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			 by gstark on Thu May 19, 2005 2:16 pm
 If you  have placed our anniversary email address into your email address book please REMOVE IT AT ONCE. We are now getting spam at this address, and I am not at all happy about that. Also, do NOT send us email in HTML. That is NOT what HTML is designed for, despite Olive Oyl's abhorrent implementations of it within email clients.
As I've said, we're making good progress towards organising the event of the year, our first anniversary weekend extravaganza!
 Birddog has made the booking for our Friday night feast, and a feast is exactly what it will be .....
 1/ Mix Entrée
 2/ Deep fried live lobster salt & pepper
 3/ Peking duck (with second course: San Choy Bow)
 4/ Satay Seafood combination
 5/ Filet steak black pepper
 6/ Pork spare ribs with Peking sauce
 7/ Crispy Skin chicken
 8/ Two kind of mushroom with vege.
 9/ Special fried rice
 10/ Singapore rice noodle
 Dessert: Plate of fruit.
 The Friday dinner will be held at a different venue from where we had our Christmas dinner; this venue should be able to more comfortably accommodate the numbers we're expecting.
 The new venue is: 
 Sunny Seafood Restaurant
 320 Forest Road
 Hurstville  NSW  2220
 Tel: (02) 9585 1633
 The cost for Friday dinner will be about $40/pp.
 I'll post the Saturday menu next week, but most importantly, we're starting to run short of available seats for people to park their bums on, so if you've been procrastinating about letting us know that you're coming, put off the procrastination till later, and let us know now.
 Otherwise, you might find yourself first in line for the second anniversary dinner.    So, we need your names and numbers for the Friday and Saturday dinners, emailed to Anniversary@d70users.com .
 And finally, a reminder to Sydney members to NOT come to Birddog's this Saturday morning, but instead to to come to our Sydney Night Shoot  on Sunday. Last edited by gstark  on Sun May 22, 2005 5:20 pm, edited 3 times in total.
					
				g.Gary Stark
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 by MHD on Thu May 19, 2005 2:51 pm
 hmmm $40
 Might have to pull out of the friday night one... getting a bit steep for my student budget....
 
			
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 by birddog114 on Thu May 19, 2005 2:57 pm
 MHD wrote:hmmm $40
 Might have to pull out of the friday night one... getting a bit steep for my student budget....
 Sell more photos online  Birddog114
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 by MHD on Thu May 19, 2005 2:59 pm
 working on that    Actually have three entries in a local art show which if they do well might generate some sales! 
			
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 by Glen on Thu May 19, 2005 3:01 pm
 Gary, well organised and even though it is possibly going to exclude our comp organiser unless he sells a few more photos, at around $3 a course for the twelve courses I say thanks to you and Birddy for negiotiating the price downwards.
 Scott, sell the image which won the comp for you, that was a cracker    
			
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 by Catcha on Thu May 19, 2005 3:01 pm
 Damn thats and impressive..........list of food there...2nd and third are my favourites heheeh.
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 by MHD on Thu May 19, 2005 3:10 pm
 Glen wrote:Gary, well organised and even though it is possibly going to exclude our comp organiser unless he sells a few more photos, at around $3 a course for the twelve courses I say thanks to you and Birddy for negiotiating the price downwards. Scott, sell the image which won the comp for you, that was a cracker   
 hehe its in the show..
 I'll still be at the all important dinner on saturday...
 Its just that me+louise = 80 for friday + 50 for saturday = $130
 We will be at the saturday dinner to announce the winners of the grand huge stupendous and rather descisive comp 5
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 by fozzie on Thu May 19, 2005 3:14 pm
 I can smell it from Adelaide, yummie - better than vegemite sandwich for lunch today     .fozzie
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 by huynhie on Thu May 19, 2005 3:15 pm
 The menu looks good   
			
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 by Glen on Thu May 19, 2005 3:27 pm
 Scott, it wouldn't be the same without you. That shot of yours is stupendous, if it doesn't arouse some interest then Canberra is a photographic wasteland    
			
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 by sirhc55 on Thu May 19, 2005 3:34 pm
 Just going to get some bread and water and dream about August  Chris--------------------------------
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 by pippin88 on Thu May 19, 2005 3:35 pm
 Sounds very good.
 Can we come to this and only this on the weekend?
 
			
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 by Glen on Thu May 19, 2005 3:42 pm
 Nick, cant see any reason why not. The big dinner is Saturday night though, not Friday 
			
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 by mudder on Thu May 19, 2005 3:46 pm
 ooohhhhh, I'm salivating... yum... Aka Andrew 
			
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 by genji on Thu May 19, 2005 3:53 pm
 mudder wrote:ooohhhhh, I'm salivating... yum...
 we should skip on-board meal and wait for this!   
			
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 by birddog114 on Thu May 19, 2005 3:54 pm
 Not only meals on both evenings, there're surprised door prizes waiting for your check-in also. Birddog114
VNAF, My Beloved Country and Airspace
 
			
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 by gstark on Thu May 19, 2005 5:19 pm
 pippin88 wrote:Sounds very good.
 Can we come to this and only this on the weekend?
 Nick,
 The activities you choose for the weekend are entirely at your own discretion/budget. The only thing we ask is that you prebook everything that you're wanting to do, so that we can cater for numbers. 
 But ferinstance ...  you can do as little as 
 Friday - dinner only.
 Or 
 Saturday ... dinner only (this one is THE MAIN EVENT, btw )
 Or 
 Friday dinner + Saturday dinner 
 ....
 Plus ...
 we'll have breakfast sessions, photoshop and lighting tutorials, Sydney shoots (maybe even a shoot-out at Bondi beach or a friendly Westfield centre)
 There'll be praying at the VR Temple at 4am Saturday, and lots of Coca Cola consumed at the Sigmathon 2 hours earlier ...
 And that's not mentioning the door prizes that we'll be arranging, plus, I expect, special gifts (like the Chrissie watches) that might just turn up for those who are attending.
 Have I left anything out?g.Gary Stark
 Nikon, Canon, Bronica .... stuff
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 by Geoff on Thu May 19, 2005 6:29 pm
 For those of you who knew big Kev, may I quote...
 'I'm excited'   
			
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 by Oneputt on Thu May 19, 2005 7:04 pm
 I really would love to go to this event, but family commitments preclude my participation. Reading that menu................that is not fair   
			
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 by birddog114 on Thu May 19, 2005 7:13 pm
 Oneputt wrote:I really would love to go to this event, but family commitments preclude my participation. Reading that menu................that is not fair  
 Oneputt
    No excuse please! have to get in and you'll discover what the Sydney boys are doing.  Birddog114
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