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Fruit Platter and Flight Meal on Qantas Flight QF924
QF924, Qantas Sydney-to-Cairns domestic 3-hour short-haul flight. I decided to play safe and continued to sign up for the fruit platter. I got my special meal before the others, as usual. Not so much a platter but an apple and a banana in a box (and a soy milk that I never bother). I guess…
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A Girl’s Gotta Eat
On our way to Cairns! All business for colleague and good friend; half business half pleasure for me; all pleasure for Richard. See food in Cairns! See you in Cairns, I mean!
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Excuse Me Waiter, Is That Meat Quail or Dog?
I’ve had an account on Eatability for a while but never got into it, because the site just didn’t quite have the same appeal to me as a blogger as Urbanspoon (soon to be Zomato). I randomly logged in after a million years to its new site design and review categories, and the first thing…
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What a Pain in the Neck
We’ve been taking so many pictures together seated, sometimes I forget how tall he really is… I’m actually slightly above average height for an Australian woman!
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Mother’s Day 2015
I don’t get to celebrate Mother’s Day with my own mum because I live overseas, but this year I get to do that with R mum, who prepared chicken casserole for dinner and apricot almond slice for dessert! I know, I know. It’s totally wrong of us to let her cook dinner on Mother’s Day,…
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PCEHR, IHI, Insert Acronyms
Saw the news ticker “New e-health system to see all Australians given electronic health record” on TV this morning, which of course piqued my interest as it’s only something I spent 2 full-time years that my parents paid exorbitant international postgraduate fees on. How many of you have heard of the term PCEHR? How many…
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Sammy’s Restaurant, Gymea
Sometimes it’s hard for me to tell whether it’s my overly strict and traumatising upbringing that influenced my views, or some parents just don’t parent. Your toddler won’t stop pointing and yelling at someone at the next table, you smile at him and let him continue through the night. Your toddler throws his dummy at…
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