Dreaming of Paris Nights/New York Mornings

This is a song that inspires travel. Or inspires you to run around Paris in a couture dress and silver sparkly shoes. Love the song and the Corinne Bailey Rae's new album The Sea is slowly winning me over.

Is there such a thing as too much dessert?

My new favourite pizza joint is Little Caesars in Leederville. The award-winning pizzeria has such light, healthy and delicious pizzas on offer. There is no over-cheeseyness or grease. The crusts are thin and crispy and toppings are plentiful. We had the Greek lamb pizza with caramelised onion, rosemary, olives and drizzled with tzatziki and the peri-peri chicken pizza. I had to try a dessert pizza and I think the strawberry one is the healthiest of the lot. It has a biscuity base so it feels like you're eating strawberry tart pizza!



Also went to Kailis seafood for dinner on Saturday night, this is my pannacotta with pineapple sauce. Lovely.

2010 Year of the Tiger

Gong Xi Fai Cai! May the Year of the Tiger bring you good health and prosperity.

Each year my parents cook up a traditional Chinese New Year feast. It has become a little more fusion-Asian style fare though as we also feasted on fresh Coffin Bay oysters with soy sauce, wasabi prawns, roast duck, soya chicken and grilled snapper.

Now, what to spend my red packet on?

Material Girl

My mother unearthed some vintage gems from her closet which was perfect for my 80s inspired outfit to a recent birthday party. Gold lurex top, Glomesh handbag, huge clip on earrings, ghetto gold bracelet and a rather new Alannah Hill bow necklace. The high waisted denim skirt is from Sportsgirl. If I didn't wear the legwarmers it could even be a normal Saturday night outfit. Minus the clip ons.

Big Day Out 2010 Perth

Big Day Out is one crazy carnivale. Not for the faint-hearted, BDO is one heady festival full of rock, electro-pop and a few dance acts thrown in. Held annually at Claremont Showgrounds, this was my first BDO. Nevertheless I felt so old compared to the mass of 18 year olds around me. Perhaps the fact that I wasn't wearing a) high waisted shorts or b) a cut-out swimsuit was a dead giveaway.

BDO is comprised of seven separate stages, the Orange and Blue stages are next to each other for easy transitioning between big names.

On the Green stage we watched Lisa Mitchell beg the crowd NOT to throw coins at her during Coin Laundry. Her small voice carried over the crowd, surprisingly, and she sounded great live.

I knew Eskimo Joe's oldest song in their set "Wake Up" which definitely shows my age! Frontman Kav Temperley proudly spoke about writing songs "down the road" in Fremantle. He may need to rethink the all white ensemble though.





After surviving the mad push into the 'D' area we got ten deep close to the stage for Ms Lily Allen. Lily strutted out onstage, blinding us with her silver cape. Her set seemed longer than most covering big hits Smile, LDN, the Fear and 22. Underneath the giggling, smoking, beer-drinking and that Brit accent though - Lily struck a chord with her mostly female audience. "C'mon ladies, you know what I mean!" she screamed before breaking out into Not Fair. She changed three times and declared it to be her last gig before she branches out in a new direction, a shame that...







Buzzed after Lily's set, we pushed through to the front for Powderfinger, waited an hour, and stood right in front of Bernard Fanning. The oldies like These Days and My Happiness won the crowd over, as did Fanning's constant teasing of the crowd waiting for Muse on the Blue stage.





By this time we were exhausted, had drunk way too much free iced tea and were in desperate need of dinner and a sit down. We did manage to fit in a bit of Groove Armada's set before we caught Peaches and her massive mess of fake hair.

In 11 days time I'm going to Good Vibrations... wish me luck!