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Tonight's dish was chicken curry with rice vermicelli noodles, served with snow peas.
 
The biggest time saver for straitman would be the opening of the Pakenham bypass earlier this year. We have noticed a significant improvement since the bypass opened, with the trip Oakleigh - Sale now a tick over 2 hours.

thought i had it tough trekkinf MEL-rowville twice a week!!!
 
Tonight, I cooked Salmon fillets (skin on), with baked potato and Sweet corn for Mrs LW.

Yes, of course it was bought with Amex.
 
Tonight, I cooked Salmon fillets (skin on), with baked potato and Sweet corn for Mrs LW.

Yes, of course it was bought with Amex.

We had salmon on the weekend for lunch, served with a side of boiled asparagus with white sauce.


We have good taste - we should start an airline catering business.... (take that, Mr Perry....)
 
First paper went well this morning. But tomorrow will be catasthropic...

I forgot all about dinner tonight as I was in a panic about tomorrow's paper. Till it was midnight and I figured I'd better eat something to avoid gastric. Nothing fancy - just some chicken and mushroom pizza.
 
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First paper went well this morning. But tomorrow will be catasthropic...

I forgot all about dinner tonight as I was in a panic about tomorrow's paper. Till it was midnight and I figured I'd better eat something to avoid gastric. Nothing fancy - just some chicken and mushroom pizza.
Hope it wasnt reheated-reheated chicken is a common source of going gastric.Too late now I guess.
Anyway hope the exam turns out better than you thought.
 
We had salmon on the weekend for lunch, served with a side of boiled asparagus with white sauce.


We have good taste - we should start an airline catering business.... (take that, Mr Perry....)

Yes.. 50 pax on an enclosed airline eating asparagus. Can you imagine when the release the door at destination, the ground staff would just swoon with the odour!
 
Yes.. 50 pax on an enclosed airline eating asparagus. Can you imagine when the release the door at destination, the ground staff would just swoon with the odour!

Are you saying you can't exercise a little...."self-control"? :p :mrgreen:

What about serving eggs to pax for breakfast? (In J, standard hot meal is eggs, spinach, tomato and potatoes with a side of passionfruit yoghurt (wow - gas factor++ there); in Y periodically they put out those egg-and-bacon muffins). I've survived a MEL-BNE flight in the early morning with that loaded on board.

Maybe don't serve it to the plebs.

Then again, I might be talking way out of my league here. Is there anyone here that wishes J or F food be any better?
 
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Hope it wasnt reheated-reheated chicken is a common source of going gastric.Too late now I guess.
Anyway hope the exam turns out better than you thought.

Freshly ordered from pizza store. Barely survived exam...

Now got a week to study for a laughably easy one next week (ie, freedom has come early), funny how it's spaced out with the hardcore ones on consecutive days and so much time to study for a paper i can get a H1 on with my eyes closed.

The only positive thing at all about exams is Melbourne Uni holds them at the Royal Exhibition Building, site of the first national parliament of Australia. :cool:
 
Now got a week to study for a laughably easy one next week (ie, freedom has come early), funny how it's spaced out with the hardcore ones on consecutive days and so much time to study for a paper i can get a H1 with my eyes closed.

Been there before!

Once I had two exams pretty close to each other, then over a week to study for a test of which I could've failed (i.e. get 0) and still get a 6 (UQ grade scales are 0 to 7; 4 is a pass and 7 is a HD).

Then again, I was in a situation once where I had five exams to sit (I was doing five subjects that semester). The first four were sat within five days. Then I had to go to Gladstone for a conference, only to return four days later to sit the last exam the next day. (No way I was flying from Gladstone then sitting the exam the same day, even if it was in the evening.) All of them were difficult. :( But I survived (didn't fail anything).

Most exams at UQ are held either in the UQ Centre Exhibition Hall (seating for around 900 students at one time) or the UQ Gymnasium. Other halls and lecture theatres are used for smaller groups, anywhere between 50 and 150 people. Nothing really unusual or significant about sitting for an exam at UQ, except I always wished for a test location that had proper separated tables and chairs (not some of those long bench / swing seats that you get in lecture theatres *shudder*).

Aaah...to think I escaped that conundrum over 1 year ago now.....
 
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