You Can't Review That: This Review
Beginning with this sentence, the titular piece fails to engage on any level, unless you’re a particular fan of self-reference and recursion. The piece is typographically conventional, with only mild deViaTions from form or convention which (just like this parenthetical comment)...
New Navy
Vibey guitar licks, dreamy vocals and a backbeat of punchy tribal drums,
New Navy have crafted a sound evocative of escapism and coastal freedom.
A beguiling call to abandon the tedium of the daily grind, their hit single “Zimbabwe” conjures sun-soaked images of beach...
Dubious Backpackers
Backpacking is a paradox. Although debatably a more exciting alternative to a crowded group tour or a retreat to an island resort, it can contradict the expected comfort and relaxation that is assumed synonymous with a ‘holiday.’ Aside from anticipated annoyances, such as a relentless...
Dish It Up - Boiled Eggs
I feel like there is a point in every one’s life when out of choice or desperation a boiled egg is all there is for dinner. Let’s face it, apart from the quintessential egg lover who consumes a boiled egg with mayonnaise daily, for the majority of us a boiled egg is the last resort when...
Canberra in Summer: What To Do?
Now before you make a sweeping judgement that there’s nothing to do in Canberra, rest assured I too was once entrapped in this mindset. It will be hard to shake but eventually, with a little effort, the inland capital can be far more exciting than you ever imagined!
Now let’s...
Exam Etiquette
Exam time: tis the season to be indoors and studying while we begrudge our friends in other cities that have already completed their academic year. The taunts of possible happiness do not end there, the weather is the complete opposite of the Canberra stereotype but the ducks and the...
Couchsurfing
Congratulations! You’re leaving Canberra over the summer period. Whether it’s an exchange program in Columbia or a brief sojourn in New Zealand, it’s not so much why you’re going away that matters – just that you’re going, and soon.
Having made the...
Speak Singlish, Lah
My friends and I were discussing what being Singaporean meant for us while lounging at the Burton & Garran Hall during an event organised by the ANU Singapore Students’ Association (SSA). Our lighthearted banter was all about whether Singlish (our colloquial brand of English...
I did but see her Secret Service Protection
“You’re British! Are you excited about the Queen being in Canberra?” “No.” If you’re one of the people who asked me this question in the lead up to the Royal visit this month, I’m very sorry for disappointing, and for (presumably) answering in a...
Poetry: Untitled; Mantodea; 22; The Lantern in the Cave; 30; 31
Untitled Connor Drum They as went the whole way there, and found the empty black, Discovered that the hole was large, and chose not to come backñ They stared a while, the gormless eye that held their feet in place Gazing blankly at their ragged forms, a pale and weary...
