tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52940112011-10-12T04:25:13.107+11:00I slurp for Australiacloudcontrolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08543036872598531765noreply@blogger.comBlogger371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294011.post-57483687881320867382011-05-05T13:35:00.000+10:002011-05-05T13:35:37.362+10:00

Here's a little secret you may not have decoded, largely because you probably aren't in regular contact with me online. If I refer to you as 'mr'/'mister' without including your name afterwards, it usually means that: a) I've slept with you b) I want to sleep with you c) I used to have a crush on you and call you that out of habit.

cloudcontrolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04166808960017060326noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294011.post-46081075221880409532010-05-26T15:00:00.000+10:002010-05-26T15:00:54.347+10:00

I'm starting to think there's something wrong with me. I get anxious whenever I don't get replies to emails, facebook messages and SMS messages. Which, in reality, is understandable, because people aren't always online/next to their phones, or even if they are, they probably have other things to attend to, right? I think part of it might be the fact that I'm almost continuously connected to the

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So over three months have passed since I wrote anything in this blog. I'm not counting the photo-posts from my Thai holiday, as excellent as they were, I'm sure you all agree. Part of me wonders why it's been so long - it's not like being busy has ever stopped me from writing a little post here and there - and part of me wonders if I feel the need to maintain a personal blog anymore. Thoughts?

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Well, it's been over a month since I last posted, and what a month and a half it's been!Blogger tells me my previous post was on December 16th, which was two days before I fell in love. For reals. No wonder I've not been posting, huh? It's a little bleak, but sometimes I feel like I blog the things I don't have someone next to me to tell. Well, that's probably not wholly why I blog, but there's

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So I ride past the Melbourne Museum each day to and from work, and often on weekends, if I'm heading to Carlton, or Brunswick. Most evenings there will be a few, or sometimes a gang, of guys with fixie bikes, riding around and practising tricks, much like there used to be skater boys doing the same. There's a predominantly Japanese group, who I've also seen riding around Smith St, generally just

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** NB: This has been cross-posted from my food blog. **Now, being a second generation Asian migrant, who spent his childhood in the kitchen of his family's Chinese restaurant in rural Victoria, I will admit to a certain level of insider knowledge, and accompanying this knowledge, a difference of experience which has quite plainly left me somewhat ignorant. Ignorant of what some Australians

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Next week marks the start of a season of eating - yes, there's the Christmas parties, it's generally Summer - long days and balmy evenings make for pleasant al fresco dining - and most of my friends seem to have birthdays around this time of year.So what better time (leading up to the 'season of giving') to help out a worthwhile charity, while having a good time out with your friends! Sounds

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A friend sent me a link to this blog which takes a localised view on the 'Stuff white people like' thing that started in 2007, and has since spawned books, (other blogs) and now lecture series!?This thing is stupid, largely because it's too localised to work. While Melbourne has quite an ethnically mixed population, cultural stratification tends to happen more along the lines of income, education

cloudcontrolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04166808960017060326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294011.post-895614489824843012009-10-16T11:17:00.003+11:002009-10-16T11:32:13.126+11:00

Despite the grumblings of many Melburnians about it still being cold, and the politically incorrect whinging about the rain, it's definitely Spring here. How do I know? Those of my friends who suffer from hayfever and related allergies have started moaning about it and popping the little antihistamine pills, and spraying steroids up their nostrils.Both my mother and my sister suffer from hayfever

cloudcontrolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04166808960017060326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294011.post-76418277062220940242009-09-13T20:36:00.005+10:002009-10-06T11:48:22.334+11:00

I am a twit(terer). I'm not an early adopter, by any means, but since my reluctant entrance into the world of 140 character burst stream-of-consciousness blogging, I've found that rarely a few waking hours go by (unless I'm actually WORKING!? - and despite that, sometimes) that I don't seem to feel the urge to comment on something.One interesting feature that twitter has is known as 'hashtagging'

cloudcontrolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04166808960017060326noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294011.post-31351666216362620812009-09-02T23:33:00.003+10:002009-09-02T23:48:49.434+10:00

... is one of my favourite karaoke songs. Any bridge which has the word 'balalaika' in it has to be given props.But enough about that. I'm just writing a short post because I've been offered a job, which is full time (and therefore, I think, somewhat superior to my current two-casual-jobs arrangement).Ordinarily, I would be quite excite, and indeed, part of me is. However, the fact that the job

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I'm thinking about starting a Masters in Linguisitcs next year, so things which are related to barriers in communication and language problems, I find interesting. Case in point, Shakira:Whenever, whereverMost of you are probably familiar with,"Lucky that my lips not only mumbleThey spill kisses like a fountainLucky that my breasts are small and humbleSo you don't confuse them with mountains"For

cloudcontrolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04166808960017060326noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294011.post-17974213007524031992009-08-16T17:45:00.003+10:002009-09-16T09:09:56.765+10:00

So there were two more movies left in my decathlon.Dead SnowA Norwegian movies about Nazi zombies. There's little more that needs to be said. If you're someone who enjoys a concept as ridiculous as this, then you're going to like this movie. It's played pretty much exactly the way it should be - for laughs, with scarcely believable gore, and great comic timing, and visceral sight gags. The nods

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... so after the fact, I know.MotherFrom the director of The Host, this Korean murder mystery follows a devoted mother as she investigates death of a local girl whom her son, who is a little 'slow', is accused of murdering.There are many movies which alternate between tragic and comedic from scene to scene. Somehow, Mother manages to combine humour and poignancy into singular moments, which verge

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The Hurt LockerThe Hurt Locker follows a small team of bomb defusers through the last month of their tour of duty in Iraq. As a character study of the soldiers, it's pretty interesting, contrasting the lead specialist, who appears rather reckless, but actually has something more which makes him tick, with his team mates, who seem to just want to ge the job done and get back home to the US.This

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One of the redeeming things about being in Melbourne during winter - I say redeeming ecause I'm not one of those strange people who like cold weather, short days, etc. - is the annual Melbourne International Film Festival. Having missed it last year, I was looking forward to it even more this year, and I again bought the mini-pass, meaning I'll be watching 10 films in the festival in a matter of

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So apparently I'm a podcaster now.Evol Kween and I have been toying around with the idea of making a podcast, because we both listen to podcasts regularly, and damnit, we've got something to say! Well, not really, but we like to talk about stuff, and figured we should have a go at it, seeing as we're both tech/media nerds.So go have a listen - http://boysfornoise.com/Feedback welcome!

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I've been riding around town on a vespa for the past month. It's an '06 LX125 (read new but retro-styled poseur scooter with a pissy little engine), it's silver, and I've named it Paolo.When I first got back from Viet Nam, I was convinced that riding a two-wheeler in Australia wasn't for me. The traffic moves a lot quicker here, and the relative number of cars means drivers aren't used to keeping

cloudcontrolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04166808960017060326noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294011.post-62652277423931391032009-05-07T17:16:00.004+10:002009-09-16T09:06:50.384+10:00

Ok, so this blog post is sort of about Taylor Swift.I know she's another insidious popteen songstress, with the blonde locks and the airbrushed flawless skin. I (refuse to believe but) know she's probably autotuned to within an inch of being Britney.Witness exhibit A: Love StoryBut damnit, I can't stop listening to her sticky-molasses saccharin-toothache of an album.In part, I think it's just

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I went to Tokyo about four years ago, to visit my sister who was living there at the time. The night I arrived, there was a 5.1 quake at around 3am local time. I slept through it, apparently. I only found out about it the next day when she and her friends were chatting about it.A couple of weeks ago, there was a 4.7 about 90kms out of Melbourne. People were all abuzz about it the next few days,

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Bushfires and lost jobsComing back to troubled timesBut I bring the rain.

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Years ago, when I was with some friends at the pier in Hobart, buying freshly shucked oysters straight off the boat from a fisherman, I came across a woman who was a little bizarre. She was on her own, and seemingly speaking to no-one in particular. Only she wasn't having a conversation in her head - or maybe she was - but instead she kept repeating the same phrase over and over again. "Wouldn't

cloudcontrolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04166808960017060326noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294011.post-21387387234225499182009-02-02T02:26:00.003+11:002009-09-16T09:05:25.924+10:00

OK, I've had writer's block, so here goes (I borrowed this from a friend on facebook):Rules: It's harder than it looks! Copy to your own note, erase my answers, enter yours, and tag some people. Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real . . . nothing made up! If the person before you had the same first initial, you must use different answers

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I don't think Danny Boyle's ever made a movie I didn't like. Yes, i did fall asleep while watching 'Millions', but that doesn't mean I didn't like it. I also fell asleep during 'A Mighty Heart', and I llike just about everything Fat-lips Jolie is in.The first thing I thought when watching Slumdog Millionaire was 'oh, this is neat!'. The plot is driven by the sequence of questions asked of the '

cloudcontrolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04166808960017060326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294011.post-12444972196866514672009-01-09T15:00:00.006+11:002009-09-16T09:04:15.882+10:00

I'm a little at a loss when it comes to blogging at the moment, if you couldn't tell... so I thought I'd juat post a playlist of the music I've been listening to a lot lately. It's mostly to do with processing the end of my relationship with D (surprise surprise). I've always found music to be somewhat cathartic, even when it's in amplifying or resonating whatever pain you might be going

cloudcontrolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04166808960017060326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294011.post-3585682742720154172008-12-26T01:58:00.004+11:002009-09-16T09:03:37.867+10:00

@jessikatze Reason #37 why Ho Chi Minh City beats Hanoi: For those of you who prefer a youtube version.

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So I stupidly got talked into having dinner with a friend in District 1 tonight. I knew traffic would probably be a bit crazy, as it's been for the past two weeks, with crowds of Vietnamese families taking their kids to see the astoundingly abundant Christmas decorations and light shows.What I didn't count on was the fat that tonight was ALSO the first leg of the Suzuki Cup final. Which Viet Nam

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So I'm testing out the instructions I found at Lexi's Lounge to cross-post simultaneously to Blogger and Livejournal.Here goes nothing...EDIT: Success!

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So after a long hiatus, well spent in the lands of LiveJournal, I'm finally coming back to the milky bosom of Blogger.Anyway, just had to make it official.Must work now - rant later.

cloudcontrolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08543036872598531765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294011.post-1166656194353131202006-12-21T10:09:00.000+11:002006-12-21T10:09:54.386+11:00

This lady takes one on the kisser. I love the noise.Sometimes I feel like doing this to people on public transport. Or in the supermarket checkout line. Or at the post office. Or the bank. Or when people can't shut their screaming children up.

cloudcontrolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08543036872598531765noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294011.post-1164926885210026342006-12-01T09:46:00.000+11:002006-12-01T09:48:05.223+11:00

So it seems that I'm not really that up to posting on two blogs after all... for those of you who are interested, here's the blog that I DO maintain..http://cloudcontrol.livejournal.com

cloudcontrolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08543036872598531765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294011.post-1159941265582707182006-10-04T15:53:00.000+10:002006-10-04T15:54:25.593+10:00

I've just updated my flickr, the photos are totally random, but someone might find them interesting.

cloudcontrolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08543036872598531765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294011.post-1159335566936564132006-09-27T15:37:00.000+10:002006-09-27T15:39:26.953+10:00

Hah! eat that. Top five google hits.

cloudcontrolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08543036872598531765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294011.post-1158623162122387982006-09-19T09:40:00.000+10:002006-09-19T09:46:02.123+10:00

So I just rediscovered this blog account, which I started in 2003, apparently. I'm so cutting edge. Anyway, I've since been maintaining a blog on livejournal, and I have a bit of a social community there, so I don't think I can leave that just yet. However, I also have a few friends who blog on blogger, so I thought I might re-open this portion of my online footprint. The tricky thing will be

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