Sorry all~! Didn't update for such a long time because I'm so busy and lazy~ hoho~~ ok. Stop bull-shitting, let's GO!
When I was on the way to Melbourne City during Chinese New Year, I found that my bike which locked at Belgrave has gone. The week before that I locked it at the car park which was closer to the bus station. I think it's because the place is the train station area so they removed it. err... a little bit inconvenience when I travel inside city but I don't need to worry about how to bring it to Sydney, not really bad news.
The atmosphere during Chinese New Year was quite good, may be because of the fire "criket?" (炮仗). A street next to China Town has been closed and many counters were setup over there. There were many people in China Town, too many, and also many performances. I didn't stay there for long because it's too crowd.
I finally had my first party in Australia. With the arrival of another 3 HK ppl, 6 of us bought some beer that day and played for hours during that night. Some of my colleagues has come over and have a few drinks with us. We played some games that night. With a bit luck, I didn't lose any game. The penalties included dancing on the table, kiss a Germany male, finish the whole bottle of beer, finish 1L of water and drawing on the face..els. I haven't played that open and happy~ I enjoyed the night and I think I'll join more party...hoho
The ticket for Grand Prix has finally confirmed.
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Date: Fri 14 Mar 2008
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Some people may think that it's not worth, but what I think is, I am going to watch Grand Prix at least once during my life, why don't I made myself enjoy it when I watch it? As soon as I can afford it, why not?
Maick is the first Germany friend I meet in Emerald, we both arrived on 6 Jan 2008, he was sleeping on the upper deck of the bed, and I was sleeping beneath him. We talked a lot when we life together because he's also a IT guy. He left on 18 Jan 2008 to met his friend in Sydney, we exchanged our email and phone number before he left. And I thought that I'm not going to see him again.
Few weeks ago, while I was cooking in the hostel, I look through the window and I saw a guy who looks very similar to him. When the guy came in, no doubt it's him! I couldn't believe my eyes during that moment. He's back, with a van. He was assigned to work with me in the same farm, and I had a very happy time with him. Last week, we went to super market together, and he asked me about my birthday, and I said "18 Jun". He shake up, and asked me again, "Is it O Six, June? One eight, eighteen?", I said yes. And, yeah, thats true, we have the same birthday, but he's 1981, and I'm 1984. Sounds funny and miraculous, isn't it? He's leaving this weekend, and he told me that he will be in Sydney during his birthday, and I said,"We will be in Sydney during our birthday." Happy :)
Last weekend, we've rent a car from Avis and travel to The Great Ocean Road. The car is a Holden Commodore 5 Door Station Wagon with 5 seats and a large space at the back to put our stuff. We toke the car on Saturday morning, buy some stuff from the super market and started our trip to The Great Ocean Road. Wilco was the driver, I'm the navigator, Lu and Emi were the cook, and Man was the one who share our cost. We drove through Geelong and make a stop at Torquay. Torquay is known as the Surf City, and for sure there are a lot of shop which sold surfing stuff. I bought a Quiksilver cap there with $20 only! Other than the cap, everything is expensive.
After that we drove through Anglesea and stop at a small beach, Point Roadknight. It's too cold to swim so we just walk around and with our leg in the water. Then we move on to Lorne, other large town on The Great Ocean Road. We stopped there, have a break, (ladies) shopping around and play with the swing. It was so relaxing~ Next, we drove to Apollo Bay, we tried to find a hostel over there but it's full, so we moved on to The Twelve Apostles. It's a long way to there, and we made a few stop. One of the stop was beside a sheep farm, the grass were all dead inside the fence, but it's green outside. So we pull out the green grass outside the fence and feed them, it's so funny, hoho~ Finally we arrived The Twelve Apostles at around 7pm. We planned to see the sunset and it's too early for that, so we move on the Port Campbell, a town which is 10 min away from The Twelve Apostles. We found a hostel there, settle down all our stuff, and then we drove back to The Twelve Apostles. We arrived at 8pm, there was too much cloud so we couldn't see the best picture. But the place is still amazing. Stones standing in the middle of the sea, with wave that never stop, the sound, the wind, you just can't imagine by reading my text and watching the photos, you need to be there. It's a grand view. We stay there till the sky went dark, and we return to the hostel. Emi and Lu prepared the dinner for everyone, we had a few drinks then we went to bed.
On Sunday, we wake up at around 9 and start our journey to The London Bridge and the Arch. It's so windy there that we could just hardly stand. Wilco drove most of the way during the trip, but Emi drove us from The London Bridge to the Arch, what I need to say is, my hand didn't left the hand break for a second. And while we arrived the Arch, I toke the wheel and park the car. Yes, my first time driving a car. Driving a car isn't hard, it's just hard to see everything by mirror. Luckily, I've parked the car without hitting anything, I'll show you guys the video when I return to Hong Kong. hoho. And now I feel regret that I didn't bring a driving license with me.
Anyway, we start to return to Melbourne as we need to return the car before 5pm. But we failed to make it because we are still in Geelong on 5pm, we called the Customer Service Hot line and they said if we could return the car before Monday 10am, there will be no sub-charge. We then make use our time and the car, we drove to the Brighton beach, then BoxHill to have our dinner, and then back to Emerald. Need to thanks Wilco because he drove the car back on Monday and he can't work that day. Roughly guess we've driven over 1100km in 2 days, and the petrol cost only AUD120, and everyone of us pay less than AUD100 for the whole trip, I think it's pretty cheap!
We returned to Emerald at 10pm and sleep at 12am. It's pretty tired but I did enjoy the trip!
That's what happened this two weeks and I hope you enjoyed it.
Wilco left today, Maick is leaving on Sunday, and I will leave on next Sunday.
Will try to update more frequently because I know you're waiting for it :)
Quite a lot of photo here~ Some haven't upload yet, will post the link on next post. Please enjoy~!
Chinese New Year
Party Night
Grand Prix Circuit
Working in JFT 1
Working in JFT 2
Farewell for Wilco
Loui Jai : It's of coz interesting! You should try it when you grow up. Miss you too.
oioi : yes Got it. Thanks very much~ Of coz I'll make you a meal when I return! hoho~
c : 係tae~ cc..唔係~我意思係番工好似做gym噤..."so"已經比我剷左lu，因為唔好睇...Don't think, just feel...Good one... :) Take Care....
Raymond : Thanks mate! Wish you 身體健康啊~~
wfred : yes...I'm watching too many CSI. I'm happy to know that you enjoy the trip~ :) Happy to play with snow~? You'll still have chance :) Take care mate!
3bee : 係懶型咁打英文~呵呵~~
Joyce : 無問題丫~你夠膽食就得...~ 呵呵~
may goo je : 大家咁話啦~~最緊要身體健康~~!!
Louis : 我就黎番~唔使掛~~ :D 比心機讀書啦! 你過黎點只比大床你訓~直頭比個廳你訓添啦! 哈哈~~
Perry : Hey man, Happy Birthday wor~! 下次你都係打中文吧....
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Friday, February 8, 2008
Happy Chinese New Year
恭喜發財！
祝大家身體健康！心想事成！
襯新年借ｄ意打下中文先～呵呵～～
來到澳洲已經兩個多月，所得到的真係好多好多，自己亦覺得自己進步左，大個左。
有ｄ事或者感覺我係香港已經預計到，例如思鄉病。但係親歷其境的時候真係另一種感覺，你係想像唔倒的。哩個係好深刻的體驗。
同屋企人的關係亦變左。係香港的時候，屋企永遠係你附近，好易就忽略。到左澳洲，屋企離你幾千公里遠，已經唔係一兩個鐘頭車就番到去。想聽屋企人把聲都還可以靠電話，你想佢企係你前面同你講野？無可能～我就係咁學識珍惜，珍惜你身邊已經擁有的東西，尤其係屋企人，因為只有佢地先會無條件咁支持你。
我亦由一個逢禮拜尾都等Grandma買叉燒飯的大少，變到識得煮飯煲燙～炒飯意粉炒菜～都入得下口，可能我要求唔高。起碼唔再只係識煮公仔麵～哩邊唔算食得好豐富，早餐食Cereal加鮮奶，午餐簡簡單單一個三文治已經好夠，夜晚就食好ｄｄ，炒下飯整下意粉，想偷懶就罐頭豆豉稜魚加飯～咁又一餐～呵呵～～
同時亦體會到生活可以好簡單，所有必需品一個背囊已經裝得曬。黎到哩邊只係買左少少衫褲，同補充ｄ消耗品，都無咩再加野。有時都係到諗，點解我間房咁多野....我相信我番到香港第一件事就係執房，大大大執添。
喜歡澳洲的空氣，澳洲的天空，澳洲的生活。空氣永遠都咁好，係香港等過馬路要閉氣，係哩邊無左哩回事。個天除左落雨之外，永遠都咁藍。係香港你想係尖沙咀望清楚香港島要講采數，但哩邊你係望唔到盡頭。用一日四季黎形容哩邊的天氣亦無錯，就講今日，朝早，凍，１４－１５度，著fleece～；番到農場，微微雨，２０度左右；午餐後出太陽，感覺似２８度，靜係著ｔｅｅ做野；２點左右落大雨，得番１７度左右；番到ｈｏｓｔｅｌ出左兩次太陽落左兩場雨，當真係變幻莫測好難預測。生活同工作分得好開，所有人準時收工，放工唔使諗公司野。生活可以慢慢黎，唔使急。有時亦唔到你急，坐火車出市中心要２個鐘，無得急。
工作方面都好好～每日工作有兩個小休，１０點同３點。午飯一個小時，食完飯剛好可以小睡片刻。哩邊的工作都係體力勞動，所以都比較辛苦。但係有人比錢你去做gym，都係一件唔錯的事～呵呵～人工方面尚算不錯，時薪十六蚊四毫五，稅後大概十四蚊三毫（澳元）。一個禮拜番足四十個鐘的話收入尚算不錯～當然支出亦唔少，住宿佔大部份，重有食品，日用品同零食。而加都就黎夠我旅遊，辛苦換來ｄ錢要諗諗點先使得開心～呵呵～～ｄ同事亦好講得笑，雖然佢地ｄ澳洲口音好重同埋講得快，只係聽到四五成左右，但係都估到佢地講咩～所以都幾輕鬆～
好多外國人都好好禮貌，早晨見你會講”掘魔零”。最記得有次同個朋友企係其他人架車前面，架車因為整緊所以揭開左車頭蓋，有個鬼仔見倒，都主動問使唔使幫手，搞笑之餘都睇得出佢地份人不錯～
而加的行程同我計畫的一樣，係Melbourne先搵點錢，睇完Grand-Prix玩埋Melbourne後３月尾落Sydney。希望到時搵到好工。
當然，哩邊ｄ行程將好似天氣咁，變幻莫測～不過見步行步，都係一個不錯的方法～～
而加的目標：睇賽車，睇１２門徒石，睇企鵝，玩Skydive，學衝浪....其他，遲ｄ先諗～呵呵～
哩個Working Holiday真係係我極力推薦的活動～有咩想知多ｄ可以留言或者ｅｍａｉｌ比我，我ｅｍａｉｌ係 mail.to.alm@gmail.com
最後再祝大家鼠年快樂～
Alan
Brighton Beach 相
團年飯相
另外送上一篇我覺得寫得好好的文章～
FROM:飛鳥(老少女)
你永遠不知道明天會發生什麼事情，所以想做就去做，想飛就去飛。
別再被沒錢，沒時間的理由所困頓。
沒錢??相不相信用乞討的方式可以走天下，除非你旅遊的定義是住五星旅館吃大餐。
沒時間??只要活著，時間是用倒數的方式來計算。
你只會愈來愈沒時間，不會愈來愈有時間。
等準備好一切稍後再出發??新書<旅行旅行去>的作者，花了一輩子的時間在存錢準備出發，書中主角一輩子都在準備出發，卻不曾拿出行動旅行過。
所以，除非你得養一家大小，是一家的經濟來源，不然在一人飽全家飽的情形下，你應該出去走走。
用行動思考，用眼睛探索，而非用大腦煩惱變化無常的人生。
畢竟計畫永遠趕不上變化，這是老少女這次旅行的最大的感想。共勉之。
c : 可能我係香港真係乜都太急，希望來到哩邊可以調節下。
Raymond哥 : 大家咁話啦～～新年果陣要開工，所以無得落China Town，今個weekend會落去行個圈～到時再影ｄ相～
banana boy : 希望啦～我個身型真係要橫Ｄ先得～呵呵～
may goo je : chocolate eater~ haha~ 辛苦你喇～～ 我會Take Care架喇～～放心～～
perry : 我知呀～～著夠衫呀咁多位～留番ｄ利是錢等我番黎請我食飯～～～kaka~
祝大家身體健康！心想事成！
襯新年借ｄ意打下中文先～呵呵～～
來到澳洲已經兩個多月，所得到的真係好多好多，自己亦覺得自己進步左，大個左。
有ｄ事或者感覺我係香港已經預計到，例如思鄉病。但係親歷其境的時候真係另一種感覺，你係想像唔倒的。哩個係好深刻的體驗。
同屋企人的關係亦變左。係香港的時候，屋企永遠係你附近，好易就忽略。到左澳洲，屋企離你幾千公里遠，已經唔係一兩個鐘頭車就番到去。想聽屋企人把聲都還可以靠電話，你想佢企係你前面同你講野？無可能～我就係咁學識珍惜，珍惜你身邊已經擁有的東西，尤其係屋企人，因為只有佢地先會無條件咁支持你。
我亦由一個逢禮拜尾都等Grandma買叉燒飯的大少，變到識得煮飯煲燙～炒飯意粉炒菜～都入得下口，可能我要求唔高。起碼唔再只係識煮公仔麵～哩邊唔算食得好豐富，早餐食Cereal加鮮奶，午餐簡簡單單一個三文治已經好夠，夜晚就食好ｄｄ，炒下飯整下意粉，想偷懶就罐頭豆豉稜魚加飯～咁又一餐～呵呵～～
同時亦體會到生活可以好簡單，所有必需品一個背囊已經裝得曬。黎到哩邊只係買左少少衫褲，同補充ｄ消耗品，都無咩再加野。有時都係到諗，點解我間房咁多野....我相信我番到香港第一件事就係執房，大大大執添。
喜歡澳洲的空氣，澳洲的天空，澳洲的生活。空氣永遠都咁好，係香港等過馬路要閉氣，係哩邊無左哩回事。個天除左落雨之外，永遠都咁藍。係香港你想係尖沙咀望清楚香港島要講采數，但哩邊你係望唔到盡頭。用一日四季黎形容哩邊的天氣亦無錯，就講今日，朝早，凍，１４－１５度，著fleece～；番到農場，微微雨，２０度左右；午餐後出太陽，感覺似２８度，靜係著ｔｅｅ做野；２點左右落大雨，得番１７度左右；番到ｈｏｓｔｅｌ出左兩次太陽落左兩場雨，當真係變幻莫測好難預測。生活同工作分得好開，所有人準時收工，放工唔使諗公司野。生活可以慢慢黎，唔使急。有時亦唔到你急，坐火車出市中心要２個鐘，無得急。
工作方面都好好～每日工作有兩個小休，１０點同３點。午飯一個小時，食完飯剛好可以小睡片刻。哩邊的工作都係體力勞動，所以都比較辛苦。但係有人比錢你去做gym，都係一件唔錯的事～呵呵～人工方面尚算不錯，時薪十六蚊四毫五，稅後大概十四蚊三毫（澳元）。一個禮拜番足四十個鐘的話收入尚算不錯～當然支出亦唔少，住宿佔大部份，重有食品，日用品同零食。而加都就黎夠我旅遊，辛苦換來ｄ錢要諗諗點先使得開心～呵呵～～ｄ同事亦好講得笑，雖然佢地ｄ澳洲口音好重同埋講得快，只係聽到四五成左右，但係都估到佢地講咩～所以都幾輕鬆～
好多外國人都好好禮貌，早晨見你會講”掘魔零”。最記得有次同個朋友企係其他人架車前面，架車因為整緊所以揭開左車頭蓋，有個鬼仔見倒，都主動問使唔使幫手，搞笑之餘都睇得出佢地份人不錯～
而加的行程同我計畫的一樣，係Melbourne先搵點錢，睇完Grand-Prix玩埋Melbourne後３月尾落Sydney。希望到時搵到好工。
當然，哩邊ｄ行程將好似天氣咁，變幻莫測～不過見步行步，都係一個不錯的方法～～
而加的目標：睇賽車，睇１２門徒石，睇企鵝，玩Skydive，學衝浪....其他，遲ｄ先諗～呵呵～
哩個Working Holiday真係係我極力推薦的活動～有咩想知多ｄ可以留言或者ｅｍａｉｌ比我，我ｅｍａｉｌ係 mail.to.alm@gmail.com
最後再祝大家鼠年快樂～
Alan
Brighton Beach 相
團年飯相
另外送上一篇我覺得寫得好好的文章～
FROM:飛鳥(老少女)
你永遠不知道明天會發生什麼事情，所以想做就去做，想飛就去飛。
別再被沒錢，沒時間的理由所困頓。
沒錢??相不相信用乞討的方式可以走天下，除非你旅遊的定義是住五星旅館吃大餐。
沒時間??只要活著，時間是用倒數的方式來計算。
你只會愈來愈沒時間，不會愈來愈有時間。
等準備好一切稍後再出發??新書<旅行旅行去>的作者，花了一輩子的時間在存錢準備出發，書中主角一輩子都在準備出發，卻不曾拿出行動旅行過。
所以，除非你得養一家大小，是一家的經濟來源，不然在一人飽全家飽的情形下，你應該出去走走。
用行動思考，用眼睛探索，而非用大腦煩惱變化無常的人生。
畢竟計畫永遠趕不上變化，這是老少女這次旅行的最大的感想。共勉之。
c : 可能我係香港真係乜都太急，希望來到哩邊可以調節下。
Raymond哥 : 大家咁話啦～～新年果陣要開工，所以無得落China Town，今個weekend會落去行個圈～到時再影ｄ相～
banana boy : 希望啦～我個身型真係要橫Ｄ先得～呵呵～
may goo je : chocolate eater~ haha~ 辛苦你喇～～ 我會Take Care架喇～～放心～～
perry : 我知呀～～著夠衫呀咁多位～留番ｄ利是錢等我番黎請我食飯～～～kaka~
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Substantial Life
Time is going so fast. Here's another 2 week.
As I said before, life doesn't change much. Work on Monday to Friday, Kellogg's Nutri-Grain for breakfast, bread and jam for tea break, sandwich or rice for lunch, rice or noodle for dinner. Watch CSI and play games on Sat, go to Melbourne City, Boxhill on Sunday.
I've start get used to my work. While I started my work 2 weeks ago, my back was pain everyday after work. But now, it turned to tired. The fat in my abdomen is turning to muscle and breaking up into 6 parts.
The job we doing now is budding (接枝). 2 people as a group, 1 "buder" and 1 "tier". The buder remove the around 3 cm of the bark from the tree, cut out a bud from the branch on their hand and put it in to the tree. The tier, that's me, use a plastic tap to cover the bud so that no water will go in and damage the bud. A buder takes around 20 second to bud 3 trees, and a tier talk around 5 - 10 seconds to tie a tree. For me, 6 seconds on the morning and 10 seconds after 3 hours work, haha. As the cut on the tree is around 5 cm above the ground, so all of us bend down or squat and work for the whole process. Trees were planted as row, approx. 100 trees per row, and around 10-14 of us work 2-3 rows each time. You could imagine as tie the shoelace, but tie for 8 hours a day. The Farmer said that we are going to do this for the coming month. No good doh....
Luckily the break is quite enough. We start working on 7:30am, a 15 min. tea break on 10am, a 1 hour lunch break on 12nn, another 15 min. tea break on 3pm, and finish on 4:30pm. Sometimes may need to OT till 5pm, and for Friday we finish at 3pm.
Something did made me out of expected. First of it is the public holiday, the Australian Day should be happy for everyone but not for me, because we don't work on public holiday and there is NO INCOME! Second of it is the weather, last Thu it was a rainy day, it start raining since the morning, and it turned to heavy rain after 2 hours of work, and we were asked to stop working and was sent back to hostel. The rain made us lost another day of income.
5 days of work, 2 days cover the cost and 3 days are what I really earn. If I don't have work for 1 day, I earn 1 day less. +_+" That's bad, really bad.
But so far it's ok for me, I've saved around 900AUD, and for the other 5 weeks I hope I could save enough money for my upcoming travel.
Last Sunday I've visited quite a lot of place with my bike. first of all, I went to Melbourne City by train and went to the information center @ Flinders Street Station. I tried to ask for some more information about the Grand-Prix ticket, but they didn't have much info about that. The officer asked me to go to the TicketMaster counter but unfortunately it was closed. I then went to the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne. It was a really great building, make me feel admire. Inside there were books with solders' name, flags during the war, description of different division during the war, metals, service dress and many many other stuff. For more detail you need to ask Uncle Thomas... hoho~~
After that, I went to the University of Melbourne. To be honest, it's not as good as I imagine. There were to many building and place were not really large enough. Feel very crowd. Even the CUHK is even better. But anyway it's always not that perfect. It may be still a good place for study.
Then I went to GlenFerrie and BoxHill to buy some more Chinese food. You can take a look on the picture of my locker. It's a mess. haha.
Yesterday, Friday night, 11 of us went to play football. Usually we got bus to bring us to the court but not for yesterday, because Justin, the hostel manager, didn't allow us to use his van. James, the organizer, suggested go by foot. By normal route it should take less then 30 min, James said we would go by a "shortcut" which takes only 10 min. The "shortcut" he said is actually going through the forest. It's quite danger because it's actually a route without road. We only have water, not even a torch and mobile phone. We just follow the direction we think it is. Trees are high, rotten wood everywhere. I was watching CSI these two weeks and it makes me feel that a corpse will suddenly being discovered. Well....I was thinking too much... after 30 min walk, we went out the forest, safely, but there were no football court. It toke another 20 min to there, what a "Shortcut"!
There are only 11 of us so we were really tired after the game, because usually we have at least 18 players. James said that he would jog back to the hostel, by the normal route of course. 3 of them started frist, I start a min later. The road was quite dark because there were not much light, I was running alone, the one behind can't catch me up and I can't catch those in front of me too. It was not really fun but I enjoyed it! It toke us around 20 min to jog back. and I'm very tired. After a bath, I made myself a fried Satay ham noodle, watched a while CSI and then had a GOOD sleep.
The Grand-Prix ticket is a bit out of budget, ~$400 exclude the hostel price which has increased during the racing period. I'm thinking to watch for only 2 days with General admission ticket which cost $175 for 4 days pass. But still, to be confirm.
Same as normal Saturday, "hea" or say "retired" life. Nothing to do. May be I should go to the super market and have a walk. err... got to spend money again.
Photos here.
Raymond : Will do. Planning for tmr trip~ and thinking where to go~ Thanks~
may goo je : I will play hard! and will try to work hard! haha~~ I didn't know you want so many Kit-kat, if I know I would buy more +_+ anyway, Thanks for your red pocket~ :)
c : I apply sun screen everyday when I work under the sun, so I get darker but didn't get burnt~ No worries mate~ cc
mudfew : Please explain what's "kai"... Hey man, not my business, you should thank your fater and his sister. I just doing 1% of the house cleaning work. I spent some money on sour cola bottles,可樂糖, that's how I encourage myself, haha. I am always so mo liu. XD
Danny : Thanks for coming! My friend! No need to say sorry man! Yes, it's a good exp and I think you should try it too!
Perry : yea you're right! Thanks man!
adam : ha...I believe it's actually by wfred. I miss you too~! Sai Lo!
I have heard a song for a thousand times, it sounds great but I don't really sure what they are singing.
10 min ago, I search the song name in Google, and I found the lyric.
It shocked me.
I heard that so many times and now I finally know what it really mean.
I love the song.
A little gift for you : It's my life
Source is here.
As I said before, life doesn't change much. Work on Monday to Friday, Kellogg's Nutri-Grain for breakfast, bread and jam for tea break, sandwich or rice for lunch, rice or noodle for dinner. Watch CSI and play games on Sat, go to Melbourne City, Boxhill on Sunday.
I've start get used to my work. While I started my work 2 weeks ago, my back was pain everyday after work. But now, it turned to tired. The fat in my abdomen is turning to muscle and breaking up into 6 parts.
The job we doing now is budding (接枝). 2 people as a group, 1 "buder" and 1 "tier". The buder remove the around 3 cm of the bark from the tree, cut out a bud from the branch on their hand and put it in to the tree. The tier, that's me, use a plastic tap to cover the bud so that no water will go in and damage the bud. A buder takes around 20 second to bud 3 trees, and a tier talk around 5 - 10 seconds to tie a tree. For me, 6 seconds on the morning and 10 seconds after 3 hours work, haha. As the cut on the tree is around 5 cm above the ground, so all of us bend down or squat and work for the whole process. Trees were planted as row, approx. 100 trees per row, and around 10-14 of us work 2-3 rows each time. You could imagine as tie the shoelace, but tie for 8 hours a day. The Farmer said that we are going to do this for the coming month. No good doh....
Luckily the break is quite enough. We start working on 7:30am, a 15 min. tea break on 10am, a 1 hour lunch break on 12nn, another 15 min. tea break on 3pm, and finish on 4:30pm. Sometimes may need to OT till 5pm, and for Friday we finish at 3pm.
Something did made me out of expected. First of it is the public holiday, the Australian Day should be happy for everyone but not for me, because we don't work on public holiday and there is NO INCOME! Second of it is the weather, last Thu it was a rainy day, it start raining since the morning, and it turned to heavy rain after 2 hours of work, and we were asked to stop working and was sent back to hostel. The rain made us lost another day of income.
5 days of work, 2 days cover the cost and 3 days are what I really earn. If I don't have work for 1 day, I earn 1 day less. +_+" That's bad, really bad.
But so far it's ok for me, I've saved around 900AUD, and for the other 5 weeks I hope I could save enough money for my upcoming travel.
Last Sunday I've visited quite a lot of place with my bike. first of all, I went to Melbourne City by train and went to the information center @ Flinders Street Station. I tried to ask for some more information about the Grand-Prix ticket, but they didn't have much info about that. The officer asked me to go to the TicketMaster counter but unfortunately it was closed. I then went to the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne. It was a really great building, make me feel admire. Inside there were books with solders' name, flags during the war, description of different division during the war, metals, service dress and many many other stuff. For more detail you need to ask Uncle Thomas... hoho~~
After that, I went to the University of Melbourne. To be honest, it's not as good as I imagine. There were to many building and place were not really large enough. Feel very crowd. Even the CUHK is even better. But anyway it's always not that perfect. It may be still a good place for study.
Then I went to GlenFerrie and BoxHill to buy some more Chinese food. You can take a look on the picture of my locker. It's a mess. haha.
Yesterday, Friday night, 11 of us went to play football. Usually we got bus to bring us to the court but not for yesterday, because Justin, the hostel manager, didn't allow us to use his van. James, the organizer, suggested go by foot. By normal route it should take less then 30 min, James said we would go by a "shortcut" which takes only 10 min. The "shortcut" he said is actually going through the forest. It's quite danger because it's actually a route without road. We only have water, not even a torch and mobile phone. We just follow the direction we think it is. Trees are high, rotten wood everywhere. I was watching CSI these two weeks and it makes me feel that a corpse will suddenly being discovered. Well....I was thinking too much... after 30 min walk, we went out the forest, safely, but there were no football court. It toke another 20 min to there, what a "Shortcut"!
There are only 11 of us so we were really tired after the game, because usually we have at least 18 players. James said that he would jog back to the hostel, by the normal route of course. 3 of them started frist, I start a min later. The road was quite dark because there were not much light, I was running alone, the one behind can't catch me up and I can't catch those in front of me too. It was not really fun but I enjoyed it! It toke us around 20 min to jog back. and I'm very tired. After a bath, I made myself a fried Satay ham noodle, watched a while CSI and then had a GOOD sleep.
The Grand-Prix ticket is a bit out of budget, ~$400 exclude the hostel price which has increased during the racing period. I'm thinking to watch for only 2 days with General admission ticket which cost $175 for 4 days pass. But still, to be confirm.
Same as normal Saturday, "hea" or say "retired" life. Nothing to do. May be I should go to the super market and have a walk. err... got to spend money again.
Photos here.
Raymond : Will do. Planning for tmr trip~ and thinking where to go~ Thanks~
may goo je : I will play hard! and will try to work hard! haha~~ I didn't know you want so many Kit-kat, if I know I would buy more +_+ anyway, Thanks for your red pocket~ :)
c : I apply sun screen everyday when I work under the sun, so I get darker but didn't get burnt~ No worries mate~ cc
mudfew : Please explain what's "kai"... Hey man, not my business, you should thank your fater and his sister. I just doing 1% of the house cleaning work. I spent some money on sour cola bottles,可樂糖, that's how I encourage myself, haha. I am always so mo liu. XD
Danny : Thanks for coming! My friend! No need to say sorry man! Yes, it's a good exp and I think you should try it too!
Perry : yea you're right! Thanks man!
adam : ha...I believe it's actually by wfred. I miss you too~! Sai Lo!
I have heard a song for a thousand times, it sounds great but I don't really sure what they are singing.
10 min ago, I search the song name in Google, and I found the lyric.
It shocked me.
I heard that so many times and now I finally know what it really mean.
I love the song.
A little gift for you : It's my life
| It's my life Bon Jovi | 這是我的人生 邦喬飛合唱團 |
| This ain't a song for the broken-hearted | 這不是一首給傷心人的歌 |
| No silent prayer for the faith-departed | 沒有為失去信仰者的默禱 |
| I ain't gonna be just a face in the crowd | 我不希望自己只是芸芸眾生之一 |
| You're gonna hear my voice | 你將會聽到我的聲音 |
| When I shout it out loud | 當我大聲吶喊出來 |
| It's my life | 這是我的人生 |
| It's now or never | 把握現在，機會稍縱即逝 |
| I ain't gonna live forever | 我不希望長生不死 |
| I just want to live while I'm alive | 我只想趁活著得時候認真的生活 |
| (It's my life) | （這是我的人生） |
| My heart is like an open highway | 我的心像是開放的高速公路 |
| Like Frankie said | 就像法蘭克辛那屈唱的： |
| I did it my way | 我走自己的路( 註 ) |
| I just wanna live while I'm alive | 我只想趁活著的時候認真的生活 |
| It's my life | 這是我的人生 |
| This is for the ones who stood their ground | 這是為堅守信念的人們而唱 |
| For Tommy and Gina who never backed down | 為從不退縮的湯米和吉娜而唱 |
| Tomorrow's getting harder make no mistake | 毫無疑問的，未來日趨艱辛 |
| Luck ain't even lucky | 幸運不再幸運 |
| Got to make your own breaks | 你必須自己尋求突破 |
| It's my life | 這是我的人生 |
| And it's now or never | 把握現在，機會稍縱即逝 |
| I ain't gonna live forever | 我不希望長生不死 |
| I just want to live while I'm alive | 我只想趁活著得時候認真的生活 |
| (It's my life) | （這是我的人生） |
| My heart is like an open highway | 我的心像是開放的高速公路 |
| Like Frankie said | 就像法蘭克辛那屈唱的： |
| I did it my way | 我走自己的路 |
| I just want to live while I'm alive | 我只想趁活著得時候認真的生活 |
| 'Cause it's my life | 因為這是我的人生 |
| Better stand tall when they're calling you out | 當別人找你麻煩，挺直身子 |
| Don't bend, don't break, baby, don't back down | 不要屈服，不要放棄，寶貝，不要畏縮 |
| It's my life | 這是我的人生 |
| And it's now or never | 把握現在，機會稍縱即逝 |
| 'Cause I ain't gonna live forever | 因為我不希望長生不死 |
| I just want to live while I'm alive | 我只想趁活著得時候認真的生活 |
| (It's my life) | （這是我的人生） |
| My heart is like an open highway | 我的心像是開放的高速公路 |
| Like Frankie said | 就像法蘭克辛那屈唱的： |
| I did it my way | 我走自己的路 |
| I just want to live while I'm alive | 我只想趁活著得時候認真的生活 |
Source is here.
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