What a hot day ...

A freaking hot day .... 42.5 degrees ....

My university vice-chancellor is being voted South Australian of the Year ....

Spent the day surfing the net and watching movies on the PC.....

Got to meet up with friends later for a meal ....

What have i done today ???

Slept till 11 am and got waken up by the neighbour kids playing outside the house .. Instead of scolding them , I smiled at them ... you can the see the happiness and joy in their faces ... playing their worries away ...

Been travelling around the camping stores in Adelaide... desperately searching for a Brazilian army hunting knife which my grandma mistakely thrown away when moving home 2 years ago.... saw quite a number of 'Made in China' imitation ... The one i used to have was bought from Rockhampton in Queensland during exercise Wallaby....
It was unique as it made of surgical steel and never need sharpening ... Had a wire cutting and a saw built in ... I need it for my camping , hiking ,canoeing etc .....

Saw a German AK 47 bayonet in one of the store in the city... Had a saw, wire cutter and best of all able to combine with the scaboard to form a scissor .. but not very strong and will rust as it is made up of mild steel...

Fixed a friend PC ..... hardware is pretty alright but i just hate the software ....

Weather report is 37 degrees today ..... warning for bushfire....

Been attending quite a number of pre and post xmas meals .. eating and drinking my way through ... need to exercise to burn away the calories....

Xmas had passed and New Year is on its way ...

Happy New Year... May 2006 a better one for everyone of us ...

Volunteering ..... Is it worth the effort ???

Everywhere in this world where there is human around .. there's bound to be trouble .... in form of disaster, war ...

Everytime these mishaps happened ... there will be a group of people unselfishly gave up their comfortable life, time with loved ones and volunteered their services to those in need ....

2005 had ended but the unfortunate events still stuck in our mind .....

Bali bombing, tsunamis, Hurricane Katrina....

In these incidents , many aids in form of financial , medical , food came pouring in .... people seen to be more interested in sudden disaster than those which had been existed for decades...

In another part of the world , in Africa which is historican called the Old World.... There are many unrest which are still happening today ....

In Kenya, Sudan , Ethopia , Congo ... civil wars had caused misfortuante for many decades .... it is such an irony that the UN (symbol : Olive branches symbolize peace. The world map depicts the area of concern to the United Nations in achieving its main purpose, peace and security. ) which is set up after the World War II never step in to help instead it is the aid volunteers who sent their ' troops ' in ...

Aid volunteers are being killed (http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=46935) while trying to help ....

If the UN and the american cared so much about humanitarian .. why don't they send any troop into sudan, kenya, Congo, Ethopia, Nepal, North Korea... and the best of all , send the B2 bombers to the Golden Triangle to destroy all the poppy plants ( used to make opium and heroin)...

In South australia... the incident of last year Enyre Peninsula bush fire has not been rest... The volunteers of Country Fire Service (CFS) are beening sued for not doing a good job (inadquent equipments etc) ....

The Howard government and Mike Rann state government rather allowed $$ to be spent on the lawsuit against the volunteers than spending them on rebuilding and allocating to the victims of the bushfire....

The Howard government , Rann state government and Australian red cross were not heavily involved till everytime is over....

Breakaway

KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway

Grew up in a small town
And when the rain would fall down
I just stared out my window
Dreaming of a could-be
And if I'd end up happy
I would pray (I would pray)

Trying not to reach out
But when I'd try to speak out
Felt like no one could hear me
Wanted to belong here
But something felt so wrong here
So I pray (I would pray)
I could breakaway

[Chorus:]
I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly
I'll do what it takes til' I touch the sky
I'll make a wish Take a chance Make a change
And breakaway

Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget all the ones that I loved
I'll take a risk
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway

Wanna feel the warm breeze
Sleep under a palm tree
Feel the rush of the ocean
Get onboard a fast train
Travel on a jet plane, far away (I will)
And breakaway

[Chorus]
Buildings with a hundred floors
Swinging around wild indoors
Maybe I don't know where they'll take me but
Gotta keep moving on, moving on
Fly away, breakaway

I'll spread my wings
And I'll learn how to fly
Though it's not easy to tell you goodbye
I gotta take a risk
Take chance
Make a change
And breakaway
Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget the place I come from
I gotta take a risk
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway, breakaway, breakaway

Sleeping child

MTLR Sleeping Child

The Milky Way upon the heavens
is twinkling just for you
and Mr. Moon he came by
to say goodnight to you

I'll sing for you I'll sing for mother
We're praying for the world
and for the people everywhere
gonna show them all we care

Chorus:
Oh my sleeping child the world's so wild
but you've build your own paradise
That's one reason why I'll cover you sleeping child

If all the people around the world
they had a mind like yours
we'd have no fighting and no wars
there would be lasting peace on Earth

If all the kings and all the leaders
could see you here this way
they would hold the Earth in their arms
they would learn to watch you play

Chorus:
Oh my sleeping child the world's so wild
but you've build your own paradise
That's one reason why I'll cover you sleeping child

I'm gonna cover my sleeping child
Keep you away from the world so wild

Adelaide. .. Coober Pedy .... Uluru( Ayer rock)

Travelled almost 3000km thru and fro in the red desert drive ....

Places visited were Port Augusta, Coober Pedy ... Curtin Spring, Uluru, Mount Olgas etc ....

It has been a wonderful experience for me .... to be able to visit one of the great wonders of the world....

There is still more to explore but just not enough time ....

Three cheers for Richard and V.G for organising such a 'Bella' trip ....