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Monday, February 28, 2011

Pleasure at Restaurant

Hi, Friends, did you have a good weekend?
This week, I'll chat over dinner at a restaurant.

As we, Australians have many different cultural backgrounds, food and dishes are full of variety. You can go round a world on streets. Looking at a menu is a great fun with family and friends. BUT foreign languages are tricky to make an order. Guessing is not helpful. Seek advice straight from a waiter or a waitress is the best option:). Or "ini mini mani mo"?!!--good luck! (*"Ini mini mani mo" is a kids song to choose something from more than 2.)

I love any dishes.
Observing cooking is another fun. It's a culture. Skilled chefs and workers techniques are art. Sophisticated and elegant movements astonish customers and guests.
A most fun is bringing bottles of wine to a shop and have dinner with close friends and family. Chatting over stupid stuff and exchanging dishes are my favorite.
Great stress busters.
Nice food, good wine and familiar faces make us happy.
Only the "side effect" is the fear of a scale. Gulp...??!!

Lastly, a bit punchy joke.
During WWI, an anthropologist was doing a field work on cannibalism in a tribe. One day, the academic explained about the ongoing war.
Barbarians
asked him, "What will you do with dead bodies?"
The scholar proudly answered that cultivated people would not eat human fresh.


The answer upset the barbarians so much,
"How savage! You kill others without any reason!"
...may peace be on earth.


Friends, have wonderful weekdays!!

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44 comments:

  1. Como siempre maravilloso Sadami. Un saludo.

    Sadami wonderful as always. A greeting.

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  2. Gracias por hacerme reir. Un saludo y enhorabuena por compartir.

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  3. Hello Sadami, thanks for the laughs. It is morning for me and I love a good laugh to start my day. Your paintings are wonderful and your cartoons hilarious. These blogs of yours should be published in your local newspaper for all to see.

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  4. Sadami I love your stories, you always make me laugh - your posts are just wonderful. Big hug from Milan!

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  5. Fun paintings as always. Fun weekend as well. Enjoy life's good times.

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  6. Oh, Sadami, once again you have me smiling and then laughing out loud! Smiling at the beautiful renderings of the cafe and chef and then laughing at poor Sadami on the scale after enjoying so many varieties of food :) LOVE IT!! This could be on a refrigerator for all of us watching our waistlines and instead of being angry we cannot eat that pie in the frige, we would just laugh at your cartoons and walk away, happy to have an apple or maybe yogurt :) Thanks, again, for always brightening the day.

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  7. Beautiful! Love the chef in particular.
    Good food and good company is for sure one of life's pleasures. But Sadami, I have to ask, how was it you saw me in the bathroom on the scales? :-)

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  8. This was very fun going to the restaurant with you. I love the dark one with the street lights-very effective.
    Love the new watermark on your art too!
    Hugs

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  9. Hi, Sadami. Here we are still on week-end. I always enjoy reading your comments and looking at your cartoons, They're so funny! You're amazing! Enjoy your restaurant meals and don't worry about the scale. Cheers.

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  10. Dear Juan,
    Thank you for a kind encouragement. Let's enjoy it!
    Cheers, Sadami

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    Estimado Juan,
    Gracias por un estímulo tipo. Vamos a disfrutar de ella!
    Saludos, Sadami

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  11. Dear Jose,
    Thank you very much! Let us enjoy drawings and paintings.
    Cheers, Sadami

    Estimado José,
    Muchas gracias! Vamos a disfrutar de los dibujos y pinturas.
    Saludos, Sadami

    >>>>Jose said...
    Thanks for making me laugh. Greetings and congratulations for sharing.

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  12. Dear Carol,
    Thank you for the nice enourage. I hope you, too, enjoy exploring any area at the blog.
    Best wishes, Sadami

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  13. Dear Jane,
    Wow, your couragement is so nice and thank you. Let's have fun together.
    Cheers, Sadami

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  14. Dear Linda,
    Thank you for encouraging! Let's have fun in art activities.
    Cheers, Sadami

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  15. Dear Rhonda,
    Thank you! Oh, your comment always makes me smile. But my weight is the headache even though nurses comfort?! me at hospital. Let's enjoy our lives fully!
    Cheers, Sadami

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  16. You are absolutely hilarious, Sadami. Love your renderings and wit!

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  17. Wonderful sketches! So full of life and 'bubbly', just like your commentary! Thank you!

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  18. Dear Pat,
    Oh, thank you and you, too, have a wonderful sense of humor! These days, swimming gives me more appetite. Nurses say muscles are heavier than fat. Hope I'm putting muscles.
    Cheers, Sadami

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  19. Dear Sadami,

    When I weigh myself tomorrow morning after a weekend of unrestrained eating, I will think of your clever paintings and hope I laugh at myself. Maybe if I stand on one foot, I'll loose a few pounds!!

    Yours,

    Nanina

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  20. Dear Teri,
    Thank you~! Watermark has a long story. My "expecting" friend designed it a year ago. But computer hopeless Sadami could not use it. The friend had a baby and recommended me to use Picasa for an easy watermark, as you saw before.
    But suddenly, Picasa does not upload my work to either Mozila and Explorer. Oh, my goodness! Panic attached Sadami, but has started using Blogger's uploading again. It works. Now, I've learned how to put old watermarks by myself. Made it! Not bad. Looks more professional.
    Today, I go to a computer shop to check my computer.
    Cheers, Sadami

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  21. Dear Linda,
    Thank you! "Happy girl," "Unique," "Funny," "Crazy girl"--friends and others say.
    Cheers:), Sadami

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  22. Dear Juday,
    Thank you! Lively, spontaneous, free--I hear often for my watercolor. I'd keep them and develop all.
    Cheers, Sadami

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  23. Dear Albert,
    Thank you! I know what you mean, but a scale makes me sigh. I walk much better and swimming brings more appetite. I'd believe muscles on my body, not fat.
    Cheers, Sadami

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  24. Dear Nanina,
    Thanks! Yes, laughter in a healthy manner, not an ironical or cynical way, is very good for us. Good luck for your one foot stand scaling. Physics seems not allow an exception, but worth trying. You may find a new great mathmatical theory that could take over Newton.
    Cheers, Sadami

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  25. Sadami, your hilarious stories and lively illustrations always make me smile :) Thank you for sharing positive emotions! :)

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  26. Dear Maria,
    Thanks! I'm positive and will have happy days, yey!
    Cheers, Sadami

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  27. さだみさん
    私たちはとてもラッキです。オーストラリアりょりをおいしいです。あいかわらず えをだいすきです。

    良い1週間を!
    エベリン

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  28. dear sadami, you are wonderful ! you are funny !
    you are a great painter ! I enjoy very much your
    posts ! it's always a great pleasure to visit
    your blog ! thank you so much
    I wish you a wonderful happy week !
    bisous

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  29. Hello Sadami!
    Love your paintings and people gestures! The street scene is wonderful also! And we all do that dance on the scale, don't we? Have a great week ahead.
    Dora

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  30. Very funny, and wonderful sketches, Sadami!

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  31. Magnífica serie de dibujos, todos muy conseguidos, y que bueno lo de la balanza ! y esto que parece lógico que se pese menos con un pie en el aire! Ja Ja. tienes un sentido del humor muy bueno
    saludos.

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  32. I like your visual diaries. Very cute and funny. I love your watercolors !!

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  33. Sadami, qué capacidad de dibujar y escribir textos sobre cualquier tema, tienes. Es increíble!
    Me gusta mucho esa acuarela que representa de noche y muy divertidos esas ilustraciones del resultado de las comidas. Me ha hecho reir mucho. Ja, ja ,ja,!!!!!

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  34. Hi, エベリンさん
    すごい!!あなたの にほんごは どんどん じょうず なります。マレーシアりょうり おいしそうですね。あなたのしゃしん, だいすきです。
    あなたも 良い1週間を!(*すばらしい、あなたはかんじをつかいました。すこしづつ, がんばってネ。)
    Love and smile, Sadami

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  35. Dear Marty,
    Thank you! Your blog full of beautiful poems and wonderful photos. Me, too, love visiting your blog. Please keep up! Have a wonderful week!
    Cheers, Sadami

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  36. Dear Dora,
    Thank you and ahahahaha! I'm very happy to know "I'm not alone." (*Or kind & sensitive Dora tries to comfort me?!) You, too, have a wonderful week.
    Cheers, Sadami

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  37. Dear Cristina,
    Thank you so much! Please take a rest for a while at my blog like a coffee break in busy days:).
    Cheers, Sadami

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  38. Dear Francis,
    Thank you very much! After 1km swimming, I have a very good appetite and gave up "diet"! Certainly I'm putting on weight, but size for clothes are not bad. Mmmm...healthy muscles are on me?!
    Yes, a sense of humor makes our lives happy. I love it:).
    Cheers, Sadami

    Estimado Francisco,
    Muchas gracias! A 1km de natación, tengo un muy buen apetito y renunció a "dieta"! Por supuesto que me estoy poniendo en el peso, pero un tamaño de ropa no son malos. Mmmm ... músculos sanos están en mí?! Sí, un sentido del humor nos hace la vida feliz. Me encanta:).
    Saludos, Sadami

    >>>Francis said...
    Magnificent series of drawings, all very achieved, and what good balance! and it seems logical that weighs less than one foot in the air! Ha Ha! have a good sense of humor
    Greetings.

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  39. Dear Tiffanny,
    Oh, thank you and me, too, love your blog and cartoons. So funny, but in fact, you are really caring and sensitive for readers!! Great!
    Cheers, Sadami

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  40. Dear Joshemari
    Thank you for encouragement and lovely laughters. I'd like to share happy with others at the blog. If my blog readers can take a rest for a while in busy days, I'm very happy:).
    Love and smile, Sadami

    Estimado Joshemari
    Gracias por risas aliento y encantadora. Me gustaría compartir con los demás felices en el blog. Si mis lectores del blog pueden tomar un descanso por un tiempo en días de gran afluencia, estoy muy feliz:).
    El amor y la sonrisa, Sadami

    >>>>Joshemari said...
    Sadami, what ability to draw and write articles on any topic, you. It's amazing!
    I love this watercolor is very fun night and those pictures of the outcome of the meals. Made me laugh a lot. Ha, ha, ha,!!!!!

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  41. I love your sense of humour :) Excellent

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  42. Dear Ruth,
    Thank you! I love your wonderful paintings with amazing techniques.
    Kind regards, Sadami

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  43. The sunny place of joy and wide smiles. Someday it will be a published book sold out with huge success.
    My tip with scales: I always take away my slippers going onto the scales. They are so heavy)))

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  44. Dear Irina,
    Thank you! I will die in poverty:), but happily. You, slender lady does not need any strategy!! Have a nice weekend.
    Cheers, Sadami

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