Jen and I recently went to Aria to try out their tasting menu.  Unfortunately it was a spur of the moment decision so I didn’t have a camera on me.  I took a few photos with my iPhone but they look pretty godawful.  So rather than posting the full seven courses in their grainy 2 megapixel dimly-lit glory, I’ll just ...

I think this is the first time I’ve written about American politics since Obama got elected two years ago.  It was a highly optimistic time back then and we were all hyped up on that, ahem, ‘hopey changey’ rhetoric after eight long years of the Bush Administration.  I’m not entirely sure what we were expecting these past two years but ...

Monkey see, monkey do.

Stieggy Stardust

I finished Red Dead Redemption over the weekend and have moved onto a new game to play.  It’s called Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and its a post-apocalyptic adaption of the classic Chinese literature story of Monkey. Although its not a particularly high profile game, the game has an strong pedigree behind its production.  The script and direction was handled ...

It keeps raining on the weekends in Brisbane.  I think this is the fourth weekend in a row where this has happened.  The upshot of it all is that Jen ends up reading her Sooky Stackhouse books all day and I catch up on weird arthouse films that no one else has the patience to watch with me. You can ...

Nobody's perfect.

While I was over in Glasgow in August this year, I caught up with Stewart Taylor.  I hadn’t seen him for going on twelve years, since we both left the International School Brunei in ’98.  It was great catching up.  It’s easy to find things to talk about when someone asks ‘what have you been up to?’ and you’ve got ...

Lisa Clarke passed away on Thursday September 30th 2010.  She was a loving mother, a caring wife, friend to many and Jen’s older sister.  She was just 40 years old. I only met Lisa for the first time in Christmas of 2007 but it feels like I’ve known her a lot longer.  We had an instant rapport.  She had such ...

Reaching for the stars