Has been "chasing" this new TVB drama lately...  Like the story alot...  Think it reflect a lot of everything in life...  From family..  to corporate... to friendship...  Hmm, think this drama has it all...

 

Why the news reports these two days is so gloomy???

Reports about soldiers getting killed in war zone...  Then bangkok strike...  Then Mumbai bombing...

@@SIGH@@  Is end of the world approaching??
 

This morning when I woke up, I really just think that today will be just another ordinary working day…

In the office, my colleagues bought me a b’day cake, present, sang me b’day song… At that moment I really felt like crying… ‘coz I never thought that anybody will be celebrating/ remembering my b’day for me this year... Hence, I was really touched… Felt like crying and I had to fight back my tears… Was really at a loss for words and all that I can say was just “THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!!”

Also went dinner with a friend at this japanese restaurant in Neutral Bay which was VERY VERY YUMMY!!!

Also received SMS/ emails and messages via facebook from my parents, friends, cousins and aunty…

THANKS EVERYBODY for making my b’day this year so special… SO 温馨!!!

Pork Belly (Peiking Duck Style)
Red Bean Dumpling Ice-Cream

To all my friends who have been email/ sms me these few days and asking me how I am coping down under during such times...

我要对你说谢谢！！！


 

Left home in a hurry this afternoon...  Halfway to the destination then I realised... ... ...

Oops!!!  I did not bring my house keys with me...

At that point of time, the only feeling I had was 晴...天...霹...雳!!!  Just like to echo my feeling...  Suddenly the sky became very dark and lighting was flashing across the sky... 

At that point of time, there were many thoughts running across my mind...

"Oh dear...  Wat can I do...  Wat can I do???"

"How to get a locksmith??  Wat number must I dial to get a locksmith??  No Internet access, how to find locksmith number??"

"Oh dear...  'll the locksmith comes today???"

"I can go back to office and get my spare key...  OooOoooOOOO but my pass and drawer key is at home...  'll the security guard let me in???"

Ran down to the train station as fast as I can...  Never ran for so long long time... 

Still panting, I was digging my back pack for my wallet to get coins to buy a train ticket...  Suddenly saw something silverish SHINNING in my back pack... When I took it out...  Found that its was another set of keys to my apt that the agent had previously given me but I just chuck it in the bag 'coz Iast time I could not use it to open the door downstairs...

Hmm...  a thought suddenly flash across my mind...  Maybe I should try again..  Use tat key to open the door... 

Hence, ran all the way back home...  With my shivering hands...  I insert the key into the main door...  Turn it a few times...  **CLICK**  It opened (* *)v

Ran up the 4 flights of stairs...  Standing outside my apt door...  My hands shivering even more...  Insert the other key into the apartment door....  Turn it a few times...  The door still didnt open... 

(* ~)>>>> 天啊!!!  Do I really have to go back to office and get the spare key???

Feeling really dishearten...  I pulled the handle on the apt door with all my might and turn the key back so that I can take the key out...

Just at this moment...  奇迹出现了！！！

My apt door opened...

Hahahahaa!!!!  I was so happy to be back inside my apartment gain... 

Suddnely....  after the whole saga...  I feel so TIRED!!!  But happy and contented tat @ least I am back inside my apartment!!!

It was also at this time that the sky start to..

Pitter Patter Pit Pat...  Listen to the rain...  Falling in my garden...

 

Today is global community day and I've volunteered myself to participate in one of the community projects that the company has taken up...  Organizing a fund raising school carnival for one of the public school in sydney...

There were all sort of stores...  PIRATE SHIP, SILENT AUCTION, HAIRSPRAY, TATTOOS, FACE PAINTING, LUCKY DIP, SHOWBAGS, PET ROCKS, CAKE STORE, TREASURE SHOP etc...

The store that I was helping out was SHOWBAGS (i.e. selling showbags to children/ teenagers who are at the carnival)...  Initially I was kind of shy 'coz I have never done such thing before...  But after getting some "warm up", I let go and start urging people who pass by the store to buy some showbags...  Results were quite good I think...  Rate myself at 90% given that this is the 1st time I've been doing SALES since I was 7 or 8 years old  (helping my dad selling sandwiches @ a NDP pasamalam in East Coast PARK)...  Manage to sell around 30-40 show bags I think (lost count) during the course of one and half hour of duty...

Feel so awesome to be able to go out there...  Talking to the little angels that visit the store and helping them choose the showbag can be quite challenging but it was fun to see them flipping the catelogues...  thinking hard what showbags they want to buy... Seeing them getting serious and trying hard to make a decision is also fun...

It's a pity the weather was not very good and we had to pack up early....

 I am sure on a lookout to find more such events to attend again...  Feels so good to be able to help other people and mix around with little angels

Don't understand what's wrong with fellow human beings nowadays... 

Case#1
I was at the bank to pay my card bill.  Gave the teller $20 cash...  She entered it as $200 into my card account...  Didnt realised that until tat afternoon in the office when I was checking my card balance via Internet.

Wow!!!  Bonus of $180 spending money...  As the saying goes "Dont take things that is not yours"...  I called up the branch to tell them the teller credited my card account with extra credit...  They put me to the teller who insisted that she had credited it with the correct amount.  I was like...  Alamak!!!  Why I bother???  Should wait and let her learnt the hard way

Case#2
During lunch time a few days ago, my collegue wanted to get some party items for her niece and we were in Wollies.  As we were standing and browsing the items in the narrow and crowded ailse, someone pushed me so hard that I knocked into a lady beside me (she was carrying a cake)...  I apologised sayin "Sorry!!!"...  She told me "NO WAY!!!" and gave me tat rude look...  I was like!@@$$%%^

In return, I told her...  "Well too bad!!!  You have to learn to live with it...  If not, don't carry a cake into a crowded my place"...

Case#3
A client submitted an instruction which was not clear.  Trying to help so I called him to clarify...  Guess whyat I got in return??  The client was shouting and screaming at me via the telephone...
Tried to remain calm and try explain things to him but he just got so nasty...  I had to hold the headset far away and could still hear him screaming...  My collegue who was a few seats away from me could hear the client screaming and shouting... 

@@SIGH@@

Cant believe how fast time flies...  

Today marked my 1st anniversary in Sydney...  and it  also marked my one and half years away from my cosy home, away from my parents, away from my aunties, uncles, cousins and cute nephew. I miss them soooooooOOOOOOO MUCHI =(

Was chatting with my friend and they asked me... "Did you regret dropping everything you've and come down under?"

Hmm, **THINK!!!  THINK!!!  THINK!!!"

No I never regret that... 'coz whatever that had happened in this one and half year (particular this last one year) is really a challenge for myself...  Cant say tat I am coping it very well but it is the process of coping with everything around me that is invaluable.


 

A few days ago, I was walking along the streets and there was this person distributing leaflets (for some lunch promotion at some hotel on liverpool street) along George Street...    Saw two people (one of them carrying a huge backpak) taking the leaflet and they start chatting...  "Accidentally" overheard their conversation and found it very interesting...

Person A (Carrying backpak) said "Hmm, Australia is so funny...  They name places as "XYZ hotel" but when I walk in and told them I want to check in...  They stared at me..."

Person B gave a "SHOCKED" look at Person A...  "Oh really?  Why did they stare at you...???"

Person A replied " No idea!!!  Trying to be funny I guess..."

At tis time, the person distributing the leaflet interrupted and said...  "Oh you all must be from overseas visitors...  Hotels in Australia have 2 meanings...  One is literally as you know, a place for you to stayover while travelling...  Another means a pub/ drinking place...  You must have walked into a hotel which is actually a pub...  Tat's why they do not have any rooms to offer you..."

I found it funny and was thinking if the person distributing the leaflet was actually pulling their legs...  I wanted to ask my friends here if it's true but actually forgot...  Then today I remembered and asked my collegue...  She clarified tht what that person said is true...  Hotel can also means a pub/ drinking place in Australia...

Hmm, learnt something new today... 
 

Last night...  I finally got the opportunity to go into Sydney Opera House and watch my first theatre drama - The Narcissist...  N it was FOC (retail price was AUD$77 if I did not remember wrongly)...  Hehehee!!! Thank you huh...  Whoever that had donated the tixs to our department... As it was the first time I am watching a show in Sydney Opera House, naturally I am very excited about it…

Arranged with three of my other colleagues to have dinner @ Jackson’s on George Street… I had Parmigiana Chicken (not sure if I spelled it rite.. Basically it’s fried chicken chop with some pasta sauce and cheese) which was pretty good… But I didn’t really get to enjoy it as we were pressed for time… So, I had to gobble down my chicken chop…

After we finished dinner, it was like only 10 minutes to the start of the show and we had to walked quickly (Err, to me it was more like a marathon run) to the opera house… Was really glad when we reached our destination and I get to sit down inside the theatre...

The show was really good and I was very glad I went for it because the cast was good and I can relate myself to some part of the show… Most importantly was it was hilarious and it makes me sort of relax…

After the show, I also get an opportunity to admire the night view of Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House… Find it really breath-taking...

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Monday is a Public Holiday in Sydney (Labour Day) so I am looking forward to the long weekend… Hope to get some studies done… N perhaps travel around the diff suburbs and see if I can discover something new…