http://www.orble.com/five-passions-cooking-tennis-taekwondo-music-and-french/ Five Passions - Cooking, Tennis, Taekwondo, Music and French en Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:03:00 GMT Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:03:00 GMT info@orble.com info@orble.com http://www.orble.com/boris-berman-recital-piano-no-no-no/ Late last week I attended one of the ANAM Piano! 2009 recitals - that of Boris Berman. The recital began with selected Chopin Nocturnes, (Op. 15, Op. 27 and Op... http://www.orble.com/boris-berman-recital-piano-no-no-no/#comments http://www.orble.com/boris-berman-recital-piano-no-no-no/ Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:03:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/triple-j-hottest-100-songs-of-all-time-are-they-kidding/ Recently a friend of mine posted the songs she had voted for in the Triple J Hottest 100 Songs of All Time poll on her Facebook profile. Curious, I decided... http://www.orble.com/triple-j-hottest-100-songs-of-all-time-are-they-kidding/#comments http://www.orble.com/triple-j-hottest-100-songs-of-all-time-are-they-kidding/ Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:55:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/taekwondo-black-belts-too-easy/ Are black belts in martial arts too easy to achieve these days? I practise taekwondo, and became a black belt after 2 and a half years of training. I did... http://www.orble.com/taekwondo-black-belts-too-easy/#comments http://www.orble.com/taekwondo-black-belts-too-easy/ Mon, 18 May 2009 04:23:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/custard-schmustard-klutz-in-the-kitchen-ii/ As I placed the vegetable slice I made for last night's dinner in the oven, delighting in my own legend status, I began to ponder what I'd do with the... http://www.orble.com/custard-schmustard-klutz-in-the-kitchen-ii/#comments http://www.orble.com/custard-schmustard-klutz-in-the-kitchen-ii/ Thu, 07 May 2009 05:23:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/would-you-like-mashed-tennis-with-that-or-squash/ I really love playing tennis - most of the time. Over the past few days I have had the joy of playing a doubles match with my brother, a beginner... http://www.orble.com/would-you-like-mashed-tennis-with-that-or-squash/#comments http://www.orble.com/would-you-like-mashed-tennis-with-that-or-squash/ Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:28:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/spanakopita-anyone/ My grandfather was a Greek migrant who married my grandmother, an Australian girl from the country, back in the 1920s. Over the course of their lives together my grandfather taught... http://www.orble.com/spanakopita-anyone/#comments http://www.orble.com/spanakopita-anyone/ Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:47:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/dawn-of-the-soprano-at-her-peak-dawn-upshaw-with-the-aco/ I recently had the privilege of attending a Dawn Upshaw concert with the ACO - I've waited a long time to hear her as she was due to tour here... http://www.orble.com/dawn-of-the-soprano-at-her-peak-dawn-upshaw-with-the-aco/#comments http://www.orble.com/dawn-of-the-soprano-at-her-peak-dawn-upshaw-with-the-aco/ Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:25:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/french-teachers-read-on-and-weep/ I recently had the (mis)fortune of reading through the year 12 exam paper in French, and all I can say is shame, shame SHAME on those who wrote this. Firstly... http://www.orble.com/french-teachers-read-on-and-weep/#comments http://www.orble.com/french-teachers-read-on-and-weep/ Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/beethoven-beer-elgar-and-the-afl/ Why do advertising agencies persist in degrading master pieces of music? Obviously copyright considerations disappear from the equation because many of these composers have been dead for so long, and... http://www.orble.com/beethoven-beer-elgar-and-the-afl/#comments http://www.orble.com/beethoven-beer-elgar-and-the-afl/ Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:16:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/what-does-music-give-us-ii/ One of my first posts was about what I think music has to offer people, but on Friday night and I attended a reunion of people from primary school, and... http://www.orble.com/what-does-music-give-us-ii/#comments http://www.orble.com/what-does-music-give-us-ii/ Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:40:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/french-piano-music-showcase-in-melbourne-next-week-pascal-rog/ Is anyone else excited by the influx to Melbourne of several internationally acclaimed pianists for recitals over the next week? I almost fell off my chair at the prospect of... http://www.orble.com/french-piano-music-showcase-in-melbourne-next-week-pascal-rog/#comments http://www.orble.com/french-piano-music-showcase-in-melbourne-next-week-pascal-rog/ Fri, 30 May 2008 01:24:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/klutz-in-the-kitchen-no-just-around-it/ So another Easter has come and gone, and I must describe a not-so-memorable day in the kitchen on Sunday. I decided that I would make a contribution to the Easter... http://www.orble.com/klutz-in-the-kitchen-no-just-around-it/#comments http://www.orble.com/klutz-in-the-kitchen-no-just-around-it/ Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:26:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/prince-charming-the-king-of-all-racquets/ I am the owner of two reasonably up-to-date tennis racquets, (Volkl C40s for anyone interested - my yellow bumblebees) and after a little hiatus from playing competition I decided I... http://www.orble.com/prince-charming-the-king-of-all-racquets/#comments http://www.orble.com/prince-charming-the-king-of-all-racquets/ Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:48:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/goddess-of-the-automobiles-the-citron-ds/ A truly quintessential image of Frenchness (for me, at least) is one of their most famous cars, the Citroen DS. When you pronounce DS (deesse) in French, in a beautiful... http://www.orble.com/goddess-of-the-automobiles-the-citron-ds/#comments http://www.orble.com/goddess-of-the-automobiles-the-citron-ds/ Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:43:00 GMT http://www.orble.com/taekwondo-just-for-meatheads/ One of the joys for me of doing taekwondo is that it's both a constant physical and mental challenge. Last night in class, we worked through some of the poomsae... http://www.orble.com/taekwondo-just-for-meatheads/#comments http://www.orble.com/taekwondo-just-for-meatheads/ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:21:00 GMT