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there is this big thing going on in Australia at the moment, well not just in Australia but all over the world actually, sparked by this tv show “Hey Hey It’s Saturday” on Australian National TV. Here’s the clip

The thing is many Australians find it okay ‘coz they thought it was made purely to entertain. Try have a look at the youtube comments and you would see how ignorant most Aussie are.

Heck, to even allow such contents to be on air showed how shallow and ignorant the producers in Australia are. Don’t they know that “Blackface” is indeed offensive? Sure the host did apologize afterwards but this whole incident did show us that Australia STILL have a very long way to go in terms of RACIAL RELATIONS

bbc commentary

Try listen to this BBC commentary. ..”oh Australia, that’s a place where they oppress Black People (Aboriginals) anyway and they don’t..just haven’t caught up with modern attitude to race…” of course not all Australians are racist but just to highlight that Australia, you’re still miles behind your UK / US counterparts mate!

well since I’ve got a vested interest in alcohol, I’m gonna take the initiative to write up something about it. For me, alcohol is one of the few good things about air travel…coz I don’t smoke, and I ain’t no big perfume user (my 5 year old Adidas perfume is only half used! dont get me wrong…I havn’t been using it so u gurls can rest assured…)

Okay, back to scotch. For newbies there are different whiskies out there. There are American, Irish and Scotch. Scotch = from Scotland la…. =P…and for Scotch whisky, it can be subdivided into 2 broad categories: single malt and blended.

Most of us will be very familiar with blended ‘coz the more popular ones like Johnnie Walker and Chivas Regal are blended ones.

Lets talk about Laphroaig. It is a distillery from the Islay part of Scotland (as scotch whiskies can be divided according to their location of origin)

scotch regions

the case to look out for at airport dutyfree shop

the bottle

I know I ain’t know expert in this field (heck I’m not using the correct glass ffs!) but anyway…Laphroaig is very different from the other whiskies I’ve had before. The first thing that you’ll notice is its peaty-ness, thanks to the peat-fire roasting process. (For more info, please visit www.laphroaig.com). Ain’t gonna pretend that I can smell vanilla, toffee, citrus or anything like those online whisky reviewers would, I’m just gonna give my take on it.

nose: ‘peaty’, not much ‘alcohol’ smell to it
palate: not so stingy, not dry, pretty smooth and there is a subtle sweetness to it
finish: smokey oak with earthiness

amber liquid of joy...now who's with me on this?

so far, I havn’t manage to mix it with anything else other than water and some soda. Definitely better when mixed with soda and ice; kinda waters down the spirit for easier drinking but still retains its strong flavour.

well that’s all for now…depending on how you guys like it, I might gonna review another single malt, The Macallan Elegancia 12 yrs old. So till then, keep on drinking guys!

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Was at the LCCT, checking in for a flight back to Melbourne..overheard a conversation from behind me, between a mom & her daughter..

Daughter: Mom, i wanna go study in ABC school in melb..

Mom: well first u gotta get ur grades up. ABC is a top school in melb..and three quarters of the students there are Asians. Their parents know its a good school so they send their children there..and they wanna rule the world..

Daughter: …..

Ps beh: …-__-”..

Ps..the mom n daughter r from kyneton..some ulu red neck town..=P

Brief intro….as all you folks know I was studying in Sunway College before I came to Aus…so there are quite a number of my Sunway college frens who are here in Melb, studying. i mean we did the AUSMAT course so pretty much all of us kinda wanted to end up in Aus, and Melb being the better city (than Sydney =P) most of the AUSMATians all ended up here =D….

this is not our 1st gathering, probably our 2nd and we kinda made a plan to meet up regularly for catching up and makan sessions. Dinner was in Crown Casino (its an entertainment place with F&B, cinemas, arcades, lasertag, retail and the casino…so pretty much the whole lot).

cherina & kingsley

nik & afiq

kingsley & sue lin

There was a promo going on atm…$12 mains with free parking! pretty darn good deal eh….food pic time

my tenderloin with fries

fish & chips & salad

afiq's prawn salad

sue lin's buffalo wings

cherina's beef shank

group pic post makan

And when we pay our bills, the cashier dude gave us 1 free parking permit each! only 2 of us driving (kings & me) so we were like, “JACKPOT!!” i know im cheap…but free is always GOOD! now i got 2 spare  free parking @ Crown…haha…

then we decided to have some coffee @ Greco, a Greek cafe that serves great cakes….so some cake pics…

baked cheese cake (i think)

double choc cake

mango cheese cake

and surprise surprise…i bumped into HangYuan (ACS-ian year 2002) at Greco….can u believe that?! such a small world….hahahha…

well this is just an update for fellow barghers…I was recently invited to take part in the making of a promo video for a uni gala dinner..i was asked to be part of the cast..i was like omg….(shitting my pants those kinda omg)

anyway the director kinda wanted to make it sth like WongFu’s vids (if you haven’t knew, WongFu is this bunch of amateur film makers from University California San Diego who rose to internet stardom with their “YellowFever” vid….check the link for more info & vids >>http://www.youtube.com/user/WongFuProductions)

So here are the vids…kinda bad / amateurish…. for barghers are currently in the media & broadcasting industry, please don’t laugh okay…its our 1st time (the director’s 1st time too) and we all look pretty fake….

1st teaser vid

2nd teaser

the promo vid