It is that interesting time of the year, isn’t it? The New Years and Christmas is just round the corner. Good festive vibe is in the air. Everyone is looking forward to the year 2010 with new hopes, goals and dreams.
Over Coffee, I was chatting with my friends this afternoon. Suddenly I noticed an interesting phenomenon I have been experiencing for many years now.
As we sat there in a cafe tucked into a little alley amongst the high rise steel and glass building of Sydney CBD a friend proclaimed, ”I will definitely burn this 10 kilos belted around my stomach in the year 2010”. Then the other added,”I have plans to get back to my yoga and meditation class from the first day of 2010”.
As the conversation progressed my thoughts drifted back to the past where many of us made similar resolutions and held similar conversation end of each year. In the New Year’s I have noticed this repeating trend where enthusiasm to keep up to the goals set, evaporated in the thin air after couple of weeks or months. Have you noticed it too? Read more…
This is story of a couple, Harke and Maya, who migrated to Australia in mid 2006. Like any other migrant they arrived at Kingsford Airport Sydney with ambitious dreams and colourful hopes intertwined beautifully with nervousness and fear of the unknown.
This story begins early morning, the day, it drizzled and dark clouds covered the skies. Their extended family came from far away to bless the newlywed .On the third day of their marriage they were making this journey across the seas.
The atmosphere had sweet smell of incense. Deep multi partitioned brass plate held the auspicious offerings. The prayers were to be made to their gods and ancestors for good luck. The offering plate was stashed with whole coconut, khatta (Buddhist good luck scarf), rice seeds mixed with vermicelli & curd, petals of flowers. In addition, two brass vases filled with water were placed on the either side of the main gateway. This ritual guaranteed good luck and success in the long journey that lay ahead.
Just when they were ready to leave the house the prayer ceremony began. Harke’s mother breaks the coconut on the floor and offered the coconut water to the dead and the immortals. The ritual proceeded to Tika Ceremony, the couple were blessed by their elders and in the process pasted red coloured rice on their forehead, wrapped a khatta around their necks and placed flower petals on their head. Read more…
The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans, today announced the outcomes of a review of the Migration Occupations in Demand List (MODL ). Current Skilled Occupation List (SOL) will be replaced in the second half of 2010, with a new list of targeted occupations determined by the independent body, ‘Skills Australia’. The new skilled occupation list will target professionals with university degrees who are sponsored by employers and discourage self-nominating migrants such as cooks, hairdressers and accountants.
As the new SOL will be a comprehensive, targeted list, the current Critical Skills List will be revoke It will be replaced by a new Skilled Occupations List of high-value professions and trades drawn up by Skills Australia.
The revocation of the current MODL will not affect those who at the date of announcement:
• hold a Skilled—Graduate (subclass 485) visa, or have a pending subclass 485 visa application and are yet to apply for a permanent or provisional General Skilled Migration (GSM) visa, or
• have a pending GSM visa application
• In simple language its not going to effect the current onshore PR applicants on the process, TR visa holders and those TR application in process who applied for TR before 8 th Feb. 2010,they can still apply for the permanent residency but should apply PR before 31 dec 2012 .
• Those who will apply TR after 8th Feb. 2010 must have their occupation on the new Skilled occupation list(SOL) to be announced on 30 April 2010 to apply for a permanent residency. Read more…
Nepali student in Sydney has been attacked in northern beaches Of Sydney. Bepin Shrestha, a 30-year-old Nepalese national, was on his way to work at Dee Why Fresh Markets in Oaks Ave in the early hours of Sunday when he was attacked and savagely bashed, leaving him with brain and facial injuries.
Mr Shrestha remained in an induced coma at Royal North Shore Hospital last night.
Divas Baniya said Mr Shrestha was a quietly spoken, diligent worker who was focused on the accounting studies that brought him to Australia a little over a year ago. Mr Baniya said Mr Shrestha, who had been living at Mosman, was planning on moving in to share his Dee Why unit within a few weeks. Read more…
Birthdays are happy events,
Times when dreams come true.
So dream a good dream (and let someone know!),
It just might work for you!
Have a happy celebration
One you’ll always recall,
And be aware on this day of days,
You’re the most special person of all!
May this birthday be just the beginning of a year filled with happy memories, wonderful moments and shinning dreams
The UK Border Agency announces that, with effect from Monday 1 February, it will temporarily stop accepting student visa applications under Tier 4 of the Points Based System at the visa application centre in Kathmandu. This is a temporary suspension and the UK Border Agency will begin accepting Tier 4 visa applications again as soon as possible. Customers who are making applications in other visa categories are unaffected by this announcement.
The UK Border Agency has taken this decision in response to an unexpectedly high number of student visa applications at this time of year in parts of South Asia, and will therefore stop accepting any new applications under the Tier 4 student route in affected areas, including Nepal and North India. Read more…
Mukti Gupteshwar Mandir also known as minto Hindu Temple in Nepalese community in Australia is one of the popular but few hindu temples in Sydney .Mukti-Gupteshwar Mandir is the first and so far the only man-made cave mandir dedicated to the Lord Shiva, the 13th Jyotirlingam, Mukti-Gupteshwar Mahadev.
Along with the Mahadev, there are scale model replicas of 12 other Jyotirlinga, 108 human made lingas represent the Rudra names of the Lord Shiva and 1008 fannings Lord Shiva representing his Sahastra namas. Each figuring represents a small mandir of Lord Shiva and therefore there are total of 1128 small mandirs inside the Mukti-Gupteshwar mandir which is very unque to its kind.
Architect’s impression of the Mandir complex before construction
Aussienepali.com family wishes all the people around the globe a very very happy new year 2010
Fill your life with Happiness & Bright Cheer,
Bring to u Joy and Prosperity for the whole Year,
And it’s my New Year wish 4u Dear.
Wishing u a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR. Read more…
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