STYLE was the name of the game in Brisbane yesterday, as more than 30,000 Queenslanders stepped out to enjoy the Exhibition Day races as reported by the Courier Mail .
(p.12,Thursday the 14^th and p19. Monday 25^th  August 2008).

But it took a special someone to pull off Eagle Farm Racecourse’s prize-winning look.

As the only guy competing in the event, civil engineer Stephen Challenger, 21, of Beachmere, north of Brisbane, had his work cut out.

Fortunately, his op shop buys, including $3 jacket and waistcoat for $1.50, stood him in good stead.

Mr Challenger, who also chose a pair of beige slacks and snakeskin shoes, impressed the judges so much they awarded him third place.

“I was trying to create that awesome-guy look that you see on the catwalks,” he said. “I don’t think you have to spend a lot on your clothes to look stylish.”

Congratulations Steve, third is the new first! You are always one Sharp Dressed Man!!!! Love Net 

Work as if you have no need of the money,
Love as if nobody ever made you suffer,
Dance as if nobody is watching you,
Sing as if nobody is hearing you,
Live as if the Paradise were on this Earth!

- Author Unknown

Original author now sourced thanks to Ben May

“Dance like nobody’s watching; love like you’ve never been hurt. Sing like nobody’s listening; live like it’s heaven on earth.” -   —  Mark Twain

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Michael Phelps just won his record eighth gold medal at the Beijing Olympics as a member of the victorious US 400m medley relay team, breaking a tie with Mark Spitz for most golds in a single games.
Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen, Phelps and Jason Lezak won in a world-record of 3 minutes, 29.34 seconds, lowering the old mark of 3:30.68 set four years ago in Athens. 
Australia took the silver in 3:30.04
Japan earned the bronze in 3:31.18

 ”I don’t even know what to feel right now,….There’s so much emotions going through my head and so much excitement. I kind of just want to see my mom.”
Phelps said.

Click here to find out more…

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If all of you people ‘don’t care’ about anything Perez Hilton says, then why do you go to his page? … as offending as this American can be, avid bloggers keep going back for more to keep up with all the celebrity goss and to read Perez’s point of view… Perez Hilton!

Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr. (born March 23, 1978) is an American blogger and television personality. His blog is Perezhilton.com (formerly PageSixSixSix.com), which he writes under the pseudonym Perez Hilton. On his website Lavandeira posts gossip items about musicians, actors and celebrities. He often posts tabloid photographs over which he has added his own captions or “doodles.” His blog has garnered both positive and negative attention for its brash attitude, its active “outing” of alleged closeted homosexual celebrities and for its role in the increasing coverage of celebrities in all forms of media.
Wikipedia

Click here to find out more on Perez Hilton from Rolling Stone….The Queen of Mean

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At 5.30pm, like hundreds of other locals, I wandered down to the Charlton Esplanade to watch the Hervey Bay Whale Festival Street Parade. The parade was lead by the Hervey Bay RSL Pipe Band and closely followed by our local Politicians in classic vehicles; Fraser Coast Mayor Mick Kruger,  Paul Neville MP Hinkler and Andrew McNamara MP Hervey Bay.

The parade seemed a lot shorter this year and I have heard on the local grapevine the costs and insurances involved with participating are too much for the average business/group. They have even band the distribution of lollies from the floats. As a child I would have been ecstatic and thrilled if a lolly hit me in the head!
Honestly, who brought in the Fun Police?!
Never the less, those that participated did not lack enthusiasm, colour or creativity.

  

It was fantastic to see Fraser Coast University, USQ were I am studying a Masters in Professional Studies make such a simplistic yet bold statement to advertise their campus, very effective, as were the other environmental issues on display.

Today I attended the Star of the Sea, Catholic School in Hervey Bay’s, Silver Jubilee (1984-2008). A time capsule that was buried 25 years ago was dug up and the historic contents put on display. As I was a pioneer student of the school in Grade 4, I was pictured in the first ever school photo that was among the buried treasures.

This picture of me was taken in April 1984 and published in the local newspaper when the school was officially opened by his grace the Archbishop Francis Roberts Rush from Brisbane. My grandmother and father are pictured in the background of the photograph. 

The new child care centre an extension of the school was officially opened today and the local politicians were out in force with Andrew McNamara MP, Paul Neville MP and Fraser Coast Mayor Mick Kruger all present.

I enjoyed a delicious steak sandwich with my parents and purchased promotional stubbie coolers as a momentum of the occasion. My parents also brought a Recipe book that the Grade five students had put together that was really well done.

My father was employed as a groundsman at one stage for the school and was involved in several Saturday working bees when I was attending the school.

We stopped to get a photo next to one of the original targets Dad painted on the wall for the students, and by the chalk marks on it today,
it looks like it is still a hit at lunch times!

I also caught up with Andrew McNamara MP on the oval where there was a lot of activity and plenty of people.

The school is probably five times bigger than it was when I attended and it’s great to see all the new shade structures for the children.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt ; October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and assumed a role as an advocate for civil rights. After her husband’s death in 1945, she continued to be an internationally prominent author and speaker for the New Deal coalition. She worked to enhance the status of working women, although she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment because she believed it would adversely affect women.

The White House – Past First Ladies, click here to read Eleanors Biography

• Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
• If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
• A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
• Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
• Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
• Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
• I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
• I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
• It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
•  Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
• Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
• Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
• One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
• The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
• You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
• People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

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I’ve decided to start a new venture to provide myself and others with abit of fun and fitness!

The group welcomes all ages, singles, couples, dancers, non dancers and will seek to ensure all have a fantastic time. The music is exciting, the dancing is HOT and the atmosphere electric!

I hope you may enjoy the website and the events too!

Welcome to Salsa Group

For those of you that like to have fun through dining, socialising and dancing this is the website for you.

Keep an eye on upcoming events and read and view images on posts of the past events.

There are also links if you are interested in taking dance classes to improve your latin rhythms and dance movements.

Please enjoy…click here to go to Salsa Group!

Have you ever googled yourself?
That’s right, type in your name and see what comes up. Looking up my name tonight I found several references over several pages. On the 3rd page I came across an amusing one, my post on facebook to Oprah. I posted this a month ago and already over another 100 people have posted on her profile since then.

Law of attraction, put it out there!   
 _______________________
Jeanette Maynes wrote
at 5:59pm on June 19th, 2008

I am a huge fan, admire you enormously and your work inspires me,
I have just started a blog www.jeanettemaynes.com.au  you may like to refer to this one day when you are interviewing me.

I look forward to meeting you!

Kind regards
Jeanette Maynes

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Last night I was so excited to see one of my all time favourite performers the legendary Jimmy Barnes!!!

I saw Jimmy perform twice before over ten years ago, so I couldn’t wait to see if he still had the same venom!
To mark the occasion I made special promo shirts to wear and the ladies in the crowd were asking me if I brought mine at the merchandise stall so they could buy one.

The show started with Jimmy’s daughter Mahalia as the support act. Although I found Mahalia to have a beautiful and strong voice, I was alittle disappointed with the overall performance and heard alot of similar comments. Her appearance looked like she had just woken up and she wore what appeared to be a blanket with holes for limbs, inside out with the tag hanging out the back! (Unless this is a new trend I don’t know of yet) She also did not really work the stage or engage the audience and we spent most of the performance looking at her back.

After a short break my disappointment quickly disappeared when her father appeared and the stage came to life!

Now Jimmy was dressed to impress, oozing confidence and professionalism working the stage and crowd at the same time! He told us a story before each song of when they were written, where and what they were about. His voice and high powered scream had me mesmerised and my legs couldn’t stop tapping as I just wanted to dance like there was no tomorrow making it very hard to sit still.

His musicians were extremely skilled especially a guitar player on the right that was very charismatic and amusing working the stage around Mr Barnes. The two and a half hour nonstop performance from a man, who had recently undergone heart surgery, was engaging, entertaining and enthralling creating an electric atmosphere!
The crowd was screaming, singing, cheering, whistling, applauding and full of diehard fans from our Fraser Coast.

The man is a Legend, a true performer!