My colleagues: French

   Since two weeks ago,  I have worked in a DVD company located at Sydney. 

   In this DVD company, there are two kinds of staff, permanent staff and casual staff. Permanent staff is mostly recruited by the company itself and, on the other hand, causal staff is recruited by two agencies. One is SKILLED, the other is FIRST CHOICE. And I am from SKILLED. 

   In the days I worked in this company, I found all staffs recruited by FIRST CHOICE are from France. And from my agency are from Taiwan, Hong kong and other country.    Everyday, I have different works depending on the need of company, so I always with different groups of people. Take today as an example, I was divided to a line where French work. After today's work, I reckon French is talkative even during work. ALL DAY LONG! 

   Although I am in Sydney, an English environment, I am surrounded by French not only those in my share house but those working with me. How interesting it is. If I learned French during my uni, now is the best chance to improve it. :D
Kent

Alison Gopnik: What do babies think? | Video on TED.com

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If we want to be those butterflies, to have open-mindedness, open learning, creativity, imagination, and innovation, maybe at least some of time we should be getting the adult to start thinking more like children.

My Aunt

   A random music in a TV programe made me think of my aunt this afternoon.    

   Since left Taiwan on April, I haven't seen her for more than five months. In fact, I made a call to her while her birthday last month, which is the same day as my mom's.

   She always took us to any districts of city besides her house, Kaoshiung as well. After buying a car, we always went for fun by car instead of taking any public transportation else. As a result, we spent much time on her car. In order to make the phenomenon enjoyable, my aunt always turn on the CD player. I therefore got familiar with such good songs.

Stay Alone in a room!

One of JDs was delivering woods in Mt. Hotham.

   Today I had  calls from three different employers. Unfortunately, they all refused me at all.


   The first one was due to my VISA restriction. I currently hold working holiday VISA in Australia, providing the holder a year duration to work and travel within Australia. Many Taiwanese come too with they own dreams and purposes. Most of them, including me, come here for earning money and improving English. And the holder could work for one employer within six months. The company needed someone who is permanent resident of Australia in order to avoid problems caused by VISA. As a result in a few seconds I finished the call with her. This is not what I can not break.


  The second was the company which promoted Chinese massage and therapy(推拿), therefore the company needed the applicant who is strong and hard working in order to do therapies it provided to locals. That was the chance I really like actually before getting know the job descriptions, because it gave to its staffs  accommodation and some chances of travelling Australia. "In my opinion, I am not strong enough to do the therapy but strong to move stuff."I told to the employer. Of course, after hearing this he shortly said thank you to me. I did it before, but just for Candy, a girl. She just had a slight feeling on her body. However, what the company targets was the local who generally stronger and bigger. Orz....


   The last and also last one was not on my list. I found it in the afternoon while searching jobs on a forum. But I called her as her request after 3 o'clock, she didn't answer me. Then I text her a message that I was highly interested in this chance she provided. Few a couple of hours, I got her text message that she had already found a girl who is going to replace her vacancy. Instead of complaint, I text her to thank her for letting me know the chance and put an end in my all day long on searching job.


   To be frank, I did not share this to my flatmates and Candy. They even didn't want to know.  Apparently I don't care. With a couple of coffee and my laptop, i choose to share on this platform for me and those who have ever explored this place.

Declaratiom

   This was the mail which I wrote to my boss after telling him Candy and I would like quit this job as housekeeper he provided. That was tough decision for me but intelligent for me. After reading this mail, you may know how intelligent it is.

Dear my lovely boss,

After deep consideration and overall discussion with Candy, we firmly decide to quit this job as the staff in your company. We feel sorry and, but honestly, have to make this crucial decision. The reasons that we decide to quit are as follows.

First of all, it is the problem of wage. Indeed, we have our second wages after one and half months, which took much more time than we expected. I know you have some difficult getting payment from Marco. Giving wages to employees on time is the responsibility of employer and, on the other hand, the responsibility for employers is working hard. If we work hard on our duties, should you give our wage on time as a reward? And you are not able to avoid this problem in the future, we undoubtedly will not get promise to have the same situation in the following two months.

Secondly, it is the problem of trust. If there is no trust between employer and employee, the business of you doesn’t go smoothly. Yesterday Liz and you promised Jill that you would come to assistant ABN application with her at 10 o’clock. Around 10: 20, I call you via Jill’s mobile. You told me Liz was the way to our place. But after a long day on waiting, both of you didn’t come with no any reason, which made us frustrated and disappointed at all. Even in this small case, you couldn’t fulfill your promise. Why do we believe that you will fulfill your promise in the following days.

Thirdly, it is the problem of time sheet. As you may remember this Monday when Andrew called you, only 2 out of your staffs, Jason and me, went up to the hill. No one knew when and where they need to do/go at the very last second. As a result, we can do nothing but wait for your arrangement all day long, which is quite unreasonable for your employees.

Due to these three reasons, both of us made the tough decision we won’t work with you in the season, which enables you to find better staffs and do your business well as you always do.

 At last, we truly feel grateful to you for giving us the chance to visit this fabulous place, Mt. Hotham, which will be an amazing part of our life, also thank for training us to be professional housekeepers. Furthermore, we will move out until you give us all wage we suppose to have in this period, or we will take some serious actions to ask for.


Kent

My own LIFE in Australia

   Eventually after booking the flight ticket and waiting, Candy catched the shuttle bus to Melbourne International Airport. This was the second time that I accompany her to airport in Austraila. In nearly four months, she has gone back to Taiwan for two times.


   Somehow, I really admire for her decision. In order to stay with her boyfriend, she decided to go back twice even she is in Australia, a southern hemisphere country. Every trip takes her two days and cost her at least AU800 bucks. And she always devoted herself to her boyfriend, which is really touching. 


   Some people may ask that if she is worried her boyfriend gets lonely, why she didn't come with her boyfriend? This is the question Candy always is asked when she told everyone the decision, including me at the first time. For me, she spares no effort for her boyfriend no matter either on his career or suggestion to daily chores. 


   Sometimes she likes to complain and murmur her boyfriend's shortcomings as a girlfriend always does, but most of time she behaves as a lovely cat to the owner, her boyfriend.  


Kent

Memorable pictures

   Today before we had dinner, i just found out the picture i have taken since arrived at Australia. We, including Candy, Jill, and Raymond simply explored them. To much our astonishment after exploring, we notice that we have change A LOT.

    You may not believe that from arrival to this moment, it's just more than 2 months. What kind of changes do we have? No matter on figure and appearance, we are different now. 

   Taking pictures is really worth doing. As long as you have pictures, you could share or watch at anytime and anywhere you want based on today's technology, couldn't you?