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Melbourne Cup Day
Today is Melbourne Cup day and it’s public holiday here in Melbourne Victoria, AU. It’s Australia’s major Thoroughbred horse race. Billed as The race that stops a nation, it is a race for three-year-olds and over, over a distance of...
Kim Cooper of Oz idol 2009 was out!
Overdue post again sigh. Sorry to those whose eyeing the updates in my blog. It’s just that life is not that always easy . It was Kim Cooper who was voted out last week and tomorrow will be the next elimination round and final five performanc...
Australian Idol Semi Final 2 and 3
I was right with my own judgment or my bet with semi final two round. Nathan Brake and Ashleigh Toole were the contestants who made it. No doubts of it, even Australian voters agreed. With semi final round three, it was Scott and Sabrina a...
Aussie and RP loses out in Miss Universe quest
Venezuela again crowned as Miss Universe 2009. Fernandez, 18, inherited the Miss Universe crown from another Venezuelan, Dayana Mendoza, who won the competition in 2008. She bested young women from 83 countries (not 84 as earlier reported), including...
Miss Universe 2009
Glad I watched news earlier this morning and I found that today is the Miss Universe 2009 pageant. Pageant held in Bahamas Sunday evening. It will be this morning here in Australia and in the Philippines. I immediately check who’s the Philippin...
Australian idol has begun
We almost forget the first airing of Australian Idol last night. Infact we’re 30 minutes late. Luckily we’re still had 1 hour and 30 minutes left. Choosing contestants to be part of top 100 was really fun to watch. As usual. What people e...
Australia’s first Masterchef
We love watching Australia’s Masterchef almost every night. The interesting about it is that my kids loves the show too. They been very excited who will gonna win and they even stopped playing just to catch the show every night. It’s a go...
Dream a Win
About 3 weeks ago my hubby went on to bet on the Lotto here for the first time. Who wouldn’t want to bet on a chance to bag about nearly 100 million dollars? It would have been a grand prize like no other. We could easily afford a not just ...
Happy Birthday England Queen
The Queens Birthday holiday is basically a day when everyone gets the day off to celebrate the Queens birthday. Although Australia does not have a queen they have a prime minister. They have the Queens Birthday because the English found Australia and...
I pass!
I pass the driver learner test. I’m so thankful to God for hearing my prayers. People might say it’s easy to pass the test. Yes it’s easy as long as you read and study properly the Road to Solo driving handbook. The point is, not al...
Beware of Taxi Skim Scam
Taxi drivers are defrauding unwitting customers, charging phantom trips to credit cards and pocketing the cash. The taxi scam, which comes in the wake of card-skimming fraud investigations across the city, involves drivers taking card imprints in man...
Victorian Labour Day
Yesterday was public holiday and everyone seemed to be away from their nests. Well, an entertaining celebration in the City was enjoyed by most of people. Celebrating the Australian labour movement. At eleven am, we watched the Moomba Waterfest. An A...
Severe Weather
Today is predicted to be bad. Emergency services workers have used the strongest possible language to warn people of the severe weather threat today. Storm damage and raging fires are expected in both regional and metropolitan areas, with wild winds ...
Australians national day of mourning
Australians will today observe a national day of mourning to honour the victims of Victoria’s bushfires. Services will be held across the country, with the largest taking place at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena this morning at 11am AEDT. The...
Lists of the Dead and Missing Due to Victorian Bushfire
Take a look a their names and include any of their names that you can remember with your prayers. They need it. The sudden death, burn alive, the unacceptable death is not everyone wants to be when their time come. Even you don’t wish for it....
A sad story (Victorian bushfire)
I read this article in the mX newspaper and I felt the pain of one of the editor who lest her cousin and his family during the Victorian bushfire. I just can’t help but shed tears. Very touching. According to her, ‘There aren’t en...
Australia’s bushfire
I just can’t believe that someone has to blamed with the Victoria bushfire tragedy. If so, gosh did he realized how awful what he did? His conscience maybe can’t have peace forever if he has conscience. I supposed not to talk about the tr...
Attention Australians in Victoria State!
I just read this news and I wan to share and warned all the people living in Victoria. I’m really glad I stumble at theage.com.au and I was being warned not to go out. We absolutely had a plan to go somewhere with my kids but thanks God for t...
Four-year-old girl drowned
Lifesaving Victoria has urged parents to stay alert at the beach after a four-year-old girl drowned after wandering away last of January 20 night time. The girl from Dandenong, drowned at Mordialloc beach after being separated from her parents on a f...
Shrine of Remembrance
As what I’ve mentioned with my previous post, last Australia Day, we spent some time at Shrine of Remembrance. In remembrance of those who served and those who died in the Great War of 1914-1918 and armed conflicts and peacekeeping duties since...
Australia Day Celebration
We went late to the Melbourne City yesterday so we didn’t catch up the parade. Anyway, we didn’t plan to watch parade but only to visit the Botanical Garden for the second time. Some of the road in the City were closed so we need to walk ...
Australian Currency
Australian currency consists of coins with values of 5, 10, 20 and 50 cents and One to Two dollars. Notes are issued at values of Five, Ten, Twenty, Fifty and One Hundred dollars. This is based on the decimal system where one hundred cents equals one...
Australia Day
Everybody is talking about Australia Day. Yes on Monday, Jan.26 is Australia’s day and big events will be held in different parts of Australia. It’s going to be a long weekends again. We plan to go to Melbourne Aquatic Centre again and en...
We’re going to the beach!
My Russian friend just called and she’s inviting me and my kids to go to the beach. I definitely said yes when it comes to beach. We will leave quarter to seven and stay there until nine. You may think it’s late. Oh well, it’s summe...
Lollypops Playland
We went to Lollypos Playland last Saturday for my kids to enjoy. It has a big area for playing, full of playground facilities that will surely make the kids busy and active. It’s located somewehre in Beintleigh East, near South Road. It was our...
History of Melbourne
John Batman selected the banks of the Yarra River as the place for a settlement in 1835. He named the new village Melbourne after the British Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne. Melbourne, with its busy port, became Victoria’s state capital in 1851...
Melbourne’s real summer
This is it! And this gonna be so hot summer days. I’m was complaining about the past cold days because it’s not comfortable with me especially it’s summer days. I’m always not prepared like bringing sweaters and jackets when w...
Water Restrictions
Permanent Water Saving Rules here in Melbourne Australia is reviewed monthly. Weather forecasts, water consumption, seasonal factors, and rainfall in catchments are all taken into consideration. This days when Melbourne could rely on inter and spring...
