One day lots of pimple appear at my face, really small, red, an lots. In the matter of fact, it wasn't there for a long time. Once I had allergic with one of the moisturizer that I bought a couple weeks ago, and caused my face had a small, really small pimple, but not red. So I stopped using that moisturizer and avoid using makeup for a moment. After a couple day all those tiny pimple gone, suddenly my face had the big and red ones, and it's also appear alot around my cheek and chin.

Of course I am confuse, especially it happened after a couple days I detox my face. Apparently the cause of it was my make up brushes. Why? Since I move to Australia, I am indeed always using more heavy make up. And that caused my makeup brush heavy. I was so shocked, because it didn't mean I didn't wash my makeup brushes, but I did that once every month. Apparently, because I often use my makeup brushes, cleaning it once every month is not a good schedule.

By too often using our makeup brushes, the more the cosmetics particles stayed at our brushes. These particles can cause lots of things. Beside makes our makeup not flawless, it also make the brush look really dirty, and also stiff when we swipe it.

Beside the cosmetics particles, the natural oil at our face also one of the factor. Because the oil at our face indirectly also stayed at our brushes when we swipe our brushes.

Also, keep the brushes at the open air makes it dirt too. Because the dust particles at the air can stay also at our brushes. The longer we let it the more the dirt at our brushes. Plus we always use it all day.

If our cosmetics brushes are dirty, of course our face will have lots of pimple. And, the cosmetics particles that stay in our brushes, could also been swipe again to our face. So the cosmetics will not be perfect in our face. It makes our makeup not flawless.

Beside the un-prefect makeup result, the dirty brushes also makes our skin aging faster. Because the dirty particles in it, can caused our face get the free radical attack, and also can break the collagen and skin elasticity.

Plus, can caused our pore blocked. So, beside makes our pore bigger, also can caused pimple and blackhead. 

Nowadays, there are lots of things to help you wash your cosmetics brush. Beside the shampoo just for your brush, there is also a machine to clean it. All we going to do just put the brush at the stick and let the machine do the rest. 

My method is simple. I used a baby soap only. You can use either liquid or bar. Beside it is way more cheaper, baby soap have a soft formula, and smell. Baby soap also can minimize the allergies because all the ingredients inside the baby soap really different.

All you going to do just makes your brushes wet. Then if you use the bar soap, just put the wet brush on to the soap, and clean it by make a circle movement until the foam appear. Usually, the first foam will have colour like the colour of the cosmetics from the brushes we used. Do this step two until three times until all the foam have a clear colour.

When you use the liquid soap, the method is more less the same. Instead putting the brush to the soap, you can pour the liquid soap onto the brush, and start do the circle movement.

I used two different method to dry my brushes. First, is by hanging my brushes upside down. The brush face the floor. It will makes all the water will go down directly to the floor instead to the stick.

The second one, by putting your brushes to the towel and pat it gentle. Beside with the towel, you can also use the paper towel. Then use the towel/ paper towel as the base, then put it at the dry place and not immediately touch the sunlight, in order to make your brush not stiff.

Biasanya sehari langsung kering sih. Setelah kering, baru bisa dipakai lagi deh. Pastinya aman dan nggak bikin was-was karena kuasnya kotor.

I think, the more we used our brushes, the more time we need to clean our brushes. For example, if we use it everyday, it means all the dirt and particles will be faster stacked at our brushes, so once every week to clean your brushes could be the good idea.

My suggestion is, if you able you could have two same brushes for same use. So if you clean one brush, you still have another one for the same use. If you don't have it, it also okay. I also don't have two. But if you want to wear a cosmetics, don't ever use the wet brush for apply your makeup. Because it will make the result very bad, and makes your brushes easily get dirty too. 

Here you go, my tips for cleaning the makeup brushes. I think, beside it is easy, it is also cheap. LOL. You can use the saving money for buy another makeup.

Finally! It's been two years between my boyfriend and me. What I could tell you, our relations is not always face the happy stories. Moreover, if we are faced something from my visa. This made our mood up and down. But, since visa is the most important thing for now, we should face it, no matter what.

Anyway, last October was our second anniversary (yaay!!). Maybe for some people anniversary doesn't mean anything. But for us it's so important. Really, this is so important. Because one of the conditions for me to apply partner visa in Australia is we have minimum 12 months relationship. The longer you have the faster they provide the visa for you. Waiting time? Two years.

Also read: Things You Have to Aware if You Have Multiple Entry Visitor Visa Australia

Beside, Australian imigration also have lots of conditions that based on your relations. My boyfriend said, they do that to avoid people who just want to have permanent visa without having serious relations with their partner. Because, once you are grant for permanent visa in Australia, you will have the same right with Australian citizen.

Since one month before was my boyfriend's birthday, and I also made a birthday card for him, so at the same time I bought some things to made him our anniversary card too. Just like the other, the more often you do craft, the more you want the difficult level rise. That's what I did. Since last year I also made the birthday and anniversary cards and it is easy, and the month before I made a little bit difficult card, so for this anniversary card, my level also a little bit difficult than before.

Also Read: DIY Birthday Card for the Second Time 

For this card you don't need lots of materials. I made it as simple as I can, because I still didn't have a lots of fund too:

• If you have A4 carton paper, you can use that, minimum two colours, you will made two different colours inside and outside. If you don't have the carton paper, you can use a normal one, and use the colours paper, which often used by kindergarten for making a folding things from paper.
• Pencil, ruler, glue and scissor.

• Any kinds of pictures and word art, you can find it at internet, or made by your self. Or you can find it at craft store.

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Because last December I stayed in Australia, and my Australian family celebrated Christmas, so I automatically also follow all the Christmas busy time to. The Christmas feel actually already felt since November. All the commercial at televisions already put their Christmas discounts. Of course I could saw lots of toys commercials, not to mention a special package for Christmas holiday.

In Australia, we didn't celebrate Christmas with snow, because winter in Australia is at the middle of the year. So, how we celebrate Christmas in Australia? WITH SUMMER!!! Yes, Christmas time in Australia mean summer time. So, don't be shock if you saw an Australian commercial at Christmas full of beach and beach and beach.

Also read: First Time Playing Snow at Lake Mountain, Australia

Not like in my country, Indonesia, which have lots of red calendar dates (means lots of holidays). In Australia they don't have as much as Indonesia. But for Christmas, they have two red calendar dates, 25 and 26 of December. Christmas celebration at 25 of December, and Boxing Day at 26 of December, which in Indonesia they don't have a special day for boxing day.

My boyfriend and his ex-wife, after their divorce, had their old tradition, that all of their children will having feast in both house at the same day. So if they have Christmas lunch at their mother's house, they will have Christmas dinner at their father's, vice versa.

For this Christmas, they change the tradition. Since the children still full after Christmas lunch, they made two days family feast, at Christmas day and Boxing day, and they make all feasts are for lunch. Because the kids always eat lots of meal when they have their lunch feast, so sometimes they feel still full when they also have to attend the dinner feast.

Since this Christmas they had their lunch at their mother's house, so we just prepared our lunch feast at boxing day. Next Christmas, it will be our turn to have lunch feast at Christmas. 

My boyfriend still have his own tradition for giving a Christmas present to all of his children and grandchild (even thought all of his children already an adult). He used to bought more than one present for each of them. But since we already busy (and he still had me not working) because my visa applications, even thought he tried to bought a present, but not as much as before. But I am a little sad and guilty because of me his children didn't have a Christmas present.

Luckily his daughter understand it, and all she wants just his father fixing her bikes. Which she already requested since two years ago. So, two weeks before Christmas, after working, my boyfriend spend one until two hours at the garage to fixed his daughter's bike.

But, he still able to bought presents for his grandchild. Since both of his grandchild still a young kids. His granddaughter is three years old and his grandson is 6 months old. So, we took our time to search the presents at shopping malls.

His granddaughter once been asked what she want for Christmas, and she said she wants a butterfly. Alright, how could you find something "butterfly" for a three years old kids????? For this only, we had to came into two different big shopping malls. 

He had a bad mood because we can't get the trolley

Not to mention for boxing day's lunch feast, we had to buy three different meats. He always had his signature dish at Christmas, which is Lechon pork, a Philipino's recipe, don't ask me how he get it. Then he planned to make roasted chicken and also slow cooker lamb.

And, at Christmas, since we didn't had anyone to come, so we plan to go to beach. Then, we also need some drinks, snacks, and things to bring at the beach.

Took us a good an hour before we can find a trolley for ouselves

We started our shopping two days before Christmas day. Which if you did that, you will find lots of people have the same thought, SHOPPING FOR DISCOUNT. Yes, at the last minute time like this, most of the stores start to throw lots of discounts. It is really cheap, but it also have lots of people. In the time like this, the shopping mall which packed of people.

Because it's summer here, means beach time, LOL. Especially, in this Christmas holiday, we are planning to go to the beach, because the kids will come at boxing day. Perfect weather, and all the things we need to supply our beach holiday and also for feast at boxing day already set.

Since lots of people will think the same way like us, going to the beach (especially those whom not celebrate Christmas), we decided to find calmer and far from tourist beach. Even we decided to drove to Mornington, I was a little bit worried because when we passed Mornington Park, I could see lots of tourist fill that park. I worried that the beach will be packed like Bondi in NSW.

Luckily, our beach is really quite, and not having lots of tourist in it. The beach is at Mt. Martha, beside not much tourist, the beach also have the bathing box like Brighton Beach.

Also read: Hello Straya: Brighton Beach

Beach at Mt. Martha, only four groups visitors, and I like it

We brought our tent, for keeping all of our things, and also icebox (or eski in Strayan language) that fill with lots of cold drink, and also lots and lots of snacks. Because, once you out from the water, you will be really hungry.

Tips: After having your meal, take 10 until 15 minutes rest before you come back to the water.

After coming back from the beach, we have no time for resting, we should start to prepare all the meals for lunch at Boxing day. We started to clean all the meats. My boyfriend started to put all the spices at the pork, and also put the lamb at the slow cooker (we left it a night for cook). We also have to wake up early at boxing day for preparing the other meal and cleaning the house, plus decorate the table.

Looks like it's simple, no it's not T_T. Plus, at the boxing day, we woke up at 9am, while the feast scheduled at 12.30pm. Not really in hurry too, but since we have to do lots of things, and I didn't know what to do with all those meal, I give all those meal things to my boyfriend.

Our Christmas Lunch at Boxing day

Since my boyfriend taking care the meal at the kitchen, I decorated the table, and also help him at the kitchen, doing something that I understand, like frying the meal that have to fried, etc. Since this is my first time being busy for celebration, so I a little bit confuse and lost.

The kids gathered around 1pm, then we started our lunch. It was delicious lunch. All those meats are perfect. Juicy and tender, LOL.

After lunch, it's time for unboxing the present. Since only the little granddaughter that came, so yes, after two different big shopping malls, finally we reveal the "butterfly" things that we bought for her. It's two fairy wings, LOL.

Our lovely granddaughter with her butterfly wing

She keep saying those wings are for Halloween, not for Christmas, but we keep told her that it is a butterfly wings, and she can wear it anytime. Actually we don't want her to reject the present anyway, it hard to find something butterfly-ie.

Second present was the fishing toy. Since I am too concern about age restriction, I always re-check again that the toys is fit for her age or not. Luckily at Aussie, it is easy to find out that the toy is the right toy for her age or not. Like this fishing toy, we bought it because it said it fit for 3 years+ age.

Actually, I knew that she really like playing pretending, pretending to be a mother or pretending to be a teacher. Maybe because she stay with her grandmother (my boyfriend ex-wife), and spent lots of time at her kinder. But I really can't find the exact toy for her and her imagination. Dolls? Don't mention me, she already have lots of dolls.

At first I want to buy her a toy stroller, but my boyfriend said he want to give her something that making her not move a lot inside the house. Because our house is not too big, and easily to get messy when the kids come. At the end we bought that fishing toy. You can guess it, not until 10 minutes she already bored, because she finds it's so difficult to catch the fish with the fishing rod, she prefer do it with her hand. LOL.

Don't tell me about Christmas present, I even never get a birthday present back in my country, Indonesia. No, it's not about the Indonesian culture, but nobody around me celebrate it. The first present I had is one birthday present from all my high school's friend at my farewell party before move to Australia. LOL.

So, I was so overwhelming when I also get the Christmas present. My boyfriend gave me a box of Lindt chocolate, and a paint-your-own-mug thing. LOL. Still, I am happy to have that.

Beside him, his daughter also gave me a set of Harry Potter's Marauder Map's Puzzle and 9 3/4 Hogwart Express plate. She know me well, LOL. Love the present so much.  

I have a Christmas present too from our daughter :)

I am really happy, not because get the present only, but I feel that I already accepted into his family, sharing the holiday together. I also have a great relations with his ex-wife too. She is really nice and bubbly person, so lovely, and we put her as our witness for my visa application too. 

Since this was my first time celebrating something with family, I really, really overwhelming. Because I never celebrate something with my Indonesian family, and we never celebrate something special, so this was my first experience celebrating something, and I really really love it.

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One day I was bored ate Indomie Goreng and my boyfriend didn't really like Indomie Ramen. He thought the Indomie ramen taste not really kicking in. Well, he just tried Indomie ramen with chicken broth and chicken curry flavours. Because of that we never had Indomie ramen at our home. Usually for ramen we bought Korean ramen noodle. No, not that samyang, because we couldn't find any in Aussie.

 Also Read: This is My Indomie Creations, How About You?

Since we haven't any ramen at our home, so I tried to make my own ramen with the ingredients we have. Before, I browsed the real ramen recipes, especially for the soup. After read some recipes, I then prepared all the ingredients that needed for making ramen soup.

For ramen soup, I mix 1/2 tea spoon of minced garlic, ginger powder, sesame oil, salt, pepper, vinegar and paprika powder, and I also added a block of chicken stock. 

All of those ingredients mix and stir at the boiling water. If you want to be spicy you can add chili powder or crushed chili at the soup mixture.How much the chili is depend on your flavor.

After all the ingredients mixed at the boiling water, simmer it for 5 minutes, while I prepared the ramen.

Actually, the Japanese have their own ramen noodle. But since I didn't prepare any noodle at home, so another alternative is pasta noodle. Since we just only had fettuccine, so I used that. Not just only fettuccine, you can use any kind of pasta noodle. Like cooking the normal pasta, I boiled the fettuccine first for 3-5 minutes.

Since this is my own ramen soup version, so it's all up to me what kind of noodle I would to use. And same with you, you can use any kind of noodle you can have at your home. And how much the noodle to be prepare is depend on your flavor too.

Also Read: Trying Samyang Hot Spicy Noodle, in Australia

And the last one, topping. Once again all the toppings are depend on your favorite one. But for me, boiled egg is a must at ramen. In my own version, beside the boiled egg, I also add mushroom, sausage, and mini spring roll. My suggestion, if you want to add meat but don't know how to, you could buy a frozen meat like nugget, or flavoured chicken, or mini things, like mini dimsum, mini spring roll, etc.

Once the noodle and the topping ready, then prepare all of that inside the ramen bowl. After put the noodle and all the topping, then you pour the ramen soup that still simmering. Spread the spring onion and serve while it hot.

Since this was my first time, I couldn't believe that the taste is so great, plus the soup really taste great, and have a chicken taste. Even tough this is far from the authentic ramen noodle, but as an alternative ramen noodle I could say it is not failed. Yumm.


Did you have made your own version ramen noodle?
Share it to me too, please... :)

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As a 90ish Indonesian kids, I grew up surrounded by Japanese Cartoon, like Doraemon, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, Samurai X, Sailor Moon, LOL... Since we are grow up, some of us started to leave those cartoon world slowly, starting when we think we are adult enough to fall in love, and starting a family. Some of us maybe enough having a nostalgic feeling when we are accompany our children watching Doraemon at Sunday (Is it still at Sunday?)

I really love watching this Japanese cartoon or anime. Childish? No, I mean I like to watch it, and yes I also collecting some of the memorabilia, and also anime is not only for children. So if you say someone childish by their hobby watching anime, it is not exactly right.

My boyfriend's daughter for example. She really love Sailor Moon, and have a cupboard full only for her Sailor Moon collections. She is in her 20 by the way. But since I am not into one anime only, so I am not really have something like her. Since Indonesian television suddenly cut the Inuyasha series and Rurouni Kenshin series is over, I didn't put any attention to lots of new anime. Sometimes I watched Detective Conan, but it is hard to follow it, since it still on going and Indonesian television not giving more time for it (sometimes it appear just like that, and suddenly just vanished), and at that time it was hard to find internet connections for streaming. And I gave up to collected the manga.

Talking about manga, I once had Card Captor Sakura and Death Note mangas. But since some people borrow it and don't want to return it (I write this with a hurt in my chest), I am really afraid to collect another manga.

Stuck at Death Note, and the story behind the manga, makes me hard to watch anime, until I install an anime streaming applications at my laptop. I installed three different streaming applications, LOL. From here I started again watched animes. Starting from old to new, from serial until the movies.

Talking about this hobby, my boyfriend really doesn't matter at all, LOL. He is not a huge anime fans, but he doesn't matter watching anime. He once watched Inuyasha, and Death Note, some Studio Ghibli's anime too, like Spirited Away, Cat Returns, and My Neighbor Totoro.

He still on going watching Death Note, in some point he can really full attention to watch it, in another point he can fall asleep. LOL.

One night, when I browsed a new anime, I found this Anime called Blend S. Tried to watched it, apparently I like this anime. So, I want to review this on going anime now. 

Same like any other major anime, Blend S once started as manga. Blend S manga is created by Muyiki Nakayamai. Published by Manga Time Kirara Carat at 2013.

The story is about the interaction between people who worked at Stile Cafe. What makes these characters unique, is each of the waiters at this cafe have to act with the certain character when they are working, which the characters sometimes different from they real life characters. Like sadistic, tsundere, young sister, old sister, and idol.

This anime main character is a high school girl named Maika Sakuranomiya. Maika's real character actually bubbly, cute and sincere. Sincere because she grew in traditional Japanese family. Beside, she have an eye that make everybody things she have sadistic character. Because of her eyes, Maika accepted work as a part timer at Stile cafe. Lucky Dino, the cafe owner saw her and offer her the job, to be a sadistic character waiter.

Another waiter that has been worked at Stile Cafe before Maika is Kaho Hinata. Her character at the cafe is tsundere, tsundere is the character that made Kaho have to act cold to the customer. In fact, Kaho is a bubbly person and love to play online game. Kaho is like Maika, she is a high school student that work part time at Stile Cafe.

Another senior waiter at Stile is Mafuyu Hoshikawa. Mafuyu had a small body, while in fact she is a college student. At Stile Cafe, Mafuyu character is young sister. So she had to be cheerful all the time and also spoiled like a little kid. But Mafuyu real character is cold and really like action figure too.


Not long after Maika accepted working at this cafe, they accepted another waiter named Miu Amano. At the cafe her character is the opposite of Mafuyu's character, her character is big sister. She act as someone that give a full attention the the customer. In real life, Miu is the leader of the famous manga writer group "Hanazono Folder." Hanazono Folder is the independent writer group that make adult manga. Of course the funny stories appear because of this and Maika. Beside, Miu also have to find inspiration for her next manga. And she decided Maika and Dino become her inspiration for her new manga.


Hideri Kanzaki is the newest person in this group (appear at episode 9). The character at the cafe is idol. So it his job to give an idol character, more less like Mafuyu, that always bubbly and always smile, but Hideri more to the famous act character. Yes, it is "HIM" because Hideri is 16 years old farmer's son. Even he had long hair and look so cute.
At the kitchen, they have chef named Koyo Akizuki. Don't ask, even he doesn't have a certain character at the cafe, but he also as same as crazy as the other characters. Akizuki is a yuri genre anime's fan. Yuri genre is an anime who have love story between girls. Since he is an adult manga lover, he is also Miu's fan.


The other chef and the owner of Stile Cafe named Dino. He is an Italian and love Japanese culture. He also love Maika so much. In one episode, he told all his staff (except Maika) that he likes Maika so much. He also a big anime and figurines fans. Of course this anime stories are around Dino's effort to tell Maika that he likes her.

When I made this post, Blend S only have 10 episode and still on going. The genre actually more into comedy that refers to Japanese everyday story. For a light anime fans, Blend S is perfect for you. The stories never been so difficult (if you compare it with death note), and not always about love. Since this is on going anime, I should wait for a week for their new episode.

Oh, this anime is NOT FOR CHILD, because they give 13+ for the rating. The reason is simple, because sometimes they put a "dirty" joke inside the story. Plus, they have Miu, the adult manga writer's character. So, please DO NOT bring your little siblings or your kids when you watch this anime. Even the animations are so funny and cute, but it's a NO for me if you want to bring your little kids or siblings.

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We have a new member at our family, a handsome baby called Hudson Xavier. After two nights being at labor, finally we welcomed him.

He is 3 months old in this picture

We called him baby Huddy (Doc). He had lots of gift at the day he was born. Just like in my country, everytime the baby born, they will gave lots of presents for him. Starting from the cute clothing until baby cosmetics and also toys.

Since his parents stay with us, automatically some of the baby things scattered around. One of the things that catch my attention is some books that become his gift. These aren't a story book, but more like book shape time capsule. More like a memories that happen before and after the baby arrived and also the memories when the baby grows.

One of the books called Baby Record Book. Simple, but yes this is for recording the baby growth.

Published by Bang On The Door. This publisher is one of the publisher that created some famous character that we can see in kids sections, like Classic Animals, FABric Animals, and the Groovy Chick.


Established at 1986, at the beginning they created simple and funny design, then grow to build lots of products like bag, shirts, etc.

For FABric Animals it self, they produce lots of products like book, shirts, bags, and also stationary. One of them is this Baby Record Book.

Cover

This book have a hard and beautiful cover. With FABric Animals design animal cover, it also decorated by a pretty blue ribbon. The cover colour is dominant white, with purple colour at the binding side. So you don't have to worry if you don't know the baby gender yet, because this baby book is gender neutral.

The pictures are so cute. When I saw it I immediately love it. Since baby is close with cute, so the cute cover will raise that cute baby feeling, and made you want to write anything about the baby in this book.

Memories

Since this book is designed for recording the baby growth, so all inside this book are everything that connected with the baby. And this book can record all the memories until the baby at age four.
First book will need you to record the first important thing, the baby name. It printed with cute font, and also the FABric Animals' animal, with soft feeling.

Next page is as cute as the front and cover page. In this book we will asked to put some memories about the first time the parents find out when the mother first time know she's pregnant. And what they are expecting since they know it. And I think, the coolest thing is they give a full one page for parents to put the picture of the memories.

Each pages will makes us want to tell all the stories about the baby growth. From the first time the parents saw the baby inside the mummy's tummy, and also the page what the things that mum consumption when she still pregnant, and what she did, also the page when the baby was born, and who were there, who visited the baby the first time arrived, they also have a page for a family tree too. From the parents, grandparents, siblings, etc. So cute.

baby growth not only once every year, in every month we could see the baby grow. Each of those memories also can be put in this book. It just as easy as put the baby pictures in the certain pages. Like in these two pages full of the memories for the baby growth each three months until 12 months age.

This book also provide pages for each birthday, until the baby fourth birthday. And also another pages for what is new in their first, second, third and fourth age, like things that the baby had learn, of course also the page for putting the pictures.


For the expecting baby parents, this book is so interesting, you could write anything about your baby growth, then keep it as the memory. And also, one day you want to remember all these things right? Sometimes the first teeth also need to be record.

And for the baby, they will see their first four years in this book when they are grow up.

This book also can be a present for the expecting parents. I think this book is super fun. Especially they put a cute pictures, fonts, and decorations in each pages. For a new mums, I guess this book will make you love to write everything about your baby.

How to put the picture inside the book? Don't worry, they also have a special pockets and envelope for putting any other memories inside.

In Australia, this book published by Ice Water Press. You could find books from this publisher at the online shop at Melbourne. Too bad, they are not having it anymore, since it is difficult for me to find it offline and online.

You can also find it at New Zealand baby online shop, Baby Factory, they still sells it for NZ$29.99 or around AU$27.30

Too bad this book is also not available at Gramedia book store, in Indonesia. But I don't know if there is any book store that provide this kind of book. I would love to give this as a gift for the new parents, or the new baby born. How about you?

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maybe you know, maybe you don't that my boyfriend have a daughter. His daughter have lots of activities, one of her activities is she is the Relay for Life member. Relay for life is annual event that held by Cancer Council all around the world. Starter at 1985 in America, some of the doctor want to raise awareness about cancer.

First Event 

In Australia, Relay for Life started at 1999, and donate around $75,000 for Cancer Council. Since then, every year in all Australian states, they held this event. All the fund that has been donated will be used for Cancer Council, a non profit organization for cancer, to do experiment and also learning about cancer early detection, how to reduce the risk get cancer, and also support and handling for cancer patients.

Who Can Participate

Not only the crew family can join this event. They who have concern about cancer are welcome to this event. It could be those who become the cancer survivor, they who lost their beloved because of cancer, or they who care and concern about this cancer disease. What kind of cancer? Any. From breast cancer until skin cancer. All of them. Talking about skin cancer, don't you know two from three Australian detected have a skin cancer?

There is no age restriction, my boyfriend's grandson, who is only five months has did his first relay in this year relay. The senior citizen who still have passion and want to support also able to join this event.

Of course my boyfriend's daughter also invited the entire of her family to joint this event. This event is simple, all you going to do just walk around the marathon area. Started from 4pm and ended at 12pm the next day. They also have entertainment, from the crew and also from the people who joint the event. All they did just brought a tent that fit all the family members who follow the event, and also supply for one day. Because you will be at this place for one day full.

Beside my boyfriend and I, my boyfriend's ex-wife's family also take a part of this event. They already became the member  of this event every year. Not just like my boyfriend and i who just came at almost midnight and have three laps walking, his ex-wife family already there since it started.

What Else You Can Find in This Event

You could find lots of snack booths here, and also you can find the arts or anything that the member of this event sells. At the edge of the marathon track, you can find lots of tents circle around, and found some booth that they made for selling their things. Some games also can be find in this event. So it's not just only walking, the crew and also the member it self prepared them self for lots of game to kill their boredom. Beside, they also have live music, and also price for them who have the most walk that day.
They also have a good photo booth spot. For someone who like to take a picture, this place is gem LOL.

Because we came almost midnight, some people already warm themselves inside their tent. Some still walked around. Some also trying to still awake by having chat too. Or making a fun game for them selves. And also enjoying the live music that ended up at 11pm.
You could spot some banners at the other edge of the track. All the banners are stated with all the words with awareness and prevention about cancer. You will get educated too in this event.

How to Join

To join this event, all you going to do just register at their website. After you enter the website, you can choose to joint as a member of the event or member of the view, then tell them you shirt size, and how much you want to donate, minimum only $25. When you finish, just pay the donation and confirm, then you can join the event at the place where you registered.

Not Only at Australia

Global Relay For Life Logo

This event is held everywhere around the world. The global relay for life have been held by 29 nations, such as Belgium, Jamaica, UK, South Africa, Ireland, Denmark, India, Turkey, Singapore, Philipine, and of course America.

Relay For Life Australia Logo

All the states at Australia become the member of this event. Starting from the Northern Territory until Victoria. All you going to do just come into their website, then choose which state you in, and choose the Relay schedule that fit for you and your place. The schedule for one year already stated at their website.

It already 26 places around Victoria being scheduled for 2018 event. Cranbourne Narre itself have their schedule at November, and it always around November. So sometimes you still can feel the cold, or half cold, or sometimes it's warm, because it already end of the spring and enter summer.

Too bad, from 29 nations, my country, Indonesia is not one of them.


For me, this is my second time came to this event. First time was my last day at Australia, because I will return to Indonesia the next day. It was last year. Event I still not participated for a full time, but from what I found, I can see lots of people care and trying to raise the awareness about cancer. Them who care about healthiness, them who survive the cancer, them who lost their beloved and want to give their support to another, all of them are strong people who care to each other.

Do you think my country, Indonesia have a chance to do this global movement too? Knowing Singapore and Philippines are also part of this movement.

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