Last Saturday is the ANZAC day, also, that is the centenary Gallipoli war.

That is a special meaning to watch the ANZAC Parade. So, I went to Brisbane City for this.

At the start of parade, there was a Marching Brand and the ex-service men and women in the team.

Of course, that was ANZAC, the army marching squad was the most important part of this parade.

There were not just army personnel, the army vehicles were joined too!

There were some armorer vehicles and army trucks took part.

There were only for those modern vehicles, a number of restored World War I army vehicles were in the parade too!

Also,  I saw a team were dressed World War I Australian army uniform to pay tribute those soldiers scarified.

This parade gave me a short lesson about Australian War history!

Today is 31/12. 2015 is coming. That is the time to celebrate!  In Southbank, there will be a lot of activities for 2015 Celebration. The major one is firework in Brisbane River. There will be two shows, one is on 8.30 pm, another will be on 0:00 of 1/1/2015.  That will be fun to go out southbank for fireworks and having new year countdown together. During past years, I went to southbank with my friends for the new year countdown. I think you should not miss that. Moreover, there will be many people in southbank, so I recommend you should use public transport.

Have fun tonight!

Yesterday, Christmas Celebrations in Brisbane CBD have started . Of course, I recommend Christmas Parade, which is the one of major events in Brisbane. This parade will be started  6.30 pm every night until 21/12. There will be  around 200 performers. Some of them will dress as Christmas figures such as Santa Claus and the Three Wise Men. I believe the most of kids will like that.

Besides of that.  a lot of new Christmas decorations are installed in Queen Street Mall.

A giant Christmas Tree are placed in King George Square too.

Don’t miss these Christmas Celebrations in Brisbane.

Now is near the end of Brisbane Festival 2014. That is the time for the largest event of this festival,Brisbane Riverfire. It will start on Tomorrow 7pm.  Moreover, according to the official website of Brisbane Festival, there will be aerial displays from defence force at Sunnybank. The timetable is listed as the below:

3.30pm – F/A18 Super Hornet
4.30pm – Helicopters
5.15pm – Helicopters
5.37pm –  F/A18 Super Hornet
5.50pm – Helicopters
7.04pm – F/A18 Super Hornet

I believe this event will be great and a lot of people will go to southbank for this. Thus, the best way to there is using public transport.  Translink will have extra services for this event!

Brisbane Festival is held until 27/9/2014. Those events of Brisbane Festival are carrying in Southbank. In past years, the Santos laser show was a signature event of Brisbane Festival. I am quite disappointed, the laser show won’t be a part of this festival. Instead, there is a Santos live music stage near Goodwill bridge.

During the festival, every Thursday and Saturday, there will be  a series of live performance.  For the detailed programs, please visit their website.

Another major event of this year is Exxopolis which is an inflatable sculpture at Culture forecourt. This sculpture is about 1000m² large. That is just big, you can walk in to this sculpture.  Inside itself, there are a lot of walking paths, similar with a maze.  Moreover, it reflects sunlight to  inside. That looks quite fantasy. However, this experience is not free of charge, an adult tickets costs $16.

Well, there is still a free option.  If you turn left from this inflatable sculpture,  that is Brisbane Airport Light Garden. This is completely free, free to walk-in, free to take photo!

This sculpture contains a lot of bamboo. I guess it represents a bamboo forest.

In additional, a lot  handmade bamboo lanterns  hanged on each tree in Culture forecourt.

Lastly, there will be a firework on 27/9/2014 at 7pm in Southbank, please don’t miss it!

Yesterday is the last day of taiwan festival. This year , the festival took places in four shopping malls and about a week long, without a central location. This was a bit hard to attend their programs.

However , i have attended some programs. Firstly, I watched the magician show on last Thursday . The magician turned himself to a ball and was jumping around the stage. That was very funny.

Secondly, yesterday, i went to cha time in sunnybank around 1.30pm. We enjoyed the buy one get one free deal. Although we spent an hour for lining up, that was  a huge bargain! Long time waiting was still worthy. Moreover we got a ten dollars voucher from a center staff. We can use it on 7th september. We got a huge benefit on this trip.

Lastly, at night, we went to the  LuBenTan Night Market at calamvale central. There was a full of people. The car park was completely full. We had to park in sunnybank hills shopping town and walked across to there. I have not seen that many chinese in Brisbane ever before!

There were a lot of taiwanese hawker style food stall, but each stall had a long queue in front of itself. Thus, we had two dishes. Firstly, that was Oden. It contains 9 types of fish balls. It did not taste bad at all. Second one is coconut jelly.  That was quite tasty. I like it.

Lastly, at 9pm, a firework show lighted up at the roof of  sunnybank hills shopping town.

That was quite fun.

Well, although the Taiwan Festival 2014 ended, LuBenTan Night Market still opens 6pm to 11pm at Calamvale Central every Saturday.