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Twitter and Food…

Posted in American, Korean, Los Angeles, Mexican, Miscellaneous/Quirky, News Headlines, Restaurant, Technology, Travel, street food on April 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »

I haven’t even upgraded my iPod to an iTouch (I have an old iPod Mini) nor have I purchased a new laptop in many years. I have only just upgraded my mobile phone that includes a good camera, MP3 and internet capability but I can barely keep up with technology.
Twitter is, of course, the [...]

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Happy New Year, New Plastic Bag Bans

Posted in Australia, Environment, News Headlines, Non-Food, Supermarkets on January 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

The South Australian government has done something pretty radical – it is the first state in Australia that has decided to phase out and ban lightweight plastic shopping bags to help the environment by 04 May 2009.
The one thing that I noticed when I first moved here was that reusable bags were already [...]

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RIP Leroy / Daffodil Day

Posted in Cancer, Miscellaneous/Quirky, News Headlines, Non-Food, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on August 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Thousands of people including myself have been following veteran American journalist Leroy Siever’s daily blog “My Cancer” on NPR (National Public Radio) in the U.S. and around the world.  His daily journals on his struggles and thoughts about his cancer formed a community – a community of so many people around the world who have [...]

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Bye Bye to Starbucks in Adelaide

Posted in Australia, Coffee, Ex-pat Experiences, Miscellaneous/Quirky, News Headlines, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 1, 2008 | 9 Comments »

The Adelaide metropolitan area only opened three Starbucks stores, with its first one opening in March 2006 and there was very little hype when they came to town, except made by the ex-pats.  In fact, I had been in there only once before yesterday, its closing day, because we have better local coffee chains such [...]

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Breaking News: Le Cordon Bleu Suicide Attempt

Posted in Culinary School, News Headlines, tagged , , on June 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I just got a news headline from Decanter.com that surprised me: “Student at Le Cordon Bleu threatens suicide” and then saw it also on the Mail online as well. What?! They reported that a 28 yr. old French-Algerian man who spent his entire savings on the course, had failed an exam and [...]

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