My First All Girls Holiday

At last, I'm having an actual holiday... Yipee !!! I just could not believe practically every other day I'll get a message from a friend back home that it's a public holiday, sucks... In my previous company located in Selangor we enjoyed 20 over public holidays ! Now here in Sydney, just miserable 9 days.

I'm heading to the Blue Mountains this long weekend. Yea, this is my second time there (my first visit to Blue Mountains) well it's a different crowd, different kind of fun. As you can see there was a rather large generation gap among the group members in the first trip. This weekend, I'll be joining Michelle, Audrey & Fung in a last minute holiday arrangement. It's really at the last minute. I was casually having a chat with Michelle this morning and boom... I'm heading to Blue Mountains with them. Hiaks! This evening drive there and back on Monday. Then Tuesday I'm heading to Canberra to fix my Malaysian VISA. I'm going to be on a long long holiday Xmas holiday. Stay tune folks....

Since we're on topic of holiday, Monday is Australian Labour Day. I find it rather strange, I thought this was a worldwide holiday on May 1st. Here a little write-up from wikipedia... ;-p


Labour Day is an annual holiday celebrated all over the world that resulted from efforts of the labour union movement, to celebrate the economic and socialworkers. The majority of countries celebrate Labour Day on May 1st, and it is popularly known as May Day and International Workers' Day. The celebration of Labour Day has its origins in the eight hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest.

Most countries celebrate Labour Day on May 1, known as May Day and International Workers' Day. In Europe the day has older significance as a rural festival which is predominantly more important than that of the Labour Day movement. The holiday has become internationalised and several countries hold multi-day celebrations including parades, shows and other patriotic and labour-oriented events. However, in Northern Europe, Walpurgis Night is celebrated on the preceding night and this holiday merges with the Labour Day in some countries.

Celebrating the Australian labour movement, the Labour Day public holiday is fixed by the various state and territory governments, and so varies considerably. It is the first Monday in October in the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and South Australia. In both Victoria and Tasmania, it is the second Monday in March (though the latter calls it Eight Hours Day). In Western Australia, Labour Day is the first Monday in March. In both Queensland and the Northern Territory, it is the first Monday in May.