Hello,
Fairly quiet week this time. These days I have been making some frequent trips to visit "Justice of Peace" or in other words Notary Public officers. Have to go to them to get some documents attested once in a while. Wonder whatever training they undergo, they get to become next to "God" to prove the authenticity of myself and documents. The best part of this deal is it is free. Everywhere else there was always some nominal fee involved. In US, some bank officials had this "power" but they still used to charge a fee of $2 per signature (if you did not have an account in their bank). Here they sit in the premises of the city courts and do this as a volunteer job. Apparently any citizen could be a volunteer I guess. I saw a "trainee" JP - an asian lady who was attesting one of my documents.Talking about courts, invariably I see at least one TV crew waiting outside the city court. Noticed this in Melbourne, a similar phenomenon here as well. Probably awaiting for some hot news that's happening within the chambers?
The food courts down here have a good practice which I don't think have seen elsewhere. Towards the end of the day most of the vendors pack up their left over food and sell it at a discounted price. Thought it was a great idea to avoid food waste. The only problem there is they tend to mix up combinations which are not always suitable for my choice.
Last saturday was a Thai day at home. My cousin and wife had visited us as part of their visit to Sydney. Menu - fish cake, tom yum soup, chilli basil fried rice (kao pad grao) and fish curry. Except for the shrimp paste everything else was made from scratch. If at all I open a Thai restaurant it will be named Kaffir. :-) Any dish can become a Thai dish the moment you put in some kaffir leaves. The fish cake turned out to become a fish bonda and the fish curry ended up being a bit too salty. Learned a few lessons there.
That's all folks.
Have a great week!!
Chetty
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