My Apartment

while i saw the sink start dirty again, and since i had day off on Fri, i planned to do some house cleaning after preparing the meal....
when i go shopping at BigW, beside bought some cookig equiments, i also bought some sponges....
then b4 i prepare the meal, i put one sponge at kithen and one for washing room....
my new flatmate taken a shower in between that time (i spent around 3 hours non-stop=p)

from 5:XXpm to 8:XXpm... just for the Hainanese Chicken....
after the meal, when i taken the shower, i found that...... eee... someone cleaned the sink using my new sponge............

yesterday, i thought of cleaning the floor.... eee..... the floor seems cleaner... the old dirt gone......
then i found that a towel is on the floor outside the shower....... and the dirt at the corner of the toilet gone also.....
those stuff beside the sink seems rearraged......
i believe that was done by the new flatmate?
Thanks God, someone would do the housework.... i don't have to work that much.... my hand is still not recover yet, can't work too much...

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but i still want to share a weird thing.......
last week, there's a couple... at the beginning, just the guy looking for a place to stay..... the gal has a place already.....
but guys room are full... only the double room are availble.... but the rent and bond is expensive...
my landlord sent me a SMS asked me if i mind to share my room with a guy.......... OMG! share a room with a male stranger........... i really don't want......... esp. i know he got a girlfrd =p
i refused. then they finally didn't move in...
after two days, i saw they used the kitchen after i came back.... i thought... they finally make up their mind and move in to the expensive double room?!
one day when i came back home, i met the gal while going back home.... she asked me if she can left her luggage at my room since she will come back on Mon.... i thought she's going to have a short trip so don't want to bring so much luggage?
the next day after work, her luggage is already on my closet with a memo.......

another gal who moved out, but came back to stay at that double room too...

my flatmate told me actually three of them didn't pay for the rent........
for those couple, only the gal had been pay 1 day rent and stayed one day b4......... but pretended familiar with my flatmate and stay here secretly....

7 of us, 3 didn't pay for the rent........ what's a hell..........

i temp. occupying the room alone.... enjoying it... since i have to move to living room at the week 21/10-28/10.....

reply

just found that i've got the reply abt my baggage claim two days b4....

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Dear Ms Wong
 
 
File reference: MELQF67040
 
Thank you for taking the time to contact us.
 
We  have  assessed  your claim and are able to offer you AUD430 as full and
final  settlement  for  the  damage to your Instrument. Please complete and
sign  the enclosed Release Form and return it at your earliest convenience.
Once this is received we will arrange your payment.
 
 
(See attached file: img-X141232-0001.pdf)
 
In the meantime, we once again apologise for the damage to your Instrument,
and thank you for contacting us.
 
 
Yours Sincerely
 
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Baggage Claims Officer

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then they won't send me a new one......... how can i busking=(

In His time

arrived Melbourne for one month, after cheated by the landlord, lived at a messy haunted house... moved to new place, the new place from dirty to clean.......
working so hard... got problem on my hand..... run of $ and still need to wait the pay day...... meeting a good boss........ lots of things want to share...
i'm trying my best to arrange...
after i moved on to melb, moved for twice... almost spent all my saving....... franky say, i saw my bank account only got AUD$3 left yesterday........ including the AUD$20 note... totally AUD$23......... so u know how critical my situation was...... backpacker, run of $..... long time didn't run out $ like that at HK....
since my hand got problem... possibly due to work....... i feel numb, then after that became pain..... esp. during sleep... and sometimes i felt i hardly hold a pen or chopsticks... everyone asked me to consult doctor... but really no $.......
some people know my situation and asked if i need fincial help.... but...... i really don't feel comfortable to borrow $ from others........ i rejected....
i thought of pay by card... but... my saving in HK are for my to pay for the insurance and some installment on my DSRL and California Fitness membership... i don't want to spend too much (finally i know that it's actually just AUD$70, not an astronomical amount=p) and the currency is now AUD$1=HKD$7.6... it's not good for me to use too much my HK credit card...
my colleagues told me normally we need to wait till wed, if new staff, may need to wait till thurs.... today is tue, but i got the pay today.
this morning, i missed the train, so i have time to wait the next train and i juz went to the ATM and checked my acc...... i was so surprise since i really got the pay...... while i was waiting the train, i wept..... coz i thought God's grace is sooooooooo great..... God's timing is perfect!
and since i got the next train, i met a colleague, when we changed the uniform, she saw my cross pendant and asked me if i'm a christian... she is christian as well.... so i shared a bit why i was so glad to get the pay today...­

flash back to yesterday.... while i was lunch at canteen...  Tony, our manager sat beside me... he saw me prayed during lunch... he said, "u r christian too?!" than we chatted a bit abt that and he said there's a few christians at our factory, and asked me if i found them out already....
ha, today i found one of them....

also since some of the colleagues, includes working holiday ppl or PR chatted with me abt the visa.... get a 2nd working holiday visa or working visa or back to HK....... Helen, my senior told me if i working hard, everything can be negotiate...... can be change to working visa....

while i was having meal at canteen, i found a box of cookies of our brand.... coconut macorons...  but the design........ i can do it better...
while during the lunch with Tony sat beside me, i asked if the in-house designer quit the job, let's consider me! he told me actually don't have to wait that designer left.... i can try.... i'm not sure if this is a way for me to get a working visa and stay here. started from long time ago, i like living at western ppl countries... if i can stay at Aussie..... it will be great....
but actually designer is not the field that count as special skills occupations... but baker is.... so.........

don't think too much, let it be....

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comparing while i first arrive Brissy and Melb.... both time i planned to busking.... i always think if i'm out of job, then busking.... but i'm wrong...
Brissy need to audition for getting the permit... which need to wait two months.... in Melb... mayb it's easiler to get the permit... but my SanXian was broken.... and still claiming.... God tells me, i have to experience him, don't think everything are that easy, something i can't control myself....
both faced even someone introduce job to me, but need to wait to confirm... still had a time that made me feel despair..... that's what God's planning on me... since He wants me to experience Him... if everything is that smooth, will i remember Him?
again, this trip is a trip of faith...

life in Breadtop

i think it's time for me to write something abt my work at Breadtop. I work in the factory instead of shop...  http://www.breadtop.com.au/
it's already the third week i'm working there, i start to get used to long working hours and wake up early. but seems my body is not really cope with it... my right hand always got paralysis.... chatted with Mum on phone, she said sometimes ppl repeat doing same thing would make this happened... what i can do it do more massage myself...
okay, back to my work. my company is an Australian-based bakery franchise selling a wide range of bread, cakes, buns and pastries.  Currently the franchise has 25 stores throughout Sydney and Melbourne, with four stores in Brisbane with a new store opened in Adelaide at the end of March 2010.  from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadtop
my department basically doing chinese traditional bread like butterfly cookies, pineapple cakes, almond cookies, wife cakes, red bean cakes, sesame balls, lotus seed cakes, Phoenix Cookie, coconut cookies...... etc.

we normally have four people in our department. our master, senior Helen, senior Hin and me... the first few days, there's master Kit also... but at that time, Senior Hin was in sick leave... he got serious injury on his finger b4... had one month sick leave... these two senior was actually younger than me... but they are PR already. Master and Hin are from HK while Helen is from Guang Zhou... her cantonese is not very good but she doesn't prefer me to speak Mandarin... she thinks her cantonese is better than my mandarin wor........ but....... i don't know why i've got no any communication problem w/ Taiwanese, they even think my Mandarin is not bad..... mayb  my Mandarin is Taiwan style??
for my work.... if doing Wife Cake or red bean cakes, my role is to apply egg wash, stamp them, add sesame on top, or some decoration....
for those cookies, u know actually they would prepare a long piece of cookies and i use machine to cut it into piece, distribute on the tray and ready to bake. i actually tried to help to make the long piece of butterfly cookies... and know that how to fold is so important, since the b4 and after bake are so different, it would be very ugly if fold it badly.
the most complicated thing is Phoenix Cookies i think.... we do a lot of preparations... and i still not see the whole process yet... will know it tmr?
today, i prepared the shallot........ it made me cry........ a few days b4, i needed to peel them which took a long time... and today i blended it ... i'm afraid someone would think i really cry....... lol.
for the pineapple cake, it actually semi-automatic... the machine would make balls with skin and filling inside, like a UFO shape, then we need to put them into the mould and press them...
since it's mass production, we need to do it very fast.... cookies, sesame ball as well.... we need to be very fast and don't let the machines faster than us...
and there would be some clean up work everyday as well, everytime we used the machines, we need to clean it... and i learn how to assemble them too.... sometimes i use an air blow gun to clean the dirt, it feels like a dentist... cleaning the teeth=p
since Senior Hin got injury b4.... it makes me take care myself all the time... esp. using the machine.... i will be careful, don't worry=)