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 ...
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Youtube Friday: Please Mr Kennedy
A clip from Inside Llewyn Davis, one of the award season movies which sadly was mostly overlooked for Oscar nominations.
Read More »A-League 2013/14 – Round 19 & 20 – A Spanner In The Works
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 ...
Read More »The Sights, Sounds and Tastes of Singapore and Malaysia
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 ...
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Left and Leaving
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Starring Brad Pitt
Read More »A-League 2013/14 – Round 18 – Frankie Says Relax
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. ...
Read More »Lego Horizon Express 10233
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 ...
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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 ...
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Fine Folk
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