2 Melbourne Heart 1 Brisbane Roar 0 The Pointy End ...

Like any kid that grew up in Brunei, every now and then we need to have a taste of home.  In Brisbane, you can seek it out in Chinatown or Sunnybank where most of the Asian restaurants are.  You can get a chicken rice or a roti for ten bucks and it’s actually not that bad.  But there’s nothing like ...

WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS 1 BRISBANE ROAR 1 CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 1 MELBOURNE VICTORY 3 SYDNEY FC 0 ADELAIDE UNITED 3 MELBOURNE HEART 2 PERTH GLORY 1 NEWCASTLE JETS 2 WELLINGTON PHOENIX 3 The NSW Round For reasons that I assume are tied to a marketing department somewhere, the A-League is very fond of having themed rounds during the regular season.  ...

The building of this Lego train set has been a long time coming.  I searched back and I first blogged about my anticipation for putting this set together back in October 2012! To be honest, this thing was pretty fiddly to build.  The carriages are very fragile and I had to have three gos at putting the window sections together ...

Jen and I went to Esquire on Friday night to celebrate the recent engagement of our friends Mitchell and Chrystal.  It’s our fourth time at this restaurant and despite a recent change of head chef (Ryan Squires out, Ben Devlin in) there’s always enough quality and change in the menu to keep us coming back. You’ll have to excuse the ...

“Am I dog that you should come to me with sticks?” Did you know that there is no evidence that correlates smaller classrooms with better grades?  Why did a Pakistani immigrant in America find amazing success coaching a women’s basketball team despite having no familiarity with the sport?  Why was Martin Luther King and his associate Wyatt Walker so keen ...

Melbourne Heart 2 Sydney FC 1 Perth Glory 1 Melbourne Victory 1 Wellington Phoenix 2 Adelaide United 1 Newcastle Jets 2 Western Sydney Wanderers 2 Brisbane Roar 2 Central Coast Mariners 1 The Comeback Kings “If the Roar beat the Mariners and the Wanderers over the next two weeks…you may as well send the Premiere’s Plate to Brisbane” There is ...

At the company I work for, we recently held a leadership offsite to improve relationships between managers in different departments.  To break the ice with two leaders in the business, I thought I’d tell a funny story about one of my staff members.  This staff member, a thirty year old male, approached me one day and said that when he ...