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| June 2004 |
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| June 29, 2004 |
那麼澳洲有什麼便宜的呢？跟香港比較，任何地方的住房都很便宜。其次是醫療教育，因為兩者的素質都比香港高，但對於澳洲人幾乎免費。香港的公共醫療雖然近乎免費，但是負荷很重，所以醫務人員服務態度欠佳，私人醫療保險並不完善，很多項目都不包，價格也不便宜。澳洲的私人醫療保險價格合理，而且醫務工作人員的服務態度極佳，可以看出醫務人員對病人有真誠的關懷。
澳洲海產比起香港驚人地便宜。比如，6澳幣一打的生蠔，3澳幣一個的巨型青蟹，10澳幣一千克的龍蝦，數之不盡。如果你喜歡吃海鮮，這裡會是你的天堂。其它水果、蔬菜、肉類、奶類都比香港同質素的產品便宜很多。有機類蔬果、豆制品的價格更加比香港便宜一半以上，質素得到充分保障，所以奉行健康飲食的人在澳洲如魚得水。
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| June 24, 2004 |
In terms of shopping, clothes in Brisbane are just so unfashionable and
expensive, as compared to Hong Kong. I will just need to stock up the next
time I go visit friends in Hong Kong. But the most frustrating shopping
inconvenience for me is the extremely pricey appliances and electronic
goods, including PC, digital camera, printer, peripherals, gadgets, so on
and so forth. Compared to internet shopping price in the US, Brisbane price
is about 20-40% higher.
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| June 22, 2004 |
The most
unreasonably priced service in Australia is anything telecom-related, name
it, the home phone network, the wireless network, ADSL/Cable. I would
venture to say that Telstra is perhaps the least efficient telecom operator
in the whole world, I really can't put to words how frustrated they make me
feel. Despite my repeated confirmation at the kiosk or through the customer
service, they still managed to entirely mess up my phone setup, leaving me
entirely cut off from modern communication for a whole week.
Since they are a monopoly, the basic line rental is
a staggering 30 AUD a month. On top of this, each call costs 17 cents! For
cell phone, the cost is just equally insane! Have you heard of the term
flagfall charge? Can you imagine paying over 0.5 AUD per minute for your
cell phone? What's more, ADSL used to cost over 80 AUD a month when I first
arrived. Recently due to increasing competition, I was able to cut my ADSL
cost down to below 60 AUD a month, well, still quite a bit more expensive
than Hong Kong.
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| June 16, 2004 |
我覺得最有特色的購物點是每個星期的農民市場（farmer's
market)，農民進城售賣自己親手種植的農作物、釀制的食品，從蔬果、芝士到果醬，都是新鮮的有機食品（organic
food)，價格比超市的略貴，但是物有所值。每種食品的包裝上都印有農民的姓名、聯絡方法，要是覺得不好吃可以下個星期回去農民市場向他直接投訴呢。
我小的時候在重慶山城的鄉郊莊園住過，每天都能吃到才從地裡收成的蔬菜水果，溫暖的新鮮雞蛋，一直懷念。想不到在布里斯本也能一溫舊夢。
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| June 10, 2004 |
無可否認，在英語環境中鍛煉是最有效掌握語言的方式。最好的方法是平時打好英語語法詞匯的基本功，暑假的時候可以斟情參加一些海外的交流活動，與英語為母語的人直接溝通，而不是跟一些英語還不如自己的人互相學習對方的錯誤。到了一定的年齡，有足夠的自我料理生活的能力，可以直接往海外升學，在學習生活中磨練自己的英語能力。
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| June 5, 2004 |
長年居住布里斯本的亞裔雖然不多，但是來這裡遊學，留學的亞洲學生絡繹不絕。其中以日韓、台灣為多，都在這裡上語言學校，課程為期半年到一年不等，有些完成課程後繼續在本地大學進修。
根據我的觀察，我認為上語言學校並不是很好的學習英語方法。首先，這些學生的基本功並不紮實，這裡語言學校的學生清一色都是外國學生，碰到的同鄉比澳洲人多，看到她們下課後互相之間都是以日語、國語溝通，平時出沒的地方都是日韓台灣食店、超市，基本上生活在一個與澳州本土生活隔離的真空中，在這種情況下，語言有可能進步神速嗎？而且，這些語言學校的課程並非文憑，並不需要與任何學制接軌，學生並沒有很大的動力學習。
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| June 1, 2004 |
My recent move
to another residential complex has proven disastrous so far. First of all, I
was too optimistic and tried to argue for a reduction in rent at my old
place while the general rental has recently risen. The landlord sniffed at
my offer and order for my vacating the apartment in two weeks. Then I
scrambled to find a nearby fully-furnished apartment in an extremely tight
rental market just 11 days before my moving date. The following sleepless
nights were subsequently spent on planning and coping with every aspect of
moving, to say the least, disconnecting and reconnecting all utilities, on
my own.
When the move finally happened, something went terribly wrong. I was left
without a phone access for a whole week. Now I really don't know how to live
a life without the internet. After wandering about in the streets for a
whole day, I eventually gave in and sat myself in front of a PC at an
internet cafe. Life is good after all.
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