Easter Holiday
I went up to the Gold Coast to visit my parents for Easter. Easter Monday is normally a holiday but this year it fell on April 25 – ANZAC Day (war memorial day). So Tuesday was a holiday as well. My oldest nephew is 3 and a half years old, so he was really looking [...]
Posted by Aidan under Culture, Culture - Western | Permalink | No Comments »Animania 2011
On Saturday, I went to Animania, an Australian festival celebrating Japanese pop culture. It was held in one of the big hotels in Melbourne. There were lots of people dressed up in costumes from Japanese animation and computer games. They had a quiz on anime, there was a chess game where people in costume were [...]
Posted by Aidan under Culture, Culture - Western | Permalink | No Comments »Australia Day
Australia Day was last week – January 26. It is a national holiday in Australia and is the anniversary of the date when the British settlers arrived at Sydney in 1788. Some people think the date should be changed, as many Australian Aboriginals view it as an invasion date, rather than something to be celebrated. [...]
Posted by Aidan under Culture, Culture - Western | Permalink | No Comments »Top 60 Popular Japanese Phrases of 2010
Some expressions become popular in languages due to new stories, movies or TV. There’s a list of the top 60 popular Japanese phrases from 2010 http://pinktentacle.com/2010/11/top-60-popular-japanese-wordsphrases-of-2010/ It’s interesting to see how the phrases are translated into English. Related Articles: Animania 2011 Top 60 Popular Japanese Phrases of 2010 Teaching Osaka-Ben to Foreigners Blood Types A [...]
Posted by Aidan under Culture, Culture - Western | Permalink | No Comments »Melbourne International Film Festival
One of the things that I like living about Melbourne is that it has the best arts and culture festivals in Australia. The Comedy Festival, the Writer’s Festival and the Melbourne International Film Festival. The film festival is held for about 2 weeks every year and includes hundreds of films from around the world. I’m [...]
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