...... Douglas Coupland came out here just last year to Sydney and Melbourne and here are his observations. what doug thought [View Full Entry]

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Saturday 29th July Melbourne Well I haven’t been to Melbourne since 1991 when I lived and studied there. I think Melbourne is a great city and have been meaning to drag my ass down there for years and now I have finally made it! The whole gang of us including Mum and now minus Uncle Howard went down. We stayed at the city Centre Budget Hotel on 22 Little Collins St. …. Dunno about the others but I HIGHLY recommend it as it’s in a great position….there’s a groovy bar across the road so you can get blotto and stumble elegantly [View Full Entry]

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Just a reminder that I am actually working through all this. yes i am taking time off here and there but between the here and there it's WORK....remember that? Here's some pictures of a typical day at the office...... this guy walks into the surgery hand bound in a cloth. He's young and smiling, kinda casual. He's hurt himself, I can tell 'cause he's walking with the kind of bravado men get when they have a visible injury. I've cut my hand. the lump of cloth is placed on the reception desk. Tanya takes his details as he makes jokes. I'll [View Full Entry]

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the two aunts had lunch engagements today to it left me withthe two uncles and the two cuzzins....just enough to squish into my car. the day went something like this..... wakeup 9:15am suggest to hire a car for the next few days discuss this until 11am-ish when I have to take Sayhankor to the station. Gee Chek comes along for the ride and to book a car for the next weekend. we book the car at Thrifty on William St we return to the house and find TwaKor looking lovely in red. Uncle Howard has disappeared so we hang around for [View Full Entry]

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So the while gang is here now …. A bout of basically crap weather has turned us off the planned Blue Mountains trip so we decided to make a big day out in Sydney. The day started off Walk to the Rocks Market It is quite a fascinating experience to see all the tourist memorabilia your own country produces. It’s just such weird stuff! Sayhankor is determined to get some stuffed Australian Animals with the GREEN TAG as that means it’s made in Australia and not China but I kinda think that’s irrelevant, since stuffed animals are not indigenous to Australia [View Full Entry]

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After spending a day in Sydney with Dad at the Woolloomooloo place Gee Chek and Dad dropped in to Corrimal. We had something to eat and Dad went on to Robertson and Me, tjen, Gee Chek and Mum all went to the Wests Leagues club in Unanderra to watch Tjen and his piano teacher Eveline play in a dance band. we glided through a maze of flashing machines with people perched on bar stools milking them for a win. finally found the venue. It was upstairs in an empty room with a dance floor. The floor was well lit and the [View Full Entry]

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A Lovely day with Sal. Met Michael at Sapho books on Glebe Point Rd, Glebe and had a coffee there then Noodles at the Beijing noodle house at the Prince Centre China town. Voila a recommendation of two cool places to go to spend time with friends. Here's some pics. [View Full Entry]

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well it was a crazy weekend indeed with Sally and Sayhankors family all arriving on the friday the 14th. i've already mentioned our notorious salsa night out and the following day Sal and I had some girlfriend time at the Bienale. we went to see what was going on at the art gallery of NSW. there were alot of no touching signs around and since disobendient is my middle name I had to touch everything. i think I use up all up obedience dancing tango, which requires complete unwaving feminine submission to the male lead.....do I hear anyone getting interested now? [View Full Entry]

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Ok I just need to get this out of my system first.....I am a dance maniac and I have to dance my head off every weekend when I come up to Sydney. Some recent dance events that I have been to was the Tres Mambo night at HQ on Parramatta Rd Camperdown every second Monday. Tres Mambo bring together budding salsa musicians and give them a place to practice and eventually perform at a venue like this.....and where there is Salsa Music there will be salsa dancers, so there I was. I was a great night and the style was mainly [View Full Entry]

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Hi all...this feels a little strange blogging about my own country and someone else's holiday in it, but here goes. Twa Kor arrived on a sunday which happens to be my salsa day so I came home from dancing to find dad and Twa Kor at the Woolloomooloo house. the next day I took Twa Kor walking all over inner city Sydney but first twe kicked it off with a hearty breakfast at Dov in Victoris St Potts Point. Basically i did the classic walking tour of sydney to apy attention all you peeoples who wanna spend some quality time down [View Full Entry]

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