FINALLY...

After all the fuss of my visa and working rights, my career at Coffey finally get started today! Quite a hectic day for me - first to introduce myself to more than 150 staffs in the office, one at a time; then to be familiar with the office layout and general security system; learn to use the email/phone/fax/printing machine and system; set up my work station; study an online safety course; and then finally to learn that I am going to a site office at Port of Brisbane tomorrow beofre the end of the day! I was quite surprise that I am assigned to the site office on my second working day, but I guess it will be a very good experience working at that site office as the project there is very large in scale and very challenging.

Wish that I can settle in as quickly as possible and ease pass the 3 months probation!

MISSING YOU~~~

I have been seeing you a lot in the dream lately, especially in the last couple of nights, so I guess it is an indication that I am missing you exceptionally much recently.

Many say missing a person is painful, is hard or is sorrowful; as it more often makes people cry and wreck. But for me it is just opposite. Thinking back the moment we spent together, the flashes that we shared together, always brighten up my days and those memories only make me wanting to spend more time with you.

More than 7 months have passed since we last see each other and there are still 70 more days to go before we can see each other again. I just cant wait to see you again, this time in Sydey, a sacred city that spice things up, almost 17 months ago!

Time does fly and time does play its part. But I am sure time will not be a barrier for both of us!

I MISS YOU!

BRISBANE RIVER FESTIVAL

I guess I have just picked the right time to move to Brisbane as I was just in time to witness the biggest event of the year in Brisbane - The Brisbane River Festival last weekend. The annual River Festival is to celebrate the Brisbane River which passes through the Brisbane (something similar with the Yarra River in Melbourne), and it includes a 30 minutes continuos pyrotechnics and fireworks. It was the first time I witness this event first hand and it was really breath-taking. The picture above shows the opening of the River Festival with a F111 strike aircraft dashed pass the Brisbane city sky. Anyway, I snatched this picture from someone in the internet :P Here are some photos taken by me.

SETTLING IN

If moving houses is troublesome, then moving interstate is super-hyper-duple-troublesome. I was tremendously happy once I got the offer from Coffey, only when I havent thought of the shits that I have to go through before I left for Brisbane - sorting out all the shits, throwing those not-so-useful thingy, selling the furnitures, packing and sending all the sutffs. But I'm lucky enough that I'm gonna stay with my brother, so I dont need to look for place to stay in Brisbane.

It is never easy to leave a place after staying for four and a half years, especially having to leave all the friends behind. I remember suffering to settle in Sydney when I first came to Australia almost half a decade ago. I believe everyone studying abroad knows how hard it is to settle-in at new place. For me, the Aussie accent, the transportation system, the weather, the environment, etc in Sydney. And just when I'm considering sophisticated in everything in Sydney I've got to leave the place, or in fact I have already left the place and I'm in Brisbane now - having to go through the 'settling in' process. But it is way much easier now compared to last time, and I have got my brother here to 'look after' me.