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The FAT Website has had over a dozen bloggers writing about their lives around the world for over a decade. Topics cover everything from food, music, sports, travel and general musings on the minutiae of everyday life. The FAT Website blog first started in 1999 as a means for five high school friends to stay in touch as they independently traveled around the world.

R.I.P Phillip Seymour Hoffman 1967-2014

I was saddened to hear about the passing of Phillip Seymour Hoffman yesterday.  Hoffman was found dead in his apartment due to an overdose on heroin.  Apparently he had relapsed into a drug addiction from which he had stayed sober for two decades. Hoffman was one of my favourite actors of the past decade.  I first came to know him ...

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A-League 2013/14 – Round 16 – Bye, Bye, Bessie

BRISBANE ROAR 2 – WELLINGTON PHOENIX 1 ADELAIDE UNITED 2 MELBOURNE HEART 2 CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 3 NEWCASTLE JETS 0 MELBOURNE VICTORY 0 SYDNEY FC 5 WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS 3 PERTH GLORY 1 The Week Where Everything Happened So here’s how the week went down. Tuesday:  Besart Berisha writes a letter to Brisbane Roar fans explaining that he is leaving ...

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Lego Minifigs: Series 12

The Lego Minifig Series 12 arrived in Australia recently.  You might recall that I mentioned in my blog that after Series 11, I was feeling a bit of burn out with the Lego Mini-fig range.  They pump them out at a rate of one every four Although Series 12 has a number of repeated characters (robots and construction workers), I ...

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Youtube Friday: Royal Rumble Weekend

I will listen to this song on repeat for the 48 hours before the Rumble. It’s the Royal Rumble long weekend!*  Only a couple of days left before my favourite pay-per-view of the year is on. “Ladies and Gentleman, it is now time for the Royal Rumble! Earlier today the 30 participants who entered, drew numbers at random. In just ...

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A-League 2013/14 – Round 14 & 15 – Slump

NEWCASTLE JETS 1 MELBOURNE VICTORY 1 PERTH GLORY 3 MELBOURNE HEART 0 BRISBANE ROAR 1 ADELAIDE UNITED 2 WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS 1 SYDNEY FC 0 WELLINGTON PHOENIX 1 CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 1 MELBOURNE VICTORY 3 WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS 1 MELBOURNE HEART 3 NEWCASTLE JETS 1 PERTH GLORY 0 BRISBANE ROAR 0 WELLINGTON PHOENIX 5 MELBOURNE VICTORY 0 <- WTF SYDNEY ...

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A-League 2013/14 – Round 11,12,13 – The Summer of Football

BRISBANE ROAR 0 NEWCASTLE JETS 2 MELBOURNE HEART 1 MELBOURNE VICTORY 3 WELLINGTON PHOENIX 1 SYDNEY FC 0 PERTH GLORY 0 ADELAIDE UNITED 0 WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS 2 CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 0 SYDNEY FC 2 BRISBANE ROAR 5 MELBOURNE HEART 0 WELLINGTON PHOENIX 1 MELBOURNE VICTORY 1 WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS 1 ADELAIDE UNITED 1 NEWCASTLE JETS 0 CENTRAL COAST MARINERS ...

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2013

The Year I Learned To Golf, Went Camping, Learned To Drive, Experienced Virtual Reality, Watched The Ashes and Appeared In A Commercial

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A Very Inoue Christmas 2013: Malaysia Edition

Christmas for the Inoue family is a big deal.  Anyone who’s seen the holiday blogs from past years will know that Jen’s family go a little nuts at Christmas time and lay on an amazing spread of food, put up a ton of decorations and generally get into the festive spirit as good as any family I know.  It’s nice ...

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