Max Allen From: The Australian April 16, 2011 12:00AM
NAHM Restaurant in Bangkok's very glam Metropolitan Hotel is a surprise for any visiting food and wine lover. The quality of the food isn't unexpected: for almost two decades Nahm chef David Thompson has been regarded as one of the most extraordinary exponents of classic Thai cooking on the planet. No, the surprise at Nahm is reserved instead for the wine list.
Not only is the list stuffed with a really interesting selection of wines from
Sitting down slurping my coffee and reading the Australian online this morning when I came across a headline that put a BIG smile on my dial.
Ireland beat England by 3 wickets in ICC Cricket World Cup match. I didn't know Ireland had a Cricket team. lol
There are 3 groups of people in the world today
1. Envorimentalists
2. Money Makers
3. "What Ever" Group
Unfortunatly the Money Makers will win out. It will be a race to see how fast we ruin the planet, and to see which Multi national makes the most money.
A friend of mine will be in Bangkok on December 25 and is looking for a place that does Western style Christmas lunch in the Sukhumvit area.
If anyone has any knowledgee of such a place could they notify me here, please
Our lager which art in barrels, hollowed be thy drink.
I will be drunk at home as in the tavern. Give us this day our foamy head and forgive us our spillages as we forgive those who spill against us.
Lead us not into incarceration but deliver us from hangovers.
For thine is the beer the Bitter and the Larger Forever and ever
Barmen
I was sitting at home last night with my finger stuck in my naval, and it suddenly dawned on me.
Electric cars, are a waste of time. A rip off. A knee jerk reaction, and full of toxic waste waiting to be dumped. They dont work, they will never work. Unless by some miracle somone comes up with a battery that can give the car a range of over 1000 km before re charging.
The next reason Electric cars wont work. Imagine having to wait 8 hours to refuel your car. Or on a hot day like we can get here
Daredevil Felix Baumgartner to plunge from outer space in supersonic suit
By John R. Quain of Fox News
From: NewsCore
April 12, 2010 8:13AM
SKYDIVING is dangerous - but not nearly as dangerous as skydiving from a plane in outer space.
That can kill you. The temperature can freeze your body, and the lack of air pressure can boil your blood.
Nonetheless, an Austrian daredevil named Felix Baumgartner plans to take the 23-mile plunge from the edge of space, FOXNews.com s
Viens A Moi
Bimbette and Peaches walk up to a perfume counter
And after a few moments browsing pick up a sampler
Bimbette sprays it on her wrist and then smells it
"What do you fink Peach That's quite a nice one init?”
Peaches then sniffed the perfume Bimbette had tried
"Yeah what's it called?" "Viens a moi" Bimbette replied
"Viens a moi! She said, “what the **** does that mean?"
The assistant offered some help thinking they were keen
“Viens a moi” she offered “is French for “
The Australian Govt claims it has had a request from the Thailand Tourist Dept, requesting a warning be issued to Australian tourists considering travelling to Thailand later this month.Now this seems like good advise to me. It makes sense as the Thai Govt thinks there may be some trouble when the verdict on a certain well loved member of the "Elite" now living in a neighbouring country is read out at the end of the month. So you can imagine I was some what surprised to see on our National free
AMERICANS may be winning more medals at the Winter Olympics than any other country, but they also take gold when it comes to being the laziest people on the planet. The US ranked No.1 out of 24 developed countries in The Daily Beast's list of lazy nations, based on statistics on daily calorie intake, data on TV viewing habits, the percentage of the population that plays sport, as well as internet usage, mX has reported.The US was first in calorie intake and TV watching and took bronze for sports
Melbourne tops Sydney again as most liveable MELBOURNE has held on to its status as the third most liveable city in the world. The latest index by The Economist magazine, released yesterday, scored the city just 2.5 points short of perfection, the Herald Sun reports.Vancouver, Canada's host of the Winter Olympics, rated top of the annual survey, scoring 98 out of 100 on a comparison of stability, healthcare, education, infrastructure, culture and environment.Vienna in Austria was second with 97
FOR "EDUCATED MINDS" • The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was
Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi
• I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
• She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
• A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra
class because it was a weapon of maths disruption.
•
No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
•
A dog gave birth t
If the "West Indies" add is racist, then the "Tickets, tickets" add must be also ??. Flat Mates
West Indies
Never take your eye off the ball
Average seat................<
/p>Tickets, tickets lol ............
In Laws
Bindies ruin Back yard cricket
UK wants Australia, former colony, to keep its criminals TWO hundred years ago its worst citizens were transported to the other side of the world, creating Australia in the process. Now cash-strapped Britain wants its former colony to keep its criminals again.In the past 12 months, dozens of British-born paedophiles, rapists and career criminals, many in their late 50s and 60s, were deported to the UK after finishing their sentences in Australian jails, despite having lived most of their lives
Marital Bliss can be achieved, but it takes a lot of hard work. Each married couple have their own way of doing this.Here is how one couple over came their pesky little niggles.
I was cleaning up my computer and came across these. The first few are from Chaing Mai Flower Show in Jan 2007. The rest are from neighbourhood gardens.
I went to a dinner party last night, where I and other guests enjoyed copious amounts
of alcohol. I awoke this morning not f eeling well, with what could be described
as f lu-like symptoms; headache, nausea, chills, sore eyes, etc.
From the results of some initial testing, I hav e unfortunately tested positiv e f or
what experts are now calling Wine Flu.
This debilitating condition is very serious - and it appears this is not an isolated case.
Reports are flooding in f rom all around the
Here are some photos from the Dust storms in Sydney and Brisbane. More are on the way this weekend. http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/gallery/0,23816,5060689-17382,00.html# http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/gallery/0,23816,5060705-17382,00.html# http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/gallery/0,23816,5060698-17382,00.html# We might have to get used to this in the future !!!
By Cathy Alexander | September 21, 2009
Article from: Australian Associated Press
We're 5000 years overdue: AS if bushfires, drought and floods aren't enough, Australians have now been warned to watch out for volcanoes.A scientist has warned an eruption is "well overdue" and says there are hundreds of volcanoes that could cause trouble, from South Australia and Victoria through to Queensland. But it doesn't seem too urgent - an eruption is already 3000 years overdue. Melbourne geologist Bern
Cold Chisel is back together again !!!!
Cold Chisel reunites to rock V8 race
Map: Sydney 2000
The members of the legendary Australian band Cold Chisel have announced they will be re-forming for a one-off performance this summer. Sixteen years after the rockers last played together, Jimmy Barnes will be leading the group for a concert at Sydney's V8 Supercar race in December.Chisel will be joined by a number of more contemporary acts, including the Presets and the Living End.
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The Tourism Authority of Thailand is inviting applications from fun-loving and adventurous couples worldwide to participate in a social-networking competition that will see the top prize-winner get a cash reward of US$10,000, a holiday package to Thailand worth US$3,000, a Blackberry and a Handycam video camera. The winning