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Sounds of the City
Checkout your Neighbours
African Adventure
News & Events
Fashion
Welcome to the first edition of Vibe: a magazine for and about the people of 385 Bourke Street. It’s an exciting beginning, offering insights and opinions on the city, work, fashion, food, art and adventure.
We look forward to your involvement and interaction with the magazine, and encourage your feedback. In fact, we need your help. In the next issue we want to profile building tenants with distinctive personal collections: thongs, clocks, bones, glass eyes or rare moths – that kind of thing. Who are you? Likewise, who’s going to take the lead in our next fashion spread? We’re relying on you to let us know – it’s your magazine.
In the meantime, enjoy the read.
Duncan Imberger, Editor [email protected]
vibe | welcome
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Melbourne Sounds of the City 4
Getting Personal Checkout your Neighbours 8
Lost in Time The Federal Coffee Palace 1�
World of Work Battle of the Archives 14 Corporate Cooking 15
Get Lost African Adventure 16
Musicians on the Move �0
Dressed Up Spring Fashion �1
Food Glorious The Galleria invites you to breakfast �6 Breakfast Sabotage �7
Five Quiet in the city �8
The Angle News & Events �9
Inbox Career Blinded 30
Editorial
Editor – Duncan Imberger
Sub Editor – Colleen Ricci
Photography
Scott Bananno
Robert Hamer
Hari Ho
Istock
Daniel Vogel
Contributors
Ashley Crawford
Rani Kellock
Colleen Ricci
Stephen Scoglio
Emma Westwood
Tony Wilson
Design
Art Direction/Design – Evocatif
Production
Rothfield Print Management
Publisher
Evocatif
© All rights reserved. This publication is copyright. No part of it may be reproduced without prior written permission. Inquiries should be addressed to the Editor in the first instance. The views expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of Vibe magazine, the publisher or their staff and they make no claim to accuracy.
General Manager’s Note
Jones Lang LaSalle building management have great pleasure on behalf of building owner Commonwealth Property Office Fund to present the first edition of your 385 Bourke Street magazine VIBE.
We are happy to provide our readers interesting information on Melbourne city, topical articles and highlighting all the amenities that 385 Bourke Street has on offer. We believe the Tower and Galleria retail centre offers a fantastic environment to work in, absolute convenience and, instant access to lifestyle choices.
We would like to thank our team of editors, designers, writers and other contributors to the magazine. A special thanks to the tenants who have featured in our first edition and we look forward to more popping up in our next editions. Should you have any feedback or story ideas please feel free to drop us a line at [email protected].
Kind Regards, Sarah Bidinost General Manager 385 Bourke Street
Beyond the glass, beyond the balconies, Melbourne’s Docklands jackhammers to life every morning. The earth is not quite shooting buildings like it is in Shanghai, but cranes and trucks and girders and wolf whistles are aural signposts to a city that has put in the backyard pool, and is now building the gazebo.
The Dome across the way gives to the city’s west what the Holiest of Holies gives to its inner east: faintly muffled sirens, shouts from the Record boys, and the joyous anticipatory hum of tens of thousands walking to an event — voices analysing and dissecting, a cocktail of hope and anticipation. And afterwards, shuffling feet and immiscible collisions between the happy lurching ones and the sad angry ones, to a soundtrack of club songs played too fast and too often by opportunistic trombonists.
But it’s the trams that are the real soundtrack to the city. They once clacked and rattled, crunched and rocked, but now they glide down the streets with a futuristic whirr, saving the rattles for intersections and other special occasions. At the stops, there’s the wheeze of air-lock doors — a touch Battlestar Gallactica — while alongside, cars line up for Melbourne’s own indigenous right-hand turn. For the locals, it’s a part of life, as natural as brown rivers and floral clocks. For those with interstate plates, lips move
and hands slap against steering wheels, but the sound stays locked within their vehicles: silent feedback on the mystifying notion of edging left to turn to right.
There are snatches of conversation everywhere: “Get in the taxi Kerrie, we’re going to Metro!”… “You can have that table sir” … “If the market keeps doing what it’s supposed to”… “Sorry I’m late, couldn’t get a park” … “Buddy did alright on the weekend, didn’t he?” … “We’ll see you for after work drinks at Double Happiness”. Homeless people ask for change, barristers mutter sweet privilege to juniors pushing trolleys, waiters take orders, business people do deals … and Kerrie’s still not getting into her bloody taxi.
Buskers plug in their amps around the mall while people who hate buskers plugging in their amps shout: “Judas!”, as though Dave from Richmond at the door of David Jones is Bob Dylan from Massachusetts at the Royal Albert Hall. The amplified guitars and drums drag in the easily distracted – shoppers, tourists and escapees recovering in the fresh air after the fumes of the Myer cosmetics department.
The clock on the GPO building chimes. It’s stern on the hour, stern on the half hour, but whimsical on the quarter, as if encouraging Melbournians to rendezvous at the playfully oversized purse beneath. On Swanston Street,
But it’s the trams that are the real soundtrack to the city. They once clacked and rattled, crunched and rocked, but now they glide down the streets with a futuristic whirr, saving the rattles for intersections and other special occasions.
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Words: Tony Wilson
there’s the clip-clop of hooves, as puffed-up nags drag tourists around the Town Hall and Federation Square, where the architecture is grand and the koalas are five for $10.
The spruikers are here, too. Arthur Daley’s Clearance Centre’s amped-up evangelist shouts at Emo kids, too young to have watched Minder, about bicycle pumps, mobile phone cases and vacuum cleaner bags. The volume’s too high to avoid distortion, yet not high enough to drown out the handbag spruikers - also distorted, also turned up to eleven. Underneath all that amplified enthusiasm there is a tiredness: how did life come to this?
At Queen Victoria Market, the energy is real. Words roll off tongues without gaps: “Onedollarthirtyabunch … Twelvedollarsfiftyakilo”. The frantic ripping of plastic bags, different accents everywhere: Greek, Italian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Arabic — all shouting some form of truth, no microphones required. In the meat pavilion and the deli, the concrete floor and walls make the perfect echo chamber, allowing the last specials to bounce around until after closing, to be mopped up with the blood and brains.
At Parliament, a policeman stands at attention with only the sound of his breathing to keep him company. But around the corner, in Flinders Lane, every emerging alley is an invitation to a party. Short blasts of music and frivolity jut into a grey thoroughfare of carparks and cement. There are people in there too - drinking, talking, laughing - but you can’t hear them. There’s shouting over the top of a CD that nobody particularly loves, but that everyone agrees makes the place sort of work. The speakeasies for a new millennia.
At the bottom of the hill are the muted sounds of the Yarra, silent most of the time - drowned out by the business of the city. Occasionally, a boat drifts
by with churning water and rumbling engines and guests sip their drinks while soaking up the view of a mustard-coloured station that was meant to be built in Kolkata, and a ferris wheel that became a permanent fixture without anyone really noticing. Within the vessels, tall men lean forward, chins on chests, bemoaning the short bridge builders of another era who never imagined the booze cruisers of the twenty first century would want 190 centimetres of clearance.
Up above, cameras click with the fake shutter sounds of the digital era as tourists hold smiles and photographers manoeuvre to get the MCG in the background.
It’s another beautiful night in a beautiful city.
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For Peter Jewitt, bike riding is more than a means of transport or a way to stay fit – it’s an all-consuming passion. He rides seven days a week. From Monday to Friday he cycles to and from work, and on the weekends, he rises with the early birds to take four-hour rides with his cycling group. All told, he chalks up around 300 kilometres in the average week. Not a bad way to keep that boardroom belly in check.
Peter owns three bikes, all of which he uses regularly: a Giant for cycling to work, a Colnago for his weekend riding, and a mountain bike for when he’s in the mood for some off-roading. Excessive?
Not to Peter. “My Colnago is like the good china – you bring it out on special occasions.”
Cycling is an obsession that Peter expects to be indulging for many years to come. “It’s something you can do into your more advanced years,” he says. “It’s not just a sport for people in their early twenties.”
Does all this riding leave time for anything else? “I’ve got teenage daughters, so when I’m not cycling, I’m taxiing them around.” Guess it’s safe to say that the Jewitt girls haven’t taken up their dad’s obsession just yet.
Peter Jewitt
Relationship Executive, Natural Resource Solutions,
Commonwealth Bank
Consuming passion
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Words: Rani Kellock
For Vanessa Chow, riding is by-and-large a means of transport to and from work. Her hybrid bicycle – straddling the middle ground between a heavy-duty mountain bike and a light-weight racing bike – serves her well for inner-city riding. “I’m not a serious biker, although I do ride for leisure sometimes.”
The winter chill has kept her from indulging in the occasional Sunday ride along the Yarra, which is something she does enjoy. “The weather’s been horrible,” she says. “At least, that’s my excuse.” Generally, however, her spare
time is reserved for more artistic pursuits, such as experimental photography and fire dancing.
What’s fire dancing, you ask? An evolution of traditional Maori dance, it involves dancing while swinging two flaming balls, held by lengths of chain. Sounds like a recipe for disaster, but with seven years experience, Vanessa is well past the accidental-self-immolation stage. “When you have a group of people all fire dancing together,” she says, “it looks fantastic.” Viewed from a safe distance, no doubt.
Vanessa Chow
Executive Associate, Commonwealth Bank
Fire dancer
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The co-owner of a software development company, Mark Johnson is a self-described technophile who confesses he can’t wait for the iPhone to hit our shores. But when it comes to commuting, Mark still prefers the slightly lower-tech option of a bicycle over car, bus or rail. “It’s more reliable than the transport system, and it’s faster than driving,” he says.
The owner of a “nice road bike” (he was reluctant to elaborate, lest he be branded a ‘bike wanker’), Mark often goes for recreational Sunday rides in
addition to his regular weekday commute. But with three new additions to the Johnson clan in the last four years, family matters leave room for little else. “It’s fantastic,” says Mark, “I think having kids teaches you to be less selfish. It’s very grounding.”
Having children has also made him more conscious of the importance of balancing his lifestyle. “Everyone goes on about work/life balance, but having kids really makes you look at those issues rather than just whining about them.”
Mark Johnson
Co-owner, Shine Technologies
Well balanced
Towering the corner of King and Collins, the Coffee Palace was the design of architect William Pitt, and considered the pinnacle of his distinguished career. In the 1880s, the Temperance Movement was led by Christian groups attempting to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed. The movement swept over the city and coffee palaces were erected as respite from traditional alcohol soaked pubs and clubs. The Federal Coffee Palace was the most grand, holding 600 diners and boasting over 500 rooms, 6 lifts, 7 kilometres of bell wiring for service, 8 kilometres of gas piping, over five million bricks, and, not least, ice-making facilities in the basement to keep everything fresh - thereby unquestionably making it the most modern building in the CBD.
DRIFTERS, DILETTANTES AND THE DEBONAIRE With a constant stream of travellers and well-to-do types, the Palace was a vibrant hub of activity that saw most of Melbourne on its doorstep at one time or another.
When Frederick Bailey Deeming and his wife Emily sailed into Melbourne from Southampton, England in December 1891, they took lodgings at the Coffee
Palace. A few weeks later on Christmas Day, Emily was murdered by Deeming, a madman, responsible for another five deaths and, at the time, even suspected of being Jack the Ripper.
At the other extreme was Charles M Alexander, American evangelist and song leader, who came to the Coffee Palace in 1906 with a red-covered hymnbook in his hand and a song in his heart. Reunited with old friends, they tinkled the piano and famously had the whole hotel singing tunes that Alexander described as “soul-winners” – ‘When I fear my faith will fail, Christ will hold me fast...’
THE MODERNISATION (DEMOLITION) OF A LANDMARKIt was a chilly morning in 1973 when thousands of people turned out to watch Melbourne take another step into the future – by destroying a piece of its past. In a surge of 70s style modernisation, the Federal Coffee Palace was demolished to make way for office developments. In that instant, a rich history was lost, leaving behind only a few old photographs and a piece of gilded cast-iron, now held by Museum Victoria, simply bearing the initials ‘FCP’.
Corner King & Collins streets 1888 – 1973
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vibe | lost in time
The Federal Coffee PalaceWords: Stephen Scoglio
Sailing into Melbourne in 1888, and toward an uncertain future, newcomers were welcomed by the sight of a dome, fifty metres in height, which would reveal itself as the top of the Federal Coffee Palace: the most extravagant building on the city skyline.
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DIGITAL ARCHIVING
With scanners, DVD burners and hard drives now more common than paperclips, it’s no wonder that digital archiving is slowly turning the humble filing cabinet into an endangered species. But what exactly is it, and should we really be sending our manila folders out with the recyclables?
What is it?
Digital archiving is the process of scanning a document into a digital image and storing it electronically rather than in hardcopy form.
How does it work?
Documents are scanned and then stored on a hard drive, external drive, online or on CD or DVD. Once stored in this manner, they become legal documents that can be easily archived and retrieved when required for printing, faxing, emailing – or court proceedings.
So what?
Any office - large or small- needs all the space it can get. One of the main advantages of digital archiving is space creation.
A typical four-drawer filing cabinet, holding around 1�,000 pages, takes up a lot of space. When scanned, a standard page is around 50 kilobytes in size - tiny. A CD holds 700 megabytes, while a DVD holds 4700 megabytes. It follows that a single CD can hold about the equivalent of a four-drawer filing cabinet, while the storage capacity of a DVD equates to roughly seven - and a lot more room for office cricket.
And when it comes to the bottom line, as it so often does, digital archiving can save companies thousands of dollars each year – in floor space and paper. The environmental benefit of saving so much paper is another big-ticket advantage.
Electronic documents are also invariably better organised than hardcopies, making them easier to retrieve. A computer will never forget that R comes before S, meaning those Receivable Balance Fractions �007 will never go missing again!
THE FILING CABINET
The filing cabinet, as we know it, was invented by Edwin G Seibels in 1898. Working in his father’s Cincinnati insurance office, it dawned on Seibels that the system of folding papers into envelopes and storing them in pigeon-holes could be improved if the folding was dispensed with. Instead, documents could be stored in larger vertical envelopes, in drawers. His epiphany revolutionised record keeping forever.
What is it?
Metal drawers, expander files and manila folders. Along with those other office stalwarts, the stapler and the rubber stamp, the filing cabinet remains an office icon, despite the onset of digital archiving. The reason is simple: many companies still prefer to keep hard copies of their records. Easy access, and the fact that it presents a regular excuse to get up from your workstation, make the filing cabinet an ongoing favourite.
How does it work?
Through a complex system of squeaky wheels and big drawers, a packed four-drawer filing cabinet holds around 1�,000 pages - not counting the ones that have fallen down the back, or are stacked on top.
The basic design and functionality hasn’t changed much since 1898. Aesthetically, however, there have been advances. In fact, Victorian company Planex took out the �004 Australian Design Institute Award for its impressive new take on the office favourite: the first time a filing cabinet had been nominated for the award – or, quite possibly, any award. The ADI gave the following reasons for its decision.
“The design makes a bold aesthetic statement which sits beautifully in the modern office environment. Robustness, permanence and inscrutability of form and finish are communicated through its simple, clean strong lines. Often overlooked in furniture design, this range demonstrates that office storage units can present a strong sense of individuality. The design conveys a dependability and quality with an elegance that is visually calming and well grounded.”
So what?
The slamming of a filing cabinet drawer creates an audible punctuation that simply can’t be beaten. So much better than squeezing a silly little ball with a smiley face on it! And without filing cabinets, work experience kids would have nothing to do.
Forget abseiling or white-water rafting: corporate team building and training courses are turning up the heat. The ever-increasing range of activities on offer is encouraging companies to think outside the box when it comes to improving workplace relations. The array of options that incorporate a spirit of fun guarantee that employees will be stifling laughter rather than yawns – and that has to be good for business.
Corporate movie-making, corporate Kendo, the Idol song challenge and corporate clowning are all legitimate team-building choices these days, but if there are already too many clowns in your office and you value efficiency over silliness, you might choose to swap the big shoes and bad make-up for … pots and pans.
With his company, Sea Leggs, teacher and chef, Tony Legg, has been running corporate team cooking events since �00�. Unlike corporate clowning, the advantages are perhaps, more quantifiable. “Most of the time, people come into our classes with an idea about food, but without a vision for how it all comes together,” says Tony. “Once you work with them through processes that parallel the workplace, they end up producing a meal at a commercial level. It helps reinforce the fact that in the workplace, we may not always have a complete vision but at the end of the day
someone does. It’s that vision that is then communicated, translated and nurtured and finally, realised.”
In Tony’s classes, taking people out of their usual working environment and putting them together in the kitchen, reveals a whole new side to their particular group dynamic. Whether it’s beating eggs with Sally from HR, or tenderising steak with your boss (and not imagining him as the meat!), working together to produce an exotic meal will offer new insights into the personalities of people you’ve been working with for years, in a way that’s fun and positive. Ultimately, however, it isn’t about cooking – no prior cooking experience is even necessary – it’s about working together, and using techniques that are entirely new to most within the group, to produce a completely satisfying team result.
For your team, a cooking class may elucidate the same qualities necessary to effectively run the engine room of a busy restaurant: planning, cooperation, good communication and attention to detail. Tony has no problem tailoring such classes to suit the individual needs of your business, whether it be a team-building exercise or a reward event … but don’t expect any Iron Chef-style competitions. “First of all, there’ll be no winners or losers – that negatively impacts morale,” he laughs. “No, I don’t see the merit in competing.”
Corporate Cooking
Throw on your aprons and get your team cooking with gas.
Words: Stephen Scoglio & Colleen Ricci
Digital Archiving OR The Humble Old Filing Cabinet? We provide the low-down, you be the judge.
vibe | world of work
Battle of the ArchiveWords: Stephen Scoglio
A visual tidal wave greets you as you leave the airport in Kenya and step into its embrace. Street-side markets crowd the road selling everything from Nike shoes to bananas and melons; roadside tombstones to brightly-patterned textiles, and new bed frames, carved in-situ.
Gutted Spanish style buildings reside incongruously beside thatched huts, surrounded by the brilliant purples, reds and oranges of rampant bougainvilleas. Around �00,000 people are housed in a massive expanse of slums, built using any materials available to them: cardboard, mud, iron sheeting or scavenged timber. Looming left is the natural beauty of the Ngong Hills, marred by the vision of the Fulfilment Butchery – God bless those who enter. Nearby, but perhaps inevitably, sits a Cyber Café, closely followed by a Carmelite settlement, a Muslim
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vibe | get lost
Reminiscent of a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis, we watched these unexpectedly bright-coloured creatures emerge from the darkness of their dung-covered cocoons.
For writer, Ashley Crawford, the unwavering cultures of the Maasai and Samburu tribes of the vast Serengeti Plains leave a memory that lingers. Adventure
Photography: Hari Ho
frican
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vibe | get lost
Mosque, a Hindu temple, a Christian Church, and more bananas and melons. In amongst it all – everywhere – there are smiling people: satin skinned women with massive loads balanced elegantly on their heads, adorned in bright yellows and oranges. Here, one’s senses are fully alive in an atmosphere that stimulates an insuppressibly giddy excitement. Here, anything can happen.
In this spirit, and in a moment of spontaneity for photographer, Hari Ho and myself, we decided to buy drinks for a group of Samburu people who had been working in the hotel at which we were staying. After a long session, we were invited to a wedding in the nearby village of Kiltamani the next day: an enormous honour.
On our arrival, we were asked if we’d like to visit the bride’s home. The Samburu live in small dung huts in which an ever-present fire dissuades the copious insects. Just inside the door, a fly-ridden severed cow’s head takes pride of place right next to a chained, terrified goat. An honoured gift, the goat will be devoured during the celebrations. We are introduced to the bride, Sakina, who looks decidedly wan. She will be a second wife at the age of ��. It is an arranged marriage and she has not yet met the groom.
The wedding was an hallucinogenic tsunami: a wave of clashing colours highlighting the Samburu’s cargo-cult approach – the grasping of anything of colour to adorn their
appearance. The women had begun decorating themselves with traditional ochres and red beads. The clan’s matriarch, a withered breast exposed, was overseeing the preparations with a sharp and unforgiving eye.
Reminiscent of a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis, we watched these unexpectedly bright-coloured creatures emerge from the darkness of their dung-covered cocoons. Strangely, however, it is the men who lead the race in terms of elegance, stature and even dress and make-up.
The ritual began with the young women, crowding in a circle and singing loudly. The men approached the village from the grasslands in a rigid line, clutching savage spears and amassing a short distance from the circle of females, to begin a ceremonial solo dance of strides, leaps and hoots. During the dance, a number of the young warriors began to shake violently. Eventually, one succumbed to a trance, the evocation of bravery causing his body to stiffen while he muttered unintelligible sounds and was held tightly in place by two of his compatriots.
Africa has many riches: wave upon wave of visions, impressions, sounds and smells that flood the senses. For me, however, watching the Samburu dance and celebrate, my mind was taken back to a time before globalisation; before electricity, and before instant gratification, to one of ritual and savage beauty. These images will remain forever etched in my memory.
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dressed up | vibe
As an audience member, attending a performance by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, you generally know what to expect: a conductor, formal seating arrangements and the odd music stand. However, imagine a break in this tradition, where you see six MSO musicians emerge from the orchestra pit and physically move, weave and even lie on the stage, whilst interacting with 11 other performers.
Premiering at this year’s Melbourne International Arts Festival is one such production. Hunger is the product of an intense creative collaboration between the MSO and rawcus – a theatre company of people with (and without) disabilities.
Artistic Director of rawcus, Kate Sulan, explains, “The musicians move between being actual musicians and being performers on the stage. They’re actually part of the action, totally out of their comfort zone,” she says. “What’s interesting about the project is that it’s two completely opposite groups of people coming together. One is very big and based in tradition, and the other is a small, independent theatre company made up of people with disabilities. It’s quite a stretch for both companies, which is great.”
Hunger has been a few years in the making, following a decision by the MSO to try something different with their outreach program. While the musicians were previously accustomed to taking
the role of teacher, working with the performers of rawcus has been more of a two-way street.
Sulan continues, “What happened was this beautiful exchange. The first time the musicians played, all the performers looked and gasped in astonishment at their talent. And the first time the performers moved or performed, the musicians had exactly the same reaction. So it was really exciting and really inspiring; lots of ideas came. From a five-day workshop, we created a full show.”
The idea at the heart of Hunger is something familiar to everyone: love. “We were inspired by the idea of hunger and, in particular, the desire and longing for love, which is a key experience for some of the performers in rawcus,” says Sulan. “The show developed from their stories and their experience of the world to become a stunning poetic piece, like a series of moving pictures and images. It’s a meditation on love and all its different aspects.”
More in the style of physical theatre, Hunger is based in dance and words – not song. In particular, it promises an awe-inspiring set design by Emily Barrie, with Sulan admitting that one scene features a massive skirt that cascades across the entire stage. “It contains personal little manifestos, as well as large visual images,” she concludes. “It is really, really beautiful.”
Further information: melbournefestival.com.au
Musicians on the move
Melbourne International Arts Festival preview: Hunger
Words: Emma Westwood
vibe | musicians on the move
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vibe | food glorious
Breakfast SabotageWords: Stephen Scoglio
Are you a morning person?
NP: Not normally but if we have to go out shopping for wedding outfits and shoes we are!
SA: My son’s getting married in two weeks and we’re still out shopping.
Is breakfast your most important meal of the day?
SA: For me, it is.
NP: Well, they’re all important!
SA: It’s the start of my day and quite often I don’t have lunch.
NP: I can’t start my day without it. I’ve always got to have something in my stomach.
What do you usually eat for breakfast?
SA: I have cereal and then I’ll always have either a cooked tomato, or a tin of baked beans.
NP: Tea and toast for me.
Ever skip it?
SA: Only on days when we need to go shopping!
NP: Well I didn’t; I still had my tea and toast!
What are you eating today?
SA: We’re sharing. It’s ham, cheese and avocado.
NP: And it’s on Turkish bread isn’t it?
SA: Yes, Turkish bread, and it’s very nice except I don’t like ham.
NP: No, now I’ve got this pile of ham on my plate, which I won’t eat!
Will this get you through?
SA: It’ll get me through but probably not her!
NP: No.
Sisters Shirley Allen & Nanette Philip have a habit
of starting shopping days at the Galleria foodcourt.
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For those of us who prefer nothing more than a good cuppa for brekkie, T� has a range so varied that choosing just one is a real challenge. However, after a lengthy tasting process, our suggestion is Morning Red: a rich blend of assam, keemun and yunnan teas with a very full-bodied flavour, that mixes perfectly with a drop of milk.
CREMA CAFFE
If breakfast isn’t the most important meal of your day, but more a tasty little treat to partner an essential fix of caffeine, then head
straight to Crema Caffe. Whether it’s a cappuccino, latte, mocha – or whichever one gets you going – Tony and his staff recommend
a couple of chunky slices of their spicy cardamom fruit toast.
BLAHNIK
If you’re after a hearty and healthy breakfast, George at Blahnik has a mouth-watering menu that’s bound to satisfy. His personal
favourite: a toasted ham, cheese and tomato foccacia served with a rocket, pumpkin and chickpea side salad. Accompanied by a
strong latte, it’s a combo that’ll not only stave off your hunger, but also have you storming through the morning.
The Galleria
invites you to
breakfast
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vibe | five
Quiet in the cityWords: Colleen Ricci
the angle | vibe
In August �005, the Lord Mayor received a proposal from several of Melbourne’s independent small business proprietors suggesting a program that would recognise the committed people, within the City of Melbourne, who have made a long-standing contribution toward our city’s prosperity and vitality. The Lord Mayor was delighted to oblige and The Small Business Proprietor Commendations are the joint result.
Small businesses number a significant 10,470 of the 1�,500 businesses within the municipality and contribute significantly to Melbourne’s cultural identity. Many of them are unique – even iconic – and offer products and services that cannot be found in the large suburban shopping centres. Often located within the labyrinth of arcades and laneways that distinguish Melbourne from the other capitals, these small businesses attract many visitors daily, making a vital contribution to the city’s economy. Indeed, the health of this local economy is dependent upon the ongoing prosperity of the small business community.
This year’s Small Business Proprietor Commendations will recognise those who have
helped to make Melbourne the great city it is. Among the nominees, in the �5+ years (Silver) category, are two rather chuffed Galleria tenants: Vladimir Tsyskin of Diamor Jewellers and Sybella Murphy of the Teddy Bear Shop.
“It was an honour to be nominated,” says Sybella Murphy. “I’m very happy that there is recognition for people who are seen to have added to the flavour, if you like, of Melbourne.”
Vladimir has been creating fine jewellery for over 35 years and considers himself to be a simple man who loves his job. Making his customers happy is his greatest satisfaction, and though surprised by his nomination, he feels honoured to have been recognised. “I get the greatest satisfaction when children of my customers, who bought engagement and wedding rings from Diamor years ago, come back to buy rings for themselves.”
Vladimir and Sybella will be honoured in a presentation ceremony to be held at the Melbourne Town Hall during the Melbourne Business Week Festival in October.
1) The La Trobe Reading Room at the State Library of Victoria. Aside from footsteps upon linoleum, this is as close to absolute silence as you may get. Take a book, find one there, or simply look up: it’s an inspiring architectural marvel. On your way out, see Famous: Karin Catt Portraits, in the gallery. Photographs of actors, musicians and world leaders feature here until November 11th. It’s free. (Corner Latrobe & Swanston.)
�) Visit The Immigration Museum to discover the many amazing stories of the migrants who made Victoria their home. More stimulating than you might imagine, there are lively exhibits, as well as places for reflection. The Tribute Garden, where seven thousand migrant’s names are recorded, is particularly contemplative. An enriching experience all round. (Old Customs House building, 400 Flinders. Tribute Garden is free.)
3) Stroll through Degraves Street and Centre Way to find a quiet corner in a cosy café. Sounds of general chatter, foot traffic, and perhaps a piano accordion, may be just the ‘remove’ you need. You may even find yourself transported to a small corner of Europe … and there’s a tiny Florentine stationery shop to help that along.
4) If quiet, for you, is a seat outdoors with a garden vista, visit the garden plaza enclosed by Lt. Bourke, Thomson and Lt. William. Not on a main thoroughfare, it feels tucked away. And there’s our Supreme Court building to admire. (Rear of 500 Bourke.)
5) The City Library. The two people snoozing on the lounge chairs would agree that this place is informal, cosy and comfortable. There is a gallery upstairs offering fresh monthly exhibitions, and accompanying the photographic exhibit on my visit, was a piano that softly permeated the entire space. Lovely. (�53 Flinders Lane.)
Quiet, within Melbourne’s CBD, is perhaps an oxymoron. However, 70% of respondents to the recent CitySounds survey reported that they would make time to visit a ‘site of respite’ at least once a week. But when your time is your own, is it still possible to find public spaces that will render the spruikers and jackhammers mute? Here are five:
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Customers have the chance to win one of four VAIO laptop computers, supplied by Sony Central, just by shopping at the Galleria. Collect the code word from any Galleria purchase made, and SMS the entry to 0428 414 961 from the �6th November 07 until �0th December 07. Winners will be randomly selected and contacted via phone and mail on the �1st December 07. (Terms & conditions apply. A full set of these they can be viewed at galleria.com, or collected from any store at the Galleria.)
The Lord Mayor’s stamp of approval for two Galleria tenants
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To: “Wendy Davis” <[email protected]>
From: “Graham Collins” <[email protected]>
Date: 6 August 2007 9:05 AM
Subject: your weekend
Hi Wendy,
how was your weekend? Better than mine
I hope! I had to spend all Saturday rewriting
the Huntington report after it disappeared
off the work server. I do remember you were
looking at it last thing Friday, so I was just
wondering if you knew anything about that?
Cheers, Graham
Career Blinded
To: “Graham Collins” <[email protected]>From: “Wendy Davis” <[email protected]>Date: 6 August 2007 9:17 AMSubject: Re: your weekend
Hey Graham,
I had a great weekend, thanks for asking. We went to the park – it was great weather, wasn’t it? Sorry to hear you had trouble with your report, and no, I didn’t look at it on Friday. Hope it all worked out okay!!
Best,Wendy
Words: Rani Kellock
To: “Wendy Davis” <[email protected]>From: “Graham Collins” <[email protected]>Date: 6 August 2007 9:23 AMSubject: Re: your weekend
Hi Wendy.
Well, thanks anyway. I could have sworn I saw you looking at the report last week, but I must have been mistaken! It’s just with a promotion in the works, I want everything to be just right.
All the best,Graham
To: “Graham Collins” <[email protected]>
From: “Wendy Davis” <[email protected]>
Date: 6 August 2007 9:28 AM
Subject: promotion
Hi Graham,
Yes, that promotion certainly is a great
opportunity! Andrew probably shouldn’t
have come out and said that we were both
being considered for it, but I don’t suppose
it matters. Obviously they’ll choose the best
candidate, and I’m sure in the meantime that
we can behave professionally.
Regards,
Wendy
To: “Wendy Davis” <[email protected]>From: “Graham Collins” <[email protected]>Date: 6 August 2007 9:36 AMSubject: Re: promotion
Hey Wendy,
I think you’re absolutely right. There’s no reason that this promotion thing should be a problem for us. May the best man win! ;)
Cheers,Graham
To: “Andrew Keller” <[email protected]>, “Jeanie” <[email protected]>, “Graham Collins” <[email protected]>, “Noodles” <[email protected]>, “Ram” <[email protected]>From: “Wendy Davis” <[email protected]>Date: 7 August 2007 9:14 AMSubject: Anyone seen my laptop??
Hi team,
Have any of you seem my laptop? I seem to have misplaced it. I really need it back as soon as possible – I’ve spent the last couple of days on that powerpoint presentation, and I’ve got my show-and-tell with the board of directors tomorrow.
Best,Wendy
To: “Graham Collins” <[email protected]>
CC: “Andrew Keller” <[email protected]>
From: “Wendy Davis” <[email protected]>
Date: 9 August 2007 11:03 AM
Subject: laptop
Hi Graham,
You’ll be glad to know I finally located my
laptop – at our Brisbane branch! I guess
whoever collected my documents for delivery
the other day also put my laptop in the courier
bin?! The delivery receipt was signed by a
Nathan Buckley; is he one of the new clerks?
Regards,
Wendy
To: “Wendy Davis” <[email protected]>CC: “Andrew Keller” <[email protected]>From: “Graham Collins” <[email protected]>Date: 10 August 2007 10:43 AMSubject: Re: laptop
Hi Wendy. I’m sure Nathan Buckley was one of those work experience kids we had in last week; I don’t think he’s been in since he pulled a hammy working in the storeroom. By the way, don’t worry about that little accident in the lunchroom – my dry cleaner says the syrup should come out just fine! I’ve left a copy of the dry cleaning receipt on your desk, but there’s no hurry in paying it!! Best, Graham
PS. Sorry, I don’t know what happened to your office chair, either. I’ve asked around, but no one seems to know how the fire started. Just one of those things, I suppose.
To: “Wendy Davis” <[email protected]>CC: “Andrew Keller” <[email protected]>From: “Graham Collins” <[email protected]>Date: 13 August 2007 9:03 AMSubject: Mrs Buckley
Wendy,
You’re probably wondering why I’m in casual clothes again today. Seems that someone picked up my suit from the dry cleaners! My dry cleaner said it was a woman calling herself “Mrs. Buckley”. Very droll.
Graham
To: “Graham Collins” <[email protected]>
CC: “Andrew Keller” <[email protected]>
From: “Wendy Davis” <[email protected]>
Date: 14 August 2007 9:51 AM
Subject: my car
Dear Graham,
You don’t happen to know anything about
what happened to my car the other day, do
you? Henry said you took the bag of sugar
from the kitchen to “make a birthday cake” for
me, but my birthday isn’t until February!
Sincerely, Wendy
PS. I heard they found your suit. Could you
salvage anything from what was left in the
shredder?
To: “Wendy Davis” <[email protected]>CC: “Andrew Keller” <[email protected]>From: “Graham Collins” <[email protected]>Date: 16 August 2007 3:21 PMSubject: zsfga
Wendty,IKf thuis email id hard to read, it’s becayuse I’m typing with my left handf... it’eds a funnby thing – it seemsd likje someone strunfg a length of wiree acxross my fronrt door thgis morning!! I just fgot back from the doctotrs, but IU was dissapointed to finsd ytou aren’t at work todayt... hjope everything’s aalright! Andrew left the Vermann filee on your desk this mornibng, but don’t worry, I’ll bring it over to tyour house, help ytou get the hjjump on it. See you sdoon!!!!!!!11111111G
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