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    January 24

    Sitting on the dock of the bay

     
    I can't remember when was the last time I did the post without looking back my last post.
     
    Just have something to share about how do I feel right now, that is ....
     
    Sittin' in the mornin' sun
    I'll be sittin' when the evenin' come
    Watching the ships roll in
    And then I watch 'em roll away again, yeah

    I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
    Watching the tide roll away
    Ooo, I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
    Wastin' time

    I left my home in Georgia
    Headed for the 'Frisco bay
    'Cause I've had nothing to live for
    And look like nothin's gonna come my way

    So I'm just gonna sit on the dock of the bay
    Watching the tide roll away
    Ooo, I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
    Wastin' time

    Look like nothing's gonna change
    Everything still remains the same
    I can't do what ten people tell me to do
    So I guess I'll remain the same, yes

    Sittin' here resting my bones
    And this loneliness won't leave me alone
    It's two thousand miles I roamed
    Just to make this dock my home

    Now, I'm just gonna sit at the dock of the bay
    Watching the tide roll away
    Oooo-wee, sittin' on the dock of the bay
    Wastin' time

    I'm a music lover who rarely looks at lyrics, however here is an exception.

     

    Hope you enjoy and let me know if you feel the same (Sometimes).

     

    The new year is coming~ Let's hope the OX year really give us some hope, realise some dreams, and most importantly bring some happiness to everyone.

     

    April 21

    After the Peak

    Dear everyboy:
     
    End of March is the official end of the peak period in the big four. Depending on the job, you may still be busy for a while, but comparatively, life should be much more relax after the peak.

    These days I can go home around 7, it will take me about 45mins for me to reach home. After the dinner, it's about 9. Even though it's late, but I still can manage to do some of my own things.

    Audit is a good environment to gain experience. I've been audited manufacturing, logistic, and offshore, marine service companies. In the different industries, you can see different working culture, different working style. Some company has more young people and the pay is much better. Whereas those company the average age is older, the pay seems is less as well.

    Previously, I felt difficult to deal with clients as some of them are very reluctant to corporate to provide information. But after few engagements, under different seniors, I felt that's not always the case. The thing is, if you treat the client well, normally they will treat you good as well. The first few jobs we usually stay at client's place pretty late as we have to rush to finish the field work in a short time. For my last engagement, we tend to go home about 6:30 to 7, the client was appreciate us to go home early and said that to compare to the audit team last year they usually went back around 11pm. Thus they felt much better to work with us, and provided us information and corporate very well. Even the tea lady will serve us tea everyday, sometimes fruits which never happened to our other engagements.

    This new senior of mine in that engagement is Philippine Chinese who joint the firm on Jan this year as well. He is a nice guy, I felt quite happy working with him, he won't chase you in a serious face, he always give us smile, thus we felt that it's not a burden working with him, instead we willing to do more work if he need.

    I had my birthday party last month. Me and my girlfriend went out for a dinner on Friday, and Saturday my friends came to my house to celebrate. I prepare some dishes and hot pot for that night. One of my friends brought a bottle of New Zealand red wine which tasted very good. Having wine in Singapore is kind of luxury for us. The wine here is very expensive as the transportation and tax are high. On average you need to spend 30 dollar to buy a 10 dollar Australian wine.

    It's good to have some new friends here. I felt better to talk to those colleagues who graduated from overseas rather than local Uni. I found that their vision is much wider even though Singapore locals have open mind. Those from overseas knows how to enjoy life, we have more common topics, and they are more interested in travelling and exploring, whereas most of the Singapore colleagues they more willing to work just for the work, gathering in those noisy places, shopping. The most popular places for them to go travel are Thailand, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, because those places are near to go, and cheaper for shopping is their priority.

    Last Friday was Good Friday, me and my girlfriend was planning to go to an Indonesia island called Bintan, but the ferry ticket was sold out long time ago. End up we chance plan and went to another island called Batam. But Batam was far less beautiful than Bintan, the environment was bad, and dirty. People driving on the stress freely with no control, especially those motorbikes are very dangerous. Cars and taxis horned at us want to be the driver. We only went for a massage in a hotel, and did some shopping that's all. We took a taxi to a shopping centre, there were soldiers holding guns at the gate to check cars to prevent any bomb, which quite surprised us.  Due to the exchange rate advantage, (1 SGD = 5950 RP) a lot of things are very cheap for us. But we had a hard time counting the money as there are too many Zeros behind. I guess this is the most "luxury" day in my life, as I spent over 300,000 dollars (RP) in a day.

    I'm planning for my next trip. Initially we plan to go to Maldives, but they charge USD, average cost would be about 3000SGD, which is too expensive. Now we change the destination to East Malaysia which has beautiful view as well. Similar style as Maldives, but much cheaper. We expect to go there around end of May or beginning of June depends on my job schedule. Currently I'm still waiting for the IPO date for one of my clients. And then my manager would be able to approve my leave.
     
    All the best to everyone, all the best to the offpeak.
     
    Wilson
    January 22

    My tough job.

    After a long time I haven’t updated my space, now I think it’s the time to write something.

    Time flies, I can’t imagine this is already my 3rd week of working in Singapore. It’s a good thing to get a job in Singapore, so I would be able to survive here. Sounds good working in an accounting firm, but the nature of the work is very tough, long working hours through the week. Most of the time I woke up at 7 am, I have to go to client’s place to audit. We normally will working while having lunch, or start working right after the lunch. At the time we can go home, it’s about 10-12 pm. Some worse time I went back around 1:30. Sometimes have to do over time during the weekend as well. One day I step out of the office during lunch time, I suddenly notice that the sunshine is so bright, as I’ve been busy working in the office all day long, and haven’t got much chance to meet up with SUN. The worse is I even can’t find a time to shit.

    This is peak period of us, expect the busy life will going on until April. The good thing of having peak is, after the peak we will have some peaceful life rather than busy throughout the whole year.

    I choose this job means I have to take the pain. I hope the short pain will give a long term relieve. But by listening at the complaint from my senior colleagues, I understand that if I’m going to work in this field for long, it may be a long pain. Most of them would complain that in terms of the working hour, we are extremely underpaid. During the peak, on average our working time is about 15 hours/day, and most of the overtime cannot be charged. The incremental of the salary compare to the load of the work you receive after you’ve been promoted is in a diminishing form unless you reach manager or partner’s position.  After calculate the hourly rate we receive is about 6 dollars per hour which is about 5 AUD. In Melbourne, by working in a Chinese restaurant, the bad pay is about 7 dollars.

    Let’s forget about the monetary terms. Look through a positive way that the experience we can gain from the big 4 is much worth than the cash we earned. Maybe after about 2 years, we can easily get an accounting job or progress to other big 3 for a better position. One of my supervisor said that she tried to work in a commercial firms as a manager in account’s department. In a fresh environment, although you have power, but all your members may not be able to listen to how or what you want them to do. End up, she back to accounting firm as well. I’m not sure after few years, whether the same thing would happen to me as well. In order to gain a trust or having managing power in a new environment, it is better if we can start low.

    Another good thing of my job is, we audit different kind of firms, so we got to see the different industries, understand their business nature and structures, build up better interpersonal skills, as most of the time we have to obtain resource from client. Actually it’s client’s duty to provide information, but not all clients will corporate well. As the current company I’m working on is a tough experience. They reluctant to provide information, always push us to find information from their computer network, most of the information they provide is in hardcopy, whereas we need to do casting to ensure the accuracy of the figures. A softcopy would be preferred as a hard copy will extensively increase our time consuming and reduce efficiency. I guess maybe this client has some revenge attitude.

    As I mentioned that most of the time we are at client’s place to access their information. So each morning we can take a taxi to go rather than waiting for the bus. In a way we save some money, but compare to the extreme long working hour, I rather get some more sleep, and take bus to go work.

    Normally we work as a term with 2-3 members. It’s quite fun working as a team; as the environment is more relax. More communication will be involved in this team work, so we may know each other better than some normal office job.

    This Saturday I will be going to work in one of the subsidiaries of a Singapore listed company in China for 2 weeks. The timeline is very tight, as the flights are all fully booked so we have to finish the job early and work harder. One of the weekends I may go back to Hangzhou as well, I can ship some more things back to Singapore. But I don’t think I will spend my time with my family during Chinese New Year.

    It’s late night again, it’s time to sleep and get ready for the new Monday work.

    July 24

    写于飞机上

    5次向北穿越广阔的太平洋,还有3个半小时就可以到达新加坡了。四个月没有见她了,虽然习惯了LD,不过多多少少总还是有点想念。为了准备好这一个月的旅程,我去CITY剪了个头,一家看起来很不错的韩国店。本想去找那个经常给我剪的香港师傅,刚好他不在,经朋友推荐,我还是决定尝试一下韩国手艺。

    亮堂堂的店占地面积还不小,在MELBOURNE 市中心黄金地带租金估计也是个小数目。不过他们的收费只有30AUD,比其他CHINATOWN的小店还便宜,这还是有点吸引力。这么大的一家店只有1个男理发师,其他7-8个全是女的。很难说这位师傅是享尽天伦之乐还是受尽牛马之苦。师傅也是从韩国进口的,造型很个性,语言也一窍不通,需要站个翻译在边上。师傅手艺倒还不错,告诉他我要些CHANGE,的确还搞点花样出来,只是刚剪好,我自己都有些接受不了。现在估计她见到也会接受不了,慢慢的也会习惯的。

    这几天的确有点累,为了准备出行,要把每天的日程安排的满满的,一天去CITY给父母买东西,买了很多VITAMIN,还有鱼油什么的,孝敬一下也是应该的,说起来还是用自己赚的钱买的哦哈哈。一天再去学校把一些手头的事情在回去前做完。还有很多文章要帮其他老师找,遇到一篇实在搜索不到,郁闷之下,我发了EMAIL给作者,好心的教授很快就把文章发给我了,省了不少事,算是光荣完成任务。晚上睡觉的时候还一直在想是不是还有什么事情忘记了。现在好了,一切就绪,就等着去新加坡花钱啦。很就没有真正的SHOPPING过咯,差不多有1年半没有买过衣服。等不急澳洲年底的SALES,所以还是去新加坡SHOPPING来的明知些。昨天一取钱,银行帐户就变成3位数了。

    前几天申请了TAX RETURN,把今年一年的辛苦打工压在税务局的税退回来。因为又两份工,所以可以做一些deduction,这样就可以免去很多税拉,哈哈。希望下个星期就能收到退税。

     

    720号,考完了最后一门试,也结束了我3年的大学生活。现在回想起来,这一路下来,有着许许多多的改变。我的思想,语言,为人,做事,知识,兴趣,爱好,都发生了改变。我想这应该是好的,3年的学习学了许多会计和金融方面的知识,虽然许多急于理论,但是去看看银行的服务,或者大公司的运作,这些知识都有着密切的联系,这也是我为什么想去新加坡工作几年的原因。

    中国在这方面的基础比较差,真正运用许多金融手段来管理公司的企业并不多,这方面的人力资源缺乏也是重要原因。而新加坡在这方面有着很好的基础,双语的教育,中西结合的思想,聚集着许多闻名世界的大公司。这正是我可以更好的运用,理解和学习的一个跳板。很多人说应该先拿了澳洲的PR再决定其他的,我想既然决定要去了,何必浪费那3000块钱,不办也是少一种牵挂。就想鱼店师傅说的,人行天下吃肉,狗行天下吃屎。我想多走些地方,多学习点东西,有了经验,再去赚钱也不晚,再来澳洲也不难。你们说呢?

    May 14

    除了忙,还是忙

    我也很清楚,已经很久没更新了,再下去估计会杂草满地,苍蝇乱飞
    不知道该怎么来形容忙的程度,就这样说吧
    1个CLUB要参加
    2份工要打
    3位数的工资可以拿
    4门课要学
    5天的课要去
    6个小时可以睡觉
    7天的班要上
     
    8知道要怎么混下去了!!
    刚交了一份ASSIGNMENT,说是4000字,读了一个月的资料,看暴了头,不小心写了5000字,实在没时间改就交了。算松了口期,再过3个星期就是FINAL了。减少打工时间,多看点书是近期目标,毕竟最后一个学期了!!
    等有空再来写吧
    Future Economic Benefit = PV of Suffering
    March 26

    Launch of Wilson Wu's Photo Gallery

    最近建立了一个网络相册来发布我所拍摄的照片,照片会不断更新,常来看看哦!
     
    地址是:
     
     
    如果你喜欢那些照片,请在相册内给我些鼓励
    当然我还有许多不足的,有待学习的地方,也请留个言,可以在我以后的作品中做改进
    谢谢!!!!
    March 21

    生日即将到来,开始接受提前和迟到的祝福

    再过两天,就是23号,本周星期四,就是我生日拉!提早已经跟老板说那天不打工哈哈!!!
    可能会叫朋友来家里吃饭吧,顺便给几个朋友做cooking training!
    现在开始接受大家提早或者迟到的祝福哈哈!!!
     
    I treat everybody an online dinner!
    Enjoy~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     
     
     
    March 14

    丢了张MONTHLY车票!~~~~~

    上周五,从学校回来的时候,估计车票没放好,在买菜拿钱包的时候突然逃出了我的手掌,面部以橘黄色为主,上有COMMONWEALTH GAME的图案,为ZONE2票,目前下落不名。星期六准备去CITY的时候,发现已经不见了。因为MONTHLY的票,周末可以免费去CITY(ZONE1),车都来了,还是没能坐上,只能用2HR的票拉!~~~我只用了10天的票就这样跑了,真是不甘心
    今天打去MELTLINK,问了问,他们说让我写一张REFUND的表寄给他们,他们会给我REFUND,真的爽死了。不过先不要高兴太早,要等拿到钱了再开心吧!不过现在有点PROGRESS总是比较兴奋一点的。3个小时的工资呢!~~~
    最新情况——今天又买了张新的MONTHLY!!!!66.3AUD
    March 05

    图片不断更新中!~~~~~

    好久没来更新了,一直忙!忙什么呢?回国忙,回来也忙,忙着帮GF收拾行李,星期2把她送去了机场,这才有空把房间理理,衣服洗洗。现在就剩我孤军奋战了,这样也好,多打点工,多拍点照,多读点书!
     
    云南的照片还有一半没处理出来呢,旧的还没出来,新的又多了,哈哈!不知道是乐趣还是负担,不过还是了在其中。还有很多好图片很快要出炉了哦,不过还期望大家多评价多指教。
     
    昨天刚上传了上次杭州下雪的照片,有些还是挺有感觉的,当然也要感谢阮珊珊同学给我做model让我的图片增色不少!
     
    先这样吧,其他的还是用我的照片来告诉你我最近的动态吧!~~~
     
    February 11

    云南归来

    春节期间去云南玩了一趟,除了好玩,还能说的就是“赶”,跟团就这个不好,连拍照都没时间,不过我还是拍了近2000张照片,精品自然少了!
    目前照片还在处理阶段,需要一会来处理完,到时候会把他们都上传上来展现给大家的!~
     
    January 28

    狗年快儿乐

    明天就是狗年拉!~祝大家新年快乐!~
    忙了也要多联系啊!
    January 25

    已经回到祖国,向党和人民汇报工作

    21号早上,从新加坡转机的飞机(飞机上人暴少无比),平稳的降落在上海“雾蒙蒙”机场。当机舱门打开的时候,一股寒风吹过,我感到了一丝祖国的味道。广播中响起中年妇女温柔的广播:“从新加坡飞来的SQ826航班已经到达…………” 很有电影里面的味道!

     

    回到祖国后,要开始向党和人民汇报工作拉,回来3天,基本天天在外面吃,酒+肉+鱼,中国传统的会晤方式,表达了祖国朋友的关怀和照顾,在此感谢大家了!如果还没一起聚过,吃过的,请尽快联系我,以便安排时间,与您会晤!~

     

    24hours 7Days 拨打13456771157 如果没人接,可以发消息,如果一天后消息和电话没有反应,请报警!

     

    提早祝大家新年快乐!楼上楼下,安全第一,小心火烛,关好门窗!~~~

    January 10

    免费买鞋记 + 琐事+ 13-17号在悉尼

    免费买鞋记
      又是一年过去了,在澳洲的生活算是幸福又艰苦,一年来什么衣服鞋子裤子都没买。眼看脚上的鞋已经宽通底了,再加上13号去悉尼,还是决定买一双新鞋子!
      年前看到CITY开了一家新的Adidas,进去一看,款式和价钱都还不错,尤其一双120块的Cross Training看的比较顺眼。后来还是选择去了Smith St,因为那边有Factory Outlet,说起来就是厂家直销,去看了才知道他们现在也开始挂羊头卖狗肉。Adidas Nike 等诸多品牌聚集,靓丽的门面,架子上放着早已过时的款式,走了几圈,一点都打不起精神来。天色已晚,所以浪费了一天的体力!
      幸运的事情发生了,在年后发现当时没买成的鞋子竟然打了6折,破天荒的价格-72AUD,这可省了我50大刀啊!而且我的尺码就最后一双了,我毫不犹豫的刷了卡走人!省了50快,开心一整天。回到家里从网上查了一下银行的帐户,更奇妙的事情发生了。刚付出了72块钱,接着就是一个reversal transaction,他们竟然把72块钱还给了我。原因我也自然不会去问了,可能是上帝对我的恩赐,让adidas圣诞老人送给我一份新年礼物。
      就这样,阴错阳差,没有花一分钱,买了一双120块的鞋,希望新年的运气会更好!
     
    琐事
    No.1
      昨天在Subway打工,跟我一起工作的小女生好像找被骗了,有位白人胖子拿了100块就买一瓶2块4的可乐,拿了钱又说要换。我估计是那个时候被骗了,我做帐的时候就少了147块钱,胆战心惊啊。给老板打了电话才算有点安心下来。小姑娘才15岁,怕的腿都有点软了,不过教育了她一下就好些了。都说老外数学不好,难得有个好点的,却是个骗子,世道变拉!
     
    No.2
      人们常说shit happens,昨天就这样happen了,今天应该是对下学期课表选时间的日子。昨天登陆到我的选课目录,进去才发现一课都没选,脑子里突然“嗡嗡嗡”的有点晕起来了,心跳加快,大脑充血,可能有点面红耳赤,不过还好边上没有他人。
      今天一早,赶紧写了一封Late Enrolment的信送去学校,让他门批准我的选课,可能需要花一个星期左右的时间,大家都知道学校里这些人,看起来博学广识,做起事情来象老牛拉车,屁大的事情都要approval。算了,只要能选好课就行了,毕竟是最后一个学期了,希望一切都还顺利吧。
     
     
    13号-17号在悉尼!~~~~~~~~~~
    December 30

    领略Boxing Day

    大家都知道过了Christmas就是Boxing Day了,是shopping的大好良机,几乎所有的大小商场都在打折,幅度而且不小,在Chadstone Shopping centre逛了一下,到处都能看到50% Off 的字样!我HOUSEMATE跟我无聊的要去逛商场,因为是Public HolidayBUS竟然等了45分钟,前面来了一班,没想到有象杭州延安路下午5点坐BUS的状况类似,因此就等下一班了。

    从来没见过澳洲人那么疯狂,整个Shopping centre有点象进城的烧香团,人是密密麻麻的,恐怖的状况为在MYER最为突出。我们到那边已经是下午了,从化妆品部进去还是蛮干净的,一走到鞋子还有太阳眼镜的柜台可见疯狂的程度,没有放在柜台里面的眼镜,基本全部在地上堆成了山,因为太阳眼镜难得打折,好的款式几乎全部被抢空,排队的人也绕出了柜台,我们看着满地眼镜,也不抱什么能掏出宝贝的希望了。

    服装柜台更夸张,不管什么衣服,柜台上地上总是堆着花花绿绿的,营业员已经失踪,挑选衣服处于混乱状态,由于衣服实在太多,眼花缭乱了。不知道是不是因为Public Holiday的原因,保安都不知道到哪里去了,我们在离出口不远的地方,总是听到很多熟悉的BB声,后来找来找去发现原来是门口的警铃一直响,却没有人去察看那些人的口袋,那了东西的人就这样大摇大摆的走出了MYER的天堂。警铃几乎时时刻刻都在响,我跟我HOUSEMATE都看傻眼了,没想到澳洲人那么暴力+白痴,拿东西也不知道把条形码拆掉,看来还是中国人来的强一些!以后可以开一门 “Take Away” 的课。

    可想而知BOXING DAY MYER会有多少Stock Loss, 拘我们估计,他们可能故意让人拿走,那么就可以做很多Stock Loss从而达到少付税的目的!哈哈

    最后搞了一个下午也没看中什么,空手而归,一回来就马上去打工了,辛苦辛苦!

    新年快到了,顺便祝大家新年快乐!

    December 18

    Lisa and Chicken - A Wilson Film

    This is a short video took by Wilson, it's about how Lisa(Dog - Female) revenge the chicken due to chicken always take advantage on Lisa, normally fighting food with each other! Now it's Her show time!~~~~~~~~~
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    December 12

    从Bad Luck中走出来,等待Good luck的洗礼

    这几天忙了很多事情,发生了很多事情,也处理了很多事情。总结性的归纳一下前段时间的生活就是--- 不幸

     

    自从帮我GF搬完家后,Bad luck一直陪伴着我前进。从找工开始说吧,一直在SUBWAY打工已经有4个月了吧,但是象我们这样的年龄的人在Subway, McD, KFC这种快餐店算是高龄,大部分都是高中生。原因很简单,他们比较Cheap,老板自然喜欢给他们更多的工作时间,又加上店里的人手很多,拿到我手上的工作时间则少而右少。为了生计,不得不寻找其他的工作来养活自己(GF赚的比我多,就不用我养拉,Detail见下文)

    我和GF一起开始找工作,选定地点为Chadstone Shopping Centre(据说是南半球最大的Shopping Mall, Malvern, Carnegie, and South Yarra(有很多饭店,饭店的机会总是多一点)。我们的做法很简单,印一大叠RESUME,看到有希望的店就问,把RESUME留给他们。跑了那么多地方,发了几十份的RESUME,竟然都没人打电话来,这可把我急坏了。我GF倒比较LUCKY,一不小心,当天晚上就有人打电话叫她去试工,那家店而且离她家也就一站路,比较方便,她现在打2份工了,一般可以做4天(而我只有2天左右)。我苦等了几日,一直带着很Positive 的希望期待有老板会打电话给我,直到星期5晚上,我打给一家South YarraSandwich Bar的老板问她是不是还要人,这她才说,可以让我去试一下。对这家店有兴趣主要是因为他开周1-5,而且都是白天,我正好白天做的机会比较少。星期二我如约而去,店是小了点,但是生意不错,来的客人都是西装革履,也少不了很多美女Chapel St的店很多,美女自然多,因此我在想,如果真的在那边做了,那不是每天可以饱眼福。不过如果每天看太多,可能也会审美疲劳。哈哈,小刘可能有这样的感觉吧!~~~ 那家店主要卖三明治,还有Salad, 和其他一些hot food,东西看起来很简单,就是不是很系统,这点Subway做的好多了,什么东西都清晰明了,这就是Management,估计这老板是属于经济型的。走进厨房那也是脏,刚煎了2个蛋,上面有点壳,直接用手拿掉了,外面的客人吃的还香着呢(想像中国的饭店…………),试了2个半小时工,觉得很简单,老板说星期5给我回复,我就开心的回家了。

    星期3又有一家VIDEO SHOP打电话给我说要我去面试,我最喜欢看电影拉,如果能在那边打工,就不用再从网上下电影了,那不是爽死我。可惜星期3我正好在外没空,就约了星期4下午1点去。回到家里我盘算着,如果2家都要我,那应该怎么分配时间呢,如果VIDEO SHOP不要我,那至少Sandwich bar还有点希望。星期4一早起来,准备精神的去免试,突然噩耗传来,老板一个电话:Sorry, the Position has been filled, you no need to come for the interview! 我突然Ehhhhhhhhh不知道说什么好了。挂了电话只能对自己Sigh

    不小心就到了星期5的晚上,等了一晚,竟然没电话,心里一凉,完了,2分工都没了,脑子里突然浮现出钱飞走的样子AUD AUD你们回来啊~~~~~~~

    不过安慰一下自己,那种垃圾Sandwich bar还是不要去做的好,太脏太乱,老板又是越南人,没智商,不会看人!哈哈

     

    GF搬了新家,电话网络什么都没有,这些technical的东西他们也不懂,只能我出力帮他们看选择什么样的Plan比较划算。考虑到3个女人原来在学校的光纤网络上用惯了High Speed,如果给他们装便宜的宽带估计他们会叫死的。经过几天的研究,发现OPTUSCABLE是最好的选择,速度快,价格也合适,PEAK+OFFPEAK一共有60G的下载量,一个月70块,那么每个人差不多只要给23块,我跟我Housemate Gary2个人用的,都要50块,何况只有20G。其中一个室友的BF提出说要装一个200M/Month的宽带,便宜是便宜,大约只要20多块,但是200M???什么概念—>0.2G??看EMAIL都不够。听说是因为他们送MODEM,我一看才知道是24个月的PLAN,那不搞死人么,24个月后,这网络发展成什么样谁都不知道,但是谁都知道的是,那时候肯定比现在便宜。

    最后还是决定装CABLE,我从网上买了只2CABLE MODEM。就等OPTUS派人来打洞拉线了,噩耗又来了,OPTUS的人告诉我们,他们的房子不是House,而是UNIT,不能装CABLE。突然觉得有点晕,MODEM都买好了!~~~~算了,幸好买来不贵,而且货色也不错,先放着,真的不行拿去EBAY卖吧,奇货可居么哈哈,安慰一下。没的装CABLE就该装OPTUSADSL吧,一样的PLAN,不过ADSL的速度肯定没有CABLE快,1500的速度还是够用了。那天正好GF的室友准备SIGN CONTRACT,为了告诉她还是要用OPTUS,不要SIGN其他公司,我用SUBWAY的电话打给了她,真是背,不小心被老板娘看到了,她倒是笑着告诉我,下次不能用店里的电话打,后来发现情况不对,原来她是笑面虎,二老板之后打电话来用温柔的口气把我训斥了一下,告诉我如果下次再打就要直接扣钱,晕死,早知道就直接用自己手机打了,为了省那么点钱还惹那么多事,真不划算。

    最近的确蛮bad luck的,所以能不出去就不出去,呆家里安全点哈哈~~~

     

    这几天期待着转运呢,Good Luck, Good Luck Where are you???

    前几天Gloria Jean’s咖啡店打电话来说叫我去Interview,突然感觉到希望就在眼前。昨天去了Interview, 老板问了点面试常见问题,我就瞎掰的回答,回答都是往好里答,怎么好怎么说,老板怎么说就认同,表现要诚恳,完成的还算不错吧。真的想多找一份工,不然后面的日子难混了。老板告诉我,他收了大约200多份RESUME,选了几个人去面试。后来才知道因为我把我的RESUME的做了背景颜色,所以看起来要比别人的要明显,哈哈,被选中的机会也大了。

    前面的Bad Luck就过去吧(CC - 小小王,你应该有同感吧~~),阳光总在风雨后,我已经看到好运的曙光,我静静的期待,我真心的PrayGood luckIm ready!

    November 28

    辛苦的日子!~~~~~~

    放假也有些日子了,可是没有一点放假的感觉,每天过的比上课还忙,一眨眼就过了一天。经研究主要时间都花在两样事情上,1:帮GF搬家;2:找工

    GF一直住在学校的屋檐下,每个月固定的房租由CREDIT CARD 刷出去,就可以放心的用水,自由的用电,无限的上网而不用担心BILL。已经结束大学生涯的她决定和housemates一起搬出去住,尝试更加独立的生活。找房子,买家具,运东西成了他们面对的挑战,没有搬家经验,以心理价位出击,寻觅住处,经过在Oakleigh,附近的搜索,发现原来心里价位只能找到类似避难所的房子,于是他们决定放弃1号计划,改用更为flexible的调节价位法。我也参与了此次搜索活动,从我家附近大大小小的中介搜集房子资料,最后选定在300/W左右的房子,由于Oakleigh地段太HOT,好房太抢手,最后把家安在了Murrumbeana,虽然那地方没店只有房,不过安静的程度可谓养老天堂。

    购买家具是件辛苦的差事,低廉的价位,上乘的质量是他们looking for的标准,很多留学生都要回去拉,到处都是SALES的广告,不过好货太抢手,不快就走。幸好有个朋友有辆卡车,后来消息才知道原来是个帅哥砖瓦工,开着小卡带着我们一家一家的跑,买家具。在CITY一个女生家里我们买了许多东西,这女人暴有钱,澳门人,家里到处散漫着GUCCILV类似的SHOPPING BAGS,客厅里面都是打包好的纸箱,一问她才知道,这些全要托运到CANADA…………原来他们全家都移民过去了,没细数,大约总有个15个大箱子的样子。我们还准备买床,看到她有一张DOUBLE的床垫放着,本来要问她买,她竟然也说要运去CANADA,我倒,最后经盘问,此床买来要500AUD,问到运费时候她很轻松的跟我说:“还好,运费才250AUD 250是什么概念…………再加10块就是我一个月房租啊!~~~~~~有钱就是好,卫生纸都可以用印着FRANKLIN的绿纸头!~~~~ 从这个澳门女生这里我们也赚了不少便宜,她卖东西超级便宜,我卖了一副麻将,哈哈,在CHINATOWN要卖到100多,她竟然只收了我10块,爽…………

    之后我们去买冰箱,女生的确是喜欢压价,一个400LPHILIP冰箱,他们卖80块,要是我2话不说赶快搬会家了,质量看起来还不错,密封性过关,就是外表不够帅,女人们开始讨价,最后以失败告终,以80块的价格搬回了家。第2天在我家附近的2手店Orama Trade,看到一抹一样的冰箱卖到479,这他们才认识到——赚了,说实话,那家店也是黑了点。

    一共帮他们运了好几次东西了,今天是最后一天搬,由于他们还有沙发和桌子,自己搬不了,我GFHousemate叫了他爸爸在Melb的朋友的手下,找了搬运公司来帮我们搞定,(的确这个关系有点复杂,就不需要知道具体是谁帮忙了)…………以为要来个卡车,没想到来了一辆大的面包车,沙发重的基本可以把我压死,不过我们还是侥幸的把沙发要死要活的搬上车,为了其他箱子让出空间,我们只能往vertical方向发展,经过半小时努力,把所有家里的垃圾全部装上了车,感觉有点象刚吃饱的肥猪,有要爆裂的感觉!~~~(注,driver有点象MR BEAN

    找工作是我比较头疼的问题。前几天跟GF一起去找工作,逛了几条街,发了几十份RESUME,回到家,就有2家店给她打电话去面试或者试工,我这边手机就在睡大觉,实在让人郁闷。本来可以在CITYSUBWAY做,可是他们要找能干到12点以后的,那个时候火车都跑光了,我怎么回家睡觉就成了问题,感叹有车多好!~~~~~

    不过还好有一家SANDWHICH BAR叫我去试试,那种三明治的小把戏我想我还是可以应付的,SUBWAY不是白干的,明天一早就去,希望他们能要我吧,这样就可以努力赚钱,养家糊口拉!~跟远在QUEENSLAND的小王还有SYDNEY的小刘同志比,这个收入还是有些困难!~~~有消息说小王同学努力学习超级马力,干起了采蘑菇的苦力,5点起床,一干就10个小时,虽然是GOOD MONEY,但是长久来看,还是有点伤,祝愿小王同学早日QUIT,身体第一。小刘在SYDNEY也是不容易,MASSAGE的工作(正规),不知道是说爽呢,还是说累,给美女按摩本是一种享受,万一来一个“本”肥婆…………小刘,注意身体!~~~

    (注:砖瓦工更好赚,本来想跟那位帮我们的仁兄一点汽油费,没想到他跟我们说,他一个小时赚80块,不要收我们的钱,只是帮忙罢了,尴尬的…………)

    In conclusion, 做男人还是辛苦的,为了生存,背井离乡来倒这边做苦力,现在深深体会到,还是要为中华之崛起而读书啊!~~~~~~~~~~

    November 08

    身在考试,心已放假!~

    很久没有更新BLOG了,可以说是在一直奋斗FINAL EXAMS,或者说会在无聊的不知道做些什么。
    莫名其妙的一个学期过去了,时间过的真快,这个学期让人感觉没有那么多压力,也没有那么足的动力,不象上学习的艰难课程逼迫着我一直努力,现在则是应付的读就是了。
    说是还有一门考试,其实我早就已经在放假的边缘。Debt Mkt,又是FINANCE的课,特点就是重复那些不知道被重复了多少次的内容,换汤不换药。每天能看一些复习一下,也算是对的起他了。
    对FINANCE的课特别的奇怪,每次考试都是79,69,总是缺那么一点点,希望今年有点起色吧。
     
    顺便提一下,今天在火车站边上,看到有人捐餐具,顺便拉了一车回来,有古典式的玻璃杯,还有样式老土的碟子,刀叉也是一大把,也算是不小的收获,可惜有些玻璃杯子已经被压破了,嘿嘿家里已经到了放不下的地步了,不知是该欢喜还是忧!
     
    希望最后一门考的顺利,也希望早回去的朋友,在国内玩的开心,还希望在国内准备过冬天的朋友多多保暖!
    October 03

    How to Tell the Sex of a Fly

     

    How to Tell the Sex of a Fly

    JUST TOO CUTE.

    This is the cleanest e-mail joke I've come across in a long while. Go figure. 
     

    A woman walked into the kitchen to find her husband stalking around with a fly swatter.

    "What are you doing?" She asked.

    "Hunting Flies" He responded. 

      

    "Oh. Killing any?" She asked.

    "Yep, 3 males, 2 Females," he replied.


    Intrigued, she asked. "How can you tell?"

    He responded, "3 were on a beer can, 2 were on the phone."

     

    September 26

    Have a cup of water

    Have a cup of water

    "A group of working adults got together to visit their University lecturer. The lecturer was happy to see them. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. The Lecturer just smiled and went to the kitchen to get an assortment of cups - some porcelain, some in plastic, some in glass, some plain looking and some looked rather expensive and exquisite. The Lecturer offered his former students the cups to get drinks for themselves. When all the students had a cup in hand with water, the Lecturer spoke: "If you noticed, all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal that you only want the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all you wanted was water, not the cup, but we unconsciously went for the better cups." "Just like in life, if Life is Water, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups? They are just tools to hold/maintain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change." "If we only concentrate on the cup, we won't have time to enjoy/taste the water in it."

     

    Im working hard for my assignments,  start preparing for the final exams, and work part time for the tiny income. They are the pieces to build up my Cup, and then i can use my cup to enjoy my Water of my Life.