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February 21 Go to cinemaSaturday again! To catch up with the movie at 10:00AM, I got up early, had a first round of clothes washed, dusted furniture…..then headed to cinema. I was thirst to see movie Bride Wars, but not came true until today. One of reason I wanted to go for that movie is that I love the actress Anne Hathaway. Since I saw The Devil Wears Prada, I couldn’t help concerning her movie once it is issued, so I already got ready to see this movie only the matter of time. Well, it has been long time not seeing a movie by myself, hence I was jazzed for some reason on the wayJ. It was really a girly movie, which made me burst into laugh and tears by a couple of close girl friends who has known each other when they were kids. During the time to prepare wedding, they individually tried to have the best wedding in the world, not defeated by another, subsequently their friendship suffered challenge…..finally they got to know what’s the most important to them. The story is not very magical, but female audiences definitely had fun in the cinema, I was not exception. True loveEvery morning I can see a couple walk ahead on the way to train station, while we live in the same street. The man usually takes the lady's hand like a brother. Initially I thought they went to work together, but it was wrong when I saw the guy return home after sending off his partner at train station. He never missed accompanying the lucky girl every morning and they looked so happy. I reckon their age is not lower than 30 but I already got moved by their true love.
Well, I am wondering they also might see what are doing from their home…… February 18 FaithI have been thinking whether to pick up some books about Christ where I might find spirit dependence as someone else strongly recommended me to have faith in GOD and warmly expressed how good they have been after they were spiritually subjected to God. They proved to me ‘God is everywhere’ by their stories that absolutely startled me. A girl said that the train she was taking abruptly stopped due to some mechanical problem, the issue was magically solved after a few minutes she started pray. Her another story made me speechless. Her husband left car key in the car and her husband tried to use a variety of ways he could think to open the car, but nothing worked, then she begun to pray. You know what, the car was opened in a short time when her husband kept trying.......Also remember, I overheard a lady to tell her similar story to her friend next to her on the train. I couldn't find any hint that she was cheating on her face only full of devotion. Incredibly! February 15 Crave For Thai FoodI am converting my taste propensity from Western-style food to Thai food. Why? Just had several Thai dinners lately and then more and more get interested in it. Since treating friends in a Thai restaurant at Hornsby last December, subsequently there have been some other chances to go to Thai food, some for dinner-out with friend, some for myself as I went shopping, some for unintentional Thai cooking.......I really can't believe I did try to cook Thai cuisine. What did I make? There are ingredients including chicken, cashew nut, capsicum, and Satay source bought from Coles. To be honest, I was unwittingly cooking a dish of Thai course, just following Janet's instruction to whip up my lunch box by some special food. After it was done, I had my tongue tip taste it and all of sudden I realised it was Thai. Particularly the taste was amazing! See! people always unconsciously tried something they didn't expect but finally they found they just got right what they really wanted or likedJ. Maybe that's one of reason to drive me to start loving Thai food after I was proud of my Thai cooking, as a consequence, I am more and more concerned how to make Thai and which Thai restaurants in Sydney have won 5 stars rate by the reviews..... February 11 又有点想家了又有点想家了。Why?周围的一些朋友近期陆续回国,有短期探亲,有长期回国,他们勾起了我回家的感觉。而且,不知为什么,最近特馋,可能是Sydney好不容易从40度降到20度,于是身体重新兴奋起来,胃口大开,可澳洲吃的品种实在有限,好想回国去解馋。于是,今天下班买了4块Lindt Chocolate, 125g each, 回家路上就吃了一块中的一半。吃Chocolate有时可以使你达到一种快感,忘记郁闷,呵呵。 Demand Planning MeetingToday we had this month’s Demand Planning Meeting that is supposed to be held per month. Mostly what we need to do in the meeting is to review previous month forecasting, actual performance achieved, the reason why it has discrepancy between prediction and achievement, issue occurred as well as to discuss about next month forecasting. The attendants include Managing director, all the other directors, sales managers, product managers and us planners. From this point, you can see it gets involved in all critical persons in the company. If you can't pop up, you must try to join in by the phone if you are at other city, so it is more likely to be the most important business conference call and each turnout couldn't have negligence about it. To be honest, I am the least important people among the attendants but I still get pre-agitated because anyone could throw at you some question as far as it is slightly related to your job. You don't want to lose face in public yet. You would feel embarrassed if you couldn't show up how professional you are. I should have been fine but I am not confident of all that I am required to know at the moment. Generally, what situation would it possible to make misfortune happen? One of reason is I am still cruising in the new job, so my current accumulated knowledge and experience couldn't build up complete confidence. Literally, more information and experience you have, more confidence you would have. I have another reason not to be very convinced, it is language. Normally, as a non-English native speaker, it is easier communication to have face-to-face talk or one-on-one on the phone, not like it you have to answer the question or solve the problem which is sometimes from the person who is on the other end of line and also with strong Australian accent, especially there are a lot of mangers look at you simultaneity. Much worse, the person on the other end of line is breaking up, you couldn't hear clearly and catch his/her key point. It would make up language barrier if I have more grasp of the job however it will take time. Or it would be better if those managers didn’t turn up while their appearance could sharpen your strain ……OK, before the meeting, I managed not to take it seriously in mental and try to shrug it off. All that I should do was to have ample preparation as much as possible……I was happy I smoothly went through the meeting eventually. BTW, luckily I don't need to do presentation, otherwise, I will suicideJ. February 08 BushwalkingIt is unbelievable that we made 10KM bushwalking from Spit Bridge to Manly. You might say it is not very far, but you need to know the weather is sizzling up to 40 degree. I don’t think there would be some people who would like to do that under such a hot day. If you are a bushwalking lover, nothing could prevent you from passion on your hobby. We took off from Spit Bridge and were on the scenic walkway, through Fisher Bay, Sunny Bay, Clontarf, Castle Rock Beach, finally arrived at Manly wharf. On the way, we rarely met some people, only saw some persons enjoy on the beach. We were proud we were so braveJ.I would say it doesn’t live up to a scenic walkway, there are many attractive look-out points to appreciate fantastic views. As you look at those wonderfully amazing scenes, you could forget how sweating you are and how tired you are. Again proved that Sydney is a world-famous tour city as its beauty couldn’t be concealed. After 4.5 hour walk, Hugo’s restaurant at Manly was our destination and rest spot to have our lunch. Sitting at the water-front restaurant, sipping Sangria which is a typical Spanish drink, letting sea breeze blow me and cool me down, I felt I came to the paradise even a bit smashed. What an enjoyable day! February 06 Brand impression今天和同事讨论为什么HP电脑卖的比我们的贵?我们做电脑的都明白,其实无论是HP还是DELL还是其他品牌,都基本上从一个或那几个厂家出来的,可为什么大众还是喜欢买HP甚至相信它质量好即使它很贵?当然有很多因素,除了质量监控、配件来源等因素,客户的产品相信度很重要,在这里我不说忠诚度,因为还没到那层次。Diana给我讲了个例子,她买了一条裙子,$50,可她朋友从David Jones买了一件样式、质量、剪裁和做工都一样,只是标签不同的裙子,花了$150。我说,可能还是有些不同,只是没看出来吧。她又说,她的一个朋友在这开了个服装店,跟她讲,其实David Jones, Myer还是其他小店,进口的衣服出自一个supplier,只是label不同罢了。记得,Jessie也跟我讲过同样的故事,她是做货代的,厂家就跟她说,其实他们既生产名牌也生产普通品牌,但具体如何安排生产,咱就不知道了。我是一个很相信牌子的人,相信贵的就是好的。看看眼前的Prada sunglasses, 到底该相信谁呢? Harvests todayDear sister’s friend will come in Sydney next week, so I decided to buy some Jurlique cosmetics for sister. Yesterday I heard there is a shop in Eastwood on sale with 50% off then went there, but the stuff I wanted to buy had been sold out. Therefore, today I got to a shop at Central after work, it usually has 30% off. Luckily the door was open as I arrived, and I happily bought a bottle of Recovery Gel and a bottle of Rosewater. Hope dear sister will like it. On the way home, I passed through the book shop that I very like, couldn’t help walking in and earnestly picked up some love books. Eventually I locked three: DIARY OF A JETSETTING CALL GIRL, LARGER THAN LIFE, SECRETS AND SHADOWS. Having them, I won’t be bothered what I can do on a week annual leave. DistraughtThese days I have been screwed up by some disputation on trifles at working, which made me find some certain of experience I had long long time ago but much worse, sometimes totally got me to lose my plot. There are some reason beings caused it. First of all, I don't get used to something new and haven't grasped how to cope with it due to unfamiliar procedure. Basically, doing something new doesn’t rely on hand-in-hand teaching but constant practice by yourself. Learning, doing, making error, amending, remembering, repeating….so I have to suffer error made occasionally and make it up then, meanwhile bear some complaints from others. It is understandable for a novice. Hope I will take it in control soon. Secondly, downturn business couldn't allow us to waste any dollar and we try to keep lean cost as less as possible, so we have our stock would rather shortage than overstock as aging stocks could take up plenty of money and influence cashflow. Since that, either we receive urgent order requirement and get the goods in ASAP no matter that supplier has stock, or I have to cancel order thanks to customer sudden cancellation. All kinds of cases somehow come up accordingly. Headache! Headache! So I have to deal with among sales, product manager who are normally considered most important persons in the company. Meanwhile they are very SMART and never get themselves in bad situation but throw out hot potatoes to others such as us at crunch time. I can't offend them, on the other side I can't absolutely listen to them from the angle of company benefit. Communication, communication, communication…..Furthermore, under current gloom economic situation, business growth seems so drastically difficult, so people try their best to win any slightest business opportunity if they find it, so they are in deep tension that easily causes out of temper even reaches at swords’ point, then it happens to burst out in front of you at the moment you happen to have issue to ask them. Negative mood impact like a chain passes on, aversion! aversion! Aversion!......Whatever, I am still surviving.:-) February 04 Funny Sydney thiefThis morning I listened to radio station 2GB and heard a piece of funny news: a Sydney man broke into a butcher and stole some meats, then went to a cafe shop in Riverwood road and tried to smash window by frozen chicken, unfortunately he got broken as he was doing that, then he called up police to get help. What the hell of Sydney thief. Friend cameLast weekend Ran came to Sydney from Melbourne, this trip is part of his 3-week holiday in Australia. He has been to Sydney twice besides this time, so his purpose of the trip is mainly see me, an old friend of his. He arrived in Sydney Friday morning and had to have his do-it-himself trip at day time as I was working, then we met up in city to have dinner. I was a little bit shocked when I saw him, he looked like a burnt porket because his skin got sunburnt after a few hour sunshine at Botany Garden :-). It is right typical Australia mark, isn' it? JHowever he didn't have bad hair day because he happened to see Zi Yi Zhang to take a cosmetic advertisement at the Rocks. To welcome his come, we went to SAAP Thai Restaurant when hearing Thai food is his favourite, then he visited my lovely home that he expected to look around when he was in Beijing, later he introduced some changes occurred in Beijing including familiar companies and our friends. The next day, we went to Nan Tian Temple right at the time it was within the first 15 days of Chinese New year, the period is said to be good time to burn incense and worship Buddha. No wonder we had our devotion over there as well as shot some interesting pictures with little stone monk at the peaceful place although I took a lot of photos before. On the way home, we had a detour to Cronulla beach where is supposed to be westerns' desirable paradise. Of course we didn't miss watching beautiful sea and bikini girls. Afterwards, we dropped in Sutherland to visit our previous Lenovo colleague He Ping who is bearing her 2 year waiting time to turn to Australian citizen. Luckily, she has gradually got used to the life in Australia and hopes her kids will enjoy here as well. Leaving her home, our next sop was Hurstville to have send-off dinner for Ran as he was going to catch night flight. See, we had a busy but hilarious weekend, which made me think Chinese traditional saying" 有朋自远方来不亦乐乎."BTW, Ran brought me a big bunch of Chinese DVDs and I would be busy to watch then. |
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