http://pekichonline.com/blog Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:05:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are all too familiar of the lines: "Life is short", "Life is full of surprises", life is this and life is that. However meaningful, we can not fully understand what it really means until it happens to us. Life just threw a very cruel surprise at us. I will not ... http://pekichonline.com/blog/2006/12/17/thats-life/ I can't believe it's the 29th of November already. I did not plan to write a blog today but I have to now as I don't want the November archive to be empty. I noticed that when the children are watching a movie on television, they just click away during commercials ... http://pekichonline.com/blog/2006/11/29/click-click-click/ We stayed at home during the school holidays as Jack was not feeling well. He changed the roof in the barn and was planning to turn one part that used to be for the horses into a pethouse. Since we don’t keep horses, we are going to use that shelter for pigeons, ... http://pekichonline.com/blog/2006/10/23/bush-fire/ It is now October 23, 2006! Where are all the days gone? It is scary how quickly time passes and now more than ever do I become increasingly aware of the line “time flies”. My best reminder of days gone by is through the children. The children are just there ... http://pekichonline.com/blog/2006/10/23/time-flies/ By: Vera Olano Pekich On the 28th of September, Years 3 to 6 went for an excursion to Raymond Terrace. We left at 9 o’clock. We took two buses, stage 2 in one and stage 3 in the other. The trip to Raymond Terrace took 50 minutes. We arrived at Raymond ... http://pekichonline.com/blog/2006/10/03/my-trip-to-raymond-terrace/ By: Vera Olano Pekich  On Friday, the 14th of September, the entire middle school group went to Chinatown in Sydney. I woke up very early, ten to five! We picked up Eve at quarter to six. We arrived at school at six o'clock. When I arrived, I found out that I ... http://pekichonline.com/blog/2006/09/24/my-trip-to-chinatown/ By: Jakov Olano Pekich It was a cold Thursday morning when I was woken up to go to school at the extremely early time of 5:05am. We had to be at school by 6:30am to catch the bus to go to Sydney. When we got to school we were put into our ... http://pekichonline.com/blog/2006/09/16/chinatown-excursion/ By: Vera Olano Pekich Eve is my best friend we have been best friends since 2002 so we’ve been friends for four years. She lives close to my house and we visit each other a lot. Eve and I met each other in 2002 in year 1. We went on the same ... http://pekichonline.com/blog/2006/09/10/my-best-friend-eve/ By: Vera Olano Pekich Country and city are both great places to live but there are a few downsides to both of them. Firstly, country has way more fresh air, water and food plus there’s more privacy and you stress less. But in the city you're closer to things like stores, petrol ... http://pekichonline.com/blog/2006/09/10/country-vs-city/ By: Jakov Olano Pekich On the 26th of August, me and 6 other team members went down to present our answer to the TOM challenge at the University of Newcastle. To do this, we had to practice for 5 weeks to answer the challenge, and then prepare a script, paint the backdrop, ... http://pekichonline.com/blog/2006/08/31/tournament-of-the-minds/