There, you know it now, We watched Blowing Whistles last night at the Darlinghurst Theatre after a nice meal at Arun Thai. It(the Restaurant) never seems to disappoint…
As for the play, well where do I begin… In my opinion it seemed rather average despite the accolades wreathed on the Darlinghurst Theatre site. Looks like they’d talk up anything to get their seats booked. Its a ‘very’ average play, with some clever moments juxtaposed with again ‘very’ average and somewhat smutty humour. But obviously it seemed to have appealed to a lot of people there as some were in stitches time to time and kept thumping the floor in acknowledgement. Hmmmm, humour is a funny thing after all isn’t it?
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Happy Diwali to all your readers. If you’re unaware what Diwali means, its the festival of lights where candles and handmade earthen oil lamps are lit to celebrate the victory of good over evil. D gave me the surprise of my life when we had sparkles pre-dinner on Diwali night here in Sydney… 
Awww bless, very thoughtful and we celebrated again tonight pre-dinner with D’s family. We have had two celebratory Diwali nights even without being in India So spoilt, so blessed.
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My age old iPod Nano still works fine but not quite the same when it comes to the earphones. The sound quality is not the best and often there is a cracking noise. I have always found that the earphones slip off easily, or maybe I just have funny ears.
I have been looking for a mid range compact earphone for a while and thanks to some good suggestions from HD and finally bought it from JB Hi-fi this afternoon. It really seems to offer a much richer sound experience. In fact I’m listening to Pink’s recently released Funhouse album as I write this. (Thanks DS, its a really nice album).
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After a much long hard working week… Friday came by and boy it was well deserved. Apart from being the miraculous day Fridays always are we were also catching up with HP and going to City Pocha — a Korean BBQ restaurant where we have been umpteen times as the food is really good. When you see a lot of locals eating here the obvious reaction is it would be worth the while — the food is always good there and rather fresh. But to our surprise and disappointment while the food was really nice the service was despicable. At the end of each table they have a buzzer, yeah bit weird but a very practical idea, except that we pressed it many times and they would just not service our table. To be fair and honest to the situation City Pocha was inundated and seemed under-staffed but thats no excuse not to serve patrons or have waiters that are clueless. Okie get this, one of the waiters who was initially servicing our table didn’t speak a word of English and didn’t know what lettuce was even after pointing out to what Lettuce looked like. I have nothing against people that don’t speak English but honey don’t be in Hospitality or the Service Industry with such brazen assurance. Far worse, we asked for more Kimchi at least three times and they never bothered. Finally after waiting for about half an hour while they frantically served others and pissed us right off, we were truly at the end of our tether and HP had to go to the reception to ask them to serve us. Not the best way to spend Friday evening but at least the food was fresh and tasty.
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Too much work and no play is making me dull and boring… well, not exactly… work has been busy and yet another travel plan is brewing… so hold your horses I will write soon. But until then here are 2 photos from around Mosman.
Sunset from Middle-head, Chowder Bay, Mosman
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Mac OSX has a built in facility to zip your files on the fly and open them on double-clicking. But the only disadvantage with that is the fact that zipped files created this way add hidden files alongside, eg:
If you’re sending zipped files to someone on a windows machine these hidden files are of no use to them and worst of all these underscore prefixed files are visible to all and confuse users. In short, there are better ways to send zipped files from your mac. Two applications on mac that do this job really well are:
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I am finally starting to get my hands dirty, really dirty with Lightroom goodness. I have tried other peoples Lightroom presets but never made my own. I have decided to make a few presets I use often for photography effects i personally like and here is the first in the series… my first ever Lightroom Preset called LightlyToasted_Splittone.
Download the Splittone Lightroom Preset here.
This is a .ZIP file so you will need to unzip and import the Lightroom Preset and its all ready to go.
TIP: After applying the preset re-apply the black to suit the tone of the image, this adds a bit of punch.
LightlyToasted_Splittone creates a splittone effect using light sepia tones to bring out some olde world charm. View the larger and more detailed version of the image by clicking on the thumbnails below. And if you like it, download away. Its free and I won’t come knocking on your door for payment.
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