Movie recommendation

Just watched a lovely romantic comedy on dvd.

It is a little different than your average american romantic comedy though since the story was based around two american chinese characters.

Also this one involves the widowed mother getting pregnant and the daughter happens to be a lesbian.

It sweet and a great movie when you want some light entertainment and without saying too much it does involve a tiny little twist.

Oh yeh the name might help it's called saving face and it's by by female director Alice Wu.

VO has closed for good!

VO stands for vegetarian orgasm and had the best vegan cake ever, possibly the best cake ever (as mentioned by a few dairy and eat egg eating folk).

It was also the place that was going to make our wedding cake. I knew that before I even met Mr T.

VO was the place were I would eat out once or twice a week when I first turned vegan. It was the only place I really longed for when I was in Hong Kong.

Admittedly they did make a few mistakes, including the move to gertrude street from smith st away from the smith st crowd. My guess is the biggest contributing factor to their downfall was the maker of the best ever vegan cakes leaving and only leaving one or two of his recipes, including 'the cake': peanut caramel nougart cake served warm with ice cream (soy or dairy).

As a result I along with probably a lot of other people stopped going so frequently. I did however still attend for 'the cake' and some of their other meal items.

I want to cry(please note I'm not) and as Jerome (recent VO cake addicted friend) claimed its the end of 'the cake era'.

Ex cake chef Mark where are you? Come back from Ireland and make a cookbook or start another restaurant or just at the very least make my wedding cake, hell I'll even arrange my wedding around your timing!

Sign at Penguin Parade in Phillip Island

I had on all of the advised clothing in the picture (scarf, beanie, jacket) and even gloves but it stil didn't stop me from freezing my butt off or getting a nasty cold.

Despite both colds (weather and my health) it was a good weekend. Mr T and I seem to be having a bit of an animal pattern lately. Last weekend it was the aquarium (pics to come later) and this weekend the smallest (and perhaps cutest) penguins in the world and a visit to the koala conservation centre.

I did however leave with the attention that as soon as arrived back home I would make like the koala below and curl up into a nice little ball.



Feeling slightly better now!

The Grates

I just bought their debut album partly because I like the couple of songs that I have heard and partly because of how cute their album back cover is (see above) and plus it was cheap. See how I talk myself into a purchase?

I just went to buy tickets for their show only to discover they are already sold out. Yes local bands sells out. I'm very sad now, I was looking forward to it after two reliable (as in good music taste) friends recommended their shows. If anyone has ticket/s let me know!

Roof at the RMIT Capitol Theatre, I have a thing about roofs

Comedy and women

I went to the Comedy festival on sun evening and saw Best of the Edinburgh Fest thinking at least one out of three should be ok. The first one was fine, the second was ok and the third was horrible unless of course you had a teenage boy sense of humour or you were drunk.

They summed it up quite well when they said before their first song:

women don't like this song, well bad luck

the rest of the routine was basically followed in well to that line. Imagine songs like 'I love it when you wake me up with a blow job'.

It got me thinking about comedy and women.

I've heard a lot of comments about female comedians not being funny and there seems to be lot more male comedians than females. Maybe that is why less female comedians less good ones.

I did watch several good ones though at the women's hospital benefit last year.

I'm determined to got to the comedy festival again and this time watch a female, any suggestions?