Thanks everyone who sang a birthday song, who said a Happy Birthday, who sent me a sms, who opened a new topic about my birthday in a cat forum, who dine out with me and who bought me a cake, I can feel the warmness from HK and AU. Appreciated! :)
Well, got to work on my birthday, so didn't went out for celebration.
The last 2 weeks went pretty well because I got enough work, finally. In the first few weeks when I was working in this company, the impression they gave me was, when you work hard to finish your work, what you have is more work. When you work harder to finish the additional work, what you have is no more work and being sent home. But now, when I really show my supervisor I tried to work hard, she started to want me to work for her. Even the whole team was sent home, I was asked to stay behind to help other team. Wohoo!
But a bad news arrived this Tuesday. As all casual staffs were not directly employed by the company but thought an agency called Skilled,and because of the company want to change to another agency, they sent all the Skilled staff away for one week on Tuesday and see hows the staffs from the other agency perform. If they are doing well, we'll have no more work. Obviously they new staff will never work better than us in a short period but if the company need to change to agency they must have evaluated the situation and able to bear an acceptable lost. The conclusion after a bunch of bull shit is , I'll lose my job. So I will try to find other job. Got a friend working in a factory which prepare food for airline, he said it's a good job, coz well paid and not tough job, I'll give it a try.
Last Saturday, Brian pick up a ticket from the building notice board, it's a family ticket to powerhouse museum which shared by other flatmate, which originally cost AU$30. So on last Sunday, me Brian and Louis went to the museum and have a look. Not as good as I imagined, we arranged 4 hours for the tour but at last we finished in 3. "The Powerhouse Museum, Australia's largest and most popular museum, is located in Darling Harbour, Sydney. Its unique and diverse collection of 385,000 objects spans history, science, technology, design, industry, decorative arts, music, transport and space exploration."- quote from "http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/about/index.asp"
The most amazing item is the jet engine of a spacecraft and a stone from the moon. There are some area which contain some science game like the Hong Kong Science Museum, but the one in HK are much more fun.
Another bad news, external harddisk dead, WD1600BEVS (160GB 5400rpm) + Magic Pro USB case.. Well....I'll say it's the problem of Magic-pro, NEVER BUY MAGIC-PRO.
Started to hate eating cereal. Started to dream a lot about HK, anyway.
btw, Brian has fall in love in to my PSP, he play even more than me now. haha~ I am devil! XD
This article was written by chor @ http://lazylife.org. I like it very much and will share some of them on the next few post.
百萬份之一秒的世界
Highlight : 0:39 - Shock wave from the tube 0:59 - Shock wave in front of the shell 4:50 - Balloon with water dropped onto the ground 6:19 - Balloon with water pierced by a nail 7:30 - Water drop 8:41 - Shock wave inside water
OiOi : Remember the "+". haha~
Raymond : yes, just one match but forgot which one.. lol Kenny said the football team went to the pub and watch the match, I really wish I could to be there +_+
Perry Lo : I can't believe that..... so you know how to play?
Adam : Quite free now because I got no work. And I always work hard and play hard. Play well and play with me when I come back. hoho
Once upon a time, I've updated my blog. And it's one month ago. Sorry everyone. hoho~
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.
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.
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.
Arrived Sydney for few weeks already, honestly I had do nothing, yes, nothing at all. Staying in Brian's house, playing computer games everyday, even too lazy to walk around. Of coz, bad weather was an excuse but it's not good enough. It's time to finish this decadent life. I need to move on my trip. I need to start earning money. I need to go to Whitsundays! Fraser Island! Safari! Surfing!! New Zealand!!! Uh-Hooo!!!
So am I leaving now? No, not yet. I have dated my uncle, Uncle Stephen, to have dinner on the coming Friday. He works here and will ask him if he need any temporary staff. If yes, I'm gonna stay in Sydney for a while. If No, I'm going up to Brisbane. I hope I could find a well paid job over there. One of my friend Iris, she is now working in a farm, 10 hours a day, 7 days a week. Pretty tough but earning $800 a week at least, wow~ Hope there is vacancy if I go there~ :p
Another trip will be going to Alice Spring in the coming June. 5 days trip with Maick and his friend. They have booked the trip already, I'm going to do it this week. The outback is going to be cold at night~ I hope I can survive~ hoho~
Well, I'm not really staying at home everyday.
On 5 Apr I've visited the Taronga Zoo with Uncle Thomas, Mathew and his classmate Kenneth. It simply a Zoo, with many different kinds of animal. From the size as small as rabbit to as tall as giraffe, from the most ferocious tiger to the most laziest koala, you can find them all in the Zoo. A one day trip is enough for the Zoo, but it close at 5 pm so you need to start early.
6 Apr, football with Matthew and Kenneth. Hurt the damn left knee again. Go home with pain and disappointed. Don't know when will my knee totally recover, probably never. Don't know if I can play football and badminton again without any concern... sigh.....~~
7 Apr, went to Hunter Valley with Linda, another WHV friend. Tasted some wine. It's my first time I tried such a GOOD red wine. It's taste really good, I don't really know how to describe, but when you drink, 唔"澀", that's it. haha. Didn't buy any coz I won't drink at home and it's probably a burden in my trip. After lunch we went to see the dolphin, it's first time I saw wild dolphin! We can only see them when they come up and breath, it take just around 2 seconds and after that they will dive into the water. This make taking a photo extremely difficult. Almost half of my picture have been deleted because there were nothing inside except water. What you see in the album are the one filtered and taken with some luck. Enjoy.
13 Apr, went to war game with Edward, my primary classmate. We've lost contact for almost 10 years but thanks to facebook, we reunion. The war game here use paint ball, a plastic ball with ink inside, the plastic ball will burst when it hit something and the ink will splash around your clothes and mask. In the almost end of the game, you'll see the "blood" splash over everyone mask and clothes, haha. My damn leg was hurt before so I can't enjoy it. But the game was still great! and expensive, duh!
Bought a haircut kit with $15, and cut my hair myself. Well...I think I will find someone to cut it for me next time. Coz it doesn't look good. XD
That's all, yes for 2 weeks. Will let you guys know when my plan confirmed. Take care everyone. I miss you all.
Wow~ Laziness has overcome me again~ Sorry guys~ :p
2 days after GrandPrix, I have joined a tour to the Grampians, a place which is inside the champaign. The tour was a small one, which like 20 people only. The weather was great, cool and dry, and no rain! We departs on 8:15am and took about 1 half hour to Beaufort. We have our morning tea over there. It's just some tea/coffee and biscuit but it really wake me up~ Another 45 min. drive brought us to Brambuk Living Cultural Center. It's the first time I saw a wild kangaroo! We walked around and we found few groups of them. They don't really afraid of human and we could get pretty close. We spent one hour there and we move inside the Cultural Center. Inside there was history about this place, like something about aborigines use (man-made) fire to control (natural) fire. After that, we went to Halls Gap and have our lunch break there. I've bought a Sushi lunch box from city and brought there for lunch. But it's not really enough so I bought some Ice Cream too. hoho~ After lunch, we went to the MacKenzie Falls. It's actually a waterfall which deep under the valley. It's took us around half hour to walk to the bottom part. It's pretty big but there was not much rain recently so the water wasn't that much. Our next stop was the high light of this tour, The Jaws of Death. It's named like this because it looks like animals jaws. The place is very nice, a piece of land which you can't see the end~ The Jaws is a rock extended from the mountain which is hard enough to prevent corrode. I walked above the jaw, which was actually quite scary, and took a photo on it. When I looked down it's so deeeeeep from the place I stand, so I went back to the stand after the photo. After that we returned to bus and started our 3 hours journey back to the city. What a great experience!
The next day I visited Melbourne Aquarium. It's not really big actually but the BIG bowl underneath has surprised me. When you enter the lowest level of the aquarium, you're actually at the middle of the circle. Outside the circle filled with water and many many kind of fish. The level is about 3m high, and you're just surrounded by fishes~ Cool!
On Friday, I was in a tour to Philip Island, yes, to see the penguin finslly. The tour departed at 1:30pm. The first stop was Warrook Farm. The farm divided a small part of space, put some ducks, gooses and kangaroos inside, and let us go in to feed them. The place where wombats should stay in was filled by chickens. Feel like a place which cheat tourist money. Anyway, it's still a good place because I could get close to a kangaroo and feed it. The next stop is Koala Conservation Center. We pass through the entrance, and arrived a place where bridges have been built across the road. That's for us to get closer to the upper part of the tree and have a more closer view to the Koala. And it's really really close because the koala sometime walked on the handrail, haha. It's so close that you can touch it. But everyone there were so self-disciplined, they just walked with the koala without disturbing it. After that we stopped at a town for dinner, and continue our trip to Philip Island. As the Little Penguin usually return after sunset, it's too early to go to the Penguin Parade. So the tour guide drove us around the island and take a look on the penguin nest burrow. Sometime you could see the baby Little Penguin attracted by the noise and look outside. They were really cute! >o<" At last, we arrived the Penguin Parade. Photo was not allowed because flash may hurt the penguin's eyes. At first, we wait at the beach for the penguin's return. They will wait until they think they're safe before they come up. Once it's dark enough, they'll start coming out from the water, wait for other penguins and come up as group. When they few unsafe, they'll rush back into water and wait again, and it's really funny when they run, because they were so small and their leg are so so so short, haha~ Once they think they were safe again, they will walk back to their nest in group. Their are path built for us to see them returning their base, and it's built along the the penguin's path, so there were a lot of chances to see them. It was cold, but it's worth to stay because the penguin are really so cute. hoho~
Saturday night, we went to Eureka Skydeck. It's the world's tallest residential building, with 300m high 92 levels. The skydeck located at level 88, the elevator took 40 seconds to reach the level, more than 2 floors per second! It's very fast!! The view, of cause, was unbeatable. Because there were not much building in Melbourne able to give you this view. We started to go around the floor and keep taking photos. But the windows were quite dirty so the picture were always not clear -.-" And inside the floor there were a lot of spot light which always reflected by the windows, it makes taking photo a hard job. But luckily we could still get a few good shots. There were 2 highlights in the Skydeck, the first one was an open area on level 88, it's very cold and windy but it's a good place to get rid of the dirty window, haha. The second one was called the edge, "'The Edge' - a glass cube which projects 3 meters out from the building - with you in it - suspended almost 300 meters above the ground!". I've got a free coupon for going into The Edge, but I'm fear of height so I gave it to my friend~ I don't want to get crazy inside the cube and being driving out of the building. XD Well...I'll get better after the sky dive! :p
Not much to do on Sunday, got up early because need to check out at 10am. Hanging around in the library, say good bye and gave a great hug to my friends, get back to hostel, and started my journey to Sydney. I went there by Firefly, an intercity coach service provider. The coach depart at 7pm. The driver was pretty funny because when he introduce himself, he said, "My name is.....Andrew..... You can call me.......Andrew....well or the driver.... " ha.... A short meal break on 11pm at Albury, and I fell asleep after it. Can't expect too much on a bus, but I still sleep pretty well. Arrived Sydney Central Station at 7am, it's a bit worn than Melbourne Southern Cross station, but it's another style~ Have a little breakfast in Hungry Jack and move on to Brain's house.
Last Thursday, Uncle Thomas and Matthew arrived Sydney. It's so good to see them. We went to the Harbor Bridge and Darling Harbor this Tuesday. Matthew has started his uni orientation on Wednesday. And we are going to the Taronga Zoo tomorrow~!
I've also met another 2 HK friends here in Sydney~ They are Iris and Iris....oops... Iris Ng and Iris Wong. They have been working in the Easter Show for 2 weeks and special thanks to Iris Wong because she brought me a free ticket for the Easter Show (Originally cost $30..@@). The show was actually a farming exhibition but there were many games around so there were also many young people. We spent a day there, watching shows, cars, bulls & pigs. ha.. Iris brought me a lot of food and drink from the place she worked so I didn't spent much money in there. XD The last firework show was the best firework show I've ever seen. It's not as money-burning as the one in HK, it's not as large as the one in Melbourne, but the music plus the laser and the firework really makes me feel EXCITING! To reciprocate Iris's best arrangement, I feast her onto the Ferris Wheel~ wow~ What a great day!
Being lazy for too long, got to start looking for a job. But there are a few place that I've planned to visit...so..... find a job on another day! Yu-Hooo!!!
Special thanks Brain to allow me to stay in his home :D Also need to thanks dad and mom and sis to help me bought so many stuff. And thanks Uncle Thomas to bringing them here.
Moomba Waterfest Carnival - It's just like the AIA Carnival in Causeway Bay. Expensive and most games are for kid. Emi, with a bit of luck, won a large Devil in one of the game~ haha~ But to be honest, the devil is probably a burden when she travel around~ XD
IMAX - I haven't been to the IMAX in HK, so I visited the IMAX in Melbourne last Tuesday night. I watched a movie named Beowulf, it's (again) about a hero killing monsters. There were only less than 10 people watching with me because the movie was already half year old~ The story was good~ and the 3D effect was amazing! The concession ticket is just $16.5, Yes, I got a Victoria University student card, hoho~
Old Melbourne Goal - On Wednesday I went to the first prison in Melbourne. I spent $14 to join the tour (Concession of course). The officer (tour guide) treat us as criminal (of coz with fun) and we actually walk through the whole process of a criminal going into jail. It's a great tour but the tour guide just speak too much. After the tour I went to another building which is actually the cells where the prisoners were locked in. It's not big, 3 floor with like 30 cells each floor. They put the history of some infamous criminals into the cell. There was also a place which was use to execute the criminal with hanging. err, pretty scare, isn't it~?
Melbourne Museum - After visiting the Old Melbourne Goal, I went to the Melbourne museum. It's pretty large! I stayed there for 2 hours but I've finished half of the museum only! The most amazing part is the Forest Gallery, which is a place simulate the environment of a rain forest. Trees are very tall, you're just like walking inside a rain forest, because bird are flying around so close, the lizards will just walk on the path~ It's really a good experience! I'm going to the museum again take a look of the remaining sector~ Normal adult ticket for $6, and free for those with concession card. kaka
Grand Prix - 4 days of Grand Prix has finally finished. It was a really good experience that you would never forget! It's not just a car race, it's a carnival~ Many counters around and many people with special dressing for you to take photos~ There were not just race for Formula ONE but also Cleanevent Carrera Cup, V8 Supercars, Australian GT and Aussie Racing Cars. The time between different races there were Historic Demo., The Ultimate Speed Comparison ( Road car vs Super car vs F1), Navy Squirrel Helicopter Aerial Display and RAAF F/A-18 Jet Aerial Display. On Sunday afternoon there was even a Qantas 747 flying above the park!
For the race, the F1, of course, was the greatest one. The engine sound were just too loud that you can't imagine until you experience yourself! A pair of ear plug are almost a necessity! Many of the F1 picture I've taken were unclear because the F1 were too fast to be caught on a camera. Just seven drivers finished the 58 lap race, as what the official news explain, it's the most dramatic race in the event's history. Lewis Hamilton, my favorite driver because of his age, just 23 years old, finished the race in the first position~ Both drivers from Ferrari retired due the engine failure. Anyway, the race was just so great that you need to experience yourself, I'm out of word~ XD
The V8 supercars were also a great race, I love to see the flame coming out from the exhaust~! Aussie Racing cars are very cute because they are very small, I guess, 1/4 of normal car. But the race were much exciting because the difference between drivers were bloody small. The cars were just sticking together and formed a line in the corner when they turn! All first 6 drivers passed the finish line in 1.3 second. You can imagine how close they were.
After the last race has finished, the track, except the pit, was opened to the public. All people just rushed out to the track, tried to pick up some debris from the car crash, and to take photos on the F1 track~ I jump into the track too~! Took some photos and picked some stones and melted tire pieces. I then walked through many corners, the start and the finish line, the pit, some crash site. And at last I walked through half of the circuit and head to the exit.
That's AU$375. Some people, or may be many, think that it's not worth. I could watch the race on TV, I could watch the race with a General Admissions ticket instead of a Grandstand ticket with just AU$175. But I can tell you that it's different. I enjoyed the whole race, the 4 days race, it's a lifetime memory and experience, and I think it worth.
Last week for me to stay in Melbourne~ I've still got few place to go~ The Skydeck, Philip Island, the Aquarium~ I'll try to take more photo and I hope you can enjoy them with me~ :D
Alcohol may create problems, but it also help you relax, and sometime to help you free yourself. For me, alcohol didn't give me any problem YET, but it helped me to free myself, to do something which is a bit crossed my own base line. No worries mate, it's not about something illegal. It's about something more fun. kaka~ On the night before Maick left Emerald, we had a great party, and it's really exciting! We used the tape, which we used in the farm, to tape around the room and the kitchen. We used almost 10 rolls of tapes and and all our room and the living room is tape. Mick even start to hang stuff on to the fan. haha~ And at last we use tape to cover Tae's bed, he came back at 3am and start fxxking around.... Check the photos and you'll know what I mean. XD That's something I won't do in HK, and now I found that it's actually pretty fun...haha~
Last Wednesday was my last working day in JFT, JustFxxkingTrees. After two months working over there, I've earned a bit money which allow me to have a short holiday! MOST people in JFT are really good, kind and funny, I really miss them. Although tapping is definitely a boring job but I've enjoyed it so much.
Since last Thursday I've started my holiday. Started to pack my things up and prepare my trip to Melbourne. On Friday night we went to Fountain Gate, a large shopping mall, and bought a movie ticket. The movie, "Jumper", is about a group of people who could teleport to any place and another group of people who kill jumpers. To be honest the movie isn't as good as I thought, but teleporting is really amazing!
I've caught a cold and I didn't drink much on my last days in Emerald. I've a really good time over there and I really miss everyone.
Anyway, it's another start now, a start of a holiday! I arrived Melbourne on Sunday , staying in the Greenhouse Backpackers. A great hostel which feels like hotel~ But no wireless internet is a bit imperfect. I'll spent two weeks here for the Grand Prix, IMAX, Skydeck and other place which I've not visit before~
My plan is to go to Sydney on Easter~ Special thanks to Brain, allow me to stay in his place. And I can't wait to see Mudfew and Uncle Thomas too! hoho~
Raymond : I've been working for you so long, of course I know what you thinking. But I'm not GAY! I'll try to make more friends, not only HK but Japan, Korea, UK.... kaka~
c : Will do! You need to take care too! I'll find a chance to take a photo with a Koala on me.. hoho.. james : Yeah~ I'm sure it's more exciting when you saw the match in person! hoho! Wait for my photos!
波波 : 你緊係成日唔刷牙搞到d牙甩曬la!記得唔好掛住玩~你個正職係"自動行走暖包"!!
mudfew : I can't wait to meet you too man! Thanks for agreeing with me~ I sure you can enjoy a Arsenal match in England too! And before I saw your message, I've shaved already. haha!
oioi : Thanks! And I've forgotten the time of my birth.. @@ All koala are cute, even those on a paper, haha~
maymei : Thanks May goo je~! I always smile here~ but just it's not in front of the camera~ hoho~
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. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Alan Chan,
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You will soon receive emails detailing specific event information on the tickets you have recently purchased.
Event purchased: Four Corners - Piquet Package
Performance: Date: Thu 13 Mar 2008 Venue: FORMULA 1 ING Australian Grand Prix Albert Park South Melbourne VIC 3205 Section: SCLARK-C Row: E Seat: 8
Date: Fri 14 Mar 2008 Section: SSCHUMACHR-D Row: F Seat: 68
Date: Sat 15 Mar 2008 Section: SFANGIO-K Row: G Seat: 6
Date: Sun 16 Mar 2008 Section: SPIQUET-B Row: D Seat: 24
Your transaction fee for this order is: $6.95 Total amount for order is: $375.95 Total includes Transaction Fee and GST. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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~!
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....
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.
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.
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