Posts Tagged ‘canberra’
Why are you doing that Asian thing?!?!!… or dinner at Chairman & Yip
Backstory: Last week while I was off on sick leave, all hell broke loose over some comment at Chocolate Suze’s Blog… comments about Asians always taking photos of food and blogging them.
So, you can understand my amusement when I’m out for dinner with a mostly Asian group of friends at The Chairman & Yip, I pull out my camera to get a pic of the dishes, and one of the girls shrieks “argh! why are you doing that Asian thing? Taking photos of food! Stop doing that Asian thing!” Cue jokes about me being the whitest girl alive, and the only white gal at the table. And continue trying to take pics, which are clearly affected by low light and a few glasses of wine ….. ;)
I love how they put the menus into design magazines!
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Grey Canberra Day
The fog across the oval at work this afternoon.
Nothing a little tights action couldn’t brighten up!
Packing (aka German weather in Spring looks like Newcastle in June)
Okay. Here is my itinerary in yahoo weather widgets. Towards the end my packing dilemma will be revealed.
First stop, Vienna. Fly into Frankfurt Saturday with Malaysian Airlines, then hop straight onto an Air Berlin flight to Vienna. Were supposed to be meeting friends there, but they’ve pulled out… plans to date: apple strudel (for Rish), music, horses. For all locations, suggestions welcome. We probably won’t stay in Vienna the whole time we’re in Austria, likely to venture out a little :)
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382 Reflections
Reflections on Lake Burley Griffin
- Cream :: get on top
- Be with you :: always
- Pancakes :: cheesecake
- Believe :: skeptic
- 45 :: 54
- Eat :: drink
- Background :: music
- Pane :: pain
- Aim :: higher
- Collapse :: in a heap
The Fog sets in.
Canberra winter mornings… on my walk to work.
Turning of the Leaves
I love Autumn in Canberra. I love the seasons here. No, I don’t really care for the sub-zero mornings of winter, but I love how pretty they are. I love how we have a real turn of the leave here, not something I had in Newcastle.
It’s beautiful.
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Around
- Bit of a pin cushion. Blood tests. Let’s see what’s wrong. Is it okay to eat lots of things that might be bad for you in case you’re told to never eat them again?
- Uni. Assignements. eeee
- Porno sheep getting mentioned on national radio. I wanna be famous, I wanna be a star, I wanna have groupies, to quote the Pussycat Dolls
- Sleep would be nice
- Wine’s nice. But best not used as a sedative
- Thankyou for all you awesome JESUS LOVERS. Keep commenting to win a purple glitter jesus moneybox. You rule!
Maestral Seafood Restaurant, Weston
When Rish offered to take me out for dinner to celebrate us both getting through a stressful semester at Uni, I of course said yes, and then waited for his to decide where to go :p I’m helpful like that.
We settled on Maestral Seafood Restaurant in Weston. Why? Well, it’s walking distance of home – so we can share a bottle of wine, and the wander home relatively safely. And it was the perfect choice for the end of the 38 degree day we had!
They brought out bread, olives, and what I had thought was a homous-like spread, that turned out to be highly-garlicy. Yums!
I ordered the Silver Dory – it was lemon, thyme, olive oil with capers and anchovies. Yummy chips on the side!
We shared a very home-style Mediterranean Salad. Very much like he one’s Rish’s mum makes!
I didn’t go for dessert, Rish had crepes while I finished my wine – BYO only, but no corkage is a bonus :)
I think we’ll have to go back in winter to try some of their lamb and veal dishes. Couldn’t bring ourselves to order them on such a hot day.
Maestral Seafood Restaurant
Trenerry Court
13 Trenerry St
Weston 2611 ACT
Phone: (02) 6287 3930
Ten Reasons Why Gay Marriage is Wrong
(Blatantly stolen from comment #31)
1) Being gay is not natural
- And real people always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, hearing aids, polyester, and air conditioning, tattoos, piercings and silicon breasts
2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay
- In the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall, or hanging around black people will make you black.
3) Legalising gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behaviour.
- People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract. Lamps are next. Who knows, Mormons might want to have multiple spouses. What’s that? They already do?
4) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn’ t changed at all
- Hence why women are still property, blacks still can’ t marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed
- And we can’t let the sanctity of Britney Spears’ 55- hour just- for- fun marriage be destroyed
6) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children
- So therefore, gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn’t be allowed to marry because our population isn’t out of control, our orphanages aren’t full yet, and the world needs more children.
7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children,
- Since, of course, straight parents only raise straight children.
8) Gay marriage is not supported by religion.
- In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in Australia.
(Did I miss the lesson where Jesus says He hates gays? )
9) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home.
- Which is exactly why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms .
- Just like we haven ‘t adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, multiculturalism, social welfare or longer life spans.
The ACT passed its civil unions legislation again, which will probably be struck down by the feds. Again. And we’ll pass it similarly again. And you know we’ll keep it up. Gotta keep fighting.
“Family and Community” Day
So, in Canberra, in order to give us Melbourne cup day off, they concocted some sort of family day where we’re either meant to be getting drunk at the races or sitting in the park with babies.
I nearly got all community on you – I bought a Lion’s Club sasage sizzle in Glebe park… then promptly exited before I got caught up in all the “family” excitment going on.
I made it to the gym – sweated sooo much. Going to start running around Lake Burlery Griffin again. Warmed up with a 15 min and a 10 min jog in my cardio today. Helped get that sausage in all its fatty goodness burned off!
What did you get up to for Melbourne Cup day?
