Australian Swimming Competition 2008

Coinciding with the Sydney Royal Easter Show is the Australian Swimming Competition where outstanding swimmers are chosen to represent the country in the Beijing Summer Olympics on 08 August 2008. Many of the Commonwealth and World Records are broken. Watch these swimmers in the Olympics : G. Hackett , E. Sullivan, L. Trickett, Jones, Rice and Seebohm.

Sydney Royal Easter Show 2008

This is my second time attending the Sydney Royal Easter Show. This year the show starts on 20 March until 02 April 2008. Highlights of the show are the farm animals, flowers and plants, carnival rides and games, stunts, wood chopping contest, food exhibitions and taste tests, arts and crafts and the show bags. The ticket show which includes transport (bus and/or train) costs $ 32.00 for adults and $ 21.50 for children 4 to 15 years old & students 16-18 years old with ID.

Cross Stitching - 6th to 7th Week

Here is the unfinished cross stitch for the period 12 - 25 March 2008:

3 Filipino talents in TEN's "So You Think You Can Dance"

Rhiannon Villareal

J.D. or Joel De Carteret

Demi Sorono
(The above photos are downloaded from www.throng.com.au. Please email me if you want to remove them)

Three of the 12 finalists in Australia's Channel 10 Reality TV show "So You Think You Can Dance" are of Filipino descents. They are Demi Sorono, Joel de Carteret or J.D. and Rhiannon Villareal. The show is shown every Sunday for the dance and elimination night on Monday.

Good luck na lang sa kanilang tatlo pero kailangan ang suporta ng Filipino community dito sa Australia dahil by texting ang labanan. Kung pwedeng bumoto ang mga taga-Pilipinas, tiyak na ang panalo ng isa sa kanila.

4th and 5th Week of Cross Stitching

Here is the result of my 4th and 5th week of stitching Philippine artist Jose Blanco's painting "Paul at Eight".

4th week - 27 February to 04 March 2008

5th week - 05 to 11 March 2008

Nestor's Birthday Bash

We attended my brother's birthday at their home in Oakhurst last Sunday. It was a day before his actual birthday which fall on Monday - 03 March 2008. As usual the guests include me ang my family, my counsin Gloria and her family, my brother Manny and his friend Alan, the brother of my sister-in-law Emy - and his family, Emy's uncles and aunts, my brother's kumares and kumpadres.

Having a party is one way of reuniting families and acquaintances. By grouping together, the gap between the last party and today's is closed.

Isa rin itong paraan upang pansamantala ay malimutan ang mga suliranin na kinahaharap ng mga Australyano-Filipino - ang walang katapusang pagtatrabaho upang mabayaran ang utang sa bahay, kotse at mga kasangkapan, at ang pantustos sa pag-aaral ng mga bata.

Vicente Manansala's "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread"

This is my finished cross stitch based on Vicente Manansala's painting entitled "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread". It took me one year to finish this materpiece but not always working on it daily. I was just doing it when I had free time considering that I was working then.

This is my second work. The first is Leonardo Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa". It is now in my cousin's possession. I do not have time yet to have a photo of it.

Third Week of Cross Stitching

The progress of my cross stitch project is hampered by my MYOB self study course. For the third week from 20 to 26 February 2008, my project looks like this.

Mahirap gawin pero masarap panoorin habang unti-unting natatapos.