What to do in New York City.

Put together a list of things to do in NYC from Jackie and then edited by Kelly after her and Les visited. I plotted all the places on a map with the comments. Should make for a fun time with Noel!


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Up to speed

So, considering I haven't posted anything in the last few months I should probably update everyone considering so much has happened. Let's see...

The bucks party was successful, although we went to none of the places I mapped out on Google Maps in the last post. We were far to messy to look at a map and try and find our way around, what was I thinking? Still, would love to go to Melbourne again soon and check out some of those places!


I got married, also a tremendous success. To quote Linda, "I want all of my kids to get married like that. It was seriously the best wedding I have ever been to." Was a beautiful day on the beach and a day that I'm sure Jackie and I will always remember fondly.


We went to Fiji on our honeymoon for 2 weeks. We had beautifully hot days, every day, it only seemed to rain at night time which was nice because it cooled down a bit. It was so nice to be pampered and not have to worry about anything at all. Our hardest decisions were what we were going to eat for our next meal. The imminent coup didn't happen until right after we left which was great.


The next milestone was be birth of my beautiful son, Aidan. Aidan Thomas Ullman was born at 3:42am on the 21st Feb, 2007 at 3.97kg and 50cm long (big boy). He was 15 days late and Jackie went into labour the day before she was due to be induced. The whole experience was amazing, Jackie was fantastic and gave birth without the use of any artificial pain relief. Still can't get over how amazing the human body is. I have been on an amazing high ever since it happened and I can't help but want to kiss and hug Aidan all day long. It's really disturbing my Masters work ;)

Bucks Weekend!

Our Hotel (Website)

Here are a few options for where we can go for the Melbourne trip...

Croft Institute(Website)
Fitzroy Pubs
St Jerome's (You may have heard of the festival, this is the pub)(Website)
Borsch, Vodka & Tears (A kick arse Vodka/Cocktail place)(Website)
Los Amates (A wicked Mexican Restaurant, Jackie will be very jealous if we go here)(Website)
Jackie Also Suggested Polly Bar(Website)
Golf Course! No dress code, just pretty much can't wear a singlet.

I got some tips from a friend of mine in Melbourne so that we can fill in the gaps as far as Fitzroy pubs. Warning, she's really into the "music scene" and so these places are all "cool".

The Night Cat (Supposedly a kinda Jazz/Swing place with a cool crowd)
Bar Open (This is probably where we'll end up at the end of the night. It's open the latest, hence the name).
Black Cat (This place is your standard pub with beer garden but it's on the street, looks cool).
First Floor (They call themselves Melbournes only authentic late night street club. Whatever that means? I think it has to do with the fact that they play Hip-Hop, Dub and Reggae. Website looks cool).
For breakfast apparently we need to go to some place called Bebedes or something, on smith st, I can't find it though.

I just realised, this is kinda silly considering we probably won't have an internet connection down there... Am I supposed to print this all out?

Engaged? Pregnant?

For those of you who don't already know, the love of my life, Jackie, is pregnant with my baby!



For the story from Jackie's point of view, read her blog entries.

For the story of the proposal from my point of view, have a look at my engagement flickr set.

Google Maps Test

Went to a Google maps API presentation today. Feeling inspired.

Just added a Map to the contact us section of aromaki too.

Locked in the Attic

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Well, it was definitely "wicked hella awesome". The DJ was actually playing Hip-Hop! It was great, Common, Mos Def, Kanye. I couldn't believe it, it was perfect... Got entirely too messy, drank a whole lot of alcohol and made an "aweful mess" in the back of a taxi on the way home... Still have to get my jacket dry cleaned. I felt sick all the next day which wasn't too good because I was out to dinner with family for my Dad's birthday. Good to know I can still get irresponsibly drunk at the ripe old age of 25.

Jackie baked me a lovely chocolate mudcake on my actual birthday and she bought me some shoes from diesel! Tuesday was a day of lazing around and gorging ourselves. I took the day off and Jackie and I spent the whole day in bed. Then that night we went to Restaurant Balzac for a degustation menu. We went the whole hog, wines and cheeses and it felt like we had consumed a whole hog at the end of it. I seriously think I stretched me stomach out of proportion. So now, not only am I in my mid twenties, I'm also fat...

Birthday Weekend!

Yay! My Birthday weekend is coming up, how exciting! Having a party tonight at the Attic Bar at the Art House dubbed "Locked in the Attic".

Right now the evite says 53 ppl are coming, should be wicked hella awesome fun!