Mar 31 2010
Journal entry: Burnie, 26 January 2010 Today was Australia Day, a public holiday but Edmund had to work on this day, from 7.30 am to 9.00 pm. As I was free, I offered to teach Edmund’s friend Wei Ming some cooking as he loves to cook. It turned out to be a memorable experience in ‘teaching’ culinary [...]
Mar 30 2010
On Monday, 25 January, Edmund’s friend Wei Ming was on leave and offered to take me to visit these places: a paper mill, a whiskey factory and a cheese factory. We started at about 12.30 pm. Our first stop was the paper mill located in town. We were supposed to pay an entrance fee of A$15.00 per [...]
Mar 26 2010
It was finally Saturday, January 23, the day that I had waited almost a week for. Edmund would be free today to bring me out to shop. We needed to buy some vegetables and groceries. We needed something else for the house. After being in Burnie for about a week, I had yet to visit [...]
Mar 23 2010
Journal entry: Burnie, 21 January 2010 We can get quite good cuts of pork at a reasonable price here in Burnie. However the difference between the pork here and the one we get at home in Malaysia is in the smell and the taste of the meat I don’t understand why the pork here has [...]
Mar 22 2010
Journal entry: Burnie, 20 January 2010 When I first arrived in Kuala Lumpur two years ago, I could still remember making curry puffs and giving them to my neighbour. That was to enable me to break the ice and to make friends with them. I went round the neighbourhood in Bandar Utama where my home [...]