Spicks and Specks-tacular

On Thursday evening Lauren and I went to see Spicks and Specks live show. Spicks and Specks is a half hour comedy music quiz show where 2 teams compete against each other.

The ABC show is hosted by Adam Hills, an Australian comedian. The two teams are lead by Alan Brough and Myf Warhurst.

[Alan, Adam & Myf]

Spicks and Specs has become my favourite Australian show. Because it’s such a fun show to watch; the comedy that is generated by Adam, Alan and Myf and the celebrity guests is a hoot.

The live show was great. Instead of celebrity guests, the audience were the contestants. Adam, Alan and Myf also did some comedy segments that were quite funny. There was the Dirty Dancing segment, a Phil Collins piano/ballet duo and a Thriller video re-enactment. Adam Hills started off with a bit of comedy, talking to and poking fun at the audience.

Some of the favourite games from the show were part of the live show - Malvern Stars On 45, Substitute and Mondegreens (misunderstood song lyrics). In the live show, it was revealed that Myf only learned the real lyrics to the popular Men at Work song Down Under while doing a live show. It’s the following lyric:

Proper: Where women glow and men plunder

She along with myself always thought the lyric was:

Wrong: Where women blow and men plunder

Her reasoning was that she came from the country and that seemed like a perfectly normal thing to say.

It was a great hour and half of fun and comedy.

A Thursday night on the town
After the show finished, just after 8:30pm, we exited the Comedy Theatre to a very warm and still light Thursday night. So we decided to wonder the city. Our first stop was Container 8 or Section 8.

A container that houses a bar, in a side alley. Lauren and I both had a Lemon, Lime and Biters, very refreshing. We stood around talking in the busy bar area. We then headed to Swanston street and stopped of at another trendy bar – Cookie. But it was so busy; we waited about 10mins to get a drink and then decided to leave. We walked to Federation Square and had another drink at Transport bar, sitting outside on a very warm summer night.

Our evening ended with us walking along Birrung Mar to Jolimont Station to get the train. But it was not departing for 25 mins. So we walked up to the nearby 7-11 and each grabbed a packet of chips and sat at a nearby tram stop. We ate our chips while watching the traffic go by till our train was ready to depart.

It was great evening of Fun in the City.

Spicks and Specks links
Spicks and Specks-tacular (the live show webpage)

ABC Spicks and Specks (ABC homepage)

On a Life Vacation

Sorry for not posting to the blog over the past week or so. I have been in a life transition. I finished my 6 month contract at the University of Melbourne last Friday.

Prior to that I was doing 2 things - cleaning up loose ends at work and working out all the requirements for a visa application that needs to be submitted at the end of the month to extend my stay down under.

Police Run Around

I am now in life of leisure mode, but with responsibilites - the visa application. Over the past 3 days I have been contacting various police stations to get a finger print done for a police check back in Canada.

I have been getting the run around as to when to go to the police station. As different times are busy or the staff are not available to do finger printing. Finally a police officer told me to contact the Australian Federal Police and they would do it. I called them and the earliest I could get it done was 24th of January. But he was very polite and considerate and offered me an alternative, the Victoria Police station. I called them and they can do it on December 18th. So I have that booked in.

Next up was a health check, that was much easier; called and booked an appointment for next Monday.

So far the Visa process is slowly getting under way and with some hard work and determination it will be completed and ready to submit in 2 weeks time.

Back to the Vacation

Friday was my last day at Melbourne Uni. It was a busy day ending my 6 month tenure there, but I got a great send off with some excellent gifts and a lunch at the pub. We sat outside on the deck on a warm and sunny Friday afternoon. Everybody was a bit loose and ready to chill and relax for 2 hours before heading back to work for the final 2 hours before the weekend.

Lauren had taken the following Monday and Tuesday off so we had a 4 day long weekend.

Here are the highlights:

Saturday night walked/public transit it to the city on a very warm night. Had drinks at Federation Square over looking the river. Walked along Southbank and had a dessert at a pumping drinking hole.

Monday went for a 2 hour ride to St. Kilda, got rained on. Had a good brunch at a St.Kilda restaurant that's been there forever.

Tuesday my police problems started but it was a relaxed day with a night out at the MCG to attend the Engineering department Christmas party. Enjoyed a one hour tour of the MCG and then had a 3 course meal at one of the function rooms. Very impressive building, blows away the Skydome/Rogers Centre.

As I am no longer working now and it is the holiday season and also Summer down under, my Blog entries will not be as frequent. But I will try to post at least once a week, if not more.