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    October 31

    Funny notice

    Tomorrow we going to welcome the second VIP tour. I don't think it will be big event and take it seriously, but reading the notice email, I bursted out laughing and looked around what my colleagues wear and how disposable of their tables. We don't seem the staff working in a big company but more like insubordinate kids who are required to instructed how to comply with discipline.:-)))))
     
    "All staff , please ensure that your particular areas are kept neat and tidy. Personal grooming, clothing eg thongs  , excess noise eg radio or foul language etc , please be conscious of the fact that we have customers in our facilities.. Department managers , please assist in the communication of this message to your team members."


    October 30

    Self protection

    Self-protection is born with naturally just like all other creatures in the world, so I kind of understand the way that a person takes some actions but a little bit hurts someone else originally aiming for protecting himself or herself once something might damage his or her personal benefit. If confronting issue, I have thought human beings with spirits should be different to other animals and much more calculating in treating others whoever is close friends or long-distant fellows to ward off breaking own advantages. For instance, during working, nobody would not like to grip a hot potato but throw it away as early as possible to avoid any unnecessary trouble on his or her head. I am learning from heaps of lessons. I didn't have a sense to ponder the problem or think over the meaning behind of what someone spoke to me. Sometimes I was able to see through the trick made by someone, but most of time I was a booby to some unfriendly traps made by people who were up to no good and jumped into in straight away without hesitation. Normally it was too late as I acknowledged where I was and how stupid I was. The only thing I could do was to have to accept the result whatever it was. All right, have more hearts from now on.

    October 27

    Car accident

    车祸,人没事。Bye-bye car!出行不方便!
     
    Broken car
    October 25

    Today clip

    This morning, on the train I peeked at the man sit next to me who was replaying email. He is mid-life guy with manager-like looks. The email system he was using is IBM Lotus Notes as well as my current company and previous company applies. From the email he was on, I guessed he is a manager because it is started by ‘Hi teams’. There are some questions in my mind right sway---How old is he? What is his company and position? How come is he so busy that reverts to email on the way to work?....I pretended to watch mag--Women’s Day actually my eyes kept sweeping over what he was hitting. Luckily, he didn’t notice there was a peeper beside him.;-)))

    This afternoon, I was fed up with the time have nothing to do then gawking at the monitor screen and extremely didn't like to be caged in the suffocating building. Sitting there, I recalled that Laura and I went to shopping at the working time in Beijing and we bought a white and black formal shirt with good style at a boutique around TA YUAN. How enjoyable the time we had and how conveniently we caught a bus or taxi to go somewhere in Beijing. Now DFO (Direct Factory Outlet) where is place for a bunch of famous Australian brands selling their stocks with big discount is so close to our company, only 15 minutes by walking, but it is unlikely to escape from the office for some personal purpose—shopping or something else, otherwise I would lose the job once discovered. I need this job to live on. OK, don’t disobey the company’s discipline. Abruptly I had an idea whether I could be able to produce a series OFFICEBREAK at heart.

    Simulating review

    I just catch the time of quarterly review only have been working a month after commencement of the job. I was a little bit surprised reading the email sent by manager regarding review arrangement and doubted whether she wrongly sent through to me, a person who is still in probation. Only a month, it is impossible to have a review for a new employee. At all events, just had a look at how it was going on. My manager, supervisor and I sat in the meeting room on time. In terms of the performance review policy and process, firstly I was told what the quarterly review means to every single employee, then the manager explained the item detail of performance index, including quality of work, personal quantitative criteria...blah blah...I really wanted to tell her how much I am familiar with that because my second last project as a HR staff was a team member of designing sales performance appraisal which resembles to current company’s, so I am quite clear how performance review runs. But I got to patiently listened to what my manager said to express my respects, afterwards, she gave me mark one by one based on criteria. Everything went well however lastly she said she is not sure whether my result will be put into effect on performance review since I am still in probation, she only took the chance of telling how it is processed. Gosh! All we had discussed might be nonsense, what a false joy. Waste of my time!

    October 23

    Superstition

    My gal pal is planning to see HUANG DA XIAN for her affection. Should I go with her for my future…? I am a superstitious person who always believes any predictable clue indicates something bad ahead. There are other inauspicious signs I really deem, such as crow calling, lucky color, right eyelid skip...Once I happen to hear crow shouting, I could be anxious something unlucky is around the corner. If I am doing a job, just in time my right eyelid suddenly successively twitches, then my attention would be diverted to worry whether I can complete the job smoothly or achieve the target designed. Normally how can I work out? For instance, I might mumble to pray god bless with me, or press the eyelid to prevent from tic. Some other way I created would help me out of evil omen. For example, I had two poached eggs the morning I was going to have exam as I was in primary school. I bought red bag not only for following up current popularity but avoiding any jinx might come aftertime. Buying a luck ring at Nan Tian Temple is also the hope to bring me fortune.....Anyway, as a communist, I even believe prognosticator looking at the crystal ball and telling what will happen in the future. Atheist or theist?

    October 22

    Lately dwell on the past life in China

    Recently, it is so boring that my usual weekend pastime is mainly focused on watching Chinese DVD, which makes me dwell on the past life in China although it was bloody busy. At that stage, I got used to working overtime and didn’t have time to think of how to kill the time, so I did look forward to the relaxing life without worrying about work at leisure time. Now I don't need to consider my job after work, but my anxiety is how I can deal with the rest of time. You would advise me to sleep, read, do exercise, go to park, or cultivate a hobby …..I have been trying and there are heaps of plans I can do on my hands, somehow I don’t have any interest in them currently, suddenly the life at my heart is not bright, and I don’t know where I am going….. Actually the radical reason why I feel so tiresome is that I miss home which always periodically occurs. Fondly remember previous life….especially dining with family at a big table…

    F@#k

    In any case, I must stint myself on some words out of my tongue. Why? This morning, Diana, my supervisor got surprised after heard me speak 'f@#k off' as I really freaked out after talking with warehouse (WHS) supervisor regarding products transferring request for stock-out. One side, planner strongly forced me to answer when she could get the products, on the other side, WHS man chopped logic saying he had shortage of truck driver. I couldn't keep a curb on my temper then. So angry word was out of my mouth unconsciously and was caught by Diana. What a shame! She dragged me to meeting room and asked me what happened because she reckoned I was frustrated to extreme as long as I spoke out the obscene word. Frankly speaking, I didn't regard it as a serious thing especially I already forgot those disgusting issues after I released anger by my way. But Diana took it severely. My lord, big sister, please don't be too emphasized on what I said, you should make more acquaintance of my personality. I am the person who easily get grumpy by something might drive me mad meanwhile lightly calm down on the spot. The longer you stay with me, the more you know me. :-) Whatever, Diana, thank for your concern. I know you hope I could work happily in the office not be bothered by those bloody problems. Behave myself.

    October 21

    <新结婚时代>

    7月回国的时候,正热播《新结婚时代》,老妈很喜欢,说很贴近现实生活,我也赞同。这两天管朋友借来盘又看了一遍,再一次感受婚姻不是两个人事情,而是两个家族的事情。两个人来自不同背景的家庭,可能意味着观念的不同,对事物认识的不同,待人处事的不同,生活习惯的不同....种种的差异,反映在两个人的身上,于是就有了为了鸡毛蒜皮小事的争吵,为了各自家族利益的争吵,处理好了,可能两人越吵越好,越磨合越恩爱;处理不好,就是彼此的伤害,直至最后的分手。在这个电视剧中,看到了很多家庭的影子,值得一看,无论你是新婚的,结婚几年的,都有你值得思考的点滴。
     
    Anyway,居中的演员都是我喜欢的,郭晓东、刘若英、梅婷...新结婚时代
    October 19

    Farewell lunch

    Arron invited me to join Lindsay's farewell lunch at Rhodes Yum Cha, I had a little hesitation as I thought about how I can dispose of my lunch brought. Just a flash of worry about my lunch box, then I made a decision to accept invitation. Two intriguing things are appealing me, one is Yum Cha, and another motivation is I am looking for a chance to talk with Lindsay who is going to work at Lenovo. My goodness, it is said he is the third PM (product manager) moving to Lenovo in our company. What a severe competition in staff digging between competitors. There is no doubt we had a beautiful lunch together, plus manager thankful and wishing speaking, Lindsay good-buy saying, I guess most of others were very happy for this free lunch.:-) I am not mean, just tell the truth. It took us 1.5 hours to finish lunch and every single one was yelling out,' I am full of.' Looking at clock which clicked 1:30, Why wasn't it 4:30? I would use the rest of 1 hour to brew up a cup of DONG SUH tea and check up incoming email then get ready for going home. But now I will have 4 hours to go. Reality is cruel, isn’t it?

    Anyway,
    I need to say, ‘Lindsay, wish all the best in your future endeavor.’ We left over personal email each other for keeping in touch in future.

    October 17

    $$$loss

    I lost several hundred $ due to my fault in filling tax form as started new job, wrongly ticking off the item that requires me to pay tax range between 0-$6,000, normally which is privilege for general taxpayer. I was advised it is impossible to make up for it or get refund in next-year tax return. I don't reply on this peanut number of dollars to do something really works, but it is very unworthy to loose, huh? Geez! What a lesson.

    Hate squeak

    Why does someone like bawling at others even though it is very urgent? Strangely, it always happens on females. Oops! Their high pitched voice on the phones or to the guys in front got me uncomfortable. I reckon it is absolutely noise in public place. No matter what occurs, no matter how much strain you have, forwarding your stress out to others is not the best way to release. Do you feel strain off shoulder after screaming or shouting? On the other hand, it brings negative affect on others who should not be got involved in your event just sitting around you.

    To be honest, I used to work this kind of noise environment, mainly from sales or managers who were supposed to directly take on the company business target. Now the similar situation gets back, the stress is from sales, would be conveyed to PMs (project managers), then planners, finally on my head. How can I do? Transfer to original start point or manager? No way! I will be sacked:-)) Calmly face problems and try to sort out by my intelligence, do what I can be able to do, and then inform line manager those out of my control. Afterwards, there are still some issues left. So what? None of my business.


    October 16

    Physical working environment

    Peter, my colleague who just moved to my left table last week strongly recommends me to listen to radio station Triple J instead of Triple M. In his opinion, Triple J usually plays new songs and doesn't run music repeatedly, then I turned to Triple J on the spot, actually I would rather lock on Triple M since that songs on Triple J are much hotter and satisfy teenagers’ taste, but I don't mind trying new radio station I seldom dip in. My life principle is----never try, never know.

    How admirable I have to Peter’ music equipment, including radio, speakers and function player. My plan to build up music set is under the way after I took out of two speakers from the lowest level drawer and something else like a tone controller I don't know how to get them connected with speakers to assemble a modern music set I expect in the limited space at my table. Ha ha! We don’t seem to work in the office but the music station, right? For me, I hope I can work at ease basically physical working environment is comfy. I don’t think listening to radio is work deprivation.

     

    See my table, hand cream, cookie jar, tea box, little mirror....a typical list of girly stuff. I don't like getting my table very tidy and empty. Anyway, it is shortage of my photo frame as I haven't had currently for the sake of long time using digital camera. What else do I need?......  

    I love Olympic Park

    Walking around Olympic park after lunch is being routine in my working daily life. I more and more realise Olympic park is the best working place than somewhere else, such as city or North Sydney where is surrounded by high buildings and very hard to find a piece of peaceful area for real post-lunch stroll. Squeaky clean sky, wide marble road, broad sight view, magnificent Telstra Stadium, especially occasionally seeing sport lovers running over you which makes your whole-body cells alive, excited and triggers your enthusiasm on exercise. I do like the way of doing exercise every single day even if I can't reach it but I attempt to squeeze time as much as I can by any sort of workout. Meanwhile, I relish soaking up with sun. Olympic Park just provides me a good place to enjoy sunbath. Since my skin has been light dark, it is not worthy to spend too much concern on how much tanned it would go. Furthermore, tanning colour is supposed to be sexy and increasing teenage girls are going for it. I should be proud of that I was born with it. So jogging is helpful for achieving beautiful skin and good for body figure as well. It is that kills two birds with one stone, huh? Unfortunately, this midday, I almost gived up this habit due to massive sunshine and felt a bit burnt ache on the face, neck and leg where were completely exposed in the sun. Should I be aware of potential skin damage even sunshine-cause cancer?


    BTW, I really want to shoot some pictures for Olympic Park, but my thought is taunted by Phil who says I am like a Japanese who loves taking picture everywhere or more like a peasant who never leaves country just enter in the city.

    October 14

    Renew myslef

    During the time of having hot pot with a group of friends last night, we did tuck in a full table of stuff and got everyone hot to snivel but that couldn't hold back our crazy on spicy foods. A half box tissue was used up and we teased at each other for running nose. I really understood why so many people love hot pot. Finally we were all full of to not move then I advised to go to pub at the corner of street to have a chat.
     
    My goodness! It became a finance seminar, seeing two guys who are working at ANZ bank disputing about Morgan Stanely Bank. One was the one who strongly stood by pros and insisted in Morgan Stanley Bank issued legally stock info to get stock market grown up. Another one absolutely disagreed with her and complained that was definitely fraud. I couldn't understand what they were arguing at all just stared at their mouths open and close. I had to say different trades are separated by mountains. Several ten-mins went by, we eventually jumped to the Christianism and talked about Bible and Jesus as creator. How come? What the hell were we stuck in profound topic? Bluntly speaking, I admited that I was so indigent and ignorant in some fields, which inspired my interest in untouched domain. Knowledge is power, power is prevention. :-))
    October 12

    好象这几个周末一直在忙吃,从BBQ、Chinatown万龙,到明天吃火锅。因为请客,又是老外朋友,还被点名吃火锅,要找个过得去的地方。本想去city水井坊,和一极了解中国饭馆的朋友打听,被推荐Burwood川府不错。但需要预定,网上找不到电话,于是今天多方打听才搞到号码,回到家迅速抢位,搞定!我靠,真忙!
     
    好象自己这一两年来,在澳洲最大的收获就是吃!西式:意大利的,西班牙的,德国的,希腊的,美国的...(正寻找法式的好馆子),亚洲:日式,韩式,泰式...中国菜,吃遍Chinatown,Hurstville,Ashfield,Campsie,Burwood,对于不吃辣的我,现在也不得以向火锅冲刺!吃也是娱乐。
     
    Anyway,希望明天不让我,我们失望。

    Birthday Cake

    Why did Vince have sneaky smile at Echo? His quirky behavior got me to guess what would happen this afternoon......Ha ha! Overhearing that Diana was preparing for Echo's birthday cake, I naturally started dribbling and distracted from working. Anyway, it was fit time for afternoon tea. Waiting,waiting,...where was cake and candles?.. Just hung up the phone, hearing Diana calling in all team members to get together and sing birthday song for Echo. To be honest, my concern was only on the cake and supposed what kind of taste and ingredients. Sorry, Echo, I admit that I am a greedy girl in eating and very fancy various taste cake. Gosh! It was a little bit sweety but I can accept as long as I never try it.Tee hee hee.Heck! a year to go for my birthday cake.
    October 11

    English is my second language forever

    This morning came across Jason, the new temporary account payable in our company at the bus station, who is a Hong-Kong boy and grew up in Australia. He could speak a little Mandarin but he is trying to improve it as much as he can. However, I admire him that he can speak perfect English, Cantonese, plus some of Mandarin. Then we had a short talk about the English education in mainland and Hong Kong. At primary school in Hong Kong, English class and speaking are widely used and schools create good English environment, while students in mainland just officially have English course starting from junior high school. There is no doubt that burn-in-mainland persons are far lower level English than the persons from Hong Kong at the same age. But Jason is curious why Chinese students have better writing in English than Hong Kong's students. I don't think so. Maybe that's his misconception. At least, I am the one who is scared of comparing with Hong Kongs individual in English writing. Among the four sectors in English listening, speaking, reading and writing, my most weakness is speaking and I always stumble facing unfamiliar topic and get stuck in conversation for the sake of trying to look for a right word to express. I dont expect to speak English fluently and authentically like an Australian just aiming for conveying my thinking and idea clearly. Of course, on the other three factors, I will everlastingly fall behind those English-native speakers.    

    I reckon I already missed out the best phase of my life to grasp a second language. My brain tracks have been crushed by Chinese and it is impossible to imprint new language to cover old slots. Why kids can learn new language easily? It is said that their language area of brain is like a piece of white paper and will be drawn a picture depending on what their enlightening teachers instruct. Mum, dad, uncle, aunty, and others around them might influence them in language ability as they are growing up. Besides, their gene and inborn ability would also be considerable. Whatever, I wish I could have a good master of English at the day I get rebirth in the heaven. Now I say the least of it I can speak two languages but most Australian cant.  :-)))))

    超级猪头碰上蜗牛

    什么是超级猪头?就是我!Blog permission set,把我自己也设进去了,打开自己的space,还要输一大堆,还遭到RanAnnie的大力抨击,说谁看你的Blog。想改也回不去了,刚才试了试,可能成功。折腾死了!靠!我改!

     

    还好,刚才和蜗牛聊会,心情好多了。盼他早日回来!

    October 09

    My neighbour suddenly passed away

    We were shocked by the news that my neighbour, an old French geezer who lived by himself suddenly passed away after we saw a bunch of polices came over to his house and knocked down our door to inquired into uncle, our house's owner about his recent health situation yesterday. The bad news had got uncle exposed in deep sorrow for a while and had to release his blue to me as I had breakfast in the morning. Maybe all of resentment between them would be gone although they two old guys had oral fighting on backyard boundary long long time ago. Until one of them disappears forever, uncle has just realised that meaningless brawl is not worthwhile to break harmony among people. From this point, don't very care about gains or loss on some tiny things accordingly. Kindly and amicably treat the persons around.

    Suddenly a flash of memory pops in my head and causes me a bit woe. Remember I greeted him as I came back home a few days ago, seeing him climbing up the steps arduously since his house and our house are on the half hill. I said to him,"are you all right?" Actually I didn't expect he would respond back because he never reverted to my regards but I insisted to respect him with smile and 'hello' every time I came across to him. After I went through him and unconsciously turned my head and glimpsed there was appearling in his eyes, unfortunately I didn't come down to help him. I should have supported him on the steps, probably I could have found any hint of his dying. That was my last seeing him. I feel so sad now and just send my condolence to the heaven. :-(