Brisbane

Brisbane River Festival 2004

Date: August 27th, 2004 | 4 comments

If you’re wandering down by the Brisbane River this Sunday afternoon towards West End you’ll no doubt see the more than 20,000 rubber duckies battling it out for victory as part of the Great Brisbane Duck Race. The winner earns the owner a brand new car, and some poor bastard will have to fish the [read more]

Fun Run ain’t so fun

Date: August 2nd, 2004 | 5 comments

Yesterday was the Bridge to Brisbane fun run for Paul, Ging and I, although as EB suggested, it wasn’t all fun.
The 4.25km race we had signed up for started a little later than expected due to stragglers from the previous 12km race. There was a crowd of about 4000 competing in our race and [read more]

Just call me Blofeld

Date: July 22nd, 2004 | 5 comments

Feeling very James Bond villain at the moment.
Here’s why
Edited: 27-7-04
And this is the photo Ging is referring to…not for cat lovers.
The [read more]

Tibetan Kitchen

Date: May 9th, 2004 | 2 comments

Not knowing much about Tibetan and Nepalese cuisine, I was pleasantly surprised by my visit to the Tibetan Kitchen in Fortitude Valley last night. I don’t really know what I was expecting, but perhaps something to do with yaks and their various by-products?
On the fairly extensive menu, there was not a yak to be found. [read more]

Look, up in the sky!

Date: April 19th, 2004 | 8 comments

Did anyone else in the Brisbane region see a fireball streaking across the sky during the early hours (we’re talking 5-ish) of Sunday morning?
I won’t go into the details of how I happened to still be awake from the night before, but the three other people I was with saw it too. Bron had the [read more]

Heavy Rain

Date: August 18th, 2004 | 1 comment

The weather report earlier in the week suggested we might get some scattered showers developing today. What actually happened was that we got absolutely dumped on during the early hours of morning with a cracking thunderstorm.
I got woken up by thunder around 5am and judging by the flashes I could see through the curtains it [read more]

Bridge to Brisbane

Date: July 26th, 2004 | 6 comments

On Sunday morning I will be joining thousands of other people jamming one lane of Brisbane’s Gateway Bridge as we make our way to New Farm Park.
No, it’s not protest march lamenting the demise of Friends. It’s the annual Bridge to Brisbane charity run for the benefit (this year) of the Guide Dogs for the [read more]

Domestic Duties

Date: May 17th, 2004 | 5 comments

Spent a very quiet weekend taking care of a few things that I’d neglected over the past couple of months’ worth of weekends.

On Saturday I dropped by my brother’s house and helped him set up some shelves for his growing home brew cellar. After laying out the pieces of what looked like a giant Meccano [read more]

Lawn Bowls by the Brisbane River

Date: May 4th, 2004 | 9 comments

If you’re looking for something to do that’s a little different, but still plenty of fun, I can highly recommend an afternoon of Lawn Bowls at the Merthyr Bowls Club in New Farm.

The Ging had bowled before, but I was a newbie - as were the 10 or so other people who came along [read more]

Brisbane, Queensland

Date: April 17th, 2004 | No Comments

Brissie is a capital that enjoys its location. Directly above the rockin Gold Coast, and below the beauty of the Great Barrier Reef, the city is a popular host for in-transit tourists, both foreign and Australian. However, those who visit the city for more than a few days can come to appreciate Brisbane’s [read more]