Last day of Summer... my first Summer and into my first Autumn.How does it feel? Not too bad actually. Today it's a little cold, it rained the whole morning.In the office, it's cold... brrrr.. Sitting in my office on the 10th floor, I could see the rain drumming on the window - it felt good to have rain. We don't have that much rain over here, unlike back home. Back home, we have so much rain that everytime it did, I get worried that it would flood.I could still remember vividly the horror of flood!!! All the water in the house, the hours of cleaning up, the stress every time it rained.

Tomorrow Autumn begins.The weather forecast says it is going to rain tomorrow, cloudy the next day and then a warm weekend. Ah well, as long as it does not rain in the morning when I walk to catch the bus :-) It's not easy to get by without a car but I am getting used to it. Public transport is quite good here, the bus is quite on time and clean too. The only problem is when I want to shop somewhere else and have to take 2 buses to get there - big problem!!! But so far, I have been lucky, thanks to my friend Valerie. Met her at the bus stop one morning and we have been good friends ever since. She is from Malacca but she has been here for many years now. We are out every weekend, well almost every weekend :-) We would go everywhere, Osborne Park to look at furniture, shopping centres in Innaloo, Booragoon,Floreat, Fremantle for fish and chips (they have good fish&chips in town).. Rockingham and Mandurah are our next destinations - south of the city, heard the place is nice. Will post some pics when I do get there..



Me & Valerie on the Bell Tower - on a beautiful Summer day

Gong Xii Fatt Chai!!! My first Chinese New Year celebration in a foreign country. What is it like? Well... nothing much is happening, for one. Work goes on as usual, there is no leave like back home. I remember we used to have 1 week off work!! So nice. In china town, there is lion dance and in Forest Chase (the shopping centre in the city) there is a show by the chinese community. I didn't go and watch any of them though.

The first day chinese new year, I went visiting with a friend. Met a whole bunch of chinese :-) loud as chinese too.. haha...No ang pow this year, so sad :-( guess you can't be forever young..

I've always thought that working in a foreign country is very different, or is it? Today I discover that it is not entirely true. Although the working culture has a distinct difference, some human attitude remains the same wherever you are.

There is this lady at work, who is trying very hard to create trouble for me and my friend. I'm not saying that she is a bad person, I think she just doesn't like new people. She doesn't like to hear that new staff members are hardworking and helpful.I think she has the the-world-can't-run-without-me syndrome. To her we are management spies, 007??? :-)

In a way I feel sorry for her. She is miserable. She is paranoid. I have worked with people like her before and they don't make life easier. She is the kind of person that makes working life less enjoyable, the kind of person you wish would just leave. Why is she behaving in such a way? Why does she accuse people of spying on her? I also feel sorry for my friend, coz she has to bear the brunt of her accusation and bad mood every day. I don't think she is a bad person, just a little disillusioned.

I guess wherever you are, there will always be people who like that. It is the norm of life.