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Friday, April 23 ( 7:46 AM ) kim gilmour Am doing the annual trek to Sydney this May. Look forward to seeing everyone again. # ( 7:44 AM ) kim gilmour Wow.. still here, after all these years! # Friday, January 16 ( 7:25 AM ) Phil Seidl Hi Kim haven't seen you for a while, how've you been? Hope you had an exciting Christmas and new year. Sorry I haven't written in a while. I seemed to have lost your email address (damn 'puter crashes) and the last time I tried your work address, it just bounced back at me, saying no such user. I don't have ICQ anymore, I just mainly use messenger on my hotmail address. Ok Well I guess that's it for now, just wanted to restablish contact. Oh... Thanks for the chrissy card. :) # Monday, December 29 ( 10:32 PM ) kim gilmour A great page about herbs and spices # Friday, October 3 ( 12:27 AM ) kim gilmour London Photos # Monday, September 29 ( 10:57 PM ) kim gilmour Have you seen the Sydney photography gallery yet? More update - like I said, I want to try and change this weblog from being a 'blog' to being just a site about Sydney. My Sydney links page still gets many hits each day but it's very stale... # Wednesday, September 3 ( 5:22 PM ) kim gilmour Watch this space! I want to update this site - and maybe move it from being a blog-based site (because seeing as I don't live there anymore, it's hard!) to just being one periodically updated... # Wednesday, August 13 ( 12:30 AM ) kim gilmour It's been months since this little blog's been updated, but what can I say? Half my friends from Sydney are now in London, working! So, is there a "brain drain"? It seems that the majority of Australians end up going back there anyway, and all the better for it. # Friday, June 6 ( 12:17 AM ) kim gilmour Got permissions back again so I can post! # Monday, March 17 ( 8:52 AM ) kim gilmour Yay # ( 8:48 AM ) kim gilmour Rob and I will be returning to Sydney for a short holiday in three weeks, and Dom just left to go there today so we'll probably catch up with her while we're there. Trouble is, we all have so much to do in so little time! Meanwhile, London in the Spring has left us all with big grins on our faces. A trip to Richmond Park, the easing of the bitter winter chill, the views out my window of fat cats sunnung themselves and stretching languidly on fences down West End Lane... yes, Spring is here. But in Sydney, it will be Autumn. It won't be that cold, I'm sure! I'm looking forward to going to the Royal Botanical Gardens and seeing my family and friends again. Anyway! I've just added a whole new interface to my photography pages, and if you want to ask any questions about Sydney, London or anything really for visitors to answer, then pay a visit to the brand new discussion board!
Monday, October 14 ( 9:26 PM ) kim gilmour Australians have been hit hardest by the tragedy in Bali. I must say I am still really shocked, because I've been there more than a dozen times and my parents (who do business there) have been there at least 100 times each for weeks at a time. My mum (who is Indonesian) even has a couple of properties there and we know many, many people there who depend in tourism for their livelihood. This predominantly Hindu island has only ever been peaceful and full of life and happiness. Now no one will want to go there for many years, which in itself is a tragedy. # Thursday, September 19 ( 12:12 AM ) kim gilmour Last week, I bought the Sydney Morning Herald weekend edition here in London. Printed almost exactly like a newspaper, folded .... not worth the £3.70 I paid though! # Tuesday, September 3 ( 6:56 PM ) kim gilmour Blow up the Pokies and drag them away, cos they're stealing the food off our tables Scrolllll down to read this Briton's account of the pokies: Australians are the world's biggest gamblers, and the relaxation of licencing laws has turned virtually every pub and club into a mini-casino. Pokies have colonised space once reserved for dining and live music; in pubs, whole rooms are set aside for the machines and drinkers strain to hear conversations drowned out by clunking and whirring. Gambling sucks, and if you are visiting Sydney and end up in Star City (the big casino there), then you might get caught up into the scene. That's OK if you're visiting and curious, but there really is nothing to see. And sadly, the same scene is replayed in miniature in practically every social club and pub in the city. In places like Cabramatta, the Asian community there are really having problems with gambling. And I've known a few people myself who have also had problems with it (and are still in debt). # Tuesday, July 23 ( 11:51 PM ) kim gilmour IMPORTANT Data hosted on SydneySiders has been lost!!!!!!!!!!!! I am not sure why, perhaps my webspace allocation has run its course after six years. Please come back where the site will be revamped. # ( 11:12 PM ) kim gilmour A vaguely interesting UK perspective on the Australian film industry # Wednesday, July 17 ( 9:06 PM ) kim gilmour The sun is shining here in London but it's winter in Sydney... What better way to while away the cold hours in a new bar called the ArtHouse? My friend Kinuyo tells me it's really cool: "It's an old art school renovated with 3 floors and original decorative Art Deco like ceilings and stuff. Has dancefloor and bar downstairs and dining area and lounge and bar on 2nd floor and another dance area upstairs..." Visit their website here for more info. It's located at 275 Pitt St, next to the Hilton. # Tuesday, June 25 ( 6:50 PM ) kim gilmour Sydney Airport sold Sydney airport has been sold to the Southern Cross consortium. # Thursday, June 6 ( 1:30 AM ) kim gilmour Venice, Italy!!!  click the image for more of my venice, italy photos # Tuesday, May 28 ( 7:45 PM ) kim gilmour Back from Venice, Italy! There were SO many Australians there it wasn't funny! Everywhere you turned was some Aussie with open-toed sandals and a bum bag or a Banjo Patterson T-Shirt. On Saturday night Rob and I had dinner at a restaurant and next to us was a newlywed couple from Sydney telling a young German guy who couldn't speak perfect English about Australia. They covered what Rob considered some of the "top ten" topics that you'd choose to cover if you were an Australian. These included the "work for the dole" scheme, the GST, the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the distance between Australian cities ("Eight hour in plane Sydney Perth. Here, eight hour train Espana Turkey! Country so big"). They did not discuss immigration policies, however! If you want to see one of my Venice photos go here. Bye for now... # Friday, May 10 ( 11:04 PM ) kim gilmour Gosh it's been a while! So a quick round up about this site. People still come to my page by looking up weird stuff, most people want to know where the Aussie version of Friends Reunited is (it's called Schoolfriends and it's here), while others want to find out where the joke article of Australia getting drunk and ending up in the Atlantic Ocean is (it's at SatireWire). They also tend to want to know where the nightlife in the city is. Anyway... check out my photos if you ever get a chance, and sign the guestbook! # Tuesday, April 30 ( 5:12 AM ) kim gilmour Spurred on by boredom, I created a new page! It's called Stupid Australian Personalities and it's right here on Sydney.Net! Check it out, tell all your friends. # ( 1:14 AM ) kim gilmour OK, I know I don't live in Australia anymore, but could anything be so boring as the TV Week Logie Awards? I read some of the coverage on TV Week's official, commercialised site, and then some other commentary on Sydney Morning Herald about Wendy Harmer's brusque and uncouth comments during the presentation. Like as if anyone didn't know what she was going to be like. She is this nasal-voiced ageing DJ, if anyone doesn't know. And why did Georgie Parker win it again? I just remember her from bloody A Country Practice in 1987. And who the hell were the other nominees, anyway? I first hated the Logies in something like 1990 or 1991, when Daryl Somers hosted in and then won the Gold Logie for himself. What a farce. Then they have this dumb "international star" complex... TV Week always thinks it has to fly in some big-name stars (Elton John this year, and some American soap star to appeal to the housewife audience) to prop up its standing as some sort of credible awards thingy. Anyway... it's just a populist vote for readers of a magazine. And it's stupid. Probably not any more stupid than something like the MTV Teen Awards or whatever, but it seems so boring, predictable and... if I won a Logie I would use it as a doorstop. # Thursday, April 25 ( 1:59 AM ) kim gilmour We at work have just been playing with the MINIMIZER, it's a great site that does Lego versions of yourself! There are 25 trillion combinations, apparently. Check it out at Reasonably Clever (Thanks Robert.) # Monday, April 22 ( 9:25 PM ) kim gilmour How embarrassing! I'm never going to the Habitat store in Finchley Road London again - what happened was I saw a whole table of that lucky Chinese bamboo, you know the ones that live in water. I looked at the price on one of the vases and it said £14.00. Fair enough, I thought. Then when I walked to the checkout, the nice man wrapped them up in two lots of tissue paper for me, asked me if I still wanted the stones in the vase... and then looked on a little chart, pressed a few buttons and up came £128.00 on the screen! Eeek! Each bamboo stem cost around £6 or so! I hadn't realised!! It was only the vase that cost £14! I was so embarrassed, especially as the woman behind me was laughing. "Well, some people do that," said the man behind the counter. I stuffed my £20 back in my purse and "had a dig around", as the man told me to do. Yeah, right. Two pissy little stems won't be visible in my house. So I did what my boyfriend already knew I'd done when I told him about it. I ran away. I won't be going back in a hurry because their stuff there was really horrible... why is the 70s back in vogue? It was so artificial and old-man corporate, with its khaki and brown lines. Yukky, just like Burberry is yukky. I wonder how much the bamboo would cost in Australia??? Not that bloody much, I betcha... maybe I'll do a quick Google search and check it out. Later: Indeed, lucky bamboo costs around 1/5 of the price in Oz. Something like this is around $58. That's only £20! # Friday, April 19 ( 3:08 AM ) kim gilmour A plane has hit a tower in Milan. After lots of fears about terrorism they're now saying it was an accident. Horrible coincidences... they said Italy was a target. # Thursday, April 18 ( 11:47 PM ) Phil Seidl Um.... what would you like me to say.... Well good for her... That about cover's it! # ( 12:12 AM ) kim gilmour Dubya Goes To War! The modern version of those dolls with paper cut out clothes. it's funny. # Tuesday, April 16 ( 11:03 PM ) kim gilmour In other news: I am back from my weekend in New York to visit Rob. On the plane, hilarious sights were the hasidic Jew in front of me who was playing Drug Lords on his Pocket Palm PC and the bedraggled old American guy with the bushy white beard and tattered old cap who made all the kids begin bawling. The other funny thing was on the shuttle bus from the plane to the terminal, I offered my seat to a father with his pram and kid and luggage and he said no, then his wife came in with another of their kids and a child restraint chair and she was complaining about how they should have gone up the back for a seat. Also the cockney bar owner behind me who wouldn't stop talking to this American woman about his jetsetting life and the lack of English pubs in Manhattan. # Friday, April 12 ( 9:51 PM ) kim gilmour I burnt my arm on my stupid Winterwarm Towel Heater last night. I've never owned one and didn't realise they could be so hot, because it certainly doesn't warm my towels very well. It was reinstalled last week after leaking oil. It hurts! Off to New York on British Airways this evening. Checked in at Heathrow this morning... convenient:) # ( 2:42 AM ) kim gilmour Food Junkies on the BBC is a nice litte series which began last night, and the accompanying Web site is just great. Last night's documentary included interviews with Eric Schlosser, the author of the shocking book Fast Food Nation, and a revealing interview with a former Ronald McDonald clown who had enough when branding appeared in the Ronald McDonald House hospices. It will make you never want to eat McDonald's and KFC crap ever again. They also interviewed those activists who are now behind McSpotlight, the alternative Macca's site. In other news, I interviewed Evan Williams, the CEO of Blogger (the service hundreds of thousands of people use to publish their stuff on the Web. It was just an email interview so not particularly tough for either of us but pretty enlightening! He reckons he'll always want a bit of Blogger to remain free, but won't rule out the fact that it may all be paid for sometime in the future. Already there's a premium product people are willing to pay for. Some people don't realise that these things cost money to run. You can't have the whole world for free... # Wednesday, April 10 ( 8:30 PM ) kim gilmour Jeez. I just put my London Powderfinger tickets on auction at Ebay and after one day they are already at £51. That's around $138 aus. Sadly i can't go to this gig because I'll be in Venice. extra update: The tix are now at £62. # Saturday, April 6 ( 1:50 AM ) kim gilmour On my photos site you can now comment on photos. If you want to, that is. So get commenting! # Thursday, April 4 ( 9:10 PM ) kim gilmour An oldie but a goodie... copy and paste and send to your friends! FRENCH INTELLECTUALS TO BE DEPLOYED IN AFGHANISTAN "The ground war in Afghanistan hotted up yesterday when the Allies revealed plans to airdrop a platoon of crack French existentialist philosophers into the country to destroy the morale of Taliban zealots by proving the non-existence of God. Elements from the feared Jean-Paul Sartre Brigade, or 'Black Berets', will be parachuted into the combat zones to spread doubt, despondency and existential anomie among the enemy. "Hardened by numerous intellectual battles fought during their long occupation of Paris's Left Bank, their first action will be to establish a number of pavement cafes at strategic points near the front lines. There they will drink coffee and talk animatedly about the absurd nature of life and man's lonely isolation in the universe. They will be accompanied by a number of heart-breakingly beautiful girlfriends who will further spread dismay by sticking their tongues in the philosophers' ears every five minutes and looking remote and unattainable to everyone else. Their leader, Colonel Marc-Ange Belmondo, spoke yesterday of his confidence in the success of their mission. "Sorbonne graduate Belmondo, a very intense and unshaven young man in a black pullover, gesticulated wildly and said, "The Taliban are caught in a logical fallacy of the most ridiculous. There is no God and I can prove it. Take your tongue out of my ear, Juliet, I am talking." Marc-Ange plans to deliver an impassioned thesis on man's nauseating freedom of action with special reference to the work of Foucault and the films of Alfred Hitchcock. "However,humanitarian agencies have been quick to condemn the operation as inhumane, pointing out that the effects of passive smoking from the Frenchmen's endless Gitanes could wreak a terrible toll on civilians in the area. "Speculation was mounting last night that Britain may also contribute to the effort by dropping Professor Stephen Hawking into Afghanistan to propagate his non-deistic theory of the creation of the universe. Other tactics to demonstrate the non-existence of God will include the dropping of leaflets pointing out the fact that Michael Jackson has a new album out and Oprah Winfrey has not died yet. This is only one of several Psy-Ops operations mounted by the Allies to undermine the unswerving religious fanaticism that fuels the Taliban's fighting spirit. "Pentagon sources have recently confirmed rumours that America has already sent in a 200-foot-tall robot Jesus, which roams the Taliban front lines glowing eerily and shooting flames out of its fingers while saying, 'I am the way, the truth and the life, follow me or die.' "However, plans to have the giant Christ kick the crap out of a slightly effeminate 80-foot Mohammed in central Kabul were discarded as insensitive to Muslim allies." # ( 7:48 PM ) kim gilmour One of the most popular ways people find this page is a search on Sydney music and nightlife. But as I don't live in Sydney anymore it's hard for me to be able to list places to go! Why don't you check out Sydney CitySearch for the latest music listings and nightlife. # Tuesday, April 2 ( 9:45 PM ) kim gilmour April Fool!!!! According to ever-cheeky tech tabloid The Register, on April Fool's Day it said AOL had bought into a heap of the most popular Blogs. I thought it was funny that this URL was, according to Blogdex, the most popular linked-to story today. And many people linked to it as a real story. Duh!! Or maybe you'd like to know How Google really searches the Web ... # |
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