Australia
Lest we forget
Saturday, April 25th, 2009Today we commemorate ANZAC day. Anzac Day is a national public holiday in Australia and New Zealand, and is commemorated by both countries on 25 April every year to honour members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I and also to commemorate [...]
Teenage affluenza
Friday, March 13th, 2009Of our four children, two are teenagers. Even though they were born and spent much of their early childhood in a so called “third-world-country”, today I find them to be quite “westernised”. This while being quite acceptable to us as parents, has it’s inherent attributes which we need to be aware of as seen in [...]
Catholic Education Office
Saturday, May 10th, 2008For those who haven’t yet heard, I now work at the Catholic Education office in Leederville - Perth Western Australia. Here’s a brief tour (Courtesy of Bradley Ford) of the beautiful and heritage listed building and its surrounds.
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The troublesome mix: religion and politics
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008Doesn’t really matter if it’s Islam, Christianity, Hinduism or Buddhism, megalomaniacal religious leaders will not save the world. This can be clearly witnessed in the Sri Lankan political arena as recorded in this report by the International Peace Research Institute, records (click) here, although a prevalent situation in many other parts of [...]
Year in review - 2007
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008My first post for the year…..
I have been looking for a way to effectively summarise the year gone by, and came across this site according to Reuters which I think has some great photos. Another good site would be this ABC news site which made some interesting claims. However, I have not been successful yet [...]