Tomorrow, this will be the date for AFL Women Final.  To make the people easier getting the venue, this Saturday, all South East Queensland Translink will be free this Saturday, from 12:01 am to 11:59 pm 25/03. All services from Translink, including AirTrain Service does not require touch on/off GoCard or purchase any ticket. That is so great! Enjoy Free public transport day tomorrow!

For details, please visit translink website

Recently, Yuen’s Market opened a new branch in Calamvale Marketplace. Finally, I had a chance to visit this Asian grocery store at the early of this week.
This store is smaller than others branches of Yuen’s Market, much smaller than the one in Sunnybank, that is a kind of “express” version of Yuen’s Market, there are only a few rows of shelves. However, you can find the Asian vegetables, instances noodles, Asian frozen food, and snacks, even there are some fresh fillets to sell. Of course, if I need to do my grocery shopping for my dinner, I will go to Sunnybank, there are more choices. If I need to buy one or two things only, I will go to this store, because that is closer than my home. Also, I was in there around 7pm, this store was still opening for business. I think this store will close around 8pm. That is quite convenient, so that is a good things for who live in Calamvale.

Address:

Corner Beaudesert & Nottingham Roads
Calamvale,
QLD 4116

Today is 15th of the first month in Lunar Calendar.  That is Festival of Lanterns. In Chinese tradition, we will go to a Night market. This year, Westfield Garden City will follow this Chinese tradition. There will be an Asian night market in Town Square from 4 pm to 9 pm today.  However, the stalls are from 8 Street in Garden City, will they provide some unique dishes for tonight only? Anyway, having in an open space will be a bit of little. Moreover, at 5pm, there will be Lion Dance performance. Thus, if you will be in Garden City this afternoon, you can come to Town Square for this event.

Yesterday, I was in Time Square. I saw the Korean Grocery Store is running a promotion for Chinese New Year, 20% off store wide. I read the information in the store; this promotion will apply to all branches until 29/01. That is great! Tomorrow, I will go to Hanaro Mart at Calamvale Central. I want to buy some snacks!

A few days, when I did my grocery shopping at Coles, I saw the gift box for Lunar New Year(Chinese New Year) were sold in there. Is Lunar New Year coming? Thus, I did a google search. I found this Saturday,28/01, is Lunar New Year. Then my next question is any celebrations in Brisbane. Well, Google gave the answer too.
Of course, there will be a lot of celebrations in Sunnybank Plaza where is a hub of the Chinese community. From today to 29/01, every morning 10:30 am, there will be a Lion Dance (with Kung Fu demonstrations during the weekends) in front of Hoyts cinema. Also, 29/01 3 pm, there will be a dragon dance in the food court.
This year, Westfield Garden City joined the celebration of Chinese New year. There will be some celebration activities during 27/01(5 pm – 6:30 pm) and 28/01(4:30 pm – 8 pm) Of course, the activities included Lion Dance which is a “must-have” performance for Chinese new year. Moreover, at 7:30pm, 28/01(the Chinese new year day), there will have fireworks too. Please do not miss that!

There will be a fireworks display in Southbank tomorrow again. This times is for Australia Day. The fireworks display will start at 7:30 pm tomorrow.
According to my experiences during past years, there were a lot of people attended, but there were much less number of people than New Year Fireworks. We were not very keen to take the photo of fireworks, so we did not want to be in the front row. Every year, we went there around 6:30 pm – 7 pm. I think that will be easier and more comfortable to watch this fireworks display.
I think if you have time, you should go there, that is worth to be a part of Australia Day if you live in Australia.

Tomorrow is New Year Eve. This is the time to celebrate the New Year 2017. The largest event is the New Year Fireworks; there will be two sessions in Brisbane River.
At 8:30 pm at New Year Eve, Southbank and Portside will have 15 minutes Firework show. If you have kids, this session should be suitable for you. You can go home at 8:45 pm. That should not be too late for kids.
The main session will be at the midnight of New year 2017 as the welcome of 2017. The fireworks will be in Eargle Street Pier, Southbank, and Portside. According to the official said, this year is larger scale than previous years.
In additional, that is good news. From 8.45pm to Saturday Early morning, the public transports under Brisbane City Council and Train service will be free. You can use public transports to see midnight firework without any charges
The vantage points to see the fireworks are Early Street and Southbank. Even Mount Coot-Tha can see the fireworks too; there can see all fireworks from Southbank, Eargle Street, and Portside. But I still choose to watch that in Southbank every year. Because during the fireworks, there will be some background music broadcast in Southbank and the countdown for the new year too. According to the information of VisitBrisbane, before the firework, Culture Forecourt will have an outdoor cinema and food court.
Please don’t miss that.