Meals on Wheels

Since I bum around most of the time.........My aunt asked me to join her on her meals on wheels project today morning. Meals on wheels is a community project where volunteers deliver cooked meals to elderly people everyday by car. The meals are prepared at the community centre kitchen and then the food is packed up in thermos bags and off the volunteers go and deliver the food to the elderly ppl whom have signed up as recievers. Some of them are so old, they can't even walk to the door. They are in their late 80's early 90's some of them.Although its an everyday thing, my aunt volunteers once a month....every first Monday of the month is her shift. I had fun bringing some joy to the elderly, and making sure they are fed for the day!

The food all pakced up and stored in thermos bags in the car

The food: Main Course( not sure what it was) soup,Dessert(sticky date pudding and custard) and apple or orange juice

Some houses we went to we delivered two meals, for husband and wife(so sweet,old couple still living together after soooooo many years). The elderly ppl could even choose special meals. E.g. soft diet, vegetarian,no seafood and so on.

New Hobby??? No way!..just For the sake of health

Lately I have been disappointed at how I prove to be an unfit person time and time again....SO I decided to do something about it...........

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Voila a bicycle!.....I actually didn't dare ask my mum,not even dad...whether I could get myself a brand new bike. This is because I know my mum would say no as she knows I will ride it the first few days then neglect it,thus wasting money(she knows me too well)...and I didn't want to ask dad because he would say ok and that would make mum unhappy.......however God is good. Out of the blue few weeks back, my cousin's friend was looking for someone to buy her bike. It was too good an offer! the bike was in good condition,and was a nice looking one, so for Aus 20 I couldnt say no! mum was ok with it when I told her, and dad ended up being the sceptical one, as for me, a good bargain always makes me happy.Only thing is, NOW I have to be disciplined enough to ride at least twice a week! then slowly increase it.Have to show mum I am serious.

p.s. must tell myself looking silly in a helmet is nothing as compared to leading a healthy life! hahahaha.

p.p.s. lin I am coming to Adelaide on it next year. Yeaaaa RIGhhTT!!! uphill around my neighbourhood itself I am already struggling!...hahahhahahaa......

C.I.T.Y.

Another side of Brisbane

Well since I have come here to Brisbane, I have been in the midst of busy suburbian life, and city life....when my mum came over we visited some nature attractions, and forest reserves and all... but nothing less than a 2 hours drive away from home.But on Sunday, I got to experience nature in one of Brisbane's outskirt suburbs..only about a 45 minute drive from my place. The place my uncle,cousin and I went to was called Logan Village....the place was made up of mostly acreages..so the drive there on its own was nice...seeing nice big farm houses..with vast lands, some with crops..some with cows roaming around, even saw a cute little pony and horses.To see such scenic views and carefree animals roaming around just kilometres away from more developed suburbs and the city itself was cool.(like driving from Penang,Pulau Tikus area to balik pulau kind of thing). However our destination was a plot of land still untouched,very much in a jungle state. My uncle wanted to 'walk' the plot, and really get an idea what the plot he was soon going to develop looked like. Here are some snapshots from the little adventure we three had.........

The sky

Some sort of natural sculpture, formed on its own over time

White ant hill...the stick was already there, Cousin added the leaf

'flag'

Nice mushrooms

Ugly mushroom

Yup mushroom growing on top of dried cow dung!..according to what I know, they should be 'magic' mushrooms ....the narcotic, drug! yeeeewwwww......

PINK flower

ORANGE Flower




Beautiful, unique looking tree, one of the trees that cannot be chopped down and must be protected.



At the tip of the plot of land, the trees were not so dense, I thought it was going to be like that all the way, boring trees and thats all, boy was I wrong....

This may look like just grass, however it is actually the kangaroo's sleeping area, if you look closely enough, you can see parts where the tall grass has been pressed down and is brownish in colour.

The density increased as we went further in...............
Posing with the stick I used to poke around infront of me

before I took my steps, Didn't want to step on Mr.Long, or a cane toad

or any other creature.....(oh and kangaroo poo too)



We came into a clearing, I felt like being 5 again,sticking

my arms out like an aeroplane and running

around, of course I didn't because my uncle and cousin

would think I was nuts




Flower bushes surrounding the open area

Scratches from all the branches

saw hares, and cane toads too...but no pics...they ran too fast!.....have loads of other pics..like red/bull ants, termites and some other flowers and all...all in all it was a good work out that was fun!

My name?

lots of people who have asked in the past: What is your name?

Me: My name is Prasana.....

L:brasana...ppprasaanaa?? presena?

M:uhm, PRA-SA-NA

L:oh! PRA-SA-NA-...what a lovely name.....

M:hee hee.. Thank you!

L:What does it mean?

M:oh..I don't know!???????

I seriously have no clue what my neame means...I think my mum and dad just found it and went for it.. they needed a name which ryhmes along with my cousins and brothers names so voila....


Peter Praveen Wilson(cousin)
Paul Pradeep Wilson(cousin)
Patrcik Prasad William(brother)
Phillip Prakash William (brother)
Prasana Shalini William

all 4 of them have the initials P.P.W. except me......P.S.W.! whats with that lah! hahahaa....

I am the only one who didnt get a nice Christian/English name as my first name, all thanks to my dad. Its supposed to be Petra...but no!!..... he forgot to name me properly when the judge asked him....

Instead he goes tuan, itu sahaja Prasana Shalini a/p William...
My mum said she tried... nudging him going Petra..Petra...daddy don't forget Petra...but no daddy doesnt want to trouble the judge......

Itu sahaja tuan , nama anak angkat kami Prasana Shalini a/p william tuan....

Baik....he bla...bla...bla... then makamah bersurai! and with that goes my Petra!

But at least I am grateful when I did my IC dad didnt bother about if he was troubling the judge...he got rid of the a/p in my name...with my brothers it was done within seconds at the ic office.. but with me..as usual i make things more complicated..........muahahaha!!

Kita berkimpul di sini untuk mendengar kes bla...bla...bla... ibubapa dan anak angkat sila tampil ke depan....nama anak encik..

Prasana Shalini William tuan...

Baik....sila baca perjanjian ibubapa.... mum and dad read some long winded thingy...

Baik, dengan itu Prasana Shalini William adalah anak smth smth smth.......he confirms me as they rightful kid and all and then all the other kids and parents go up front then Makamah bersurai!