2003 年 1 月 30 日 星期四 【晴】

YEAH!! Father is here finally!! I have waited so long for this moment and now it has arrived, and I am overjoyed at the moment. This morning we were all rushing around the place trying to do some last spot cleaning before my dad got here. I did wake up later than usual by just a bit because I had done so much yesterday. We were late to pick up my dad as usual and well at least he got to see us again on the happier side. ^^

We went to the Fish Market to buy a large salmon fish and we had lunch there. I hardly ate anything because I am so sick of fish and chips (maybe it’s just chips that I am tired of). We then had to go to Chatswood to buy some other stuff for tonight’s feast and it was about four forty-five when we got home. I was so tired by then that I didn’t even feel like doing anything at all. Unfortunately, there is no one else who will do the cooking. Everyone else is pretty much sleeping because of the long day and so mother and I set off making dinner. I have done a lot of cutting today and my arms are kind of just exhausted from all those exercise. I just wish that dinner is to be ready soon so that I can eat and then have a rest. I need to go and shower and then sleep. It will be good to get a rest.

My cousins are also over for dinner because today is for family reunion kind of thing, so I have invited them along earlier this week. They are here now and well yeah I don’t know what to say to them anymore. They are living so close to me and yet they are so distant from me. I don’t even know why, but well we all have different friends so I am not going to worry too much about it. I am sure that I will be able to find them if I really need to.

A very terrible thing has happened this morning in Waterfall. A train crashed at approximately seven thirty this morning and at least nine people are dead. It is horrible and there were so many injured. At least they’ve got everyone out of the wreckage. Why there are so many terrible things happening now around the world? Is it the fact that God sees that we human beings are getting to bad and need to punish us for our sins or is it that we are just so hopeless that we must ruin God’s creation of the world? I need some answer. Maybe what I am saying is not right but I still want to know why there are all these horrible thing happening around the world. Should go and ask someone later.

After dinner à I have a good dinner. For the first time in ages I am not the only person cooking dinner. Mother needed to do most of the cooking today and I am so grateful for that because there’s just too much food on the table tonight. I will never be able to manage it all by myself. I think tonight must be the first time for ages since Eric has missed fellowship. Today is a day that we can’t go to it though and Eric knew it and has expected that we can’t go already. At least we can go to church on Sunday so that’s all good. There’s a soccer match on this Sunday and I can go and watch it. Good!

I must say something to everyone though ---- 新年快樂呀!!!



>>March 2, 2003 at 10:52:28 AM GMT+8

2003 年 1 月 29 日 星期三 【晴】

The hottest day of the summer today!! It is so horrible! >_<

Today, I was waken up by mother at eight but didn’t get up until eight thirty. I planned to wash my clothes and bed sheets, then go for a shower (it was so hot!), and go to school for re-enrolment at one. The weather is just so hot that I didn’t want to go out at all but I have no choice, the stupid re-enrolment is on today. I finally left the house at one catching the bus to Chatswood. Hardly anyone was on the bus. I just got to Chatswood on time for the 200 bus and off I go to TAFE. The enrolment was quite quick. It only took me two hours and a bit to go and come back from TAFE. At there I saw an old friend of mine enrolling too. He is a very busy person as he helps his father out at his restaurant in Parramatta or something. We talked for a bit and then we went our separate ways.

I cooked a proper dinner tonight and it is the best that I have had for a while. We actually have fish, chicken, and vegetable. Very good. And now I will have to go and clean my mother’s toilet because she can’t be bothered doing it. It is so not fair but Eric and Vincent won’t do it so it’s up to me again. I am so annoyed!

My father is arriving tomorrow!! YEAH!! I haven’t seen him for more than half a year. I can’t wait till I see him tomorrow. At least it will be cooler tomorrow. ^^

After finishing the cleaning up: à I just ate a big chunk of watermelon with my mother. We are both really thirsty and so we just decided to eat some. I have had a lot of water today already and if I have too much I will get sick, something that I don’t need at the moment. My brother has turned on the air conditioning and now it is very cool here. It is actually close to freezing in my mother’s room though. Whoever created the air conditioner is a genius. People like Raf who doesn’t have an air conditioner at home will just have to put up with the heat. ^^ I am so grateful for the fact that I have that at home.

Hmm….I can smell burnt stuff outside. I think the weather today has provided more trouble for the firemen. There are more breakout of fires up at the Snowy Mountains. I wonder when will the fire ever end for this year. The prevention for bushfires seem to be really appalling in Australia even though it is very obvious that we are a country that has a high risk of having bushfires every year. I suppose we human beings just don’t learn from mistakes sometimes. Enough complaining now.

Haha, there is no Jenny online tonight at this time to talk to me but I can find other people to talk to me about today’s weather. It is rather interesting to see so many people online only at this time of the day. Why don’t they come on earlier? I stay until this time is only because I have nothing else better to do and I like talking to people about anything at all. Well, take this entry for example, I am babbling again. I can just talk on for ages about nothing really. Maybe I should shut up now. =P

>>March 2, 2003 at 10:50:46 AM GMT+8

2003 年 1 月 28 日 星期二 【晴】

Oh my gosh! It is horribly hot today and tomorrow will be hotter than today. I have to re-enrol at TAFE tomorrow and it is going to be horrible. I wonder how the bushfires are now around Australia? Hopefully they will all die down soon. Every year there are all these problems with the bushfires, how come the govt. has never done anything before the summer to prevent it? It will be really good if there’s some prevention done before the end of each year for the bush fires. I feel so sorry for the fact that every year we have to lose so many trees due to bushfires.

Eric is working today and my mother has an appointment with the hairdresser to do a spot of cutting before the Chinese New Year. Vincent slept till one o’clock in the afternoon and then has to leave for uni right after that. Being at home is really boring but I don’t want to go out in this kind of weather either and I need to clean up everything before my father comes on Friday. There is so much to do, like vacuuming the whole house, cleaning the sofa back, wash the car and vacuum it too and then have to wash all the clothes. Millions of things to do. At least I did get one thing done. (Ok, I didn’t really do it myself, but I did have one thing off my to do list.)
I have asked Ricky to help me to do the thing for Kev and I will have to break the bad news to him myself. =(

Eric is not coming home for dinner now and mother has just bought a chicken home and I have a feeling that Vincent is not coming home for dinner either, meaning that I am eating with mum alone again. Mother bought the chicken especially for Vincent and it looks like it’s a waste of effort to do that. I suppose I can just eat it myself but it will not taste as good as when the whole family is eating together. In any case, I can do nothing now seeing that they have both made up their mind to eat outside.

I talked to Phil today and he is still so annoying yet such a cute little boy. Apparently, Nick got his hand on some gold and so, now is using it all as quickly as possible. I can’t believe Nick sometimes. He just can’t have any money saved up in his bank, must use it all. He has about five to six students but that is not enough for his spending. I have heard from Catherine that he has to go out for coffee every single day and go to the hairdresser once a week. That is horrible. He doesn’t need to use all these money and yet he does for no reason really. Anyway, Phil and I were talking about high school starting tomorrow for him and how he has everything planned for this year and so on. He is doing 3u Maths, 3u English, 2u Photography, 2u Music, and 2u Business Studies. He is going to have a good year. Business is like one of the easiest subject in high school. Just as Eric had taught me when I was doing, just make things up along the way. That is actually useful. I did pass my Business tests. ^^ He wants to go into the sound production or filming industry and he is definitely working his way to it. I am glad to see that he is working on his future. Unlike me who is so absolutely hopeless with the future and cannot even see herself getting into uni until goodness knows when.

Philip is a very talented boy and I mean very. He has adopted his talents from his mother is all I can guess, because his mum is so smart. Also, I have never met his father during the six years that I’ve known Nick, so I won’t have a clue about anything to do with his father. He was playing on the piano for most of the time when we were on the phone and he made all those up by himself. I mean, Nick is a good pianist too, but he studies it so he is supposed to be good at it and Philip just used to play the saxophone, which he stopped playing since year 7 and he is good at playing the piano. He is very creative too and good with his hands. He does most of the hard work at home as Nick is too busy socializing with his friends. He is also very good at kung fu, which he started when he was in year 7, I think. It is so ironic how I am actually friend with Nick but somehow end up talking to Philip more than him all the time. My friend, Catherine talks to Nick’s mum more than to Nick as well. Hmmm, I seemed to have gone off the topic a bit. =P Yes, as I was saying, Phil has decided to work very hard this year with his school work so that he can have a easier life later on which is a very good plan. He is going to become a very good film producer.

Vincent is still not home and dinner is horrible because I didn’t feel like eating at all so I have just cooked some vegetables. I think it is the time of year when I just lose my appetite. This is good, I can even lose some weight while this happens. It has happened before so I suppose it will happen again. OK, enough babbling today. Hehe, I am really looking forward to the Chinese New Year so that I can get some money, as I am so broke. I still owe Eric $140.

I think there are some bits that don't make sense but anyway I hope it's alright.


>>March 2, 2003 at 10:48:04 AM GMT+8

2003 年 1 月 27 日 星期一 【晴】

哇!!! Kevin哥有回應呀!! 十分之開心呢! ^^ 今天係哥哥回來的一日, 所以好不容易才清潔好他的room. 我好耐冇見過佢, 唔知道佢有冇change到呢? 今日好極了!! 終於有好事發生啦.

今天係十分之熱的一日, 但係我唔想swim because I am already very tan. 但係真係好熱! >_< Even Vincent is whiter than me at the moment but as he said, he will have gotten all the colour back just after a swim. ^O^

WOW! Vincent has bought me a watch!! A nice one, too. I am so happy now. He kind of looks the same to me but I am not sure. I haven’t seen him for too long. I enjoy this moment with the fact that my brothers are both here and I am having fun looking through the stuff that Vincent has bought over here. This is absolutely fantastic. I am loving this time so much. I think I have never been more glad to see Vincent in all my life. ^^

Also today I got to talk to Kevin online ar!! What a superb day this is! He wants me to help him to do something for him tomorrow and really confused me at first but now I know what he wants me to do. Just the problem of rather I can go to Macquarie uni or not tomorrow. Well, I have asked Ricky to help me so that is alright I can at least have a back up plan incase. He has sent me two pictures of him and his family and they are good. They contained his grandmother, mother, sister and his cousin. First time that I get to see his family.

While I was asking Ricky to help me, Jenny happened to be there too and the two of them confused me so much by talking at the same time using Ricky’s icq account that I was completely lost. I am now planning to give them a good kick on Sunday. ^^ Just kidding. ^_^ It was a very interesting thing to do though. Keeps me entertained for a while. Hehe! Jenny is not being a good girl though because she is not studying.

Vincent said that he might take us out for dinner tonight, which is very nice of him. But I really think that it has something to do with the fact that he doesn’t want to eat my cooking. He said so much as to he is not used to eating home cooking food anymore, so I will take it that he doesn’t want to eat the food that I cook. Well, even better now, I don’t have to cook. Brilliant!

Oh….Vincent slept for too long and now we have to eat can food for dinner. Doesn’t matter he can still take us out for dinner afterwards. He is not going anywhere too soon. ^^ The day is still hot at night and according to the weather report Thursday is going to be horrible with the temperature reaching the high thirties. How am I going to survive on that day?? My father is coming too and so we will have to pick me up from the airport. Should make a note to tell father not to wear so much clothes on that day. Anyway, today is great and I am so glad to have two brothers at home instead of one, even though meaning that I won’t be talking to Eric as much, but overall it is still good.



>>March 2, 2003 at 10:46:13 AM GMT+8

2003 年 1 月 26 日 星期日 【晴】

Eric is finally home!!!! I am so happy that he is home finally as I haven’t seen him for four days. He seems like he is very tired so I didn’t really talk to him yet. The other good news is Vincent is arriving tomorrow morning! YES! I wonder how he looks like now? He told Jenny that he is very skinny and as he has been skinny ever since I could remember maybe he will look the same. I can’t wait.

From what I have heard, Eric had driven William’s car back home to allow Bill to get more rest so that he can drive home. I wasn’t expecting that as Eric told me before that we might have to go and pick him up somewhere because he didn’t want to have William driving him home again due to the long trip. However, today as I was talking to my mother in her room I suddenly heard Bill’s voice and sure enough they were back from the camp. They look like they have enjoyed the camp so that’s all good. Eric cooked instant noodles for both of them to eat and then William had to leave for some other activities somewhere else. Eric meanwhile slept until dinner time and that’s today’s news.

>>March 2, 2003 at 10:43:35 AM GMT+8

2003 年 1 月 25 日 星期六 【晴】

Today is a very hot day, which means more work for the people who are battling the bushfires around the country. It is getting worrying again. I wonder if the bushfires is ever going to end. The amount of home lost and the families that are now left with nothing but the remain of their burnt homes.....

I am so proud of Jenny today, not only did she got up early in time for service, she even helped to make dinner for Ricky and James too!!! Of course Katherine deserves most of the credit. Jenny did wash up afterwards though. ^^

It is so late but it is still so hot outside it is a rather terrible thing to happen but I will have to live with it. ><

Today is the last day of the Australian Open and Andre Agassi won the game for the fourth year. He is so good at the age of 32. Especially with the fact that there was a time when he stopped and now he has a full come back which is absolutely fabulous. A good news is that he and Steffi are playing doubles together in the French Open. I can't wait!!!

Hmmm........it is starting to get windy outside and now it is much cooler than before too. Good!!! I can't sleep if it is too hot and then I won't be able to wake up early tomorrow and then I will have to listen to my mother yelling at me for that.

What a way to spend the Australian Day today by doing absolutely nothing at all. Beautiful! ^O^


>>March 2, 2003 at 10:40:11 AM GMT+8

2003 年 1 月 24 日 星期五 【晴】

Today is absolutely fantastic!!! I woke up at six and was too tired so I kept on sleeping until around half past six. I woke up and had a shower and started panicking around my place. I was really worried that I would be late for the train at the set time so I was yelling at my mother to get a move on. I finally left the house at ten to eight. We planned to meet at Epping Station at half past eight but when I got to there it was only twenty five past and I was the first one there. I was really worried because I didn't know if I was supposed to meet them there but then people started showing up and I breathe again.

We got on the train at quarter to nine and went to Strathfield to change a train that would take us to Wentworth Falls. It was a very long ride up to be honest. At least we could talk and many people just slept due to the lack of sleep they had the previous night. Thank you God for providing us with such a beautiful day and allows us to go on with our plan for today as it was a suitable day for us to go bush walking today. It wasn't too hot and not too windy or smoky which was perfect for us.

The walk itself wasn't bad at all and we got to see a lot of spectacular sights. There was at one point in the bush track where we all climbed on some very big rocks to take a picture. That was absolutely fantastic. It was great fun and I can't wait until we can do all these again. When we looked at the far away view of the forest below us we should really be grateful for the fact that we are still able to see it as the bushfire hasn't yet destroyed this fantastic God's creation.

Going downhill is always easier than going uphill and that was when I was going up I could hardly finished the walk. I am not very fit and the walk up was just a bit too much for me. Eddy and Eric Yu had to stop and stayed with Jenny and I while we took our rest. At least though we made it up and we could finally have lunch, which was wonderful too. Many people had bought along good food. Sandwiches and noodles and cakes etc..

When we had finished lunch, we had a bit of time singing praise to God. Even without the piano we still sounded good and I love all the music on the paper but we didn't get to sing all the songs, which was quite ashame. Our games for today were "大射風吹". It was very funny to be honest because we needed to try and get a spot for ourselves in a circle that kept on expanding, which made the game more complicated, and confusing. The other game was just as interesting as we threw the ball upward to the sky and shouted out a number, that person with the number will have to catch the ball and if he/she can't then they have to yelled stop and the people that are trying to run away as far as possible will have to stay at their position and let the person with the ball try to throw the ball at them. Lili lost the game in this round and was forced to eat some mayonnaise, which was all right.

When we finished the games it was time for us to start moving and get on the train back home. The people who drove gave us a lift to the train station and then we took another two hours to get back to Epping. Overall the day was brilliant. Such ashame that Eric is not here to share with us but then he is at a camp that should increase his knowledge of God which is more useful than bush walking.

We had dinner at Eastwood and then it was time for us all to go home and take a rest. We had an enjoyable day and now it's time for us all to go to rest (if we aren't doing so already).



>>March 2, 2003 at 10:37:57 AM GMT+8

2003 年 1 月 23 日 星期四 【晴】

Firstly, I have to apologize for the poor chinese grammar in my last entry la because I have read it over again today and there are so many mistakes. Shame though, that I can’t change the entries unless I am a member who pays for this diary account. Anyway it’s alright seeing that it is my first time to type up so much things in chinese for such a long essay style of writing.

When I was talking to my father last night, I have asked him to buy me a book on how to type in chinese from Hong Kong and he said he will see what he can do. I am so please with that. If only I can learn how to type in chinese I will be more superior than my brothers in this sense!! My father did teach me how to type my chinese name, which sounded really easy, but it’s not really. ^O^

Today is kind of a hot day. I got to sleep in today for the first time during this holiday. ^^ My mother went out really early this morning and so I slept until eleven o'clock. Eric has already gone to work and I don't know where my mother is so I just ate some of the leftovers from last night for breakfast and then watched a bit of TV.

I should clean my place up really seeing that Vincent and father are coming next week but I am too lazy to do that on this beautiful day. If it is hot enough later on today I might even go for another swim again! I need to have some more exercise other than walking up and down my stairs at home (which I have to say is not really useful).

Yesterday I have bought a dress with my mother in Chatswood and I really like it. It might be a bit expensive in my mum’s opinion, but it is not very often that I ask my mother to buy me a dress because I don’t really like wearing them all that much. I am more of a jeans person.

Tomorrow, I am going to go to Wentworth Falls with my fellowship people. We are going hiking there. I will have to get up really early tomorrow in order to get to the meeting place on time. Maybe I will even have to trouble my mother into taking me to the place. I have watched the news and it says that tomorrow it will be rather hot as the temperature will reach 30 degree and that is horrible. Maybe inside the bush it won’t be as hot though. I can’t wait.

Eric has left with William for a meeting at church and they are going to drive to their camp site tonight as their programs start early in the morning tomorrow. I hope that he has a good time and learn more about his belief inside the camp. Three days without my brother at home…. it will feel strange but I am sure that I am going to enjoy the next few days when I don’t have to cook proper dinner because there’s only mum and I.

Abigail said that my entry is like writing an essay. Reading through it now I will have to agree with her because it is so long! Well, this has to do with the fact that I really like talking about anything and my “once I start I can’t stop” habit. Hehe!! ^^

I hope the people reading this won’t mind the very long entry of mine la. I still have some more things to say because I went out driving today and I drove to Manly. It was such a long drive and I am so PROUD of myself now. Hehe~~ It was a fantastic experience and I went walking with my mother along the beach at ten at night. Absolutely marvelous view of the beach. Right now I need to work more on my parking because it is absolutely horrible. I don't know why I can't park properly but I am working on it now. Hopefully I can go and get my P's soon.



>>March 2, 2003 at 10:36:10 AM GMT+8

2003 年 1 月 22 日 星期三 【晴】

哈哈! 我為了要給人家一點新鮮感 , 所以我便利用中文來到打起這一則日記 .
我唔係好清楚我點至可以做起這個日記, 但係我一定知道只要有恆心, 我係一定做到的 .

我今日同媽媽去了Chatswood. 我己等好久冇出去了. 我本來係去library的, 但係要幫媽咪忙, 所分開以便去了MOSAIC那兒. 媽咪正在分開一堆積起來的music. 好不容易才能分開所有的music paper. 本來想等到Eric 放工才走的, 但係因為時間唔好, 所以便回家了. 不久後我們便出返去接Eric 放工. 我想Eric係好怕我開車, 但係佢冇出聲.

回家後我便要煲飯. 今日有十分之美味, 有chicken wings, fish, capsicum and cucumbers. 我等了好久才有得吃飯. 好在我不用洗碗啦! Cooking is all right but I only do one thing but not two (that is if I cook, I won’t wash). 真是十分之平常的一天吧?



>>March 2, 2003 at 10:27:38 AM GMT+8

2003 年 1 月 21 日 星期二 【晴】

Well I am online again at the early morning of the day. It is funny that I have been up at this time for most of this holiday. It's as though I am used to it now. Tonight (or should I say last night?) I went out for a drive with my mother and it was really good. Due to the light traffic at night I was able to drive across the Roseville Bridge and to Castle Cove where I just drove along the street absorbing in the beautiful night. The breeze was so good and the sight of the scene was absolutely marvelous.

We really have God to thank for giving us such a beautiful environment to live in as there are lots of people around the world who don't have a house and they are simply just sleeping anywhere. >_< I need to learn how to not take everything for granted because of the fact that we are living in a much better condition place than a lot of other people and I really should appreciate everything that I have. Imagine one day when I don't have a house or anything then I will regret for sure that I have been so dumb to be like this.

Today I found out Nick has gotten fired from his work. It was a surprised to me because he has worked there for a pretty long time and now he doesn't have a job. Well, technically he does because he teaches piano to little kids, but he is now so broke that he can't even afford to pay for his mobile phone bills (which is overdue for two months) and now it has been disconnected. Also his mother has to put a bar on the home phone to stop him from calling people. He has changed so much since I first got to know him. I can't believe how socialising he is now. Anyway, I hope that he will get another job soon (which is a very hard thing to do these days).

Right now, I am talking to a friend who worked with me before. I need to get a job fast so that I can go out more often because there are so many friends that I will like to catch up with. I miss my high school friends. Eunice is like a lost friend to me because since graduating from high school I haven't seen her at all and it is rather ironic seeing that I see Janice more than her. My closest friends are all busy to see me too which is so sad. =( Steph and I can catch up but due to the weather now it is best for her to stay inside I think. She said that she wants to save up money now and so she doesn't really want to go out so I supposed the only way to see her is really for me to go to her place.

Haha~~ another night of going to bed after two in the morning. So typical of me...........Eric is still on his computer in his room too, I think he plans to go to work at the usual strange time of his tomorrow. I hope that mum doesn't make me drive in the morning tomorrow as I am sure will be dangerous due to my lack of sleep.

On this note, I really should go to bed because it has been a long day to me already. I can't say that I didn't enjoy today even though it is the same like every other day but at least, I can type this thing up and use up a bit of my time.



>>March 2, 2003 at 10:34:14 AM GMT+8