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Food: Warm Thai Beef Salad @ Mocha Jo’s

February 9th, 2010 | Author: van | Filed under: autos, eats | No Comments »

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Dinner at Mocha Jo’s with a friend last night. Warm Thai beef salad, for the both of us.

Oh, but I do love this one. If it were a steak, you’d call the meat medium-rare. I might even see if they’ll make it straight rare next time. Why wouldn’t they?

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This Week’s Ride: 2010 Volkswagen Golf GTI

February 2nd, 2010 | Author: van | Filed under: autos | No Comments »

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As a motoring journo, I get to kick around in some pretty special cars. It’s not the highest paying gig in the world, to be honest, so it’s perks like these that make it worthwhile. (until it comes time to buy a house, and then getting to drive nice cars becomes fairly useless to you!)

Because I’m TMR’s News Editor, I don’t do many reviews anymore. Running the news simply takes too much of my time as it is, so squeezing in a review each week is more than I can take on. Because of this, I usually only get the cars for a day or two.

This week, I’ve been lucky enough to get my hands on the latest generation Golf GTI, thanks to Volkswagen Australia being only too aware of my obsession with the new Golf.

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