Month: March 2013
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Vine Mixer: Old World vs New Zealand
Another Vine Mixer was not to be missed! This time the theme was Old World food – France, Spain, Italy and Wales – versus New Zealand wines. The food was definitely much more to my liking, though the wines did not quite live up to their fame. I’ve had a lot more pleasant wines from…
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Spanish Night Winnings!
A while back, P and I went to a Korean restaurant in the Cristal Salam Hotel after getting massages. It is a new Korean restaurant and, of course, I wanted to try it out. It is good, perhaps the best in the city at the moment, but still not the real deal. It’s close, though.…
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End of the Week Thoughts
It’s been a rather long week and thankfully today is the end of it. I cannot pinpoint what exactly has made it a long week as I imagine, like with most things, it’s a culmination of many things. So, to give myself a bit of a release, here are the various things that passed –…
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_Real World_ Natsuo Kirino
_Real World_ by Natsuo Kirino Last summer I was plowing through books like the world was going to end and so I put out a call on FB for some book recommendations. My high school Japanese teacher recommended _Out_ by Kirino, but as there was no Kindle version, I opted for _Real World_. As a…
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360 Degrees of Pressure
The other night I was having a moan about stuff I swirl around in my head related to others in my life and my friend said how it must be a lot of pressure on me. I realized that she was totally right and that I don’t often recognize the toll all the swirling takes…
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Post for the Sake of a Post
I didn’t have time yesterday to post…. It was a long day. Work started at 8 and it being the first day of the week, it was hard to get started. Then, we had a meeting late in the day rather than coming home early as we usually do with early starts. The meeting was…
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_The Casual Vacancy_ by J.K. Rowling
_The Casual Vacancy_ by J.K. Rowling After the last Harry Potter book came out, it was always a question as to whether or not J.K. Rowling could write another successful novel. With the Harry Potter books I was never convinced that the quality of writing was good, but the storytelling aspect was always effective. Therefore,…
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Wa-Wha-What? It’s March???
First, there are only 11 more days of my BFF’s 37th year…uwahahahah…. 😛 (Love you! hehehe) Second, I need to be making more of a concerted effort to get this literature review chapter done, which means focusing – does writing this blog post count? 😉 I think of my blog posts as warm up to…
