This Friday(03/09/2016),  Brisbane Festival will begin. This festival will be a month long, end on 24/9. There will be a number of theater and music programs across  Brisbane for this festival. For the detailed schedules, please check out their website.

However, the key note event will be in Culture Forecourt in south bank. The forecourt will be transformed a place calls “ARCADIA”.  In there,two giant tents,‘Magic Mirrors’ and ‘Aurora’, is setup. Inside, there will be music, cabaret and comedy talent performance during the day and night.

Also, at Arcadia, there will be a giant 3D street art which is a 3D wall and floor illusion.

The most attractive event will be sunsuper riverfire on 24/9 7pm at the southbank. Also, before the fireworks, there will be some air shows from Air force!/

I think you should not miss out this event!

Yesterday, I went to Harbour Town in Gold Coast for shopping. I found there are a lot of stores are on sales, such as $5 T-Shirt in Cotton-on and Extra 25% off for VIP member in Sheridan. The most attractive discount was in Adidas. That was 50% off storewide! I bought a pair of sport shoes for $49! What’s a bargain! Moreover, I bought a t-shirt for running for $14, that was a good deal too.

According what I saw in the store,  there were no information about how long this 50% off offer lasts. But I found a lot of goods were out of stocks and some items had stocks, but I did not find my size. Moreover, there was a long queue in front of cashier. I spent more than 30 minutes in the queue. So, if you want to check this 50% off offer, please consider these!

Address:
147-189 Brisbane Road
Biggera Waters
QLD 4216

Tomorrow, 27/8, Sunnybank Plaza will have a one day sale event. A lot of shops in Sunnybank will have some special offers, such as Buy a standard coffee get one free offer in Shingle Inn and $9.90 Fish & Chips with a can of soft drink in Sunni Cafe. Also, during the day, there will be some snap special offers. These will only last for 10 minutes at the scheduled time. At 12:30 noon, Chatime will have buy one get one free offer on their drinks.

I remember last year, Sunnybank Plaza had that sort of one day sale event. I was in there too, that wasn’t too bad at all. The only things I felt bad about was spending too much on the queue of getting  that  buy one get one free offer in Chatime.  Thus, if you have some free time, that is worth to have a look. For further details, please visit their website.

Sunnybank Plaza,

Cnr Mains Rd & McCullough St

Sunnybank

Queensland 4109

Thor 3 is filming in Village Roadshow Studios, Gold Coast.  Also, this week, the film crew drove up to Brisbane CBD to take some film shots. The site is near Mary and Margret Street. This afternoon, I and my wife was in City for an appointment. Thus, we took this opportunity to go this site. We did not see any super stars, such as Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston. We saw the crowd of fans at the street and some film crew members were working for film preparation.  I thought that would be a long wait for the stars coming.  Also, the crew members were very nice, I saw them gave a number of bottled waters to the crowd. At the end, we spent five minutes in there, then we went home. If you want to see them to film the movie, I think that is still possible, I checked the Mains Road website, there will be some road closures for this film until 31 August.

From tomorrow to 15/8, EKKA will be held in RNA showground. This is the largest agriculture show in queensland. Thus,  there are a number of corp and animals!

Besides of these, that sounds like carnival. It got some rides and some live performances at night!

Another signature item of EKKA is  showbag which is a bag contains commercial merchandise. These merchandise will have much higher value than the price tag of a showbag. 

Please do not miss that!

Last Friday, I got a letter about Australian Census. Next Tuesday(9th August, 2016)  is the census night. Every one in Australia, included oversea students, visitors,  residents, is required to fill in the census information. If you do not do that, you will receive a fine.  This year,  you can fill the census form online via this website at the census night, you should already receive a letter from Australian Bureau of Statistic. There is a PIN and you need to enter the PIN to the website, then you can do the census form. If you do not want to do that online please call 1300 820 275 for requesting a paper form.

Early of this year, I visited Night Noodle Markets at Southbank.  There were a fair amount  of people in there, even there was a queue waiting to come in before 5pm.

After the entry, there is a outing setting where has a lot of paper cranes. That looks pretty.

Also, there is a half sphere shaped bar.

That looks quite fancy.

This year, we have old favor menu such Hoy Pinoy, Melbourne ,making Filipino street bbq skewers and Japanese Style Pizza, Okonomi.

This year, two skewers will sell $12.

Japanese Style Pizza, Okonomi.

Also , this year,the signature food is Watermelon Strawberry Cake!

Well, the queue is too long, I gave up, I did not tried, but a lot of people bought that.

This event only has a few days left, the last date is 31/7! Please don’t miss that!

Fee: Free
Opening Hours:
20/7/2016 to 31/7/2016
Weekdays:5pm til late
Weekends:4pm til late

Where: Cultural Forecourt, South Bank

Last evening, I had a walk in Southbank. I saw some workers were setting up stalls and colourful lighting ,and a poster about a Night Noodle Markets.  I think Night Noodle Markets will be held soon. I and my wife have been there for past two years.  When I back home, I checked that website. Actually, Night Noodle Markets will be held on Culture Forecourt at Southbank every night from today to 31st July. Also,  I checked the stalls list too. Similar as the past years, there are 20 different stalls from  Asian eateries such as:

Japanese Style Pizza, Okonomi:

Hoy Pinoy, Melbourne ,making Filipino street bbq skewers.

they got some big Charcoal grills!

Also, there are some famous Brisbane eateries too such as Taro’s Ramen & Cafe and Fat Noodle.

That is great, you can get all delicious Asian dishes in one place! However, based on our experience in the past, the portion of each dish is not very big. I think you need to spend $20 to $30 each to feel full….. but that is free entry.

Fee: Free
Opening Hours:
20/7/2016 to 31/7/2016
Weekdays:5pm til late
Weekends:4pm til late

Where: Cultural Forecourt, South Bank

Last Saturday, I went to Hanaro Mart at Calamvale Central.  I enjoyed the 20% off discount offer. I got some instance noodle. They are quite good value and there are a fair amount of people shopping there.

However, I found their goods are mainly from Korea, there are lack of some popular brands in Hong Kong, such as Nissin. Also, even they have, the price is higher than chinese grocery supermarket.  Anyway, that is a supermarket running by Korean, if you are looking for somethings from Korean, such as Kimchi. That is the place.

Lastly, I joined their membership, that is free and I got a free potato chips as a welcome gift.  That is good, but I found their membership card has not any discount offer, that is a reward card, one dollar earns a point, then 1000 points can get $1 discount. This is a free membership, I won’t ask for much.

Note that: someone told me, their 20% off offer is running in Calamvale, but not cofirmed.