An array of bright, zesty flavours at Chin Chin, where the only problem was having to choose only some of the items from what looks to be a menu that is all hits, no filler.
I was feeling a little otherwise, which is probably how I came to completely mistime my walk into the city for a lazy lunch. How to fill a 45 minute gap?
Amazing staff, always very helpful and friendly and totally non-judgmental when an unmade-up person with scarily unkempt brows walks in and starts poking around. As soon as I’d said “lipstick” the assistant was rummaging around painting colours she thought would both appeal and suit on the back of her hand. We narrowed it down to two, and I walked out with an Ellis Faas lipstick and a booking for the Nars event. Huh?
I was tempted to buy the Nars "Damned", just because of the name...
2. Myer – 35% off cookbooks
No, I don’t need any more cookbooks. Let’s face it, I don’t need any material possessions beyond basic clothing, right? The frivolity of cosmetics purchases needed to be balanced by something more practical. Something more useful. Something I could almost justify as being a money-saver in the long run. So now I am the proud owner of bourke street bakery – the ultimate baking companion. Of course, now I think I’m going to need a proper electric mixer… Recommendations welcome!
Last year I bought some shoes online from John Fluevog Shoes, which means that they now send me regular emails to tempt me into further purchases. As far as I’m concerned, the existence of these shoes makes up for Michael Buble and Celine Dion. Anyway, SD in the city also stocks the shoes and I was in the area… sort of… and couldn’t resist dropping in. Once you’re in there, it’s impossible not to try on shoes and once you’ve tried them on, it’s unlikely you’re going to be able to walk away without them. My new black Viardots are similar enough to the Malibrans to sneak under the shoe-monitor’s radar for a while, I suspect.
Last Monday, the New York Times ran a story about a group of scientists in the Netherlands who are trying to reinvent Polaroid film. It seemed like a quirky little project and I wondered how many people would be interested beyond the novelty. Alongside the story, the Times asked readers to send in some of their polaroids. They were probably expecting a few die-hard polaroid fanatics to submit a couple of photos. In the end, they received over 900!
Our amazement … soon gave way to grateful and respectful astonishment. The quality of the work was even more impressive than the quantity. Lens readers in this hemisphere, in Europe and in Asia showed an imaginative command of the medium. Their work exploited the idiosyncracies of the Polaroid formats, especially the SX-70 films: the square format, the slightly soft-edged rendition, the occasional defects from the developing process, a color palette that paradoxically seemed warmer than normal but also bent a bit toward blues and greens.
And here they are. It’s best to look at them in full screen mode. Amazing!
“Some African leaders mentioned that we should bear in mind that Mugabe will retire in a few years. Putting pressure on Zimbabwe, including sanctions, might lead to internal conflict. We should be discreet and careful,” a spokesman for Japan told the paper.
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[Tanzania's President Jakaya] Kikwete said at the G8 summit: “We are saying no party can govern alone in Zimbabwe and therefore the parties have to work together, come out to work together in a government and then look at the future of their country together.”
There are a number of ways to lose hours on the internet, but I have found none so effective as the RSS reader. My web-browsing had become a matter of a routine run through my bookmarked sites. Admittedly, this could still waste up to 90 minutes of my day off when the posters had been busy, but this is nothing compared to how long I have been spending since the RSS reader came into my life.
ometimes there’s nothing I particularly want to write, but I know that if I let too many days go by without posting I’ll fall out of the “habit”.
