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All the people out there in sydney New Generation has brought to u a Nepalese get together party at LEPANIC, Kingscross opposite to the HUGOS bar and next to MANSION Hotel.

Live perform by our Nepali Tara Yui Bei & our well known friend Niraj Shakya.& our Dj for the nite are Dj Bee Rock & Dj Shyun.
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By Anup Bhandari
There is a popular expression in the two most important cultures that has shaped me, Nepal & India. Directly converted into English it translates to “Will your father do it?” .The linguistic sentence ends there. But the sentence continues through the aid of body language and cultural implications,”…..if not you!”

I have used this expression myself without truly understanding its emotional and relational roots. But being a father has helped see right through it. Now I can say with certainty that it is a relational fact that holds true across all the cultures just like Einstein’s e=mc square in Physics .This hold true without exception amongst people of diverse background in my new home Australia too. Read more…

By Anup Bhandari

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…

By Anup Bhandari

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…

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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…