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The FAT Website has had over a dozen bloggers writing about their lives around the world for over a decade. Topics cover everything from food, music, sports, travel and general musings on the minutiae of everyday life. The FAT Website blog first started in 1999 as a means for five high school friends to stay in touch as they independently traveled around the world.

A-League 2012/13 – Round 17 – Wandering Aimlessly

Melbourne Heart 2 Adelaide United 0 Sydney FC 7 (!) Wellington Phoenix 1 Central Coast Mariners 0 Newcastle Jets 0 Perth Glory 0 Melbourne Victory 1 Brisbane Roar 1 Western Sydney Wanderers 2 “This is pretty depressing” – Thomas Broich, post-match interview It’s not quite as bad as how things are in Wellington, but its pretty close.  Brisbane Roar lost ...

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TV Show Round Up: Royal Rumble 2013 Preview

“Ladies and Gentleman, it is now time for the Royal Rumble! Earlier today the 30 participants who entered, drew numbers at random. In just a few moments the individuals who drew number one and number two will be in the Royal Rumble and every two minutes thereafter another individual will enter the ring according to the number he drew. Remember, ...

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Blogs From America – Anaheim

Anaheim After our short stay in Los Angeles, we headed up to Anaheim for a couple of days.  Anaheim is 45 minutes or 3 hours drive away from Los Angeles, depending on the traffic.  It’s best known for being the home to many famous theme parks including Knotts Berry Farm, Legoland, Seaworld, Universal Studios and of course, Disneyland. Taxi Cab ...

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Lego Minifigs: Series 9

Series 9 has finally arrived in Australia!  I had a chance to pick up some mini-figs from Myer last weekend.  Series 9 has got some pretty sweet looking characters.  I’m particularly looking forward to picking up The Judge, Chicken Suit Man and Cyclops. But I have had some absolutely terrible luck with my first haul.  Whilst I was happy to ...

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Erik Paartalu leaves Brisbane Roar

Erik Paartalu, who has appeared in 85 consecutive A-League and Asian Champions league matches for the Brisbane Roar, is leaving the club to play in the Chinese Super League. In the last two seasons he’s been an absolute beast in his defensive midfield role.  His composure and passing precision in the centre of the field meant that he was the ...

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Blogs From America – Los Angeles

Los Angeles Flying into Los Angeles from Brisbane is basically embarking on the longest day of your life.  We flew out of Brisbane Airport at 10am, sat on the plane for 14 hours, then landed in LAX on the same day at 7am.  If you don’t get some sleep on the plane, you’ve got a seriously long day ahead of ...

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A-League 2012/13 – Round 10 to 16 – Ouch

Western Sydney Wanderers 1 Brisbane Roar 0 Melbourne Victory 1 Brisbane Roar 1 Brisbane Roar 0 Perth Glory 1 Adelaide United 0 Brisbane Roar 1 Brisbane Roar 2 Wellington Phoenix 1 Melbourne Heart 3 Brisbane Roar 2 Newcastle Jets 1 Brisbane Roar 0 The photo above was taken at the Caxton Street Pub from the January 2nd game against Wellington ...

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TV Show Round Up: Survivor: Fans vs Goats

Survivor:  Caramoan The 26th season of Survivor starts in February and the cast has now been fully revealed.  They’re doing a repeat of the Fans vs Favourites set up.  Well, officially, they are.  In actuality, we seem to be getting Fans vs Goats. ‘Goats’ in Survivor are the contestants that are so terrible/unlikable/mentally-unhinged that a smart, dominant player purposefully doesn’t ...

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