I thought my troubles ended.....

... but it was a big time wrong for me.

Just finding a house alone wasnt enough. it jus provides you with a roof over your head. but it doesnt take care of your basic needs.

my house got no furnitures, no kitchen ware, nothing at all. jus air, nice and clean air.

so no choice. gotta go buy furnitures. but unlike SG where they are almost furniture shops everywhere, i have little of these shops that are near to me.

actually to be exact, i find none. except for an ikea that is round 1 hour bus ride away. and make that changing of 3 buses also.

i have another choice actually. to find 2nd hand furnitures which are slightly cheaper. but 1st thing is, where do i get the transport? and i need some basic items like mattress and blankets badly.

so i got no choice but to go to Ikea and buy.

anyway, early this morning, i called u ikea to double confirm whether they provide any delivery service and how much they charge for delivery. ok sounds reasonable.

next is to find out where ikea is. therefore, i dig out my very faithful street directory and went online searching for the way.

so anyway i am now well-prepared.

and we got lots of other stuffs to buy also..
due to time problems, i gotta plan when we buy these things, how we buy these things, what things we need to buy...

but nvm, heng i was once-upon-a-time-a-3rd-Sergeant-with-Silver-bayonet-and-did-a-one-course-Platoon-Sergeant so i am quite well taught in plannin things haha. but damn tiring leh~

and dont knw why i come aust i become smarter. thought of a new pick up line liao. nx time can use

"Hi baby, i wish you are my wind"

"huh why?"

" so u can blow me everyday"

House Hunting Day Final

and finally after 3 days of hunting, the Man has brought home his trophies.

i finally managed to find my house. so happy..

but after 23 years of life i had, its is wiser for me not to get so happy so fast.
cause who knows?


on monday when i go, the agent may suddenly tell me "Oh I am so sorry mate. the person has decided not to let you have the house."

anyway i will look on the bright side. hopefully things will be fine.

today i noticed that aussies hardly jay-walk.
i walked across a particular traffic light when i wasnt supposed to cause it shows Mr Red Man on the pole and there wasnt any cars at all.

but to my amusement, onli LIMPEH walk past the street loh.

the other aussies look at me as if "Wo. Do Chinese cant see Red? There is a Mr Red Man blinking at you cant you see~?"

anyway, aussies are really friendly here. i was wondering who told me that aussies in Brisbane are very racist. i am beginning to suspect that idea.

perhaps they are onli racist against ugly people?

no wonder they treat me so friendly.

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anyway monday i am going to grab the keys. but problem is my house got no nothing at all. only got a stove. but least there is a stove, i can cook some maggi mee finally.

i was thinking of Assam Laksa Maggi yesterday and i realise my mouth start to have lot of saliva. i also think of the 900+ laksa that is sold near Yishun. i miss them..

tuesday i need go get furnitures too. will be very busy.

but nonetheless, i can finally settle down, relax. slow down my pace and enjoy the view of Brisbane :)

`really tired from all the running about these few days`

but not to worry..

cause why?

Lim peh is HONG ZIQIANG WAHAHA

House Hunting Day II

this is crap. score zero goals today. finding houses here is big time crap.

i only plan to stay in my current temporary accommodation for a while due to the high cost. and hopefully within 2 or 3 days i could find my permanent place.

well, this was a dream that i wished for back in singapore.

and as the saying goes, "dreams only happen when you are sleeping."

how true...

they are now not many places up for rentals. and even if there are, they are either too fucking expensive or the date of availability is all the way till late of july.

and those that are available now and suit my criteria of "cheap", a lot of people, like me, wants to rent them too.

so what we do is fill in a fucking miserable thinny whinny skinny paper and hand up to the agent. after that he or she will check thru our data from the office, wait for feedback, hands it to the owner for him or her to choose who he or she wants the house to be rent to.

all these process takes up to 7 days.

Nah Beh Turban~

see lah. jialat liao.. seems like my ah gong and ah ma (both of whom have passed away peacefully) cant po pi me from singapore. think its maybe cause here is foreign country and they cant speak english.

or maybe there is no air flights to Australia over at their place.

haha.

ok sorry not funny~

House Hunting Day 1

as i am blogging now, my legs feel tired and aching from all the walking.

the day began at 10am(aust time) for me. wanted to sleep longer as i watched world cup ytd. though it was just the 1st half, by the time i finished watchin it was already 545am. wanted to watch the whole match but time doesnt allow me to. i knew i would be dead tired if i did so.

by the time i finished brushing my teeth, wash face, shaved it was 1030am. i was trembling. water here is so cold.

to make it worse, the water in the basin doesnt have hot water. what the fuck~

took a bus to Indooroopilly Shopping Centre to search for agencies. bad thing. they didnt have houses that suit my criteria. therefore, i decided to walk all the way back to campus in midst of hoping to see some houses put up for rental on the way back.

all the walking make my balls really hurt. walking in brisbane isnt very easy. if it was flat road then its still fine. but the extreme up slopes and down slopes made me really wana cry. i walk for 2 hours before reaching this place which happen to be up for rental.

therefore, i called up the angency and wa-la~!
they asked me to head down to toowong village which happened to be 10 min bus ride away to take the keys n inspect the house myself. and knowing that i saw this property online before but it did say that its onli avaible on 7th july onwards, i asked the operator that is she sure i can collect and view it today

she gave me a hardcore Yes.

so i took a bus there.

not easy ya knw. didnt know what fucking bus to take at all. want to ask people also difficult. couldnt see a fucking living thing around at all except for a mouse that ran across the street.

anyway heng before i came to australia i got pray to my ah gong ah ma. As the Saying goes, "Wu bai wu po pi, bo bai chut dai ji", i managed to grab a bus down to toowong village.

i asked for road directions to the agency again. oh ya by the way, i realised that i am beginning to have aussie accent when i talk now. jialat.

i wan my lah, ooi, wa, siah lah back... sob sob~

anyway i entered the agency and eyes immediately open big big. the counter gal not bad.

but then kan ni na~ she told me she made a mistake. the keys still with the tenants and can onli take on 7th july, i feel like slapping her..

waste my time, bus fare.

but fuck it, heng she chio or not i scold her i am a gracious Singaporean. not wanting to waste the trip there, i requested for a list of rental places. found one not so bad de so i place a deposit of 50AUD and head down to view the apartment.

since the office was about to close and taking a bus there was too messy, i took a cab down. i heard people say that cabs in aust are expensive, but i wana know how expensive.

so i backside itchy go hail a cab.

to get a better view of the taxi meter, i sat in the front seat. ok starting not so bad. start of from 2.70AUD. still ok..

then i raise my head to observe the surroundings for a while onli then when i turned to look at the meter again, MY BALLS DROPPED~!

what the fuck~!

3.40AUD liao. i jus raise my head for 20 sec loh.

this time, i stared hard at the fucking meter. it jumped by 20 cents per unit. and tink jumped every like 7 sec. SO EXP~!!!!~

when i got down, it was 6 bucks~!!!

fuck~!!!!

this teached a lesson, Dont be backside itchy nx time.

anyway the house was creepy. got basement somemore. and whole place was empty. didnt stay there too long.

after that, i didnt take a taxi to return the keys anymore. i walk for 200m n took a bus down to return the keys.

alighted and on the way to the agency, saw Subway. 3.95AUD!

cheapest sandwich i see so far. guess i will pamper myself for dinner. cause never had anything for the whole day except a 2AUD chocolate milk which i bought while house hunting.

i bought the sandwich, returned the keys and took a bus back.

no walking, my legs are begging.

and then, now here i am blogging away at 430pm aussie time. legs feeling better now.

walking in aust is really tired though i was once-upon-a-time a 2 time IPPT Gold.

tmr i got one house inspection appointment. hopefully i can like the place and buy it. hope it looks nice. i onli booked my temporary hostel till 7th morning. if by then i cant find a permanent place to sleep, gotta extend for 45 bucks per nite.

not worth it. ah gong ah ma bo pi tmr your grandson succeed~

House Hunting Part II to be continued.....

and ya, i finally solved the mystery of the how to alight bus. some of the buses here do have bells. those that doesnt, it has a black "line" that runs on top of the ceiling like old tibs bus. need press that hahaa. finally mystery solved~~~

And Finally...

I have arrived..

sat through a painstaking ride of 7 hours on the plane. i couldnt get to sleep, i couldnt talk to anyone and worst~!
i couldnt stretch my fuckin legs. so bloody cramp cause i am so bloody fat the seats are quite close together.

anyway once again thanks to my frans who made it a point to send me all the way to the airport. sorry i didnt talked much. i was already nervous enough.

now i understand how the saying "Balls stuck in my throat" came about. i really felt that.

customs in Australia was really strict. imagine when the plane touched down, it was just 640am. but when i finally managed to get out from the airport, its aready 830am.

1stly, like all customs, i had to queue up awaiting to chop my passport. but the queue was sooo long. and its so strict till they actually had a dog that went around sniffing our luggage.

one poor fellow was so sway that the dog stopped for a mere 2 sec infront of him and immediately, a guy ask him to open his luggage on the spot. RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE QUEUE.

really poor fellow. bet must be the Hershey's chocolate his gf poured on him while trying to blow him food stains which he left over while having his flight meals.

anyway once the 1st chopping of passport was over, i had to head on to retrieve my luggage. and mind you, i nvr pay so much attention to the moving belts which were carrying the luggages.

but i had no choice but use the straining of the power of my eyes which i normally use on Orchard Road on the gals as the belt was moving so fast.

once done, i had to queue up again for bags inspection. and once again, the queue was led so far out that it made a U-Turn in between.

finally evrythin was done and i head out to find my driver which was supposingly supposed to send me to my temporary accommodation to UQ.

"Are you Zee Kueng?" the mister said to me.
"Kan Ni Na" was what i wanted to say to him.

nonetheless, once i am outside of singapore, i am protecting the graciousness of our people.

"oh yes certainly. But you can just call me hong" oh my, i am so courteous.

*anyway skip skip skip

i reached my lok kok room and bed....

i slept straight way without bathing all the way...

till 2pm before i had but no choice to pull myself out from bed as shops closes at 4 or 5pm. still have to go open my bank account and buy my pre-paid Sim card.

Lots of problems settling the sim card. gotta call here and there.

the fucking ang mohs dont understand my english,
while i fucking dont bother to understand their english.

anyway all's well ends well. finally thing is settled and i am a happy man. now whats left is to find a place to settle for my nx 2 yrs.

On a quest tomorrow ----------- House Hunting

and ya, the bus are fuckin difficult to understand here. dont know how to pay and dont know where the fuck it goes and dont know how the fuck to alight. today i got so fed up that i walked up to the driver and requested for alight at nx stop.

so high tech. gotta walk all the way. or maybe i am still moron enough to havent understand thier system. nvm, tmr will be a better day.

had a delicious meal for dinner. 2 slice of plain bread.

`things are just too expensive.`

T - 9 Hours

9 hours left till i depart.
9 hours left till i check in.
9 hours left till my flight leaves Singapore.

Feeling now? A tequila mixture of 10% Nervousness, 89% Excitement, 1% Can I Stay Back In Singapore?

Really appreciated what my frans did for me. They know who they are. so i shant disclose their names here. they are very act shy people.

thanks for the gift you all gave me.
thanks for slogging along with me to marina south and eat.
thanks for the "staying over and drank alcohol" with me.
thanks for the funding you all came out with.
thanks for the ktv session you all had and insisting on using the funding again.
thanks for the supper that u all went for despite having work the day after.
thanks for coming to my house and making a big mess on my bed watch World Cup and had McDonald with me.
thanks for recording a special video for me.
thanks for the many many photos that i was allowed to take so i can bring over.

Lastly, your turns to thank me for because of celebrating me going over to Aust, you all could spend more times together haha. Sorry, i was just joking.

And also not to forget certain special someone for preparing the gift, and another special gift for me.

Ok, gotta go prepare some last stuffs. I wont be away from Singapore for too long. I will miss the laksa.