兔兔又想猫猫了。。。

获取到过后的能力，果然是一直都会跟着你的呢 :)
那时候担心独步天涯所需要的胆大心细，会在那样被温室一样地保护着一段时间后消失，是白担心了 ^_^
也担心过在瑞典之居时掌握到的某种东西会离我而去，在需要用到时它们却不期然地回来了。。。
如今也会担心之前几年来练就的mental stamina会被澳洲温润的工作风风化，想是如果回favco的话，会被上司、同事们劈吧~今天的表现却又把这个也一扫而空了 ^_^

只是有时候会生疏了吧。

一直都在的，
只要你去注意，去用捕抓照片镜头那样的悉心把它找出来。
就好像，
猫猫留下的味道。。。

got me thinking...

是在想什么时候该结束这次自我放逐的事。

这一次回去还是有一些小症结，整体上却都平衡得不错了。是堆积的尘埃快扫干净了的征兆吧 ^_^ 怎么听起来此行倒像是个出院前测试一样，呵呵。

最近用android下载了村上春树一系列的小说，《奇鸟行状录》里的本田先生批言：没有水流的时候，就老实待着别动。若是逆流而动，一切都将干涸。一切都干涸了，人世就一片漆黑。
所以要注意水流。。。
那是说，如果发现水在流动，就得抓紧时机顺流而去吗？如果本已在水流之中，却出现清澈活跳的岔流，又该怎么办呢？

咋看之下，道理似乎和咱老祖先《庖丁解牛》是一样的，批大却，导大窾，以无厚入有间，恢恢乎其于游刃必有余地矣！那么当刃遇到两个相连的大却和大窾，只要明确地知道要解的那一块的形状大小，那往哪一个却或窾批下去导下去都是对的吧 :)

早上就开始下不停的秋雨让天气转凉了呢。穿上了外套，呷着今天的第二杯热饮，在想，这样写意又sustainable的生活，还实在是难得呀。。。要这样过一辈子也不赖吧？即使当时在favco工作时也曾因为很不一样的原因有类似的心情。。。看来还是个容易满足的小孩 ^_^

还是继续注意着水流吧 :)

回家

要回家怎么那么兴奋？好像个大孩子似的，从中学住校开始，这种感觉就始终没有变过呢。。。说不定就是那时候就养成的pavlov效应 ^_^

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以上是回马之前写下未post的一小句。

如今却又坐在办公室里自己熟悉的位子上了。昨天回来后本该大扫除一番，却因为舟车劳顿和羽球运动了被荒废以久的肌肉在抗议而只换了床单和枕套，就倒头大睡了。只好今天放工后，把离家一段时候回来后该做的常务一次解决咯~ 打扫、洗衣、还有食物补给。

不知不觉，入秋已半个月，布城却仍然牢牢抓着夏天，一点秋意都还没有。让我多穿几天的背心短裤吧 ^_^

平静，是再次和根接触后的平静 :)

我的《陋室铭》

说起《陋室铭》，倒是和现在的心情挺有共鸣的~
可以调素琴，阅金经；无丝竹之乱耳，无案牍之劳形。只可惜少了谈笑的鸿儒，呵呵 :P
就是想念你们这些鸿儒们才想回家的呀！

再怎么说，还是安静地享受着现在浑身自在，no strings attached 的感觉 :)
总觉得生活这样，也不需要再多些什么，能够一直这样就好了。。。本来无一物，多出来的，都是尘埃呀 ^_^ 有鸿儒的地方，也总会有些丝竹和案牍等着的。等把堆积得让我喘不过气来的尘埃洗净后，再回去见你们吧，我的鸿儒们 ^_^

one of the best hikes

Totally quenched my inner fire. And I'm a happy girl ready to take on the world again XD This 6hrs hike is probably the biggest challenge I've faced in a while and it's totally wicked sick!

2hrs drive south of Brisbane lies a certain Mt. Barney. The area around the lower and upper portals is where all the excitement unfolds ^_^

The hike reminds me so much of the one down Wallaman Falls with Ally and Surein, I was even basking in the joy of the memory ^_^ The first part of the hikes were quite similar, where the ground is clad with open eucalyptus forest typical to this region. Then it came to the never ending uphill downhill uphill downhill bit. After a few creak crossing, we arrived at the lower portals of Mt. Barney after about 1hr15min. Then, it was time to get wet, and we found a shallow place at around knee hight to wade thru the rather rapid stream.

We then continued to hike thru a particularly high hill to get to the upper portal. And then the fun, or terror, whichever way you want to look at it, beggins ^_^

The picture shows a part of the valley at the upper portal, with Mt. Barney itself as background. Walking, sliding, dropping, climbing, lizarding up and down the rocks, was the only way to traverse the valley. To be honest, wearing a pair of running shoes, I couldn't have done the lizarding parts without the attention of the seasoned rock climbers.

A small drama to add some effects:
We departed Brisbane at 6am and I got dropped off home at around 6.30pm. The hike is finished at an effective 40degC heat. Two of our group of 15 got heat stroke and needed a small rescue team to bring in water and electrolytes. Fortunately both recovered after taking the electrolytes and were able to walk again. In the end they even came to the pub for a beer with us :) Similar incident happened in the same hike the year before, and I'm just glad that everyone turned out OK. Lesson learnt: always bring your first aid kit to a hike!

Bad sleep at the backpackers last nite, and it's been a long day. Seeking my bed soon, nites :)

late PS: signed up for this coming Sunday's hike at Binna Burra, Lamington National Park ^_^

心血来潮

做了奇怪的事情。有人在自己的人地盘住backpackers的? 嗯,其实如果Make sense的话，又有何不可呢? ^_^

这两个星期的自己却实有点怪怪的。是病得烧坏脑了?呵呵。今早磅说俺从墨尔本回来后三个星期内共掉了2.5kg,那是大于俺体重的5%…真的被消磨了呀…

哎,话说回来，今晚住backpaCkerS是为准时赴明早6点在weStend附近的登山集合。这种时候最怀念每次把我载上载下的阳弟和父亲大人了XD其实也因为没有看过周末夜晚人声鼎沸的West End才觉定了作怪的。

明天的登山,今晚才从美国登陆的技术总监S,竟然在最后一分钟报名了…就让我今晚活在不知道会不会和技术总监一起登山的复杂情续下吧 ^_^

希望明天会是个登山的好天 =)

乡

好多想说的呀。。。最近却很难把脑袋里的东西转换成有意义的文字。

这几天又来了，一直一直只想回家。只好在做喜欢的事情的时候，提醒自己，回家就没办法干这个了。看到书里面的主人翁因为找三餐而烦恼的时候，暗自庆幸自己从来不用为此着急，又想起回家的话或许自己就和他们一样了。一直一直在找说服自己不要回家的论点，一直一直在证明这里没啥不好，却还是想回家。。。

是因为实验室没有了过后，工作方面太没有意义了吧。。。感觉像是在浪费时间。搬来YP的办公室后，背后多了很多双眼睛，没有了在UQ那里的自由。那是把本来是要被浪费的时间拿来做自己更有营养的事的自由 ^_^

那天难得扭开电视，看到一个广告，一个人被问"what do you want out of life?"，他的回答是"可以写意地在海边散步，还有和认识的人在一起"。。。多诱人的答案呀！

哎，又需要endorphin了。待会儿又去跑吧。希望别下雨。。。

Tas是…

第一次用手机写blog呀～
在这个被iPhone垄断的年代,我却还是对SE忠心耿耿呢^_^ Xperia X10的mini版,这家伙差不多做到集全部好用的gadget于一身,而且还要体积小的要求了=)

希望它也可以像之前的K510i那样,陪我走过好多风雨好多路 ^_^

The apotheosis of the dance

Got the ticket to Beethoven 7 in June! T_T Got box seats de ticket!!!

Tickets had only been open for sale earlier this month and the box seats are almost sold out already! Geez, it comes to prove that people had really been prying on this one...

1. Wagner Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde
2. Liszt Piano Concerto No.1
are also on the menu for the night and I had been doing homework on them. And ended up falling in love with Liszt's T_T The night will be concluded by Beethoven's 7th. Wonder if my emotion state would end up like how it was stirred by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra playing this piece... Apotheosis indeed >___<

On another overdue note, here's Rafa practicing and drawing a crowd in Melbourne Park about two weeks ago, during the Australian Open.

Te amo rafa~ Should go and watch him in Roland Garros someday :)

兔年吉祥！

7:35pm update...

在熬冬菇金白汤，待会儿用来煮猪肉包菜饺:d
反正在等，就先回来视察用公款扫回来的战利品~

米饼，栗子，面筋，虾饼，杏仁酥，鸡仔饼~ 明天去Hydrexia下毒 XD 是今天带了凤梨酥、花生饼和kuih kapit去，被风卷残云地扫荡完后，CTO Stephanie 给的request

"How about you do Chinese's for tomorrow's drinks?"

嘿，这样的优差，什么时候都欢迎~基本上就是用公款买自己爱吃的，加上不用自己一个人辛苦地啃完一大包XD 差点就建议来点红高粱呀、五加皮呀、女儿红呀、什么的~ 他们竟然说青岛啤酒没怎样，哼！该拿咱家后面印度人自己做的椰花酒又去给他们放毒~

汤香咯~ 口水已经垂三尺咯~ :d

大家兔年吉祥！:)

还是无间道

disoriented.

怎么每次稍稍离开布城几天，就会想回家呢？竟然有了在三月飞回马后，就赖着再也不回来布城的冲动。。。

那是昨晚踏入房门之前的事。

在房间内的灯亮起的那一刻，还是有了回到家的感觉。。。好矛盾呀。是在一星期的劳顿后，被房间整齐舒适的布置给骗了吧。

今天回公司上班，管理层一份份的工作推过来，脑袋似乎还操作顺利。投入工作后，reverse跳飞机回家的事就像一阵烟一样，被轻易地挥散了。我果然融入hydrexia了吧。。。在办公室厨房里咬着当季盛产的桃子的时候，竟然一面开始在给崭新的hydrexia办公室的布置动歪脑筋了。真会自己surprise自己呀。到昨天还在担心会有一段时间因为沉溺在回忆里，没办法回到工作的现实呢 ^_^

可是呢，还是期盼着三月份的到来。已经braced myself for每次回去或离开时那灵魂被撕裂的感觉。即使这样，还是期盼着。。。

flood assessment

Hydrexia's lab went under... Water fully submerged our prototype cage (therefore cannot be seen in the picture) and up to the roof of the little building behind our lab. It went to about 1m deep in our workshop/lab level. Rumour confirmed, the building is going to be demolished and hence... breath in... no lab. Till we build a new one in YP.

How close our Yeerongpilly office got to being flooded... The flood water was separated only by the street infront of our premise.

Picture taken in Rocklea, on the train ride home from work on Friday 14 Jan. The water had started to recede.

The most shocking pics are of the chemical storage cage where all our waste material were moved to. Both in terms of wot the flood had deposited over there and also of wot it had carried away with it. Not suitable for public eyes XD Nah... just havn't got hold of the pics :P

But I do get this one~ True Aussie spirit ;)

wau bulan membawa ku kepada mu

专以孩子的眼睛看世界，以大马为写作背景的许友彬老师，竟然给英年早逝的伟大导演Yasmin Ahmad写了个追悼的作品呢 ^_^ 还竟然连dikir barat里的wau bulan也搬出来了呢！Dikir barat是以前到处去表演廿四节零鼓时才有幸看到的精彩马来文化。这样的文章是乡愁的氧气，加上最近水灾后人情的升温，和离家快半年堆下的燃料，会燃起熊熊烈火的呀~ ^_^

《河两岸》写的是被河分开的华人农村和马来甘榜，还有那道分开她们的历史、政治和偏见的河。听起来好像是被很严肃、很不可碰触地壳包围着的话题吧？却被老师在四年级的达达的帮助下，轻松清纯地剖开了，浸淫其中呢~

达达和我的轩弟弟一样，是个emo的小孩。有头脑有主见的小孩，都会变emo吧 ^_^ 因为精神上的需求没有被照顾好。因为平常的小孩，没有这方面的需要，所以一般监护人都会忽略了头脑想太多的这一群特别的需求吧。。。

断了线随北风飘到河对岸的wau bulan，带着达达去找莎菲卡。故事就从那里延续下去。

抄两段和大家一起分享吧 :) 给我看着这本书时，一直想着的两个人。

这一段，给轩弟弟。

‘他抓住风筝的纸翼。“给我！”
我拉扯回来。“不给！”
“嘎哧！”
风筝折翼了，骨架断了。
我放开手。
瑞安拿着风筝，眼泪又溢出来。“断了！”
“断了。你不要吗？你不要，我要，我会修理。”
我说谎，其实我不会修理。
瑞安拿着折翼的风筝，哭哭啼啼回家去。
他是一个没有主见的人，他要，因为我要。
我是一个有主见的人，我要，因为我要。
有主见又怎样？我要的东西，总是得不到。
他不要的东西，总是得到。’

这一段给蛔虫Jun-e，还有多少有点家庭困扰的你 :)

‘“那么你以后还会不会去赌博？”
“不赌，不赌。以后收了摊儿，我就回家，在家里，不出去了。我会把钱存起来，把债务还清。老婆，你还没说，到底是谁帮了我这个大忙？”
“是一个你很讨厌的人。”妈妈说。
“可能我对他有误解。”
“不是误解，是偏见。”
“是，是。可能是我有偏见。我会检讨，我会矫正自己的看法。老婆，他到底是谁？”
“她上个星期刚刚给你赶出大门呢！”妈妈说。
“阿华？”爸爸问。
妈妈没说什么。
爸爸挠挠后脑。“我对阿华没有偏见，我知道他是一个好孩子，做事负责任，肯力求上进。我只是……我只是担心他娶一个印度人做老婆。”
“娶印度人做老婆有什么不好？”妈妈问。
“我们是华人，我希望我的后代都说我们的话。”
“他会说华语呀，她也没有说不让他的孩子学华语。”
“我们华人，注重传宗接代。我的孙子，也要姓赵，不要印度姓氏。”
“娶了印度人，孩子是跟着我们的姓吗？”妈妈也不确定。
“是。”姐姐肯定地说：“我们班上有一个同学叫刘启龙，他的妈妈是印度人。”
“他会华语吗？”妈妈问。
“他的华语比我好。他会七种语文。”姐姐说。
“可是……”爸爸还是有话说。“我们要延续香火。我担心我们的列祖列宗没有人拜。”
“不会的。珊蒂说，她可以烧香。”妈妈说。
“以后，生下来的孩子黑不溜秋的。”爸爸还有怨言。
“黑有黑的美。”姐姐插嘴说：“鼻子比较挺，睫毛比较长，混血儿最美了。”
我也有话说。“瑞安也很黑呀，鼻子又扁，不好看。”
妈妈则说：“一个人的皮肤是黑是白，跟他做人，有什么关系吗？”
我觉得妈妈这句话很有意思，值得深思。
爸爸妥协了。“如果阿华坚持要娶她，我也没有办法。不过，如果能够娶华人，还是比较好。”
妈妈说：“帮你解决问题的人不是阿华。”
爸爸问：“那又是谁？”
妈妈说：“阿华的女朋友——珊蒂。”
爸爸愣住了。’

Brisbane flood day 3

Back at work as train back on running. Four others turned up. Two of them have powercut at home. We are the lucky ones.

As the train passed by the stations leading up to YP, receding flood water can still be seen in Salisbury, Rocklea and Moorooka, some 7mins train ride away from our place in Sunnybank. It is unnerving. It is no wonder that train service was suspended between YP to Kingston, a bit south of Sunnybank.

The area around Hydrexia lab in UQ is still closed until Wednesday. Any assessment of damage will have to wait until then. The Chemical waste storage place in UQ also went under. Now the worries are with our waste material drums floating away, threatening environment and human health X_X

2 more turn up :) apparently those in the north are also alright :) the flood missed Matt Greaves' house by a metre ^_^ The three managers MG, JP and my boss Andrew are going to friends' place to help with cleaning and resettling. Dave the seaman had spent the off days touching up his three row boats for incoming clean up jobs near the Moreton bay. Most of them just came in to see if everyone's is alright or need any help, leaving immediately or by lunch time.

An aside story. LL and Rand went to pick up two buddies who were stranded at St. Lucia yesterday. They were without power, without food, car without petrol and had mobile phones with low batts. They bought petrol with them and the two came to our place for some rest and food before moving on to their relative and friend who live further south. Thumbs up!

These are but little stories that happen closest to me, not even a corner of the iceberg of the compassion shown all around Queensland.

Hats off to Queenslanders!

Rebuild :)

again on the flood event

Sipping tea and nipping ginger nut cookies are usually reserved for lazy Sundays. The flood has obviously brought that forward to a Thursday afternoon.

LL drove us to Garden City for groceries, and there were some quite telling scenes, as fresh food were swept by consumers and supplies are not ready to come in.


The basic essentials like bread and milk are all still available tho. We aren't gonna starve just yet ^_^

A few of my colleagues are affected. Matt Greaves was evacuated, Marc was supposed to move to his new place the day it flooded and now the new place is flooded, and Todd couldn't get home for a couple of days but is now believed to found a way back.

Live shots from choppers broadcasted on TV had confirmed that our hydrogen lab and a few machines left with it are well and truly gone.

CTO just msged to let us know that Hydrexia's gonna be open tomorrow but people are to judge if it is safe to travel to work. Guess I will leave it for the Queensland Rail to decide for me. Hope the train service will resume soon.

personal account of the Brisbane flood

It all started to concern me since yesterday morning, when an emergency meeting was held in Hydrexia, responding to an evacuation alert regarding our hydrogen lab in St. Lucia, less than 50m away from the bank of the swelling Brisbane River.

The team rallied and ended up moving about 90% of all the movable items to our Yeerongpilly premise, where little me with minimal muscle mass held station. The harmful waste materials were stored in a chemical waste storage facility in the University of Queensland; hydrogen pressure vessels, prototype systems and heavy unmovable machineries were tied and bolted down. The lab itself was stripped.

When people left on the final run to Yeerongpilly at 1530, the river was lapping at the base of our P4D1 (prototype 4 development 1) and the system cage. Water level had risen 1.5m since then, to a level of 4.5m measured at the city gauge. High tide is coming in around 1430 this afternoon, and the highest level is predicted to be hit by 0400 tomorrow morning, where it is predicted to go to 5.5m, and stay high until Saturday.

Train service was temporarily suspended this morning, leaving me no choice but to call in for leave. CTO Stephanie had duly replied "Stay home!"

A few colleagues might have been evacuated from home or cut off as area surrounding their home flooded last evening.

LL went to work this morning and is sent home by the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital just after lunch. The area around the hospital near the Suncorp Stadium is well and truely flooded.


Milton Road near the XXXX brewery


A prayer to all.

over zealous

Work before and after the Christmas - New Year period has been about occupying myself with self generated work, along side with the occasional tasks or meetings boss might come up with.

Too much paper reading. On topics in reports I'd already submitted. Which wasn't entirely a waste of time as there happened to be an overlooked point which might have significant impacts on our vessel design. The issue had been circulated to the Apps team managers and our CTO under boss' recommendation. Mildly amused by anticipating their reactions~

Then too much web surfing. To prepare myself for the programs coming in the first half of this year. On subjects that might potentially come in handy on those researches, like Expanded Natural Graphite, Thermal Programmed Desorption, mass spectroscopy gas analyzer, random particle packings etc. It might all sound alien, as it was to me two days ago. Though Xuan would have loved this part of my job, as checking up new stuffs on wikipedia is one of his most enjoyed hobbies.

Anyway, leave me like this for much longer and I will be bored to death XD

Can't wait to resume experimenting, and submerging myself in the entanglement of unexplainable data ^_^

germination

4-1-11

5-1-11

:D

明天开工咯~

圣诞长假和家人渡过了忘忧的旅程，回来后三天的静养，精神充沛。涣散的精神在这两天无咖啡因、低卡、低碳、低脂、高蛋白的饮食调理下，再加上今天的5k冲刺和瑜伽课，算是稍微集中了吧 :)

把自己的状态准备得好好的，好像职业球员进入新赛季前的调养啊 ^_^

包着麻油调味鸡胸丁、钮扣蘑菇、罗马番茄和mozzarella cheese melt的奥姆勒~


Year planner里今年上半年的活动已经看起来很可观了呢~放下工作上即将展开的让人兴奋的研究课题不说，撇开生活上各种想尝试的也不说^_^，月历已成了这个样子：
1月：澳网、塔斯马尼亚
2月：农历新年快乐
3月：改换素衣回中原~
4月：复活节假日节目待订
6月：贝多芬第七交响曲布里斯班再现^_^

看来想做的只能放在二月、五月和六月了吧。每次都很巧啊，会碰上当地的交响乐团演奏贝多芬第七，在哥德堡也去听过一次。这次一起奏的还有李斯特的第一钢琴协奏曲，和感情丰富的Wagner Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde。为了准备到现场去好好享受，下载听了后，已经爱上李斯特了~ ^-^

今天瑜伽课回家的路上，不禁拿了瑜伽和在马来西亚上的电子风琴课作了比较。结论是，还是电子风琴比较能让我投入的忘记时间，忘记现实吧:) 好想回去学琴哦~ 太奢侈了吧。。。现在一大堆乱七八糟的其他兴趣里面，想把它插进去也得挪一挪时间哟 ^___^ 怎么我就不能好好专一地，就什么都想试。。。 :P

无论如何，明天开工咯~
希望好的开始会带来好的一年，大家也顺顺利利，开开心心的吧 ^_^

happy new year 2011 :)

1-1-11
Mm, an elegant date...
A good day for a new life to begin. Lets keep a growth log for these mint seeds.

快高长大。。。 :)

caught by the festive spirit

Less than a month ago, I was telling LL that I wasn't really going to celebrate xmas...

And see wot you people have done to me now!!!!!!!!!!

XD

The decos and build ups down here in Brissy are not as strong as it was up there in Sweden, where the whiteness that covers everything itself was a constant reminder of the festive season. However, everything just seems merrier than it has ever been! Even our serious CTO Stephanie did a nice one, the card she left on everyone's desk on Friday morning was a very personalized and well thought one... soak up the sweeeetness ^_^

Marc and I volunteered to organize Hydrexia's second xmas party of the year ^_^ Actually I never did, he made me do the veges... Matt Plato was again behind the barbes, nice people~ Evil food and evil drinks, with loads of fat and alcohol under a warm early summer sun, everyone was basking with happiness and became so sooo amiable. LL's wisdom: You want to make guys happy? Feed them XD

In the midst of things, the long missed light-hearted-ness had somehow found its way to my door step. It is almost as if it's school days again... and it's not so difficult to just go on and embrace it :) Whether it is the whole nation boiling the atmosphere up, or the anticipation of my family's visit, I cannot tell. A shame that the blokes are back in Semenyih, 扛着顶着咱家屋顶的柱子 ^_^ Things would be perfect if you two are here, 就当是遗憾美吧~ ^_^

To save mama from frowning when she sees me on Wednesday, I went for a last minute hair cut. Either the hairdresser was feeling my mood and was trying to make me look like it, or I really just look like a student... >_<

^_^
Hereby wish you a Merry and Peaceful Christmas

bass logistics

About the task of carrying around a bass guitar, 2/3 my own height...

Imbas kembali....

Back in high school, I used to have my bass lessons on Sundays. the classes were in Cheras, which was conveniently on the way back to my rental place from home town. Every Saturday, I would leave my rental place in KL carrying a slick black Yamaha RBX270 in a strapped bag along with other luggage.

Bus fares was 80cents towards the Kota Raya direction, it didn't matter where you stop. Affected with metrophilia, I had always preferred to take KTM from Sentul station to Kajang. Also, with the carry-ons as I had, packing onto a sardine tinned bus was a nightmare I don't want to recall. However, the problem was, getting from the bus station to the train station involved a 15mins walk under the steaming hot sun. With the luggage and the bass guitar, the task became formidable.

Then we started to look for options. Taxi from batu 3 1/2 Jalan Ipoh to Sentul station usually costs ~RM2.5 to RM3. If you get 3 or 4 to share, it almost costs the same as the bus journey costs. It very quickly became my default route to home ^_^

Cab drivers were often careful and curious people, wondering what on earth was in my heavy black long pack. M16s??! quite a few asked ^_^

Back to current...

This morning the task of carrying a bass guitar on a journey involving taking a train, a bus and a 400m walk had again fallen onto me. With the helpful Aussies who voluntarily opened the train door, who patiently waited and made sure I got off the bus first, and who stopped his bike to allow me to cross the road; along with the kind summer morning sun, it din seem as formidable at all ^_^ aah, people~

Looking forward to the jamming this arvo :)

看萧红

彻底地打扫了房间，清理了一些琐事，又换来了周日半日闲 :)

soy milk 泡的rusian caravan真的降服了我的味蕾呀~ 喝着这茶，今天看的是不太容易入口的萧红。是当年华文课本里那一篇《火烧云》让我认识了这个奇特的黑龙江作家吧。还记得那时候和爸爸说起对《火烧云》的喜爱，竟然得到了他的共鸣和长篇小说《呼兰河传》的推荐呢 ^_^

事过大概十年了吧，却至今还未着手于《呼兰河传》。这次看的是比较少接触的散文和短篇小说，共16篇。这书的排版还真不错啊，文章是越到后面越引人入胜。看完了第13篇，《山下》，被它给俘虏了~ 不同于它前面文章里的浓厚乡土味，这一篇虽然仍然在写最低的劳作阶层，却有一种宫崎骏/studio ghibli 清新朴实的气息呢 :) 同时也在多方面的探讨人性在不同情况下的变化，多方面的体验生活的小细节，让人倒抽一口气地赞哦 ^_^

还有三篇文章和1/4杯的茶在静候。压轴的是早逝的萧红接近生命尾端时写下的最后一部作品，和《呼兰河传》齐名的《小城三月》。心理上该有个尊敬的准备吧。。。

p/s: studio ghibli 的作品一直是俺的精神死穴，至高解放wei~ ^_^

working with fine measurements

Started on writing a post about bugs, and then thought it might freak ppl out and better not to post it XP

Finally got a bit less hectic at work :)

Two and a half hrs to go until next experiment ends, and next output deadline is just before xmas. Sounds like time for a blog? ^_^

Thesis work with Ericsson has poisoned me permanently with designing and performing R&D experiments, where my chaotic brain seems to function best. Hydrexia practically employed me for this "Carrier Stress Proof Testing" program, as they thought it's a Sci-gineer's job. Can't possibly find a job that suits me better :)

The carrier stress testings involve measuring carrier tubes with wall thicknesses down to 0.1mm. Diameters are in units of XX.XXmm, measured to an accuracy of 0.01mm wei~ No one wanted to believe my test results in the beginning as they are so far away from their prediction from working with the material for close to 5 years. For a while, the lack of confidence and experience had me doubting my own data under the grilling of seniors.

But as the program goes on, we learnt. Didn't realise that using Verniers involves such techniques and delicate fingers ^_^ With my supervisor backing the results up, we built a mathematical model that gives sense to all the test data. As our story was bought, the CTO and Mech Eng manager has also given their full support, even contributing explanations for data points that have gone astray. That left the PAE manager Jordan P to be convinced... He's one hard nut to crack man XD

On the other hand, the Technosystem machines test with 1gram samples. The accuracy of this one goes right down to 0.0001g. Probably can measure the weight of my soul with it XD Marc and I have been competing to prepare a sample as close to 1.0000g as possible. Apparently, he had been doing it for almost two years and had never achieve the feat, and, ahem, my record is already on 1.0005g~ ^_^

aaah... boss just sent more work in. Will worry about it on Monday.

Papa, mama and Xuan, have an awesome trip ya! :D

小小鸟

阿肯大哥的msn pm又变成了 流浪中... 。对比起来，另外一个在msn列表上，名字刚好在他上面的家伙，pm用了 发现自己很像一个浪子。。。 ，看了不觉好笑 ^_^

看来，别论程度，爱当浪子的人还真不少呢。。。有些是想当却从来没机会当过，像上面的X君；有些是真的爱当不归了，如肯大哥；还有些是爱当却被社会捆缚着跑不掉的，perception上，小小的我也是一个被这样定型的人吧 ^_^ 近一年多来，有点想摆脱这个定型，可是却徒劳无功，束手无策呀。还是蛔虫们看见了，一个说我在cut back on travelling，另一个说我已经过饱和了，呵呵。事实呢？travelling已经成了自己的一部分，好像呼吸那样，没特别地去在意，去想它，却完完全全的和生活融在一起了吧。所以都没特别计划去什么地方做些什么，却还是一直在旅行吧。。。对放下一切踏上旅途的游方，现在却很少在想了。成了夜雨间，一杯热茶在手，什么时候的一首不再流行的歌忽然播出时，难得激起的涟漪吧 ^_^

爸爸昨天在哼的歌，是很普及的一首，送给在被生活蹂躏着的大家 XD 好啦，好啦，换成在和生活较劲的大家好了 ^_^ 年轻人，加油咯！

赵传：我是一只小小鸟

有时后我觉得自己像一只小小鸟 

想要飞 却怎么样也飞不高 

也许有一天我栖上枝头 却成为猎人的目标 

我飞上了青天才发现自己 从此无依无靠

每次到了夜深人静的时后我总是睡不着 

我怀疑是不是只有我的明天会有变得更好 

未来会怎样究竟有谁会知道 

幸福是否只是一种传说 我永远都找不到

我是一只小小小小鸟 

想要飞呀飞却飞也飞不高 

我寻寻觅觅寻寻觅觅一个温暖的怀抱 

这样的要求算不算太高

所有知道我的名字的人啊 你们好不好

世界是如此的小 我们注定无处可逃 

当我尝尽人情冷暖 

当你决定为了你的理想燃烧 

生活的压力与生命的尊严哪一个重要

容易满足的小鬼

到了周末都会想回部落格这里，有时候是来整理生活里所接触的一切，有时候是来发"离骚" ^_^， 有时候纯粹是让心灵歇一歇。

是因为颠沛惯了，所以有时候会向往有规律的生活吧。。。像在favco工作的那段期间，总是像跟着程式一样的:

星期一赶着日出开车到senawang，总喜欢在一个星期的第一天超时OT。回家打扫一番，洗个澡，看一会儿书，做点什么，就累得睡了。

星期二的晚间通常是被grocery shopping和练琴占据吧~

星期三没去futsal场搞乱的话，那时间还是会被音符和文字抢掉。

星期四。。。和星期三一样。

星期五是羽球天，虽然别扭的羽球不是心头好 XD，但还是喜欢运动，还有和朋友共渡的时光吧 :)

星期六都奉献给黑白键了，实在没有很多时间练习啊。。。晚间享天伦，是为最简单的快乐吧。。。

星期天喜欢和家人一起活动，喜欢和旧同学聚会，喜欢赖在家里什么都不做，喜欢在睡觉前准备下一个星期该带去senawang的衣物和用品。。。

那么简单固定的时间表，其实会让心扎实起来 :) 容易满足的小鬼？ ^^ 不小咯，呵呵。。。

Chermside Hills

feel like smothering that EMO kid... instead, i wore it with me to Chermside Hills.

Today's theme is Oasis' "Don't look back in anger". Not totally relevant but it underlays the fire i had been feeling... feel like smothering that EMO kid...

Slip inside the eye of your mind
(wood carved kookaburra)

Don't you know you might find a better place to play
(i spied with my little eye, something begins with "W" here. came face to face with a wallaby, lucky~ ^^ )

Step outside the summertime's in bloom

Stand up beside the fireplace, take that look from off your face
You ain't ever gonna burn my heart out
(the result of city council's controlled burning)

So Sally can wait
She knows it's too late as we're walking on by
Her soul slides away
"But don't look back in anger", I heard you say

Take me to the place where you go
Where nobody knows if it's night or day
(the hills have very little human visitors, the only fellow homo sapiens i met were a friendly old couple and a guy coming from the opposite direction, pouring white powder from a canister... wot the hell was he doing? when i walk on, and saw more tiny pools of white powder, the question mark in my head grew larger...)

(when this came up at the end of that particular track, a smile followed. it's clear enough, the guy was leaving markers :) taking whoever concerned to the place that he goes like the lyrics ^^ )

(no doubt of it as more and more of them adorns the tracks in the area :) some sort of event hey? children's event perhaps? :) )

Please don't put your life in the hands
Of a Rock 'n' Roll band who'll throw it all away
(cant wait for the first batch of june's lomo pics~ so i faked one just to get things warmed up ^^ )

busy busy de

how things can change in quick successions...

multi-tasking again... yet miraculously having a substantial amount of leisure time. surreal. makes me wonder where does all the time goes whenever i'm in malaysia...

been breaking promises to myself lately. should make it up, i should, i should. life is a hell of a story XD

闲闲地

玲和rand告假去moreton island放松了。可恶呀，竟然比我早了一步呢 ^^ 是想在圣诞假期间和过来作客的妈妈、轩弟弟和nOnO一起去的。倒是现在有人帮忙搜集资料咯 ^^

昨晚在和玲和她们的客人素、彦和克里斯大玩wii Just Dance后的亢奋下，彻夜看了dan brown的 "the lost symbol"。一直到天色淡白才不甘愿却dutiful地就寝。中午醒来又是home alone了，一面呷着加豆奶的russian caravan，一面继续紧张的剧情，dan brown的作品真的会让人放不下来，想一口气看完啊~ 而且还是让人变神经质的作品呢，什么风吹草动、门呀、桌椅呀稍稍发出任何声音都有威胁感呵！*惊* 偏偏家里一个鬼影都没有 T_T 持续的阅读只被准备和消耗自己弄的怪怪的green curry鸡饭打断 XD

在玩wii的大家 ^^


然后，又去跑了4k。officially 变成4k了呢。比上个星期快了2分钟，但还是有点pathetic的时间，只有微坡的跑道竟然要花上23分钟呀。上个星期还说可以怪罪于旅途的劳累，这个星期难道要怪昨晚的酒精？呵呵。。。下星期天6.30am在布里斯本市区内有一个沿河的5k长跑，没参加过这样的活动，也没一口气跑过5k，该试试了吧 :)

回来躺在庭院的木长凳上喘气，眼里却是意外地漂亮的一幅画~映入眼帘的，一角是在落花的jacaranda，一角是微暗的屋檐，直插进来的阳伞的顶端，然后就是一大片的蓝天，和往东南方缓缓前进的白云 ^_^
静~
心也变得很静 ^_^
一只小昆虫飞过，想起了爱看云的鹿丸君。
嗯，也想起了欠你们的jacaranda照片。这就来咯~布里斯本漫天漫地的紫色sakura ^^

诗人状态

好像又濒临诗人状态了。。。
每次都是这样的前奏。。。
专业角度上，这种多愁善感状态会很不好吧。在favco的话，可以想象，生存不下去 X_X 现在却偏偏有一个industrial hippy当上司，不小心投其所好了，呵呵。
至于学习方面，诗人状态倒是pick up超快，脑筋耐力超强的~是因为全心全意在感受、在浸淫吧。

进入诗人状态，会变成名副其实的multi-task-queen 哦 ^^
是因为一个常理上会吸掉很多时间的component不在，暂停了对他们的责任，却让他们成了原动力，疼的人 :)
所以啊，既然选择了就要做出成绩，不然怎么对得起你，对得起自己呢！:)
嗯，一直都是以这样的心态在努力的。

i am strong, when i am on your shoulders
you raised me up, to more than i can be...

the great barrier reef road trip

the best pics are censored and haram-ed by my two enjoyable travel kakis ally and surein. so there's not many for you to see XD

surein with his D90 took the honor to be the cameraman of the trip and ally's retro camera which i really cant remember wot brand and model now caught most of the fun trio shots~

the reef trio at brisbane domestic airport, waiting for the flight to MacKay~

approaching whitehaven beach, where the sand is of pure white silica and the only party who can legally take sand away from the beach is NASA, at the rate of 1tonne a year, to melt it and make their telescope lenses.

at whitehaven beach



the Big Fury that got us there :)

continue with the beach~





the cove entry

corals!!!

airlie beach~

ally with miss ellie at airlie beach!

sunset at port something at airlie beach :P




rotary club lookout between airlie beach and townsville. got us illusions of african savannas :)


and that's all folks~ might post some of ally's and surein's pics here when they are ready :) all in all, road trips are fun to have, but don't forget to check your fuel level!!

changes

home alone, yet again.

waiting for the hydrogen content on my experiment to get to the targeted wt%. shouldn't take more than half an hour now. before that, i have nothing else to do as all previous results has already been incorporated into the report. a second program has been completed early this week and now there's only this one on my desk. had a glance that marc's tests on the technosystems had finished running, shall do the post test processings for him as he's caught a cold and taken leave for the day. all in all, i miss the never ending workload in favco, where u can choose to work on another thing when u are fed up with one.

home alone, as in i'm literally alone in our tree sheltered UQ office by the Brisbane river. different measures had to be taken now. the doors are shut and i put a sign on it for visitors to call in for access. for my frequent travels between the two offices, i continue to be the mail girl and delivery person, but at least cleaning service resumed so that is now stroke off my job scope ^^

the jacarandas of brisbanian spring are blooming so magnificiently it matches the famous sakuras. will definitely do a post on them after coming back from cairns :)