Kiwi Banana Downunder

I can’t believe it that the time for my little girl to start Kindy at the local school has come. It felt like only a month ago when I was thinking, oh I don’t need to worry about her schooling stuff yet, it’s a long way off.

Look now, she’s going to school! We will be busy buying school stuff for her like lunchbag, shoes, textbooks, stationeries, uniforms … and the list goes on.

It’s exciting to enter another phase of both her and our lives. Daddy’s girl is growing up that’s for sure.

Ever since I discovered a discount outlet for good label clothings, my interest in making the most of my hard earned money has increased. How? Well by looking out for goods that are sold as over stocked, clearance or liquidation sale by any wholesale distributor out there.

Usually you can find these types of sale online which makes it even easier to shop. I often watch on TV how families saved hundreds and thousands of dollars by purchasing from discount outlets online. The products are not defective in anyway. Just overstocked, or perhaps a little dint or damaged packaging, that’s all. So why pay more?

Yes where is the much anticipated lovely Spring season? It almost feels like it never arrived eventhough September 1st is supposedly the official first day of Spring. I am not exactly liking the wet and gloomy weather.

Oh well, just have to be patient for those beautiful perfect days to come so we could enjoy more outdoor activities. I am so glad our garden ie front, side and back is more or less established. No further work needed unlike in previous years, phew!

It is sad to hear over and over again about young stars checking into rehab. Stars who were once role model to the kids ended up being the very kind of people parents do not want their children to idolise.

How many times have we read about Hollywood child stars going through non 12 step program as repeated in many gossip mags? How many times have we seen mug shots of stars taken by the police?

I certainly hope whatever  rehab they checked into for any kind of addiction, would really help them for good. Perhaps achieving stardom at a tender age certainly puts a lot of pressure on people. It goes to show that fame and money do not always keep a person contented.

It’s been almost a year since I went to Centennial Park and it was for one of my cricket match. Took my wife and kid to the park to meet her friends and their kids.

It was a great day out though a bit chilly towards the evening. Everyone had fun. If only it wasn’t so difficult to gather all families around and if only all of us lived much nearer to each other, we would make this outing more often.

We have been getting all sorts of flyers in our mail box since the day we moved to this home. Mostly from real estate agencies. Not surprising to get that many flyers since the cost of printing postcards are made very affordable these days that even small proprietor business could afford to advertise their businesses on postcards.

As a potential customer, I think postcard flyers are not a bad idea. It is not flimsy as opposed to those thin leaflets which I find annoying to handle. Anyway now that Spring is about to enter, I foresee receiving more flyers in the mailbox!