Category Archive:   Opinions & Thoughts


This evening, with a little help from Vivian, we got our Christmas tree up. Now the fairy lights are flashing; christmas music is playing; Christmas candles were lit up; little snowman with led light is changing its colours; the Christmas wreath was hung up. I wrote the words “Merry Christmas” on the blackboard; Vivian brought [...]

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One afternoon I was picking up V from the Childcare. As always, after I signed off the attendant sheet, I started to look for all the bits and pieces of her items from different locations in the Childcare Centre. I moved from her locker to the room’s coat hanger, from one bucket to another, from [...]

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It is still raining outside, a cool and quiet Saturday night. I lay in bed listening to the sound of the water from outside, and completely out of blue, I suddenly realised that today is my 10th anniversary of arriving Australia. I almost forgot about it, and I wondered why I should be remembering it? [...]

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I was stuck behind a very slow caravan on a two-ways road to Cooma. The caravan was moving ridiculously in about 70-80ks per hour on the road of 100ks/ph, and there was already a long queue after it and before my car. I can see almost everyone behind that caravan intended to make an overtaking [...]

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We spent the whole Sunday just re-tidying up and cleaning off some old stuff at home. We threw out hundreds of paper boxes and another thousand of assorted unused items. I can’t believe that it took us so long to do it and it’s even harder to believe that we have so much clutters that [...]

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This Tuesday I went to Goulburn to do a home visit in an aboriginal family on my own. It didn’t turn out terribly perfect as the only adult in this family forgot about this appointment, regardless that I had rung her three times before I went over. To be honest, I sort of knew this [...]

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