Ask Google

The husband and I were considering doing something major recently which requires some legal advice... at a loss, we called my father-in-law in Australia.

FIL: You know who you should ask.... Ask Google... *chuckles*

Now I know where he got his sense of humour from.

Corrine May

Im so excited about the Corrine May concert this Friday!!!!
I can't wait! I can't wait!

All thanks to the husband for this pleasant surprise :)

Check her out:
www.corrinemay.com

Melbourne Comedy Festival Roadshow

I had an absolutely great time at the Comedy Fest. I think it was the dinner at Brussel Sprouts (which was really good) that set the mood.

Although I didn't get a few of the "cheem" Aussie jokes, I did manage to get most of the jokes and I think it was a good mix of different types of humour.

Funny that we spent 4 years in Melbourne and didnt manage to go to the Melbourne Comedy Festival once. Well, we promised ourselves that when we go back, we'll do that and Australian Open (Tennis) and F1 and Moomba and the list goes on...

My favourite comedian of the night was:

Harley Breen from Queensland:

"known for his flare for making up comedy on the spot. With rapid energy and physicality, Harley delivers his bizarre and absurd takes on the world, captivating his audience with unmarked ideas and surreal images in a mission to unravel rigid beliefs and preset assumptions that mostly subside cunningly deep within institutions and establishments... what does that mean? Go to the show and find out!"

Top 10 Beaches

I was watching Discovery Travel and Living - Top Ten Beaches in the World. And I spent an hour of my precious Friday off time to see if my favourite beach made it to the top 10... and i was absolutely flaberghasted to discover that NOT ONE, as in NONE of the Australian beaches made it into the Top 10 Beaches in the WORLD!!!

Well, just in case you're just as pissed off as me, here you go:

http://www.westernaustralia.com/
If you're in WA, the Top 10 Beaches are:

1. Turquise Bay
2. Cable Beach
3. Esperance (been there :)
4. City Beach (was abit rough)
5. Cottesloe Beach (DUH)
6. Green's Pool
7. Scarborough (didnt really fancy it, dunno why)
8. Monkey Mia
9. Eighty Mile Beach
10. Shell Beach

And if you're anywhere else in Australia, the Top 10 Beaches are:

1. Esperance, Western Australia
2. Cable Beach, Broome
3. Surfers Point, Margaret River
4. Hawkes Nest, Mid-North Coast NSW
5. Shelly (Manly), Sydney
6. Ninety Mile Beach, Gippsland Located just over 250 kilometres from Melbourne,
7. Bells Beach, Great Ocean Road
8. Capricorn Coast, Queensland
9. Stokes Bay, Kangaroo Island
10. Wineglass Bay, Freycinet NP Tasmania's Freycinet National Park
    

No Man is an Island

Origin
This is a quotation from John Donne (1572-1631). It appears in Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII:
"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

Oi! Oi! Oi!

We're contemplating taking a year off from work to study/bum in Perth.

Does that sound like a great idea or what? I think it's probably the greatest idea we've ever come up with. We're newly married, no kids, no liabilities (so Singaporean to say that!) and we're not entirely satisfied with our careers right now. I mean who are we kidding? Slogging at work, feeling underpaid, zero job satisfaction and dealing with terrible colleagues ain't exactly what was listed in the job scope!

So yes, Im taking time off work right now to dream about what life could be about... Cotts. Driving down south. Wine tours. Cotts. BBQs. Cotts??

And just so I know there's more to Perth than what everyone thinks.
Here's proof there's life in Perth. Only if you dare.

Festivals & Events in Perth

January
Perth Cup, Ascot Racecourse: Jan 1
Australia Day Skyworks: 26th Jan
Hopman Cup: Burswood Dome Jan 6
Symphony at Sandalford, Swan Valley

February
City Food & Wine Festival
Perth International Arts Festival: Various locations, 9 Feb-4 March
Rottnest Channel Swim: 17 Feb
Swan Valley Midsummer Feast Festival: 16-18th

March
Auto One Classic Car Show, Whiteman ParkAwesome International Children's Festival
Crabfest, Mandurah: 1 -18thFestival of Melville: 11 March
Musselfest, Rockingham Rottnest Open Water Classic
Festival: Minnawarra Park, 13 March-April 1
West Coast Blues'n'Roots Music Festival: Fremantle March 31-April 1

April
Fremantle Children's Fiesta: Samson Park, April 1
Fremantle Street Arts Festival: Various locations, 7-16thAnzac Day Parade: April 25
Rottnest Island Triathlon: April 28Taste of the Valley: Swan Valley, 1-29th

May
Fremantle Heritage Festival: Various locations, 27 May-14 June
Stretch Art Festival, Mandurah

June

Winter Arts Festival: 1 June-31 Aug

September

Perth Royal Show: 29 Sept-6 Oct

Kings Park & Botanic Gardens Wildflower Festival: 28 Sept-2 Oct

October
Mandurah Boat & Fishing Show: 12-14th
Rottnest Marathon
Spring in the Valley: Swan Valley, 13-14th

November
Armadale Highland Gathering & Cycle Classic
Awesome Festival: Various locations, 16-25th
Beach to Bush Festival, Wanneroo
Darlington Arts Festival
Fremantle Festival
Houghton Winery Jazz Wine Picnic
Rockingham Spring Festival

December
Christmas in the City
Classic & Wooden Boat Festival
Cockburn Sound Regatta
Rottnest Swim Thru’
Summer Racing Carnival

I Miss Cotts.

I miss the view, the soft soft sand, the sun, oh the sun!!! And I definitely miss the fresh air. Deliciously good.