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

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

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