Archive for May 2007


It’s always a bit complicated to explain to those people who had never been to Australia or any inland city in NSW, but are keen to know where I am living. I usually tell them that I am living in a country town, but just this country town is adjacent to Canberra. People accepted what [...]

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Coming to the end of this financial year, this morning’s topic at the weekly staff meeting was about money. Not the money that we wanted more and we don’t have, it was about the money that we’ve got in our pocket but impossibly spend all up before the new financial year commences. How funny this [...]

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I don’t remember who was the first person told me about this recipe. Or actually there was nobody at all had ever invented it. I feel that it’s like kind of legacy passing on from one generation to another in my country. Almost every Chinese knows that pork feet and soy beans would make a [...]

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At another end of the dinning table, my husband eating his food from the bowl. Down this end, I was doing mine. It could have been a very ordinary scene and nothing special if I didn’t lift my head up and look about. Believe it or not! For a moment, I suddenly saw something else. [...]

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Well, I knew this gonna happen even before I got the new job. It’s one of the essential criteria that the applicant has to hold the current driver’s license, so they can drive around in the region and meet people and attend the conferences and appointments to fulfill the duties. Anyway before I lodged my [...]

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We spent the whole day to carry out a big plan, moving the things around, totally swapping the bedroom and the study room. The story behind this is that the winter is happening in this hemisphere. Our study room, which is facing the south and got no sunshine coming in the room during the day [...]

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