We arrive by taxi, a good half an hour prior to our booking for the Indulgent Afternoon Tea at Burj Al Arab’s Skybar lounge in Dubai. The small crowd gathered outside the security gate wears a look of disappointment. Unless one is a hotel guest or has a written confirmation for afternoon tea or a [...]

Under a fickle Sydney sky, The Spot Food and Film Festival took place on March 7, 2010. St Pauls Street and Perouse Road in Randwick were closed to traffic allowing pedestrians to roam freely around market stalls selling anything from jewellery to cakes, food and fresh produce. An initiative of the Randwick City Council and [...]

When you pass through the glass door frontage of South Sydney Junior Rugby League Club and take the escalator up one level, you become acquainted with a daytime world which revolves around the turns and tunes of poker machines; a domain with its own rhythm that is unfamiliar to the working crowd. Towards the far [...]

You take a languid stroll and claim a favourite patch of powdery sand. You lay your towel down and observe the tri-band of cobalt blue meld into jade and turquoise. Gentle waves lap the shoreline playing one of nature’s seaside symphonies. You immerse yourself in the tepid waters and emerge renewed. The water’s clarity takes [...]

This is the third and final part of the series. You can catch up with A Gourmantic Affair with Twitter – Part 1: Seduction and A Gourmantic Affair with Twitter – Part 2: Relations. Separated by the safety of an LCD screen, Twitter and I sat across from one another. Over a piping hot coffee, [...]

This is the second of a 3 part series. You can catch up on the first part, A Gourmantic Affair with Twitter Part 1 – Seduction. As a novice studying twitter profiles, I quickly noted an emerging trend. There are those who seemingly follow all their followers (Following = Followers), those who appear as authorities [...]

Call it tempestuous at the best of times. We are drawn to one another like the earthy and sensual Taurus to the fiery and unpredictable Aries. Passions arise. Tempers flare. Arguments ensue. Then we retreat to our respective naughty corners for a cooling off period. Twitter has undoubtedly revolutionised online communication and has proven to [...]