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I've been adding stuff to the "Collapse" forum topic as interesting material comes up. 

Today I heard a speech which brings it home to Australia and downloaded the transcript to share.  If Euge is really nice to me I'll put the audio on too so you can hear it straight off foodie.tv :-)

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(Whoo!  Look at that, Euge is *very* nice to me - Thanks Euge!  Oh yeh..click on the 'play' button above to hear the speech)

You can get some background context from the post in the forum topic or get the transcript by clicking on the "attachment" link below.

Went out with Mum and Dad for dinner tonight as Mum noticed a new place opening next to her regular Asian grocery store in Wantirna.

The little brother of another eatery from Box Hill, in fact.  Another little factoid - owned by a man who happens to play mahjong with a friend of Mum and Dad's.

So enough of the non-food reporting.. we thought we'd try it out because it opened on Tuesday.

Oops...didn't make a booking - they take bookings?

But Dad looked SO disappointed that they relented and suggested to wait outside for 10 minutes while they saw if they could find 4 seats.

ie.  a Sudoku game generator.

So there Euge.tv hehe..

OK.  I struggled with myself on this one.  I wanted to keep it all to myself. Feed it to you all just one link at a time.

But that would be evil.  It would be selfish.  Oh yeh...and also, a lot more work than... THIS.

Check it out.  In the grand vein of Mystery of Time and Space (MOTAS) and The Crimson Room.. but, for those of us (including me) who want lighter entertainment too, also lots of just-for-fun cool stuff.  So...I present...

...at least 20 more ways to WASTE YOUR TIME  with some fabulous flash: Let the games begin!

Strange name, strange game!

I like the ABC, I must say.  03/04 was the year of 774 for me.  Then yesterday, I discovered 621 for the first time - they were playing the first episode of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on my way home from work. 

(listened to the second episode today)

This morning they played some screaminglly funny speeches from two people in the Australian tv scriptwriting community - well, actually a scriptwriter and a script editor.  Check out if you can find a transcript of it on the ABC website!

(Hey, even better, click on the play button below)

This time it's the fabulous Sarah.  I'm also leaning towards Melbournians at the moment but will probably move on to Sydneysiders in a minute as am running out of names :-( 

Check it out - this is going to be a favourite destination.. Sarah cooks, Sarah eats & Sarah rocks!

http://foodie.tv/SarahEats

It was so hot that my skin stung the instant it got into the sun.  Like acid!

I can tell you I didn't give it a chance to burn - it was already too painful being in the sun. Found out later that yesterday qualified December as the hottest month on Melbourne records since the 1880s.  Phew..no wonder.

Anyway, we were picking up end-of-day bread from the generous Brumby's bakery in Centre Road, Bentleigh.  Across the road and a few shops down, was The Coffee Stop which looks like any of the million mum & dad milkbars across the nation.   Hardly your slick Gelatavita or Trampoline.

Calling Londoners: Anyone looking for some authentic Malaysian or generally Asian food, as well as other culinary adventures both UK and abroad, check out the latest addition to the blog list, banana tikka masala. 

ML - you may want to read this first...

http://bananaasian.blogspot.com/2005/11/champor-champor.html

Oh yeh...and Happy New Year everybodies!

Yeh..check out this list of Asian female food bloggers the next time you need inspiration gold..  

http://scentofgreenbananas.blogspot.com/2004/12/how-many.html

It's a big job but I'll be looking through all of them and working out which ones to add to the blogroll.  Mainly a focus on Aussies of course, but I must confess that the south east asian blogs will likely be over-represented!

The BlogRoundUp thing doesn't work at the mo', so I've changed the link to the aggregator view, and also added a menu item ("BlogRoll") so you can see exactly where the news items come from.

That's the temporary patch anyway.  Check it out!

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