we had an appointment with the LDNCA- a community centre down in warwick farm today. warwick farm is much more than i've expected it to be. the last time i been to warwick farm was somewhat a decade ago for train-transfer. what i pictured it as a very desserted place-well it is but i've thought of it as a very dangerous place.
But today's meeting with them has changed my mind. Warwick farm- the name has it all, it is like you're living in a farm where your neighbours are your other family members; everyone know each other.
Pat Hall, the lady who did all the community works to help improving the community centre in warwick farm is much more like the mother of that place. She's well known, respected by every single individual from that place.
How cute they are, got themselves ready, expected, happily welcome us- the 5 members of the UTS design group to come over and have a "site-visit" to understand more about their lives there.
Here are just few pics from the day, we took better quality fotos but it's for the project purpose so it is very inappropriate to upload it up here. warwick farm shows me that there are places we considered as a NO ZONE, but no they dont deserve ignorance from the government and other communities. Just look at their works and we knew exactly how much this little community centre meant to them.
What i also find so cute is their FOOD 4 LIFE store, it's actually a little house where they opened up for the financial difficulty families. They paid $10 and walk into the store grab 1 or 2 quantity of each item per week. There are books, DVD, needs for crafty ideas etc. How nice to see that their community stick together to make it a big family.
We're the 5 members will go back there again for a proper filming and recording for our project. This time we will look at their garden etc.
THEY LIVE IN A VERY BASIC, MANUAL WORLD BUT THEY HAVE WHAT WE ALL DONT--HAPPINESS.
they have their little coffee shop set up in the community hall.
the setting is so CUTE that i wish there was something like this in fairfield.
i had a latte and a piece of cake. and guess what, the price of both is just as much as a single coffee in the city. they refused to take our money but we left them those anyways. they have no idea how much we appreciated their hospitalities.
this is the shop that i mentioned earlier. such a cute community.
SALVOS ARVO.
after visited warwick farm, i wander around fairfield to all those shops that had caught my eyes but never have a chance to walk in 'cause of my weird uni hours. anyways, I LOVE SALVOS STORE. they have all those vintage stuff that i love so much. i can just buy the whole store. but anyways... these are what in my shopping cart and what i wanted to get.
i'm in love with this stool here, but what i dislike about this is the top material bit. i dont like to purchase vintage stuff with any cotton or material over-lay (except clothes :)) $35 too expensive? i just love the look
i bought pretty much everything from this cart, beside the 3 dollars clay pot
i found this in the photo frames section. the first thing caught me was the word "vietnam"
:D it's a cute picture frame of one pillar temple (cant really remember the name) in northern vietnam.
tah dah... my little collection's new home. yes my mom did complaint that i bought rubbish haha.
bye for now bulle bubbles dreams.
well there must be part two, because i tried to upload more but my lovely broadband refused to work *sigh*. After these kitchen photos there are more beautiful stuff like wine cellars, herb ceiling, etc etc... just few more to complete my post but anyways... 
