UPDATE: Oops! The slideshow is not working at the moment as I have changed a few things around but will be back before you know it. Thanks for your patience.
We have been lucky to escape the Aussie summer this year as we’re in Europe for what is usually the worst sultry part of the summer in Australia — end of January and February. But as luck would have it even though we officially entered Autumn on the 1st of March 2008 we had a few rather humid and somewhat stifling days in March, possibly making up for what we had tried to escape…
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If you use WordPress for maintaining your blog(s) you’d be logging into the admin console often, also known as the WordPress Dashboard. While its functional and has lots of related news I often find the page a little too busy and the heading fonts a bit too large! A small tweak to the wp-admin.css in your /wp-admin/ folder can make this a much more pleasant experience. Here’s how:
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Sydney as many of you already know sports the minus 5 degree experience in the Opera Quays. While this has been open about 2 years back I never had the opportunity until yesterday. I finally experienced the Ice lounge at Minus 5 where everything is made of ice… the seat, the cocktail glasses, the ice table, ice chairs the ice sculptures of-course. The girls who serve at the front desk and on the way in through the antechamber seemed rather miserable though! No smiles, flat as a sheet of paper, totally bereft of any emotions. Too much cold weather does that to you! Seriously though, thats a very small whinge to the fun we had in there…
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Its far from complete but its good to see I have started to put my photos together… Adobe Lightroom does make the job half as simple with cataloguing and sifting good from bad ones but still putting up a gallery from thousands of photos is a mammoth task. I am glad the process has started and look forward to posting more as time goes by. Hope you enjoy seeing some of the things I enjoy doing most. Enjoy!
D had won free tickets to the screening of Brick Lane at the Dendy Opera Quays last week. I had heard about the book sometime back but never read it. It was a sheer joy watching the movie last night.
Brick Lane was written by Monica Ali — born of English and Bangladeshi parents. She came to England aged three years and this was her first book which came out around 2003 highlighting the narrative of a Bangladeshi family living in the UK. Brick Lane was also nominated for the 2003 Booker Prize for Fiction and finally made into film in 2007.
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