Category Archive:   Daily Living


I was taking up some unfinished business from my previous colleague, who now is on maternity leave. So this morning I had to turn myself to a delivery woman to drive to a rural estate in Googong to deliver a computer pack, which included about 6 different sizes of boxes. Driving from Queanbeyan to Googong [...]

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There was a discussion in one of website forums talking about “How much people spend on grocery shopping per week” in the context of living in Australia. My husband and I were surprised to find that the answers to this question can be so varied. A very smart family only spend about $180 per week [...]

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Well, it’s the time for this annual fun thing again. This year we decided to do a hat competition in the office due to lady madness , but I ended up giving up the idea of wearing a hat, instead of that, I did flower (not quite a fascinator), a bright blue-ish flower with some [...]

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Okay, to make my experience dealing with animals more colourful, now I can finally add this morning’s episode into my history of harassment, or say the history of being harassed by animals. This morning when I was on the way to work, I confronted a very badly-behaviour magpie on the pedestrian sidewalk. This horrible black [...]

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I am not a moon cake person at all because they are TOOOOOOOO sweat and back to the time in China,relatives, friends and companies GAVE you moon cakes as presents, so you never bought them. Years after years, every moon festival of a year, when you look at a pile of moon cake boxes given [...]

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I am running later for this year’s tax return. Usually I get that done in the early of August through e-Tax, but this year, I just found it too difficult to handle. About 5 weeks ago right after we got back from China, I started to look at this thing. However, According to my calculation [...]

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