Melbourne is a great city, I realized yesterday. Requested to take an unofficial off on Friday, reason was because we will very obedient at work, complete task therefore we deserve an off day. That was what we told each of our immediate supervisors. They seems very open with our request, approved without much resistant.
Took a long 2 hour train ride to Melbourne from Bendigo, paying 30AUD plus for return tickets. Expensive.
The tall building is "Eureka Tower" tallest residential building in the region. 300m from ground
Melbourne is totally different from our "dead town" Bendigo. Even smelt differently. Like one big overcrowding city with well mix people from around the world. We travel by foot the whole day, trying to stay within radius of the CBD, hmm maybe 2km radius. We saw many ethnic races like Chinese, Hongkie, Malaysian, Japanese, Korean, African, Caucasian and of course Australian.
Shopping center were abundant in Melbourne, too much to we were lost on where we suppose to start. Much like Paragon shopping mall, very much on selling professional stuff or branded goods, so as usual I didn't buy anything cause I am on a budget. But all in all, I spent roughly 100AUD plus yesterday, all on food and drinks. They were really really pricey. Each meal had to spent like 20AUD.
Great Night Scenery
Took a long 2 hour train ride to Melbourne from Bendigo, paying 30AUD plus for return tickets. Expensive.
The tall building is "Eureka Tower" tallest residential building in the region. 300m from ground
Melbourne is totally different from our "dead town" Bendigo. Even smelt differently. Like one big overcrowding city with well mix people from around the world. We travel by foot the whole day, trying to stay within radius of the CBD, hmm maybe 2km radius. We saw many ethnic races like Chinese, Hongkie, Malaysian, Japanese, Korean, African, Caucasian and of course Australian.
Shopping center were abundant in Melbourne, too much to we were lost on where we suppose to start. Much like Paragon shopping mall, very much on selling professional stuff or branded goods, so as usual I didn't buy anything cause I am on a budget. But all in all, I spent roughly 100AUD plus yesterday, all on food and drinks. They were really really pricey. Each meal had to spent like 20AUD.
Great Night ScenerySome people though I went missing since I am not online and also not updating my blog. So tala, This is an update for the whole week :)
Working is boring here, at least at Sembcorp I can surf internet all days, go ebay buying and selling handphone, talk crap with the Engineers. Now Australian people have all their own inside joke, which I don't understand. And speaking to them is tedious for me, they had a hard time understanding my cheena english.
I quote the sentence they using almost 90% of the time when they see you:
Aust 1: Hi, good day mate (pronoun as mike). How your day?
Aust 2: Not too bad I guess
Aust 1: That's great
The problem is that like they were really concern with your day, and they will be asking you the same thing, therefore you wouldn't bother to tell him you have a bad day even you really having a bad day. 10 persons walking pass you and you see how much of a time is lost.
But beside the culture a bit different, my company's workers are all very helpful and friendly.. So is great working there, but I try not to talk too much, I have to speak really slowly and careful making sure I don't mix some Singlish into it. But sometime I felt that the way I structure my sentence is weird. I already started to read story books and newspaper, but still haven shown significant improvement. Hard to pick up language at my age.
Working is boring here, at least at Sembcorp I can surf internet all days, go ebay buying and selling handphone, talk crap with the Engineers. Now Australian people have all their own inside joke, which I don't understand. And speaking to them is tedious for me, they had a hard time understanding my cheena english.
I quote the sentence they using almost 90% of the time when they see you:
Aust 1: Hi, good day mate (pronoun as mike). How your day?
Aust 2: Not too bad I guess
Aust 1: That's great
The problem is that like they were really concern with your day, and they will be asking you the same thing, therefore you wouldn't bother to tell him you have a bad day even you really having a bad day. 10 persons walking pass you and you see how much of a time is lost.
But beside the culture a bit different, my company's workers are all very helpful and friendly.. So is great working there, but I try not to talk too much, I have to speak really slowly and careful making sure I don't mix some Singlish into it. But sometime I felt that the way I structure my sentence is weird. I already started to read story books and newspaper, but still haven shown significant improvement. Hard to pick up language at my age.
Is trying not to talk too much considered as avoiding?
ReplyDeleteSomeone once told me not to avoid, but to face it. Just like presentations.
very true. that's what i told myself too. face it and not avoid. I shall speak up more often :)
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