Mardi Gras Festival in Sydney

One of the spectacular festivals of gays and lesbians - Mardi Gras, has been celeberated in sydney today. This could be the most prideful event for homos of the world. The parade was successfull with huge number of participants and audiences. This year's theme was "Nations United" with warm welcome to the world to come to Sydney and be part of colourfull gay celeberation according to Mardi Gras website.
Here are some of the photos and videos taken before and during the event.
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Bush Fire!!!

Austalia is suffering from devasting bush fires. Death tolls have been expected to exceed 200. Similarly, hundreds of people have been homesless. Australian premier has symbolised this as mass murder. Firefighters are still struggling to control the fire. Most of the places are now under control however still some places seen to be under threats.

Source: http://mapvisage.appspot.com/fires/FireMap.html

In such a panic and hurtful hours, the support from government, local authorities, Red cross, other charities, civilians and others are highly appreciating.

Source: http://mapvisage.appspot.com/fires/FireMap.html The red bubbles in the map are the areas where still bush fire is going on.

As a human being and sydney resident, I have felt this pain as intolerable.

Finally, I would like to inform to my family members, relatives and friends that we are safe in sydney. Most of the Nepalese community and international students are in city areas of Australia and they too are safe.

Welcome 2009 !!!!!!!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009. May this year be a milestone of success in your life.

World is welcoming another challenging New Year with happiness, as like others I'm also a part of this system and my heart too accepting this brand New Year to make it fruitful. There can be various ways to welcome and celebrate New Year. One of the world's popular ways is to exchange greetings, wishes with fireworks.
People here in sydney, were gathered in popular spots, high hills, taller buildings, hotels and other places, from where they could easily see the view of fireworks. They were seem to be ready from the early morning as it was difficult to get the right location with beautiful view in the eve. We, in the evening faced the same problem. The crowd was expected to be 1.5 million including locals and toursits and it was really that much. We tried to get into the crowd and be seated in a secure place from where we could see the better view but our attempt was useless. However, we managed to observe it, that's great in such a moment.
I have put some photos and videos as seen and observed by me from Circular quay.