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We live for Holidays! Sydney and Hunter

Nov
07

I’m sure many people experience the same feelings we do. As soon as we come back from a holiday, we start planning the next!

Given we have not actually started giving any thought to the next holiday, I thought I’d put up some photos and reminisce our latest trip to Sydney and Hunter Valley in October of 2018.

 

We’d initially thought about hauling the boys to Tokyo, Japan, with Disneyland as the crux of the trip. But on second thought, the boys were still too young to fully enjoy the park, so eventually, we decided against Japan and thought of Sydney (going back to Margaret River for the 2nd time in a year seemed… excessive).

So, http://davidpisarra.com/veterinary-payment-plan-agreement-form Sydney it was.

 

The weather was in the cool teens and early twenties, so perfect for us, though still a bit chilly when the winds came.

We could see the Harbour Bridge climbers, and I’d totally love to do that one day, although with 2 little kids in tow, it wasn’t possible for now.

We also checked out Taronga Zoo. This was taken in a cable car atop Taronga Zoo, which also gave us a beautiful view of the harbour.

 

The wife had an amazing deconstructed mocha, so good we had to go for seconds the following day! This is at The Grounds at Alexandria, highly recommended!

Also, I imagine one of the highlights of the boys’ trip would be that amazing tub where they had bubble baths every day.

Up next was a 2.5 hour drive to http://telegraphharp.com/wp-load.php Hunter Valley. Once again, we booked Starline Alpacas, the farm we visited back in 2015 when Oli was a wee baby. It’s hard to imagine he turned 4 during the trip!

 

At the farm, we were given a bag of feed with which to feed the farm animals. The boys had a blast doing that, although Jubes still has to learn to open his hands in order for the alpacas to pick off the pellets.

We even managed to squeeze in some time to get some wine in!

Well, time spent during holidays always seem to move a lot faster than any other time, so… i guess it’s time to start planning the next one! 🙂

till next time!

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M Night Shyamalavengers

Jul
23

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If you recall the 90s and early 2000s, you’ll remember that that narrow time window was a great time to be M Night Shyamalan.

It seemed like he could do no wrong, with The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and The Village.

After a while, it became apparent he was a one-trick pony, relying on the plot twist, a roughly last minute-ish reveal that totally re-framed the entire movie you’d seen, and forced you to confront it in a very different lens.

Well, after languishing in disappointing films like Lady in the Water, The Happening, he’s kinda back on track with the better reviewed The Visit, and Split, whose reveal was that it’s actually residing in the Unbreakable universe.

And when Split didn’t suck, he was suddenly in possession of (gasp!) a superhero franchise??!

So while Split’s twist was that it was a sort of sequel to Unbreakable, we now have the trailer to the trilogy to cap it off, Glass.

Is the trailer good? Well, it’s… interesting.

But perhaps, what’s more interesting is reading the comments, and seeing how the readers are chiming in on what they think the twist for Glass would be.

What are your thoughts on Shyamalan? Too far gone?

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Children being children

Nov
13

A bunch of kids. A birthday cake. Some sugar high. And a ready camera.

Hilarity ensues.

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Sometimes, your name really makes or breaks you.

Nov
10

Tuvalu, an island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, between Australia and Hawaii, is home to about 11,000 citizens.

It also has the immense good fortune to be given the country code TV.

… if you can find it.

As we all know, video streaming is becoming a really big thing on the internet, and it’s set to become even bigger. And with top level domains, Tuvalu has been gifted with the .tv domain. Prior to 2017, Verisign has been managing .tv domain sales for Tuvalu, and in turn paying the Tuvalu government $2m per year, plus commission on top. In 2016, Verisign renewed their contract through to 2021, and will now pay $5m annually.

The 2016 estimated GDP for Tuvalu was $32m. With the new $5m annual royalty, this will put .tv revenues well past 10% of their GDP.

Not bad for not doing much!

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Dance like no one’s watching

Oct
11

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Climate change is real, and its effects are happening now

Sep
13

When Richard Branson decided to ride out Hurricane Irma on his island, we all thought he was just being his crazy eccentric rich old man self.

But no, he was riding out the storm in his, ahem, concrete wine cellar so he can document the devastating damage first hand.

He also hit out hard at climate change deniers, writing this on the Virgin site:

Man-made climate change is contributing to increasingly strong hurricanes causing unprecedented damage,” wrote Branson on the Virgin website. “The whole world should be scrambling to get on top of the climate change issue before it is too late – for this generation, let alone the generations to come.

I personally believe we’re truly at the precipice of of no return, and we, as inhabitants of Earth, need to really band together and do something about this. Otherwise, if we don’t kill ourselves soon enough, we’ll evolve to be the alien villains we all see in the Marvel and alien invasion flicks, scouring planets and devouring them of all resources before moving to the next.

And I really don’t want to be the bad guy.

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What are you reading?

Jul
28

National Reading Day is upon us, so naturally, we rounded up the gang to do some light reading.

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Don’t be alarmed, but a tiger is coming!

Jun
22
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