Socha Na Tha
This section brings you personal stories of people’s career and hobby pursuits with a twist that’s only possible in Australia!
Sunday, 17 March 2013 02:10
5 Free Things to do at the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival
Written by Miss Pixie B
Ah Melbourne autumn. The Moomba..University starts back..the Grand Prix.. It's festive to be sure. The thing that I like the most about this time of falling leaves and changing weather is a change of scene. Literally. With a week of entertainment and stylish punters, March also mean the Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival. The festival kicks off on the 18th of March, with the last catwalk close on March 24th.
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College ke din the kitne suhaane, Na jaane kab lautenge wo din purane.
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Dinner with Atif Aslam – I’m sure many young girls would kill for this opportunity! But the lovely lasses of Mai Nachungi Dance Company were lucky enough to be invited to have dinner with Atif and his band after their concert in Melbourne.
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This is a real life cross cultural Australian pronunciation confusion anecdote. It is an incident that happened when I came to Australia for the first time in 1996 as a student at the age of 42 for PG management studies in UWS Hawkesbury, Richmond campus, NSW. In those days, we didn’t watch a lot of TV and the only exposure to Australia was through cricket. It was impossible to catch what the Aussie commentators said…
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My first taste of Indian culture came at a young age. My mum read me the book "The Secret Garden" when I was four and I was instantly transported to a world that inspired me. I was so enraptured with the story that I would dress up using long pieces of fabric as a sari, and putting stickers on my forehead for a bindi. Don't believe it? I have the pictures to prove it!
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‘Marketing’, this word reminds me of long hours of waiting for my call to be answered from a country I was born in, it also reminds me of ever-so-happy people knocking my door and persuading my mother to buy deals for a free holiday, toilet cleaners or ear buds. So in the past when people asked me “What do you aspire to become?”, I replied back enthusiastically stating, .. anything but a Salesperson!” Today is…
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So I’m sitting happy on my Cloud # 9, writing my first ever article for your reading pleasure (smug look). Before you begin to wonder if this story is about my positive outlook on life, let me clarify that it quite simply.. is NOT…but I digress - and will apologise in advance for any future digressions. Apparently, it’s a trait that people sitting on Cloud # 9 (even momentarily) invariably tend to exhibit…LOL! “Arrre, why…
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