Baggage claim

Dear Sir / Madam,

Baggage claim Ref.  No. MELQF67040

I was the passenger who took the QF637 flight from Brisbane to Melbourne on 11Sep, 2010. When i checked in my baggage, your staff told me my Chinese musical instrument, SanXian was too long and domestic flight is different from international flight, it could not allowed to handcarry myself. They given it a fragile tag and promised would be take extra care and would be seperate it with other baggages and needed to get it back at another special counter. After I got off the flight and got back my baggage, I found it came out with other baggages in the conveyor belts. Unfortunately, I found it was broken and went to the counter to reported this case. They given me a letter and my reference no. is MELQF67040.
After I took my broken SanXian to your repairer, Sweeney's Luggage Center, they told me it is not repairable and given me a proof letter. They asked me to go for Allans Music and they told me since it's a Chinese musical instrument and they are not familiar with it. Even they may repair it, but the fee is possibly much expensive than the musical instrument's original value.
Therefore I would prefer replace a new SanXian.
I tried to get a quote from Hong Kong where i bought my SanXian which is about the same style with my original one. TSXL01 in HKD$3,200.
Enclosed the proof letter from Sweeney's Luggage Center and the quotation from Hong Kong Harmony Music Company.
Since I need this SanXian for busking during my stay at Melbourne, I wish I can get the new SanXian as soon as possible.
Please advise the procedure and I am looking for your reply. If there's any question or missing informations, please don't hesitate to contact with me.
Thank you for your kind attention.

Yours sincerely,
Minnie Wong

move on to Melbourne

this is a trip of faith......

finally i've got some time and mood to drop down a testimony on the days recently... really thanks brothers and sisters' prayer support.

tell something more about why i have to go from Brissy to Melb....
when i was in Brissy, everythings was smooth... the days are relaxing... work for a few hours a day... hang out with frds to eat, drink, coffee... stay at May's place, even can sometimes painting, dancing, running, sun tanning.... i almost forgot why i planned to have working holiday here. i actually planned to travel around, to experience God, to be a good testimony for Him...
before i arrived Aussie, i believe it's God's will on me to come over. Just like Abraham, God told him to leave Haran and go to Canaan.

"Leave your country, your people and your father's household

and go to the land I will show you." Genesis 12:1

take action when hear the calling.... u may take a look on my first post if u missed it....

while i was chatting with Karen, my Little Singapore colleague, she also had same will to go Melbourne. why not go there together?
also i know that Shu Shu was working at Breadtop there and always said she could introduce me to work there too. Work at bakery, sounds interesting...
It's kind of waste if i only work as waitress for the whole year....
Melbourne is an Artistic city, strong street busking.... as a graphic designer... and also a SanXian player...... i must visit this place as i planned to busking while Brissy always not allow me to do so........

okay, started planning.... don't know why, 9-11 appeared on my mind.... okay, i don't fear of the terror... go ahead!!!
contacted shu shu abt that, she said she gives my contact to her boss, and Brissy actually hire ppl too.... suddenly Karen changed her mind.... she said she wants to stay... but i'm somehow stubborn... once i made the decision... i won't change.....
kept on waiting for the call.......
before i resign... i wonder how would my supervisor Carol feel when i resign... since after Alice left, i worked for the open shop shift almost everyday... not much colleagues can works everyday since most of them are students...
i asked Chris, another colleauge who would leave soon... she told me actually Carol are leaving soon... she possibly won't care abt it.... huh?! so i told her the next day... yea, just as what Chris told me... even she was excited abt my life in Melbourne:)   just found that all my worries were so silly.... she told me i can get the reference letter from my boss too... what a good company... i never thought of this kind of job would do that....

one more thing, the tax return form were received just on time..... i could finished it right at the last day i work at LS and the next day got on the flight to Melb. and Wai Wai was so considerate that she given me all my salary on my last day... i told her i don't have time to wash my uniform b4 i return it, she said she would help me to wash........ so so so adorable ^3^

no matter what, Little Singapore (esp. City) is really a good place to work... love this family... the colleagues are so friendly and funny.... i almost forgot my real age :p

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started to find a place to stay at Melb...
i actually no such experience.... when i first arrive Brissy, Josephine arranged everything.... after that, i stayed at May's place.... what i have to worry abt?
mayb God gives me a lesson...
i seeked it at backpacker forum...
since didn't have time to inspection... i just contacted with SMS, emails, phone calls.... not much reply or told me someone rented already...
suddenly i got one reply... he sent me photos.... seems not bad and looked from the map... seems not too far away from Collingwood, the breadtop bakery that i planned to work for...
since i'm afraid someone would rent this place, i tranfered the $ to the landlord asap....
i actually worried will he cheated me? got my $ and disappeared... but i thought... i've got his mobile phone #, bank account, our SMS and email record... if he's really cheating me, i still can call police and traced back everything....
he finally cheated me in another way.....................

the photo he given me was actually another room... he didn't show the common area... the kitchen, bathroom................ it's soooooo sooooo horrible...
dirty with bad smell.....
i paid him one month rent and he asked me to pay him another one month rent as bond............ sorry, i don't have $ wor.......
so wise to not pay him any more....
after i told him i don't want to rent here anymore, he said... short term rental is not like that.... okay, what if i stay three weeks but he won't return my $ while i paid one month.... but afterwards he asked me to leave at the end of this month.... that means only 2 weeks more...
okay.... i don't want to stay longer anymore....
http://www.facebook.com/whyminnie?v=app_2392950137&ref=notif#!/video/video.php?v=473387969622   take a look on this video and u will know how bad it is.....

job hunting that few days... since the roomate of YHA given me her monthly ticket... i've got a few days to travel everywhere for free..... so i went to city everyday.... job hunting and find a new shareroom.... still no news from Breadtop.... only one job hired me.... that's Heng's recommended Crispy pork belly rice's place... Pacific BBQ cafe.... but $7 per hour..... Little Singapore given me $15.56 per hour..... so i really wanted to leave it......... anyway... they told me i can called them on Sun to get the roster of that week.... that means i should make the decision on Sunday.

seems no any response from other restaurants... i walked around city... and chinatown as well.... mainly given my CV to those Chinese Restaurants... Malaysian restaurants as well, since i believe my working experience and cantonese at LS may help.... yea, more chance to chat more while i given my CV... seems would get a job soon.... but no calls......
on-line applied some cafe job as well.... no reply.......

forgot to mention my Sanxian.... i was broken during the flight... so i couldn't busk also.... see people busking, but really no mood to give them $.....
i don't have $ too.....
started feel a bit faithless..... didn't want to buy any food, didn't want to spend my $...... also no mood to cook at the horrible kitchen....
i just bought some breads and instant noodles........
so worry abt my $, no $ to pay for the rent and bond for the new place..... if i con't out of job..........
is that i should go to be a stripper?!  i know how to dance like pussy cat dolls, christina aguilera and Britney.... but........... i don't want to disappoint my frds, my family and God...... how can i do such thing....... i can't betray my inner soul......

May comes to visit this weekend... i really want to give her a good news to make her not to worry abt me...
i suddenly received a SMS from Shu shu's frd, she told me to call Breadtop manager myself....
so i given him a call the next day... he asked me to come and have an interview.....

finally i had an interview today... i waited the train for quite a while, and lost at Collingwood.... finally i lated for an hour..... that's so bad to late that much for interview... but the manager is so nice... he asked me some questions and given me some forms to fill in... tried to work an hour, for me to know how the work will be and if i really like this job (instead of how my performance).... he knows i need to change train at City and can't start work at 5am... even may late at 6am... so he told me to check how earliest i could arrive... everything is so negotiable...
anyway, today is Sunday.... the day that i should make the decision to work at Pacific or not......... and May will go back to Brissy tmr, i given her the good news...

perfect timing!! everythings is under His providence :) my God is so different, right?!

urgent prayer request

Peace, Land and Bread....

Peace: pray that i still keep faith in God, no matter in what circumstances. also pls pray for my health, since it's so cold here, and it's raining while i was walking in the city, no umbrella.... fortunately (thanks God), i didn't get deeply wet, just the coat and hair... but my roomate got flu seriously, cough during whole day... it's really easy for me to get sick... what i can do is only drink the hot lemon that i brought from HK...

Land: the place i'm staying is really like a hell... bad smell when i go inside the room....everywhere is messy... the kitchen is so old and i even don't want to cook....everywhere is dirty.... i dont think doing house cleaning will help alot, that's just their custom... the internet is not stable, esp. night time.... they said someone downloaded movie... so it become slow.... i can only use it at non-peak time...
but i actually paid one month rent.... he asked me to give him one more month rent as bond, he didn't tell me abt this b4... and surely in this case, i won't give him anymore... i argued with my landlord today, he told me then stay 3 weeks and no return... so i actually loss 1 week rent... but i really wanna go.... 真係豪俾你算喇.... when i rent new place, i need to pay bond and rent again.... hope my little $$ is enough for me to live b4 i get the pay from new job.

Bread: i still not start working yet... job hunting today, got one job but really low pay, less than half pay of Little Singapore... really need to think thru... take it or leave it? the bread bakery job is not confirmed, but just got some news abt that again.... hopefully i can get this job.but i heard that it's pay monthly... so even i got this job, i may still need to wait a month to get the pay, then within these days, really eat bread?? really want to earn enough $ to travel around....

Last day at Brissy & First day at Melb

Last day at Brissy & First day at Melb
went to Westend for brunch... planned to back "Chan Chi Ming's place" but we missed the breakfast session... oh, my blood pudding='(
changed to brunch at another place and one more coffee at "Cup"...

say goodbye to them, say goodbye to Brissy.. i'll be back~~
had the meal at the plane while thinking of how's their dinner at Heng's place... i missed it...

picked up my baggage... how come i found my Sanxian with other baggage together while they told me i should get it back from a special counter...
while i picked it up, it's seems abnormal.... i opened it and checked, damn it!!!  the neck had been broken......
i went to the counter and asked for help... they told me i should call Qantas for that... either repair it or get a new one.... but as a Chinese musical instrument.... i don't think i can repair it here.... and this is not a really expensive one, repair it is actually wasting $$... what the best method is to buy a new one and given the receipt and claim for it... it takes time, u know.... I WANT TO GO BUSKING!!!!!!!!!

whatever.... i took the skybus and got to Melb city... a lady asked me if i'm a tourist and where i'm going to... she told me YHA is just a few blocks, yea, from the map it is... but she recommended me to take a tram and shown me which tram i should take....
but after i got on the tram, and asked other passenger if i should get off there... they told me i actually got a wrong tram.... huh?!
i got off the tram and tried to find the right one... failed to do so...
i wanted to get a taxi, but the taxi driver seems don't understand where i'm going to... i given up...
i asked ppl where's Flinder street, they pointed and told me at the end of the street.... okay... by walk then... but after Flinder street, i actually still needed to walk thru Spencer street.... i asked another two men, and they seems going there too... i was too brave to go there with them. but finally i got there....

there's another Chinese gal, Chi Hung from BJ as my roomate... but 4 shared room as a result only 2 ppl shared for the first day...
the bed is so comfy...

at the next day, i chatted with Chi Hung. she shared her breakfast with me... i asked where would she spent her Sunday... she told me her ex-colleague invited her to church, but she's actually not a christian... i begged her to bring me there XD
we took the train to Boxhill... Sunday saver ticket is juz 3.XX bucks for whole day, great!!
Boxhill is a chinese  ppl area, seems so many chinese food can be found.... her frd treated us, we enjoyed a shallot pancake and sour chilli soup.... the shallot pancakes were so nice!

they asked me to join the Mandarin with english translation service while is for youth and they attended the adult mandarin service....
for me, i prefer the English morning service since either Mandarin or English are not my mother tongue, i think english one's atmosphere would be better.... the Mandarin with english translation service is for teenage, i think i'm too old... but the mandarin service are mainly mid-age adult... juz no age between like me....
but let's see if there's another church near my place later.

Chi Hung prepared the dinner and shared with me... with Red Wine, cool! we chatted with the old man whose from UK but borned at Aussie. he's a retired civil servant... he had interest on how's the different for HK after the retured at 1997... franky say, i love UK governors... they fed me while i was growing up since my dad was cilvil servant too... i love Chris Patten=)
okay, stop say too much, ppl would know how old i am XD...
but good chatted with this old man....

i chatted with my another roomate too... she's from Swissland... a student but in working holiday... need to back to school soon but her bf would cont' his WH trip.... they would be in distance, she said she sad abt that...
i enjoy to chat with ppl in different nations... ha, so i should stay more at backpacker hostel?!