Posted in Around Melbourne, Reviews on Jan 14th, 2010
CitiBake – Thumbs Down
I just walked past a new bakery (well, I’d never seen it before, but it’d been there for 8 weeks) near my office and was excited by this new prospect. It sits on King Street, large and empty but I didn’t let this perturb me. So in I walked and was greeted [...]
Posted in Around Melbourne, Miscellaneous on Sep 22nd, 2009
A few of my mates and I were discussing the cost of food and how we tend to veer towards Asian cuisine for a good quality, bang for your buck work lunch. Then came up the topic of Pasta and the pricing of pasta in general. An Italian in our group had little light to [...]
Posted in Around Melbourne, In The News on Aug 17th, 2009
Well funnily enough this has made big ongoing news in our media, the opening of a SUPERMARKET! It really is big through, the supermarket that is. And it’s a Cosco, which is big news in the U.S. And it is our first one of it’s kind with plans of another in Sydney.
Official Opening Today!
Yep, she’s [...]
Posted in Around Melbourne, In The News on Aug 14th, 2009
Clearly, the violence, or reported violence in Melbourne has taken a massive leap in recent years. We’re hearing and seeing reports of violence every week. But when I’m watching the media there’s just some things that I have to question sometimes.
Are “Victim’s” Asking For It?
I have no doubt that for some people the attacks that [...]
Posted in Around Melbourne, In The News on Jun 25th, 2009
Welcome To Melbourne Keilos & MTR
Good riddance Connex. Yarra Trams, I had nothing against you. I know that running a train system is hard and that we don’t know how the new company will handle our system and that their good repuation is with a much smaller system but it will just be good to see [...]
Posted in Around Melbourne, In The News on Jun 18th, 2009
Survey Article Here
How Sick Am I Of This Topic?
Very, is my answer. I think that’s the second or third article in the last 7 days from The Age which talks about Melbourne beating Sydney in another random livability survey.
Tall Poppy Syndrome Is Embarressing
Sensing tall poppy sydrome by what someone is saying makes me uncomfortable and it’s much the same [...]
Posted in Around Melbourne, In The News, Uncategorized on Jun 1st, 2009
Recently we’ve been treated to media coverage on the tension between Indian people and everyone else in Australia resulting in a epidemic of Indian beatings. Once such place Indian beatings are on the rise is Melbourne where thousands of Indians (and friends of Indians) congregated to rally peacefully against racism towards Indians.
Not So Peaceful Rally?
Unfortunately [...]
Posted in Around Melbourne, In The News, Vent on Mar 5th, 2009
In response to this here
A bit like a spew burp, our new Police Commissioner Simon Overland has spoken and I can only assume it’s a foul taste of things to come. His suggestion, to tigthen liquor licence laws to help control the drinking culture and problem with alcohol our state faces. I agree, alcohol probably is [...]
Posted in Around Melbourne, In The News on Feb 11th, 2009
In the wake of the worst natural disaster in Australia’s history, all survivors can do is to try and keep themselves and their families a float before they can consider rebuilding their lives. Many of these peoples are finding refuge wherever they can such as in the tent accomodation organised by the army. What they can’t do, [...]
Posted in Around Melbourne, In The News on Feb 9th, 2009
Victoria’s fire tragedy has made me think about past tragedies such as Ash Wednesday in 1983 which had a death toll of 75 people in both Victoria and South Australia. Right now, they anticipate the death toll to exceed 200 people in Victoria’s weekend tragedy. I don’t recall Ash Wednesday much myself, but my older [...]