Year Of The Ox

Time certainly flies in 2009 compared to 2008. It's already past mid-Jan already! Woo Hoo! In a few more days, the year of the Ox will takes over! Cows are going to moo moo here, moo moo there! As mentioned before in my previous post located here, there'll be a grand celebration in Box Hill on the coming 24th between 3pm to 3am 25th Jan. Guess we'll be walking there, don't think parking is the easiest thing for that day. Sad thing is I'm working that day 9-5.30pm!! Argh!! Should have given us the long weekend! :S

Some of the highlights for the celebration:

Come and enjoy Chinese food, performances and the creative talents of the Box Hill Chinese community. The fun will commence in the afternoon with entertainment over two stages, rides and up to a 100 food and handcraft stalls throughout the Box Hill Mall. A feature of the festival will be the lion and dragon dancers on the main stage, and a Choi Sun parade, with representation of the Chinese God of Financial Fortune. Sources here

Not only that, this year the Chinese New Year coincides with Australian Day on the 26th Jan so the Whitehorse council will have a firework & concert celebration as well. Kylie Minogue will be there too (not that I'm a fan of her :P)

The concert, to be held on the lawn in front of the Soundshell at the Whitehorse Civic Centre in Nunawading, on Monday 26 January 2009 commences at 6pm and features tributes to two of Melbourne’s most renowned musical talents and icons – John Farnham and Kylie Minogue. Sources here

Double celebration to start the 1st holidays of 2009! Not bad! Would be a good opportunity to play with our new Digital SLR camera! :D