I went to King George Square today. I found there is ready for Winter Festival which starts from Tomorrow and ends on 1st July.The Lipton Tent and the huge ice rink  are setup on the King George Square. I think we can go to Ice skating tomorrow! Moreover, there are some shops in there are already opened for Business. They are  selling some hot food for this festival. That is really ready now! I will go to there and check it out again!

P.S. Winter Festival is a premier event in Australia. It goes to each major city in Australia including Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.  The major selling point of this festival is a huge ice rink, you can buy a ticket to ice skating and there will be some ice performance too. Even in Australia, we have not snow, but we can enjoy a icy winter!

Tonight, after my dinner at Sunnybank Plaza, while I was walking in car park I saw there was a fireworks. Is there somethings special happen tonight?

Recently, Westfield built a new extension for Carindale Shopping Center. Today, I went  there for tasting and to get a new shopping experience.

I quite like the new section. Natural light was used and a lot of sitting areas has been added. Moreover, the colour themes are quite warm and the walk paths are quite wide, which makes it  comfortable to shop in.

For shops, there are a lot of new ones, such as Coles. Moreover, some existing shops have moved to the new section such as JB Hi-Fi and Target. Well, they are getting bigger!  There is more space to shop!

The improvements are not just inside.  They have got a new entrance. That is quite grand too!

For food, near the entrance, they have built a new food court which is called the “Glass House”. I think it received this name because the entrance is a work of glass. Anyway, the name is not the key point. The choice of food is more important. In there, a few new restaurants have been opened , such as Grill’d and Wagamama. There is even a new Yum Cha restaurant  For myself, I like the Mexican restaurant, Guzman Y Gomez. It is quite good!

In addition, there are some technology improvements. They have installed some Touch PC as the information providers.

A new parking guidance system has been installed. It will display the number of free spaces in each lane.

Westfield Carindale Shopping Centre has become much better and more fresh I think you should visit there again.

Westfield Carindale

Address:1151 Creek Road,Carindale,QLD 4152

Tel:07-31205400

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Today is Chinese New Year Day. First things I wish to say, Happy Chinese New Year and have a great year of Dragon. By the way, yesterday, I saw there was a performance for creating ice sculpture.

Look! That seems to create an ice dragon. But I got an appointment, I cannot wait for finishing of that ice sculpture.

Their Chinese New Year Program has not ended yet. Please go to  Sunnybank Plaza’s website  find out more.

Sunnybank Plaza,

Cnr Mains Rd & McCullough St

Sunnybank

Queensland 4109

When I had my breakfast in Sunnybank Plaza, I saw there is a  dragon on display. I think that is for the dragon dance tomorrow. Please remember there will be a dragon dance on tomorrow(21/1) and Sunday at 3pm.

Time passing so fast, the following Monday is Chinese New Year’s Day.I  a started to experiences  the Chinese New Year atmosphere in Brisbane. For example, Chinese supermarkets started to sell the goods related with Chinese New Year.  Moreover, Inala, Sunnybank and Valleywill be some Chinese New Year events around next week. On January 28, our Sunnybank area will held a Chinese Precinct at Henderson Park during 12-5pm, and dragon dance performances will be held in Sunnybank Plaza on 21 and 22 Jan 3pm. For further detials, please visit  the Brisbane City Council’s Chinese New Year events website and Sunnybank Plaza’s website .

When I was in Hong Kong, I love to watch Christmas Lights. There was some lights which is about Christmas Stories on the high rise, we can watch on the street.  In Brisbane, there is no high rise buildings have lights for Christmas. Instead of, the people will set Christmas in their house. There is a competition for this too! Last night, we went to Liam Court, Calamvale. The houses in that street are joined this competition.  Although they are without the help from professional people and big sponsors, the lights are so beautiful!  I appreciated the effort of the house owners put into that!

They are creative too! I saw one of houses put some Chinese features in their Christmas Lights!

Officially,  the Christmas Lights are ended last night. If you live in Calamvale, that is still worth to drive pass there. Maybe, the owners still leaves their Christmas lights on.

If not, then please click here to watch the photo I took last night