First of all, I've finally visited Canberra! Special thanks to Brian coz he have been driving the whole trip. We started our trip at 7:30am, the sky was clean, and the weather was cold, it's just 11C, yeah it's pretty cold in the morning here. We bought some banana and water for our trip, nothing else. After 2 hours, we were close to Canberra, we stopped at a petrol station and have our lunch there. After that, we move on to our first stop, the Canberra Museum and Gallery. It's a pretty small place, with 3-4 exhibition's areas only. Got some art there, look great, but that's all. I don't really know how to enjoy it doh...
Our next stop was the International Flag Display. It located right between the War Memorial and Parliament house. Quite amazing~ of coz there were over 80% of flag I don't know, and other 10% I had a wrong guess. +_+" Anyway, it's a great place and must-see.
Next stop was the most famous Old Parliament House. It operated between 1927 and 1988. But everything inside are still so new & clean. It doesn't look like that old. We walk through the King's Hall, the two chambers, the room of the Prime Minister, the meeting room and a photo gallery displaying the world event such as Vietnam War, Gulf War, the War in Afghanistan and even the Iraq War.
Then, the Parliament House, the new one. The design embedded with model design, but to be honest, the interior design in not as grand as the old one. I like the old one more.
Next, the War Memorial. As per it's name, there are a lot of war-related stuff in it. This place is, so far, the most excited place I have visited in Canberra. There were real tank, cannon-shot, emplacement, guns, planes, artillery, models and of cause a lot of stories about the war which Australian involved. We spent one half hour there and we were asked to left because the place was closing.
It was 5pm, we tried to take some photos for the Captain Cook Memorial Jet,"While running both pumps simultaneously the main jet throws approximately six tons of water into the air at any instant, reaching a maximum height of 147 meters." But unfortunately the jet has stopped operating when we arrive :(
We took a few photos at the lake but the weather was so cold, so we decided to end our one day trip and return home.
I think we are going back to Canberra again, because we still have a few places need to visit. But a 2 days trip should be enough for tourist, cause other the attraction, it could be pretty boring.
Well, I have actually decided to leave Sydney and move to Queensland, coz I failed to find any job here for a month. On 9 May, I applied a CD/DVD packing job and telling myself if I get no reply for 3 days, I'll book the ticket to Queensland. The job doesn't require any skill so I've got a lot of competitors. But with a bit luck, he chose me!
The work start at 7am every weekday morning~ And I got to wake up at 5:15am and leave before 5:35am. When we arrive the factory, we go back to the production line we worked on the previous day and start working. We have 2 break, one at 9am morning tea for 15 min, and 12nn, 30 min unpaid lunch break~ We then finish our work at 3pm.
The DVD you saw in shops were packed in the factory like us. There are 3 kind of production method, full-auto, semi-auto and manual.
The DVD case you saw in the street, which a plastic case covered with plastic bag, is made with full-auto machine. Someone put the empty cases, discs and cover sheets into the machine, it will open the case, slide in the cover sheet, put in the DVD, close the case and cover with another plastic. Another worker will need to stand at the back and collect the ready-for-sell DVD.
A full auto machine can handle case with 2 DVDs in one case. For those with 3-6 DVDs, or those with another paper cover, it require human involved. The machine will open the case, slide in the cover sheet, and the opened case will send to the belt. Someone will put in the disc, usually one worker one disc. The leaflet you saw inside the case are also put in by hand. After that, someone need to close the case. The DVD will move to another machine to put another plastic cover and it's finish~
Some limited edition DVD set, or with special design which cannot be done by machine, will all be done by hand.
A Full auto machine can produce 1200 units per hour, 800 units for semi-auto one, and 400 units for full manual.
I usually worked in the full manual way~ And well it's a pretty boring job. I may putting in a DVD into a paper case, this 3 second job will be repeated for hours. But well, it's fine for me. Budding is a damn boring job but I have been doing it for 3 months.
The production line I work is not the main one. So some stupid jobs like inspection (open 5000 DVD case, check if the disc exist, and close the case) and replace outdated cover sheet will assigned to our line. It's good because it's not that boring, but the problem is, we may have not enough work. On average I worked for 4 days a week only. Well it's not as much as I expected but I could still save money here because of Brian. Thanks man. XD
The supervisor working there, well, most of them are asshole. Keep shouting, fxxking us, expect someone worked for 3 mins can work as fast as someone worked for 3 years. But anyway, I could handle this well coz in SPHK there were more assholes.
I think I will work till Aug, travel between Sep and Oct, and back to work on Nov. As the moment before Christmas will be the peak season of the factory, it will operated 7 days a week and I could work and bring some money back to HK. hoho~
The other thing I wanna talk about is the Sichuan earthquake, well actually is earthquake prediction. After the Sichuan earthquake I have surf through wiki, and found something interesting. The earthquake is still not predictable under current technology. But there were actually some aura before the quake.
Earthquake light - The lights are most evident in the middle period of an earthquake, although there are reports of lights that occurred after or even before the earthquake..... ( Source : Earthquake Light - Wikipedia)
Peru Terremoto Sismo de 7.9
Pay attention on the 8th-11th second of the movie.
In this video, I'm not sure if the earthquake light appear before, on or after the earthquake, but it did appeared. And the light was slightly different from bolt and explosion. There are earthquake light since 373 BC, study Earthquake Light - Wikipedia for more detail.
Earthquake cloud
10 mins before the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in China
30 mins before the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in China
5月11日の飛行機から見えた広島上空の地震雲?
Attention on 1:05, abnormal cloud appeared 1 day before the earthquake in the sky of Japan.
More information at Earthquake Cloud - Wikipedia
A little bit more information about earthquake prediction of the Sichuan earthquake:
* In 2002, a study by Chen Xuezhong published in the Chinese seismology journal Recent Developments in World Seismology (国际地震动态) reported that starting 2003 there is a high probability of an M≥7 earthquake in Sichuan Province. "Sichuan is virtually certain to experience an earthquake measuring above 7 in the next few years" he wrote.
* In 2006, a study published in the Chinese Journal of Catastrophology (灾害学) reported that the Sichuan-Yunnan region may experience a M≥6.7 earthquake in 2008.
* The journal Tectonics published a thesis in July 2007, stating that the risk of a serious earthquake was imminent.
* On April 26, nearly 80,000 m3 of water that once filled the Guanyin pond of Baiguo township of Enshi City, Hubei province sank underground with a rumbling sound. Changes in the underground waterflow usually indicate changed seismic conditions.
* On May 9, an anonymous user posted a thread on the popular Baidu Forums stating that earthquake clouds were observed in Linyi, Shandong (more than 1400 km away from the epicenter), and wondered if an M≥6.0 were to occur in the next few days; this was later confirmed by a user from Tongzhou District in Beijing.
* On May 10, residents of Tanmu village of Southwest town of Mianzhu, Sichuan (less than 100 km from the epicentre) observed hundreds of thousands of toads migrating on a roadway near a pharmaceutical factory.[citation needed] "The move is because of the change of weather," Shu Shi, director of the Mianzhu forestry bureau, was quoted as saying by local media.[citation needed] A similar phenomenon was observed a day earlier in Taizhou, Jiangsu.
* On May 12, sightings of unusually colorful and luminous cloud formations in two cities of nearby provinces more than 400km north east of the epicenter, each at 32 and 10 minutes before the earthquake, were filmed and photographed.These clouds exhibit luminous characteristics akin to auroras and sundogs (rainbow-like phenomena in cirrus or other high clouds). The earthquake was also felt at the location of the photographer, and the mobile phone signal was cut off for a while. There are many hypotheses for the cause of these earthquake clouds and lights. Of note, Dazhou's natural gas fields have been greatly being harvested by China Petrochemical Corporation and PetroChina. The audio comment of the video was that it looked like sun-light deflection. Some Buddist believe that it is a sign from Guan Yin, as it happened on Buddha's Birthday/Vesak.[citation needed]
* On May 13, in a press conference held by the State Council Information Office, the spokesperson restated that earthquake forecasting is a "World problem", and that no prediction notification was received before the earthquake. The only case in the last 100 years that an earthquake was successfully predicted by an official department was the Haicheng earthquake in 1975 by the China State Seismological Bureau.
(Source : 2008 Sichuan earthquake - Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Sichuan_earthquake)
Well, the above aura are not accepted by seismologists and scientists. But if you are traveling to any country which is in the seismic zone, and you saw something abnormal like the above, you better stay outdoor and have a walk. Although nothing may happen, but a walk outside isn't that bad.....except winter.... XD
And I believe earthquake is predictable, it's just a matter of time.
Well, that's all for today.
Tell you guys something, sometimes I wanna come back to HK, because I really miss everything, my family, my friends, my home, my room, every places in Hong Kong. But I got to stay here half more year. Yes. Half more year only, and I'll be back. Can't wait to see you all. Take care everyone.
Not much photo this time~ Just Canberra.
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c : Well...Trying a new kind of job, packing...haha~ I don't think I will do that in HK~ It's a pretty new experience~
OiOi : Don't play la~ I'll become Korean. haha~ I think next time I will go out and find someone to cut for me +_+"
may goo je : Sorry~ You can only saw it in my old photos~ hoho~
Raymond : man, I wanna play with you for a long time la~ Get ready ba~ I'll be back! hoho
