Media thread - 10 November 2025, 12:46

A photo in portrait orientation taken from the fourth floor of our building, looking down Carrington St in Sydney. There are tall buildings on on the left, and a bunch of trees and greenery on the right, with more tall buildings rising up in the distance past the greenery. It's completely sunny and the sky is totally blue except for a single fluffy cloud.

I'm in the office today, and for this entire week which is going to be a hell of a shock. We've got a team event where we've flown in the whole department from all over the place, so I'm going to be non-stop peopling and am going to be so drained come the end of the week, heh.

Posted on 10 November 2025, 12:46

A photo of the Sydney Opera House, behind it and partly obscured by the Opera House is the distinctive coathanger shape of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. There's some blue sky at the right but most of the sky is cloudy, though in a somewhat dramatic way rather than a bland and boring and flat way.

A photo of gulab jamun, an Indian dessert. It's a single brown round ball sitting in a little silver dish.

For day two, we went for a lovely (if rather windy) afternoon walk up to Circular Quay and around to Mrs Macquarie's Chair, then went for dinner at an Indian restaurant called The Grand Palace. 👌🏻

In related news, I am very full.

darkroom food sydney opera house sydney harbour bridge in the office

Posted on 11 November 2025, 20:23

A photo of a bowl of laksa in a white takeaway container. It consists of thin noodles with a chilli coconut soup all over it, there are pieces of barbecue pork scattered throughout, and two big pieces of tofu on top.

Nothing major today, I even left work on time, but we did go to our favourite laksa place for lunch (Laksa King on Erskine St) and I'm happy to confirm that it's still excellent. 😎

I always forget just how slow the week passes when you're in the office every day though, I can't believe it's only Wednesday today.

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Posted on 12 November 2025, 19:23

A wide-angle photo taken out of the 29th floor of our office building, looking out and down. Directly in the front is a much older building, the Grace Building, in an art deco style, mostly surrounded by much taller modern office blocks made of glass. The sky is mostly overcast.

A photo of a three-section metal tray, the left has a roti canai which is a sort of fluffy balled-up pastry thing and a dollop of sambal sauce, and the other two sections have two different types of curry sauce in them.

A photo of a plate of mee goreng, with a slice of tomato, lime, and three slices of cucumber next to it.

Today itself was uneventful, but we caught up with an ex-coworker and went to Chatswood for Mamak and it was good as hell.

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Posted on 13 November 2025, 21:18

A photo of a small round cheesecake with berries on top of it, sitting in a shallow white bowl.

I am home! ::collapses in a heap::

Another uneventful day, though we got a piece of delicious cheesecake for our usual Friday afternoon sweet treat and it was pretty tops.

I also think I've realised why my sense of time post-COVID has been so wonky: it's because I'm primarily working from home now and not commuting in. This week has gone by so slowly, and it's felt so long (not in an "oh god kill me now" kind of way mind you), and yet when I'm WFH it absolutely whips by and suddenly it's the weekend, but I'm still mentally operating on the slower commuting-in-every-day state. I suspect if I had only ever primarily worked from home, this would be less of a thing.

food portrait mode cheesecake in the office

Posted on 14 November 2025, 18:32