由于前一阵不能上网，于是每天只能靠看电视和DVD打发时间，于是找出了自己买了多年未开包装的DVD《与青春有关的日子》。这是一个讲述50年代出生的北京部队大院孩子的故事。对于具体情节我不想讲述，网上比我说得明白。我想说的是，我居然听不懂其中的一些语言。的确，这个电视剧说话很北京，很贫，而且是出奇得贫，作为一个土生土长的北京人，我的语速属于不慢的，可我还是有些跟不上他们在说什么，他们在讽刺谁。我一直承认我的语言能力很差，而且家庭没有培养我成为一个能说会道的孩子，但对于“极度能讲”（往往被认为某些北京人的特质）我还是有些跟不上趟，或者说我嫉妒人家反应快吧。一休说，可能我在国外呆久了，语言更差了，呵呵。这部电视剧挺有意思的，充满了王朔元素，没事儿的时候看看，会让你大笑一番，而且可能勾起你一起回忆童年的快乐和儿时的伙伴。

 

Yesterday was Thursday again normally accompanied with shopping night in Sydney. Most of shops would shut down until 9:00PM not 5-6PM as usual. So many people would like to go shopping after work to buy grocery or something necessary, or doing retail therapy to release their working pressure(mainly for females), or meeting up with friends to have dinners then go shopping. I rarely went shopping at Thursday night because I could miss the last train when I lived in a suburb where there was no train to stop after 11:26PM. To catch up the last train, I had to leave downtown around 10:30PM actually I just arrived at city around 6:30PM if I could get on the earliest train from working place. See, there was at most 4 hours left. I didn't like to have dinner and shopping done within limited hours. So I used to have dinner with friends at Thursday and shopping at weekend. Now I have moved to the place where has a big Westfield, therefore I can conveniently do shopping on the way home instead of spending extra time to go somewhere for it. On the other hand, it might lure me to splash out as I need to pass through the shopping centre every day on the way home. Yesterday, when I was on the train, I kept asking myself whether I had an excuse to go to shopping mall. Yes, no, yes, no..... If window shopping, it won't be a big deal. But I am clear that I am a kind of person who is easy to have sparkling eyes in front of amazing stuff no matter what I really need or not and can't help taking it to the cash counter right now. You would believe it if you look at my two wardrobes with full of clothes. I didn’t come to have sense of how many clothes I had got until I used up more than 100 hangers as I moved in new home, then I made a decision to be a thrift-minded shopper. So should I follow it up? Getting close to Westfield, I was still struggling with it, eventually I had my feet stopped at the entrance of shopping centre and turned to the direction of home. Good girl! Keep on!

You would admire me how free I am at the office if you are busy in doing your job. It is very unusual at the last week of a month when we used to be crazy to try to find out any channel to disseminate the inventory and push to ship goods to the customers as much as possible in order to achieve our monthly sales target and make our performance look beautiful, but this week is surprisingly quiet comparing with all past last weeks of the months. One reason might be from lowered target by MD who knows how hard to do sales under current critical financial environment and doesn’t want to stress out employees. Another reason would be that we have had hit the planned goal in advance. Whatever, I have nothing to do yet and feel so bored, then I kept searching internet and chat with gal pal online. I feel a little bit guilty to my manager and company although it is not my fault. You would say it is not bad to make use of time to completely relax. Yes, exactly right. But I would say short-time loosing by the way to surfing on the internet could make you happy, a whole day like that might get you bored. What’s worse, I heard we will shrink half sales target next month, which means I will have more unrestrained time and more boring days will be coming. :-(Sometimes boring can kill you. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to recently take annual leave for fully relaxation at home as our company compulsorily let us have days off between 24^th Nov and 04^th Jan 2009. By the end of this year, what am I going to do then at the office? Kind of sounds that I will be left no work to do. J

It is not bad thing that watching TV as our only entertainment at night could make us know more about what is happening in the world when our internet considered our main night life is not available currently. Also I am trying to catch up the programmes on TV channels although I had lost interest in watching TV in the past couples of months. So far, I have already picked up some TV shows, e.g. Packed to the Rafters, CSI Miami, Criminal minds, the Nest etc. To be honest, I have never been fascinated with Australian TV programs that mostly imported from America. I don’t unlike America-made TV shows, but have no interest in those criminal stories. For some Australian reality TV programs such as Rove Live, they are absolutely fantastic but only shown once a week. How could I keep passion in front of TV just for those a few shows I liked? At the moment, I am screwed up by the world without internet then have to head for all kinds of TV shows. Could I have other choice?

 

On the other hand, watching English TV easily makes me sleepyJ, I don’t know why it always happens on me, maybe I need to have more concentration on English TV than Chinese programs as English is not my first language, so it is easier to get me tired then. I used to stay up but now I have to go to sleep no later than 11:00PM as my eyes couldn’t open up quickly once started watching TV. As Penny said, it would be good for me to go to bed early.

 

Okay, I am willing to manage to enjoy watching TV to relax myself and kill the time.

 

Some friends asked me whether I am happy to live in a new home. No wonder that I should have been extremely excited for moving out from a renting house to an own unit, but I haven't got time to seriously smile as bulk of jobs have annoyed me, such as cleaning up the new home, buying furniture, arranging moving, packing up the stuff, thinking about how to design the new home from nothing into cozy home and what I should buy starting from a pair of chopsticks…. Since that, there is nothing I have had than feeling exhausted. I am trying to turn tiresome into endless happy. But not happened, it is full of small stuff I need to buy in my head and makes me not sleep very well. I know it is pretty normal for every single house mover, but I still want to say it is really tough titties. I feel more worn out this time than 7 years ago. In 2001, I had own apartment decorated in Beijing, from looking for a decoration company to completely moving in, from buying a screw to a set of bedding….comparing with that bigger project 7 years before, I feel more trekking this time, maybe I have no other’s help this time not like that last time parents gave me great support in Beijing, but there are less jobs I need to do this time, there was no in-house decoration such as painting wall and changing carpet that are supposed to be the hardest jobs for moving to a new home. However, within a month, I have been suffering some miserable body pain….my headache is temporarily off,  my old disease stomach ache is back on that caused me not to fall sleep overnight. Now I am hungry for rest……Am I getting older? Should I go to do acupuncture and homeopathy right now as Annie suggested?

Since we moved in new home, the internet access hasn’t been available, which is terrible headache for a person who has used to being online all the time at night, but we have to wait, wait and wait…….

I overwhelmingly laughed out loud when I saw the words at the back of a car----'I'm parking in disabled because I am an asshole'. So interesting! I love the way of westerners express their anger or sense of humour.

 

Then I happened to meet a classmate at the train station. There has been 2 years since we had a course at TAFE. Guess what? She said she was shocked that I put on that much weight and asked whether I have got a baby so that I become fatter than before. If I didn't say hello, she wouldn't believe that it was me. OMG! Those words would kill a girl to death. The good thing is I am confident I am not that fat supposed in ordinary people’s eyes and still in alright figure in my opinion, otherwise I will suicide. To be honest I was frozen as I heard it, but in front of her I had to say it was not bad if I could look taller and bigger than previously. I admit I have been eating very much everyday and have gained weight a few KGs, thinking it is OK as far as I have kept in 45+kgs, after all I am not in 20s when I was 40+kgs. A woman with some fat might make her look sexy, right? However, what she said brought me a bit disappointed and upset, especially was told that I look like a mum of a kid. :-(

Learning and learning and learning! Recently a lot of new things have come in my head everyday as I am taking over digital display (LCD and Projector) planning and in the period of training at the stage. It should be a good opportunity to expand my knowledge and accumulate more experience in supply chain area that is currently supposed to be my career direction in Australia. I am a kind of person who like learning new things constantly and love being challenged from time to time, so I don't worry being pressed on heaps of new information all the time. To be qualified for new job, I am required to have more communication with production for work order and product managers in regards to product stock and procurement, I need to learn how to do forecasting and effectively control stocks which are important sections in supply chain. So far, it is lucky that I have been touching most areas of supply chain including panning, production, warehouse, shipping.....

But there would be a great number of errors could occur at the initial period that you are doing something new. Today I tried to release work order that is sort of daily assignment to instruct production department what they need to do. With the absence of my instructor, I failed to give out right command at the first time referring to notes I took yesterday, then amended something with other's help, unsuccessfully again, had to try with the third time. Done! That means I annoyed production with three times, which could have caused production' yelling and yelling, however, they didn't but allowed me to correct with two times, and gave me tremendously great help. I was moved by their tolerance and send cordial thanks. Look, my good relation with them built benefited for it then. :-) I don't want to complain the problem of system that got me to make mistake, but blamed myself not to clearly and completely understand why to do and how to do before really started doing. Making such mistake is reasonable and understood at the beginning of doing it, so don't need to take it seriously. There would be a long path to go to be more competent to new jobs, but I am not nerve-racking and stressful as it is normal for everyone. Come on, Sal!

最近事情比较多，公司的，家里的。于是内分泌失调，嘴角两边溃疡到别人不敢看我。声明一下，我没着急，就是有点压力。想休假，好久没有这么迫切地想休息了.....如果回北京，要去798，南锣鼓巷，奥运村.....如果去其他国家，想去欧洲、马尔代夫........如果吃大餐，要吃烤鸭，今天一只，明天一只.....最后成猪嘴了:-)

It is so terrible to see flagging sales of the company last month losing more than 8 million dollars due to exchange rate change, it is so sad to see company's debt insolvent in some country….. Therefore, a series of company actions are being taken into, some are for cost saving, some are for compensating cost loss.....some sales as pivotal of company business have been kicked off, some free company providing such as biscuit is being cut off, products price will be unavoidably increased with a huge jump no matter what customers reflect. Company is suffering it and dealing with it, so is every employee. In my opinion, it is not evil in my life. From this experience, I am learning how the company generally manages this tough situation as the financial scenario is supposed to be the worst within 80 years, which would make me to prepare for it mentally as a staff. Meanwhile it is so pissed me to see those office political battles in current complicated circumstance, but I am brave to face it and learning how to cope with it, how to not get involved in a trap or a gossip circle. Also I can further know someone during this silent office war. No matter what happens recently, I am happy that my mental is gradually going through and spirits become stronger and stronger to a significant extent, so that's not bad for me yet. There is something like that I am a person who don’t know how to swim is trying to learn self in the sea, have met nearly-drowning, billowing, shark attack....finally I become confident to be in the water. That’s big treasure, isn’t it?

 

Anyway I have talked too much about some things and feeling come from global economic crisis lately, should I shut up now.

Today, 4^th November has so many things occurred. It is Melbourne Cup Day that is a traditional Australian event. There is no wonder I kept participating in company sweep but lost $5 this time not like that I won $5 last year. Today is Election Day in U.S.A. as the final battle day between John McCain and Barack Obama to unveil who the next president of U.S.A. is.  Of course I go for Obama! In addition, the interest rate fell today for the third consecutive month. Hope it would be good news for people who have home loan and stimulate economic growth. It is meaningful day for me as well. Our unit is settled down today and we will move in around three weeks later. Since then, we are debtor of bank, so we must tighten our belts and have to skip dinner in a restaurant. J Today is also my moving day at office. I just moved to new spot as my colleague was dumped under the company’s execution of curtailing operation expense. 4th Nov may be special meaning for someone or have import events happening…...Is there anything happen on you?