领导今天入籍了，我的至今还没消息，虽然我们是同一天申请的，移民局还重男轻女？其实对是否具有澳洲国际不是很期盼，就是当一件事情总惦记着。因为自己觉得即便有了澳洲护照可还是彻头彻尾的中国人，就象即使你有了北京户口可还不象北京人一样（你别多心，没伤害任何人的意思，我老爸虽然在北京生活了50年，不还是满嘴的浙江口音，一骨子南方人的味道）。

 

只是觉得入完籍完成了一件事情，该干什么干什么，该去哪去哪........

This morning I was on the way to train station under downpour, almost got all wet just right after 2-minute walk from where I live. I imagined what I will turn out when I get to office?...... I brought back my spare skirt at office last week, that means I will have no alternative of being in wet clothes at office and have to let my pants dry up by my body temperature. God damn it! Why don't I have a car to drive work? :-(...... As I was in freaking out walking in the heavy rain, suddenly stopped by a car, the female driver invited me to get on the car and give me a lift to train station. She speaks Mandarin. Ooooooh! The lady is the one that I alway meet at train station in the morning, we take the same train but I thought she is a Hong Kong woman, actually she speaks Mandarin with Shang Hai accent. In the car, I didn't ask her too much about herself just said hello and thanked her very much. I guess maybe she was also curious about who I am before, a Chinese-look girl, where come from?......Do you have some commuters on the same train or bus you take every morning? I am pretty sure you do. Have you come across a lady or guy like this woman? You have or you will, I believe.

What a nice lady!

周末连着做了两天粥,据说去火!银耳红枣莲子粥和皮蛋瘦肉粥,因怕猪肉有臊味,换成皮蛋鸡肉粥了。对自己处女作很满意，虽然米粘锅了。

皮蛋瘦肉粥参考了下面的做法：

 

没来澳洲前，听说过也见到过榴莲，去深圳、广州出差，看到同事急着去买这些热带水果，然后关起门吃，很不理解。自从刚到澳洲小尝了朋友给的榴莲后，开始喜欢上了它。闻着难闻，吃着好吃。可发现它也不便宜，而且能量较高，所以限制自己不能常吃。上上周在一家越南店买了个榴莲，$3.5/kg，买了个大的，一次吃完，能吃吧。昨天在Burwood Woolworth发现$1.48 ea，天啊，超便宜！！立马拿了两个，真想多拿几个，可领导不同意。回家后，很快消灭了一个，于是想上网查查榴莲到底含什么。吓了一跳，节制节制！

 

http://www.meishichina.com/Health/Food/200504/3435.html

榴莲是驰名的优质佳果。成熟果肉淡黄、黏性多汁，酥软味甜，吃起来具有陈乳酷和洋葱味，初尝有异味，续食清凉甜蜜，回味甚佳，故有“流连(榴莲)忘返”的美誉。榴莲含有丰富的蛋白质和脂类，对机体有很好的补养作用，是良好的果品类营养来源。榴莲有特殊的气味，不同的人感受不同，有的人认为其臭如猫屎，有的人认为香气馥郁。榴莲的这种气味有开胃、促进食欲之功效，其中的膳食纤维还能促进肠蠕动。

榴莲虽好，但一次不可多吃，因其丰富的营养，您肠胃无法完全吸收时会上火。榴莲虽富含纤维素，但它在肠胃中会吸水膨胀，过多食用反而会阻塞肠道，引起便秘。榴莲含热量及糖分较高，因此肥胖人士宜少吃，糖尿病者更不应该进食。它亦含较高的钾，肾病及心脏病人应少吃。

Sat night, good gal pal's birthday party, at Cargo Bar in Darling Harbour. We had drink and meal as planned, and ended with birthday cake. You can imagine how bubbling we were, likewise, very high around us and beautiful night piece can't be ignored. But there are not too much pictures could be shown that crazy scene, just grab some of photos shot for sharing. Unfortunately, its pretty hard to find a good view to take at where I sit, then kind of blamed my outdated camera and photograpg technique:-(

 

 

When We were called Sick man of Asia, We were called The Peril. When We are billed to be the next Superpower, We are called The threat. When We were closed our doors, You smuggled Drugs to Open Markets. When We Embrace Freed Trade, You blame us for Taking away your jobs. When We were falling apart, You marched in your troops and wanted your fair share. When We were putting the broken peices together again, Free Tibet you screamed, it was an invasion! ( When Woodrow Wilson Couldnt give back Birth Place of Confucius back to Us, But He did bought a ticket for the Famine Relief Ball for us.) So, We Tried Communism, You hated us for being Communists. When We embrace Capitalism, You hate us for being Capitalist. When We have a Billion People, you said we were destroying the planet. When We are tried limited our numbers, you said It was human rights abuse.
When We were Poor, You think we are dogs. When We Loan you cash, You blame us for your debts. When We build our industries, You called us Polluters. When we sell you goods, You blame us for global warming. When We buy oil, You called that exploitation and Genocide. When You fight for oil, You called that Liberation. When We were lost in Chaos and rampage, You wanted Rules of Law for us. When We uphold law and order against Violence, You called that Violating Human Rights. When We were silent, You said you want us to have Free Speech. When We were silent no more, You say we were Brainwashed-Xenophoics.
Why do you hate us so much? We asked. Why chose a time that every Chinese is looking forward to a great event welcome all west people and show the world the progress we made these years, why chose a time like that to insult the Chinese, i believe though loads of problems exist, as long as we are progressing in a reasonable pace, we should be encouraged in stead of being put more pressure.

I really got grumpy yesterday and considered it was the worst day in the current company. The workload was not as heavy as I did, the problem was I had to face up one by one of issue. To sum up, I deal with 3 headaches within a day.

 

The first one, there are 6 containers has been in storage yard for decades, we have got billed $1215 per day, and the charge is going up and up. The shocking number has got the manager in fluster. So I was pushed to get them back by this week. It is not a piece of cake, it needs enough space to take those six 40' containers, it is not a tiny thing. I got busted as I rang up to WHS, they complained that I was not aware of it when they kept telling me their plan to move containers back last week. My lord, I was so undeserved, it was not my fault, the instruction was from sales and product manager, definitely I had no right to make that decision.:-)))) Alright, I could swallow bitterness and endure misunderstanding from WHS. What I had to do was trying to reschedule previous delivery schedule and swap some containers with those 6 urgent containers so that we won't be charged next week any longer. Of course, I figured out.

 

The second thing I faced was IT timeless issue of our bloody system. I used to run MIT report which we could review the cost variance between our PO and HQ's invoice so we could make adjustment accordingly. However, we couldn't get this report with correct data since March. Then last week I asked IT to investigate however couldn't identify the root cause yet. Yesterday I had to spent 2 hours to sit with IT manager and specialist together and explain how it is important to update discrepancy, otherwise we would be charged incorrectly, trying to help them rule out the possible reasons cause the problem although I am not an IT expert. Unfortunately, they insisted in nothing wrong in IT side and won't want to look into further on this subject and fix it. Shit! I came to see my manager to get higher-level support. The problem is still in pendent. BTW, through a day's communication, I was happy that I am becoming more confident in understanding Indian English because two IT colleagues are both Indian guys. LOL!

 

The third problem was also related to money. :-) Last Friday I issued a cash-on-sale and shipped out to Singapore. Due to rush, my manager pushed me to output the goods by COB yesterday after just received purchase order in the morning. It normally takes at least two working days to finish because the general process would go through several sectors including credit team, financial team, order desk, WHS and freight forwarder FedEx, but I must become impossibility into truth. That was more than $40,000!!!!! Nobody would hate money. No doubt, I made it before 5:00PM! receiving the copy of telex transfer, shipping out the goods, gaining customer’s satisfaction. This morning the money went into our bank account. However, I was grabbed the tail by credit team and financial team, they complained that I did something wrong and disobeyed the company accounting rule. Actually, I got approval by my manager as I did, the point was that we sold out the products and customer was happy with our efficiency. That problem belongs to internal company. Why those finance people can't prioritize the procedure and catch the key point in biz. Maybe I think from my view, not from their point of view.

昨天晚上心脏和太阳穴很不舒服，有些喘不过气，吃了复方丹参滴丸，勉强睡下。今天早上起来还好，但在上班路上又感觉不舒服，到公司呆了一小时，实在受不了，于是请假回家。从公司出来，虽觉得出气稍微顺畅了，但还没缓过来，倒火车路过Central Station,看着秋天绿黄色的树木在太阳下好漂亮，深吸了几口气，顿觉痛快。下了火车，走在回家的路上，沐浴着温暖的阳光，感觉基本好了。看来我是不想上班，呵呵！

Sydney railway has never been better in Sydneysiders’ eyes, delayed, cancelled... The train I took this morning got mechanical problem, so all of passengers were sent out of the carriages to wait for the next train coming. I tried my best to squeeze in the subsequent train which was overcrowded already. Surprisedly at the next stop, there were a lot of commuters standing there, seemed they were evicted from the previous train. My goodness, the train had to take almost 3-train passengers. Unbelievable! Like sardine can. Feel very compassionate looking at those people with no alternative at the platform. A female passenger sitting on the train said to them,’ Good luck! Have a good day.' other lucky passengers on the train sympathetically beamed on.

Such kind of congestion I had experienced in Beijing, but the first time I got in Sydney. The good thing was all of passengers kept calm, some sending message supposedly to their managers, some calling their bosses to tell them being running late.  What it would turn out if it happened in China? Imagine.....

My gal pal will probably have to change her position from sales to customer service. I have seen such kind of thing happen wherever in China or Australia bosses or managers flick you off as long as they think you are not suitable for the position, the reason could be your low performance, bad customer’s feedback etc. though you have already tried your best even working overtime every single day. In terms of boss' principle, they pay for you, so you need to achieve their goal under their defined effectiveness and efficiency. I absolutely can understand it, but the cruelty is hard to be accepted in mind.  I know a bunch of my friends have got demotion or fired in Australia mainly due to language barrier. As far as I have known, many Chinese who came to Australia in or after their 20s, they have got good education and fantastic experience in a big foreign company in China, but they cannot be able to speak English as fluently and correctly as English-native speaker normally most of them need a translating process from Chinese to English as they speak English. Of course, I am not excluded. It is pretty ordinary not to fully understand blokes with strong Aussie accent. Their slangs used are fresh to us, their expression ways are totally different to us, and their speaking speed is so fast that we couldn't catch it.  We could misunderstand or get in hodgepodge by what they said. So what! They are not bilingual.

Additionally, I would say language is not only the words, but also the way of thinking, culture and traditional habit. Many words, you couldn't find it in dictionary at all. We have to continually absorb unfamiliar words in the lives in order to know English more and more.  I just give an example I had.

The host Chris of 2GB had an interview with Delta Goodrem on air, he mentioned they went to shopping before the show, a lady came to see him and asked him whether that girl is the famous singer Delta Goodrem besides him but the lady was shocked that Delta got DEVON to buy. Then Chris said on the show why Delta couldn't have DEVON, she is a traditional Australian girl. I was curios what DEVON is and then asked Peter what it is, he described it is made of meet and roll is sliced both sides, which is usually sold in Colse or Woolis. I would better to go to have a look and try. then I put it in the top of my head and bought it taking advantage of weekend grocery shopping. OH, it is just a kind of ham, which normally goes with heat-up bread and tomato sauce. See how far we just grasp a word we never heard. We have to admit that we need long time to be familiar with this language world even won't completely comprehend it all the rest of life. The thing is we can handle our basic lives with our current language skill by and large. That's it.

So, don't be too touchy or disgruntled confronting language hurdle, you have it, I have it, a lot of people have it.

This morning I have been jaded and exhausted. Why? Headache again! I have been plagued with headache for 25 years, last night I suffered the hardest time and felt being dead. The blood hit the blood vessel wall to nearly burst out, my temple beat intensively, it was the first time that I had such strong headache, then I had to have two tablets of pain killer but consequently I threw out twice and got diarrheal. I remember, my mum used to prick the middle of my forehead with a needle to release blood as the pain killer didn't work. Sounds horrible, huh? But that was the most effective way for me. Last night I advised Phil to do that, but he was scared to do by that way. If my mum was here, she would help me for sure. My mum is my mum. :-) How the headache come from? I don't think it was due to 5-hour shopping while I accompanied a friend couple who just came to Australia for activating their PR visa from China, actually I was very excited after bought the cosmetic L'occitane HONEY FACE MASK and TONER that recommended by a string of my girlfriends and I applied them right now last night. I didn't feel tired a bit looking at those harvest. So headache is headache, I can’t block it off no matter how I am happy. L

In fact I saw Chinese doctor millions of times for headache and constantly have had Chinese herbal medicine since I was in 10s, and sometimes I cooked meat with gastrodia elata which is supposed to be a traditional way to cure headache. No effect! Albeit l have tried all kinds of pain killer both in China and Australia, my stubborn headache never better off. Tried all that I could try..........Under the friend’s suggestion, I started having Propolis from this week although I am not convinced it will work on my headache just for self comfort, assuming the headache is from my poor constitution. Wish it would play positive impact on my body.