Friday, September 29, 2006
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Seoul BBQ Cafe
Look out for their logo.
Overall, it's a worth to try Korean cuisine although the cafe doesn't serve Kimchi (Korean dish).
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Postman For A Day
Kojonup is a small town located down south Perth. It is two hours drive from Perth.
The weekend hospitality trip was organised by Council of International Student Western Australia (CISWA). The trip, which I was looking forward to, let us know more about the cultures of the locals. Danny and Chris was supposed to go for the trip, too.
Anyway, although I couldn't go for the trip, I still had something to do. Remember the Spring Feast which I have mentioned earlier? It is only about 1 and a half week from now! I, as the committee of the event, am assigned to distribute flyers with some other committees.
That's why if you own a house near the uni, you can earn a lot.
We manage to distribute all the flyers within 1 hour. It's fun to become a postman for a day! :)
Just to remind everyone in Perth here. The University of Western Australia's Spring Feast will be on 5th of October (Thursday) from 6p.m. till late! There will be lots of fun. Bring along your friends and family! Spread the words! :)
Araluen Botanic Park
Last Saturday, a bunch of friends and I went to Araluen Botanic Park with the International Student Services (ISS). We started off from uni at around 8:30a.m.
The main attraction of the park at that time was the tulips. Between the last two week of August and the beginning of the first two weeks of September every year, tulips start to bloom.
You want to know how beautiful are the tulips? I can gurantee you that you will give a two thumbs up after you have looked at the photos.
So, how are the tulips? ;) Too bad we went there a bit late. The tulips already started to wilt. A piece of advice from me. Make sure you go to the park at the right time to enjoy the full bloom of tulips!
Aparts from tulips, there are other flowers for your viewing pleasure. Sit back and enjoy the photos.
There are plenty of flora in the park. You can see bees busy collecting pollen for honey.
The air in the park is so fresh and clean.
Of course, we didn't forget our cam-slutting session.
I actually don't know if we are allowed to sit on that or not. But most probably they allow us to do so. If not, I already ended up paying hundred or thousands of dollars for the fine.
Do you see the reflection of the structure? I love it. It's just so wonderful.
I'm not short ok? Actually it's just that Chris is tall! :P
You can bring your own lunch and lie down on the ground to enjoy the beauty of the nature.
After some time walking and taking hundreds of photos, it was time to walk towards the exit. We had to gather with the others before we took the bus home.
This is actually a skeleton of a car. It was modified to turn it into a mini garden.
There are little gnomes and some plants behind the car. For that reason, the mini garden is named, "Gnomes Mini Garden".
Chris was not in the photo as he was the cameraman!
Before we hopped on to the bus, we saw all the elders with their purple-ish clothes. They were so cute! :)
It was an enjoyable trip. That's the first time I saw so much tulips. I'll sure visit the park again next year. Till then...
Monday, September 18, 2006
"First Bitter Then Sweet"
My temporary "office".
I spent about one to two hours everyday in my office for the two weeks.
Name of my company.
I was paid about Aud$10 an hour just to sit for the experiments conducted by the students. That's considered a lot compare to working in the oriental stores which have tougher work but was paid the same amount of money.
Inside my office.
Most of the rooms in my office are for the white ratsstudents to sit for the experiments conducted by the psychology students.
One of the experiments.
The objectives of most experiments are just to determine how a human memorising their stuff and how human categorising things. You just need to sit there, stare at the monitor, think for a while and click at the mouse for one hour and you will be reimburse for your time and travel expenses. As easy as ABC, right? ;)
After numbers of experiments, I finally managed to buy this...
An external hard drive and a flashdrive.
Actually Danny bought that flashdrive to replace my old flashdrive which he has accidentally broken.
Just an ordinary hard drive.
It is a Maxtor 250gb IDE external hard drive which costs me RM350.
Happy family.
I need an extra hard drive to accomodate my photos, songs and programmes. My laptop's hard drive could no longer support my extensive use of space.
Sandisk Cruzer Mini 1gb flashdrive.
I actually contributed some amount of money to upgrade it to a 1gb flashdrive. It comes with two extra caps and a neck strap.
A simple designed flashdrive.
This flashdrive retails for RM87 in Kuala Lumpur.
Goodbye to my old Kingston Datatraveller 256mb flashdrive.
I have to say goodbye to my 1 and a half year flashdrive which serves me well. I have to thanks Brian for helping me to bring these two stuff all the way from Kuala Lumpur. Thanks Brian!
Actually some of the money of the hard drive comes from my dad but of course, most of it comes from me. The moral of this story is "first bitter then sweet" ("xian ku hou tian" in Mandarin). It means, at first, you have to work hard before you get to enjoy in the end. :)
P/s : Stay tuned for my next post about my tulips trip.