Monthly Archives: January 2006

sad…

Posted on January 30, 2006 by jen

leif garrett arrested for not having a train ticket and then the cops found drugs on him. man, what a bad pix. last time i saw him was a VH1 doco and he looked pretty bad there. but man did … Continue reading →

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big day out

Posted on January 30, 2006 by jen

yesterday was big day out – a day long music festival. i was thinking how i’ve been to 4 BDOs (and damn, it could have been 5 had au immigration been a bit faster with my visa!) and yesterday’s was … Continue reading →

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the tennis

Posted on January 26, 2006 by jen

i’ll use the rain delay in the baghdatis/nalbandian match to talk about the tennis (and yes… i mean THE tennis.. the AU Open tennis). one of the things i like about melbourne is how well planned some things were – … Continue reading →

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a new wine concept

Posted on January 25, 2006 by jen

last nite i went to an alumni event (wooo hooo! i’m an alumni again!) at this new place called city vineyard (current site is a placeholder. i was told the real retail site will be launched in a week or … Continue reading →

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e-books

Posted on January 23, 2006 by jen

funny… about 2 weeks ago i was talking with a recruiter and explaining what e-books were. today wsj has an article about the new sony reader. at wsj i worked on both softbook & rocket-e-book. i wasn’t a big fan … Continue reading →

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south au special on nz air

Posted on January 23, 2006 by jen

air nz is offering a pkg deal to south australia for U$1899 from sf or lax. this is the area that i visited back in november (and i’ve realised i never posted pix so i’ll do that). i don’t really … Continue reading →

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food stuffs

Posted on January 23, 2006 by jen

for whatever reason, i have food links this wknd… coffeegeek. this one got quoted in a nytimes article and is being blogged quite a bit. i have become the complete coffee snob here. it’s espresso machines all the way. drip … Continue reading →

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someone else noticed

Posted on January 14, 2006 by jen

i missed this… seems one of the newspapers, herald sun, called melbourne a scrooge city b/c of the lack of good xmas decorations. i can’t retrieve the article but here’s a metroblog post about it with some comments

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perfect explaination

Posted on January 9, 2006 by jen

i am still working thru reading 123 reasons to love nyc and just found the quote below. i think i need to keep this one handy as i’ve been critised for complaining about melb (or london) so much and asked … Continue reading →

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politics au style

Posted on January 9, 2006 by jen

i’ve bitched about the quality of the morning tv shows before but this morning the today show actually discussed 2 topics i haven’t heard anything about before (of course they did a shit job but at least they highlighted it). … Continue reading →

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