http://www.nepalaus.com

“Melbourne Chautari” is Nepalese Radio program which broadcasts from Melbourne, Victoria and is Victoria’s only Nepalese Radio program. It started airing on 3CR in October 2003 which was brought by Nepalese Association of Victoria (NAV). The program has Nepali music, news, current affairs from Nepal, community announcements and discussion which is presented by Lok Deep Rai, Sudhir Shakya, Erina & Ram Jee Aryal, and Ranjan Vaidya. The program is scheduled on Thursday from 9pm to 10pm. You can even request for your favourite song or dedicate a song to someone just by filling the request form which is available NAV’s website.

When I came to know about Lars Olsen, chief executive of Forget me Not Children Home, an orphanage run by him in Nepal, through our university’s international support officer Mr Richard Richter, I wanted to meet the great guy who was devoting his valuable time to look after our Nepalese girls. Mr Richard suggested me to send an email regarding the organisation and to have a meeting. As suggested I sent Lars an email regarding the organisation and thanked him. Then Lars wanted us to meet and after some weeks we met and had a talk about his organisation and planning of building of the eco village which will be the girls’ private home. Then soon after, I popped in the proposal to be helping out in any kind of work that would be helpful for the organisation. Then Lars mentioned about KIDS HELPING KINDS DAY fundraiser program! He said we could do anything possible we can and we thought of doing some cultural dances and having Nepalese momo food stall. Because of the food health and safety reasons, we were not given any permission for the stall but we managed to some cultural dances on that day.

Dashain in one of the biggest and the longest festival celebrated in Nepal. This year Dashain Tika Shahit was on 28^th September. Since this is the biggest festival, Nepalese community managed to organize programs and dance parties. In Melbourne, Nepalese Association of Victoria organized Dashain Festival Party at Preston Town Hall on 27^th September. Australian Education and We2 Entertainment organized Dashain Dance Party in Brisbane and in Sydney there were Dashain Night Party and Dashain program 2009.

Many Nepalese celebrated Dashain at home with their family and friends by organizing get together party in Melbourne.

Summer is on the way and that’s the best time I prefer fishing with my friends and family. There are a lot of spots where you can go fishing however my hot spot is “Warmies” Newport, Williamstown because its few minutes walk from my place. Make sure the spot you’re heading is not protected/restricted area for fishing. The fish you can get from “Warmies” Newport are Bream, Mullet, Tailor, Mulloway and Snapper.