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For Chinese, 8 is a lucky number, it’s a good date to get married, be born or run in the City2Surf. Once again Dave ran a fantastic time in the City2Surf, not a PB this year, but still under 60 minutes – which is quite awesome. Well done to my manager Christina and also Toddles who ran for the Think Kids Challenge for The Children’s Hospital at Westmead.

Design Graphics cover July 1997

I noticed your post that mentioned Kai Krause. So I wanted to send you this picture but your blog doesn’t have any contact details or allow comments. I’ve put it on my own blog and if you pass by or google yourself – you might see it. I don’t understand half the stuff you blog about but anyhoo… BTW your about page is dysfunctioned. (I like making up my own words)

I kindly received another freebie from one of my Aunts to see Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare at the Belvoir Theatre. Before the show, I had dinner at Al Aseel (the Surry Hills one) with Uncle Ron, Uncle Rob and Aunt Rosie. Yes, yes – 4 x Rs!

I didn’t know much about this particular production, so was in for a big surprise. The stage design was great, it consisted of a hotel room with bed, bathroom, tv and bar fridge that rotated 360 degrees. The actors were all amazing speaking in classic Shakespearean language, with occasional modern day lines. At first it was a bit hard to understand what they were saying, but a little bit of high school Shakespeare came back to me. The blurb said Theatre for the open-minded, which it certainly was. One scene was really violent, gory and vile! The characters went to the toilet a lot on stage! The most intriguing part of the production was the use of video cameras that projected the action onto screens next to the stage. The camera operators were the actors, out of character, but on stage. There was also a camera inside the bathroom mirror and one pointing directly down from above as well. Sometimes, I didn’t know where to look, it’s a small theatre so you could see all the action on stage quite clearly, not like you were at a concert and really far away, so you look at the screens. Anyway, it was a really great production, the story was intense and so was the acting. Although it was a bit disturbing, I really enjoyed it (and it wasn’t as intense as Women of Troy)

This is a permissive, decaying city with a dysfunctional government, and the Duke has mysteriously gone on leave. In his place he’s appointed a man whose “urine is congealed ice” – the austere moralist Angelo. His first act of law is to apply the death penalty for fornication: Claudio is the first to be condemned. But when Isabella arrives to beg for her brother’s life, her pleas threaten to bring Angelo and the state to their knees.

Measure for Measure is Shakespeare’s great dark comedy about desire and power. His world is familiar: sex is a commodity, government is subject to the leader’s moral whimsy, extreme liberality goes head to head with emergency powers to constrain and punish. And lurking in the shadows of this play is the idea that real wisdom comes from unleashed chaos.

Benedict Andrews was last at Belvoir St in 2007 with his brilliant production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. He’s returned to tackle a play he’s probably born to direct: Shakespeare’s magnificent and explicit meditation on anarchy and authority.

Theatre for the open-minded.

Got some commercial music bargain deals at JB Hi-fi on the weekend.
Aphrodite – new Kylie – with dvd as well.
Celebration – Madonna (I know, I’ve already got every track on previous albums – vinyl, tape, cd, mp3 etc but it’s nice to have it altogether in this collection + there’s a mini poster)
It’s not me, it’s you – Lily Allen – hey it was only $9.99
Crystal Visions – The Very Best of Stevie Nicks – I’m not ashamed ;P

Can I claim this as a work related expense? Unfortunately, they don’t get into Detroit techno in the office.

Far out! It’s half way through 2010. I tell you, the older you get the faster the year goes.
It’s the end of the financial year – hurrah. Do I need to give you a summary of how my finances went over the past 12 months? I don’t think so. The best thing about it was starting a permanent position: doing a job I enjoy, working with a really great team and not being stressed out all the time. The only thing that stresses me out is the long travel to and from work.
So this marks the end of a resolution to blog every day for a month. OK, so I cheated a few times with back dating, but in the future, all you will remember is that I managed to blog every day in June 2010! Can I stop now?
Thank you and goodnight.

It’s finally really cold, that means I can wear gloves in public! It is now, a good and proper Sydney winter*.

It’s also NAIDOC Week and my workplace has organised many activities to celebrate this year’s theme ‘Unsung Heroes – Closing the Gap by Leading Their Way’.

NAIDOC Week balloons at work

* That means, it’s not really that cold and includes sunshine.

Cheese Soufflé

Originally uploaded by Australian Rozie

I got this recipe out of a Family Circle recipe book I had at home. I was originally inspired to make an asparagus souffle that I saw on Poh’s Kitchen but really it was too complicated for a first attempt. Maybe next time.

Congratulations to Patrick & Yvette on their wedding in San Fran. When I first met Patrick HAF, he was already a famous underground DJ in the Sydney rave scene of the early 90s. Dave even treasured a few of his mix tapes, until they disintegrated. By the late 90s we had become friends and I was no longer a dj groupie I was sad when he moved to the states, but was very happy that he met Yvette in San Fran and fell in lurve I’m really sorry that we couldn’t attend the celebrations, but I just had to see Rob Hood

We celebrated Honka Princess’ birthday at Sailors Thai at Ivy on Friday night. We had the $45 three course special menu which included a drink. The food was very nice, I walked on the wild side and sampled some spicy food, but I found it weird how the staff said that the dishes should be shared even though it was a set menu of which you had a choice of about 3 things. I chose a deep-fried prawn entree, duck for the main meal and black sticky rice dessert. Once again this month, I forgot my camera, so there’s not much documenting of this dinner. Maybe Honka Princess will upload some pics, but she hasn’t shared her photos from her European summer vacation from last year yet! The Ivy is really beautiful, I love the fit out, the furniture and design but I felt somewhat out of place there; not young, beautiful or rich enough perhaps. After traipsing around a couple of the jam-packed upstairs bars, we finally settled back on the street level at Ash St Cellar, where it was less crazy. On our way down the lift, I quipped that we should go back to Surry Hills where we belong They were playing some great music from 80s funk to Jay-Z at Ash Street Cellar. A staff member told me that that “the boss” chooses the music and there are many different music channels throughout the venue. Our group enjoyed some nice beverages such as port and mulled wine (yes, we’re getting old), while I had my regular make sure it’s soy hot chocolate

Josie in Ash St Cellar