It's rather fun, didn't know that there will be so many people at the FHA.
Thought Eliss was joking with me yesterday when she told me that Nicoll Highway caved in, and Suntec City experienced a blackout. Really big news. Good thing I'm at the Expo, not anywhere near Suntec. But it'll be difficult to take coach to KL from now on.
UNSW has announced plans to establish its first offshore campus in Singapore. UNSW Singapore will be the first wholly-owned and operated research and teaching campus to be established overseas by an Australian university. UNSW Singapore will commence enrolling students from February 2007. The campus will have the capacity to enroll a maximum of 15,000 students, of which at least 70 percent will be drawn from international locations and up to 30 percent from Singapore.
Will UQ be opened in Singapore too? It is also a
and 
, like UNSW.
So
, what do you say?
When I think of UQ, many wonderful memories flashed back...
Especially for the fellow Alumni of UQ, these suburbs will definitely bring back memories. Wonder why they are named like that?
Saint Lucia
The university suburb is named after the island of St Lucia in the West Indies, or at least it is named after W.A.WilsonÂ’s property which he named after the West Indian island where he was born. William Alexander Wilson purchased Dart's Coldridge Plantation in 1882 and renamed it The St Lucia Sugar Plantation. He went on to subdivide an adjacent farm in 1883 and named it St Lucia Estate. In 1885 he moved the name to the subdivision of his sugar plantation; the Great Court of the University of Queensland occupies part of this land today. For many years the name St Lucia only applied to the far end of the peninsular, but was eventually formally adopted for the whole suburb up to Gailey Road/Indooroopilly Road.
Toowong
This was the Aboriginal name for the Common Koel, Eudynamys scolopacea, a name which imitated the sound made by the bird. This cuckoo is found all through coastal Queensland. It appears that the Aboriginal people used the name for the bend in the river downstream from where the Indoorooprilly railway bridge came to be built because these birds must have been particularly prevalent in the area. They generally like forests with tall trees. However Richard Drew applied the name to a different area when he subdivided blocks around a creek which white people already called Toowong Creek, an area which became an elite suburb in the early decades of free settlement. When land was first sold in the area back in 1851 it was simply referred to as the 'Western Suburbs'.
Milton
If some Brisbane suburban names testify to royalist sentiments, Milton points to a famous anti-royalist writer of the17thh century. John Milton, better known as a poet, the author of Paradise Lost, spent much of his life writing pamphlets against episcopacy and monarchy. He was a Puritan in the days of Oliver Cromwell in England.
The suburb was not named directly after the blind poet, but rather after a property there. Two names are associated with the development of this property: Ambrose Eldridge, a pharmacist who had gone bankrupt in Sydney before moving north and who, by 1853, had tried growing cotton on land in the 'western suburbs' of Brisbane, and John Frederick McDougall, a pastoralist who lost his properties on the other side of the Great Dividing Range in the 1894 crash. It was the Railway Department's choice of this name for the station which gave the name to the suburb.
Some special places in my heart
The place where Eliss and I said that we must have a car
Movies at Indooroopilly MEGAPLEX, with free parking
All the weekend rush to get cheap groceries at Toowong...
Going to Surfer's, just to have Korean food
Nike, esprit and Ralph Lauren shopping at Harbour Town
Ernest - suburb named after me! Not really lar...
Southport Junction was re-named Ernest Junction after Ernest Stevens, Member of Parliament.
Ahhh....Reallyy hope to be back again. Checking out
Australian website now for career opportunities.
Cheers, mate! Ta!
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