17

Imagine I am going to start work on 7 June
17 days to go

The people I met

A Hong Kong man we met in a photocopy store asked, you speak Chinese? When I said yes, he started speaking Cantonese to me. Then I understood he is from Hong Kong, very long ago, long enough for him to consider himself local.

A lady from the Texas, U.S. flew across the ocean, and landed in Dubbo 11 months ago and was doing archeological field work here for 7 months before traveling around Australia for 4 months before meeting us in her 2nd last morning in Australia.

We were joining our first birthday party in Dubbo that morning we met her, by a dam, 40 min from home. Bron has such a different name. She has a different character as well that she chose to have her birthday celebrate outdoor by a dam, camping under the starry sky.

Back to the hong kong man, we bumped again into him at the exit of our local supermarket. He asked, found a job? When our answers were no, he said, why not worked at company fghijk? Jobs in Australia has no class, he added. So do we agree. Yet, we were not what he thought we were. We had our own timeline and plan and will and so on and so forth.

Glad that our parents are not assuming anything and have been very warm to us. My dad said, enjoys these days. His mummy said, I was worried you two will be bored and lonely, nah, you had neighbor visiting you, I will call again next time

:)

We are lucky that we had a choice to make. We are lucky that we met whom we met. We are lucky to have whom we have. We are lucky to be here together, exploring, trying, failing, being quiet, awkward, helpless, hopeful, hungry and full together.

18

Imagine I am going to start work on 7 June

18 days to go

I was thinking, who miss me for a split of second just now.

And I saw a Fb Message wt 2 words "好吗？" (How are you?)

I replied, thank you for asking, it felt good to know someone thought of me somewhere. I told him Mr. joe, "生活很好，工作不好找"(Life is so good. Job is not easy to find.)

I have been in good mood since I arrive in this wide vast underpopulated land. Mr. Lua (husband) said, you are happy because of a lots of small things.

I am. Actually, there is nothing to be unhappy abt over here, I feel, even after over 2 months here. Yesterday, we were strolling by the river, something we hardly if not never do in Singapore/Johor Bahru. We didn't know what was happening, but almost every groups of individuals, there's someone walking with a dog. OH oh oh. I am not a dog lover. Lua might be considered as one. Yet I found them so fun to look at. The dogs wanna smell you, no matter you are a different ethnic group, or you are not a dog. Haha... And there was a little girl, dressed in pinkish outfit, she ran joyfully wt her dog, leaving her dad walking following her behind.

That's just one easy found happiness here in Dubbo. It's small when you compare to even Canberra or Johor Bahru or whatever else. But it is so beautiful. The leaves changing colours at this season. We couldn't ever expect what we will see in our evening strolls. Sometime a gentleman waived from his yard to say hello. Another time a lady paused in front of her gate and said, the sunset is just lovely, isn't it?

It is.

To be continued tmr.

my country 11.4.2013 ma nation

昨天，马来西亚宣布5 May大选。睡觉前，我在想airasia的机票会被扫光吗？我们overseas voter的application要被diproses到什么时候？？

早上，在skype，妹寄来weblink，check了之后，果然，还在diproses.....

今晚上fb，看到一堆朋友的sharings，全都一面倒要Change. 是因为物以类聚，还是？

我大多数的friends是独中生。也有姑姑（住关丹、反稀土），也有cousin是KL人......etc.希望election is fair & transparent.马来西亚is changing for better.

华人把华教叫作"独立"中学,那执政50几年的政府把华教叫"私立"zhongxue"，而身处华教学府时，觉得我们是和主流"对立"的中学。

有时，我遗憾自己是华教的成品。因为我不认识国立学校的朋友，不知道他们是否也觉得这个制度可笑，这个政府偏激又爱做广告，没有信服力、执行力。

很久了，他们讲话，我当屁，不理。

可是，我的妈妈呢？她一辈子在malaysia, 我的爸爸（他会基本英文），可他会和妈妈在怎样的malaysia养老呢？

You, give me back a "normal" malaysia. I dont need a country who tops the world, just give me a country who is sensible, that I can make sense with.