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Archive for May, 2006
House warming party this saturday night
May 23rd
Glenn and myself are having a house warming party this saturday night (May 27)
If you live in Brisbane and you are hot and sexy, we need you to help warm up our house!
Enquire within…
Sheedy’s time is over
May 18th
After 25 years at Essendon and having coached 850 premiership games, Kevin Sheedy and the Bombers are currently sitting at the bottom of the ladder. Unfortunately, for the club, the fish does rot from the head first, as former essendon captain Tim Watson has publicly made known. Basically this implies that the problems with the on-field performance lie with the coach and regardless of how long he has been there, he has to go.
I second this motion and beleive that the Bombers can accelerate their development with a new coach. Sheedy has always delivered and stood the test of time, but it simply can’t continue for ever. Sheedy on the AFL football show last night, talked about how he’s getting kids in and getting them geared up as the new generation. I do beleive this must be done with senior leadership, the appointment of David Hille isn’t what i would call “senior” leadership. Considering there are more senior players like fletcher, johnson and Lucas whom could be considered real senior leadership.
Last week the bombers got pumped by Carlton in what could only be described “crap-storm” developed by the bottom two teams. Brendan Fevola kicked 7 goals on “rookie” Joel Reynolds that day and Sheedy has coped lots of criticism of why he put him on instead of someone like mcphee, solomon or bolton. I do understand that its good to give the younger players a go, but if a player has kicked 3 goals on a rookie by the 2nd quarter, its time to put someone else on him. Instead Sheed’s left him on Fev which lead to a subsequent 4 more goals. Regardless of umpiring decisions and bad luck in the 2nd half, Sheedy really needed to repsond earlier.
Teams that have hit the bottom of the ladder in the AFL and when quality teams like Essendon are there for only the 2nd time under sheedy’s regime. I beleive that drastic changes need to be made and in this case, Sheedy needs to let go. Walking stick and scarf, he’s gotta let someone else in.
Cat with no feet and bunny ears WTF?
May 18th
I adopted this cat last year, and now it has no feet and it has grown bunny ears. What a gyp.
Oriental & Thai Cafe – Best Thai Restaurant on Creek Road, Carindale
May 18th
Glenn and I were fanging for some yummy food last night and I recommended we get some food from Oriental & Thai Cafe on Creek Rd, Carindale on Brisbane’s southside. I’ve had my fair share of thai food from around town and on the gold coast, and I must mention that this place is fantastic. Glenn and I were so hungry that we decided to get 3 dishes plus rice between us. Our excuse was that neo, my cat would like some food also. We basically wanted some variety.
Whilst we waited for our orders, the young girl Amy, kept us entertained by teaching us how to make a byrds of paradise flower out of a napkin.
Anyways we got the following dishes:
- Gang Dang (Thai Red Curry) – Red curry paste cooked with coconut milk, vegetables and Thai herbs. We got chicken with this. Other options included Pork, Beef or lamb. 10/10 for me
- Pad Thai – This is an old favourite of mine. It has Thai stir-fry rice noodles with prawns, chicken, egg, tofu, bean sprouts, chives and crushed peanuts. 7.5/10
- Malaysian Mee Goreng – Traditional Malay style stir-fried with egg, tofu and some greens. We got pork with this dish. 6.5/10
- Steamed Jasmine Rice
The thai red curry served “hot” was just amazing, i must learn how to make it!
We did attempt to eat all of this, however as the saying goes, our eyes were bigger than our stomachs… hard to believe in my case 
Here is the Take-away menu scanned in for your perusal- i highly recommend it. Like all other asian take-away/dine in restaurants, it is extra to eat in. The service is great and you’ll be walking out very satisfied.
Oriental Thai Cafe Menu Brisbane
Shop 1, Metropol Stage II
Cnr Creek Road & Pine Mountain Road, Carindale, Brisbane QLD 4152
07 3420 0338
Magnolia – Movie Review
May 16th
Magnolia (1999) – Movie Review
Tagline
Things fall down. People look up. And when it rains, it pours.
To summarise, this movie is a deep portrayal of the lives of multiple characters. Somehow they get intertwined, but not made to appear so for the entertainment of a movie.
There are no big twists to make you turn but instead a development of understanding of the lives of these characters being focused on. As the tagline suggests, things happen, and sometimes not for any particular reason but sometimes they do.
Lots of other movies that i’ve seen where there appears to be a build up towards a grand climax, is done to give an ending twist- which then renders the movie viewable only once with the same eyes, if that makes sense. I don’t think the sixth sense can be watched with the same eyes the second time.
In Magnolia we see the development of stories which build toward a grand climax. Magnolia differs from others however as whilst some of the points of interest are predicatable, the suspense is in how we see characters in the movie react to these moments not a revelation in storyline.
The acting and direction is in a perfect blend with the setting and content. We feel the pain, the happiness and the relief of those on screen. Movies where you want to see the reaction of characters to revelation in storyline appear with great emotion and understanding, we never feel left out.
I originally hired this film after hearing about Tom Cruise’s roll as Frank Mackey who is a basically the a “woman tamer” and god amongst men who don’t know how to play the game of getting to bed with women.
Cruise plays a character in only one story of several that this movie tells. His acting and emotion in this film is well deserved of his golden globe award.
Whilst this movie is quite deep in the way things intertwine, try not to think too hard about the background as you will miss the importance of the foreground. One hint, this movie isn’t cut up in different time sections, it is a story of one particular period of time displayed from start to finish.
I’ll try not to spoil this for you, but I do want to say, this 3 hour feature film is definately worth watching, keep a night free to watch it at your own lesuire. Don’t ruin being moved by a brillant film by watching it during conversation or before u go out on a night in the town.
The climax of this movie will display and event that is very out of place and i beleive was put in to make us just realise that some things happen, for no apparent reason- some need to be recognised throughly and some should just be left as a past event.
There is something there for all of us to take away, and for me personally, it has made me realise that saying that you regret something is not a bad thing to say. I’ve always thought regret is a waste as you don’t take decisions made and make something good out of them. But for some things, there is no good that comes out of it and i suppose we need to all acknowledge that these things happen. We can’t do anything more about them now and it’s ok to recognise what we have done wrong in the past regardless of our current situation.
Nobody is perfect and to say we regret decisions made is ok, as long as we recognise bad decisions as bad things and not always as “it was for the best”. It’s not about dwelling about the past, but more about recognition of something that was wrong and giving it the true recognition it deserves- especially if it has affected others you love.
The big quote from this movie is “We may be through with the past, but the past ain’t through with us”
This review has also been submitted to imdb.com
Grilled Snapper & Portuguese Chicken
May 15th
On saturday night i had some friends over for dinner. I originally had these two meal ingredients for me to eat by my self over the weekend but ate take out on friday night, thus had enough food for 4 on saturday night. I cooked two dishes, they are both very easy and very quick to make. It took me 45 mins to cook both of these dishes at the same time. Typically you would only make one and would take around 30mins each.Grilled snapper on a bed of mash with feature chunks, under hollandaise sauce and steamed veges on the side
Portuguese chicken breast on a bed of cous cous with steamed vegetables.
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