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Family

Our Home

October 28, 2009

Hello! Thanks for dropping by. Its great to see you. This is a personal blog of Benson John, a 29 year old interior designer / photographer / 3D visualizer / music & movie lover living in Melbourne, Australia. This blog is a personal and growing archive of links, rambles, rants, thoughts, ideas, anecdotes and random [...]

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Australian Citizenship

September 24, 2009

“Australian All Let Us Rejoice”
Yup, and we surely did rejoice.
I am now finally an Australian citizen. Its been 4 years and 236 days since leaving the Indian shores and arriving on this ‘golden soil’. The ceremony was quite an occasion, with about 200 people becoming citizens that night. All pledging our oath to the Australian [...]

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Camry Upgrade

May 22, 2009

After 2 years of rigorous (ab)use, my gutsy old Camry has given up on me. It all started with a standard mid-week morning dash to work. The cars’ engine just wouldn’t turn. I ended up calling RACV and was in luck, with a bloke at my gate literally in 5 minutes. He had a look [...]

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Parents Visiting & Updates

August 30, 2008

Things have been good with us this past month. Its been busy as hell with me for the first three weeks at work, and suddenly got “slack” around this last week. Both of us have been getting pretty restless with where we’re at workwise. Its probably good to have this ‘itch’ to move towards more [...]

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Anzac Weekend Wrap

May 4, 2008

Being a long weekend because of Anzac Day, we ended up heading to Sydney after quite a while of umming and ahhing. It was a pretty exciting week leading up to the weekend anticipating catching up with Atap after quite a while. Work demanded I spend a few hours at work on Thursday morning and [...]

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Happy Birthday to Me!

April 5, 2008

28 today! Meenal, once again, surprised me with a relaxed pre-b’day dinner with friends. I’m stunned how she manages to pull this off every year. My third as a husband and third in Australia. I expect it’ll be the best ever!

Thank you Meenal for the evening and the wonderful pressies, and Nick, Augi & Hobster [...]

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Chillaxed weekend

March 2, 2008

Turned out to be a totally chillaxed weekend. After 3 years of deliberation managed to actually give Vinay and Vikram a buzz and ended up having some really meaningless conversations… And the ringtone on Vicky’s phone was quite a revelation! Got smashed with buds late into Friday night before dashing to nice Indian joint for [...]

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SkyHigh Escape!

September 22, 2007

“Get some perspective & Escape…”; that is what the web-site says about the vantage viewing point in the dense & lush Mount Dandenong ranges. Our navigator decided to throw us another challenge on the way, by deciding to take us through the “Fastest Route” to the “Top”. Which was nothing short of a winding ledge! [...]

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Permanent Residents!

September 17, 2007

Those months of prayers and anxious waiting shall never be forgotten. But last Wednesday afternoon was when we finally got the good news. It’s a weird feeling. You fervently work towards this day; and when it is finally here, you’re just too numb to react. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved [...]

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Wii are loving it!

July 29, 2007

Its been a couple of days since we unpacked our Nintendo Wii and its been really addictive since. Its the first time ever that Meenal’s been interested in anything remotely ‘gaming/sports’ related! The first few minutes were spent getting the device connected and setting up “Mii’s”, thats’ individual profiles, for the both of us. Before we [...]

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Another week…

July 22, 2007

… and weekend passes by at the new home. Last week we managed, with the strong muscles of Nikhil, Piyush and Ahmed, to move our furniture into this place. My dear Sam uncle and Sumachechi are deeply thanked for all their immense kindness towards that area. And all that pushing and shoving in the wet, [...]

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Almost there…

July 12, 2007

… with our settling within our new environs. The most important thing more than anything else, to Meenals’ disgust, would be the cable broadband. We are with the Optus ‘Advantage’ plan at the moment. I am eternally grateful to AAPT’s lousy customer care and service for leading me to find this awesome package from Optus. [...]

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