Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Public Holidays of Australian

Today is Anzac holdiay, another day I can get up as late as I like.
April is a good month as there are altogether 3 public holdiays: Good Friday, Easter, and Anzac Day.

In Australia, public holidays are varied from state to state.

In NSW, we have the following public holidays:
January:
1st-New Year's Day
26th-Australia Day
April:
Good Friday (the Friday before Easter) (Sometimes in March)
Easter Monday (Sometimes in March)
25th-Anzac Day
June:
11st-Queen's Birthday
October:
First Monday-Labour Day
December:
25th-Christmas Day
26th-Boxing Day

I didn't include the Easter Saturday and Banking Holiday in above as Saturday itself is a holiday and my work place doesn't have the banking holiday :(

So you can see there are not so many public holidays (only 9) as you expect in Australia.

Public Holidays of other states in Australia can be found through:
http://www.australia.gov.au/302

Sunday, April 08, 2007

Yamaha piano serial number

I'm currently looking forward to buying a used piano.
It's said Yamaha is one of the best brands to buy.

By searching Google, I found the following link can tell when was the Yamaha made by checking the serial number of the piano:

http://www.yamaha.co.jp/english/product/piano/about/s_num/s_num.html