Rocket Car Race Day 9 Marrickville

There were thrills and spills in the 9th Rocketcar Race Day in Marrickville. In this event, people bring their homemade rocketcars and the winner is the one whose rocket goes the furthest, although there were also awards for coolest rocketcar and most dangerous rocketcar. The rules are pretty simple, the car must be propelled with just one rocket. Thats about it. Although just for fun, there was one ultra supersonic rocketcar (pictured above) that had three rockets!! It was awesome!!!

There was also a car, or should I say a rocket, that was propelled by a fire extinguisher. This was also awesome!! In between the action of the rocketcars there were also jumbo jets flying very low over our heads and the occasional semi-trailer. All in all it was pretty cool to see. I believe the official website is here
Check out the videos!! Yeah rock on!!

Sushi Tengoku - not any more

Thursday night, I was craving sushi. There was one condition: it had to be BYO, because I had in my possession a killer bottle of Eden Valley Reisling. James Busby I believe, but I can't remember the exact name. Anyway, I know that this wine goes very well with sushi.

When I was attending university at UNSW back in the day, I remember going to a little hole in the wall on Anzac Parade, Kensington called Sushi Tengoku. This literally translates to "Sushi Heaven". From my previous experience I remember they had a very good pipi miso soup and also that the sushi was delicious, made with generous large pieces of fish.

I was excited to go back, alas I was to be disappointed. First of all, as my friend and I entered the restaurant we were greeted with stares from hungry looking customers, but not a single waiter or waitress in sight. The decorations were non-existent except for some soy sauce stains spattered on the walls.

The decor was horrible and the table was sticky. Ambience: minus 20.
The only waiter in the place finally emerged but did not acknowledge us. Finally, I found what was supposedly a menu, but was actually a piece of paper that we were supposed to fill out with the number of each item we wanted. My friend and I were trying to contain our disgust so we decided that we should at least try what we came for: the asari miso soup (pipi or vongole inside). I searched that list, but to my horror, I could not find it. That was the final straw. We got up and left...for Sushi Suma!!

When we arrived at Suma (http://www.sushisuma.com/), we were so relieved to be acknowledged by a waitress, who asked us politely to wait in the waiting room upstairs. We didn't mind this at all since the ambience and decor was two hundred times better than Sushi Tengoku and we could order from a proper menu. We were even given clean wine glasses so we could start drinking while we waited.

It didn't take long before we were seated downstairs and our food was immediately brought to us. Compared to this, Sushi Tengoku could have been called Sushi Jigoku (hell).
The food was great here, I loved the sushi, but the Crab Croquette is my personal favourite. The wine went well with all the food here too and the corkage was ridiculously cheap.

At the end of the night I was again pleasantly surprised. This time by how reasonable the bill was. As I sit here writing this review, I can't help but feel disappointment for Sushi Tengoku. The place had so much potential, but it's as if the owner has just given up and lost inspiration. They could really use some help. I want Chopping Block (I think thats what its called the restaurant tv show), to help them out and really kick their asses. And bring back the miso soup!!

Hitman the movie review

I've played the hitman game before on PS2 and wasn't too impressed. I might like it better on PC.

So I just finished watching the Hitman movie and since I was expecting it to be utter shite, I wasn't too disappointed. There were some good action scenes, cool weapons, a somewhat suspenseful plot and as a bonus some nice T & A.

Oh and some nice cars too. I noticed Audi were a sponsor of the movie and there were some sweet Audi cars used throughout the movie.

I found a few things annoying, like the way the hitmen walk around with bald heads and a big barcode tattooed to the back of their heads and nobody seems to think this is strange... and the ugly red tie - whats with that? Can't a hitman have some fashion sense? I thought the whole idea of the hitman was that he is a master of disguise. Also, the hitman guy doesn't even let the hot Russian chick f#*k him. Is he gay? The chick has a great body, I liked her and I'm glad she didn't get killed. I wish they'd shown more of her torture scene though.

I realise that they tried to be true to the game, but if so why did they use such a pissweak actor to be Agent 47. He had a gay American accent and his face was weird. If you see the movie, you'll know what I'm talking about - for example, the scene in the car where he's supposed to be angry at the russian chick: he just seemed like a confused homo, not a coldblooded killer.

The action scenes were pretty cool. Hitman really knows how to kill people good. All in all I give the movie 7/10. Would I recommend watching it? Nah.

Mardi Gras : Gay

Went to see the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade last night. I wasn't going to go since I've already seen it a hundred times, but a Japanese friend of mine had never seen it so I went with her. Pardon my French, but it was the same shite as last year and the year before that. My Japanese friend loved it and had a great time. Although I watched until the end, I wasn't all that thrilled about the parade. There were the same old characters and no real entertainment value. The most interesting part of it was watching the people in crowd who were mostly drunk, and also some young people who were obviously on ecstasy or weed or both.

Gay friends of mine tell me the real party starts after the parade, but even if you're gay or lesbian, the tickets are hard to come by and you have to be super good-looking to get into the best parties.

I don't think I'll go to Mardi Gras next year. First of all I'm not gay. Second, its just going to be the same old shit. Seeing men dressed in drag just doesn't do it for me. I guess I'm getting old, but I'd rather watch men dressed in Armani or Hugo Boss showing off the latest fashions.

Anyway that was my rant on the Mardi Gras.