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Lemon Ideal 柠檬理想SMILE like a THEORIST><TALK like a PHYSICIST (© 2009 Lemon Ideal. All rights reserved) 12月22日 My Analysis About Economic Recession Time and Australian Job MarketAfter 3 months' Australian job market research, I find myself having a lot to say about this recession time and the current Australian job market, even though I have not received any certain job offer. I still feel myself promising in this job market. :) The impact of the financial crisis on the job market seems not that significant as forecasted by the market analysts. While many laid-offs occurred, the government also promised to create about 10,000 jobs for the people. According to my analysis, these jobs, will mainly occur in the infrastructure industry, the local governments, and the education industry. The crisis of the financial market brought many issues such as the corporate governance, financial management and the actual capital power of a company to the surface. The company with a strong financing power and governance should be able to provide a better buffer against this crisis. So is a country. While most of the countries have reacted "actively" in this crisis, some countries are keeping quiet. For example, I have heard little about Sweden, Norway and Netherland, and today it was the first time that Canada jumped into the news circle, say, they also had a bailout for motor-makers! The scrutiny and credit control of a company become very important. So, more senior positions in finance and operations have occurred in the job market. On the other hand, it will be harder to get a job on junior and graduate levels. Someone said to me, "I heard you are good at cooking."Have I mentioned before that I am doing some experimental work in my kitchen? I hate cooking, basically. But thinking to treat it as a hobby, and make some progressive improvements while I am still unemployed, it is not a bad idea.
Then, one day, last week, someone said to me, "I heard you are good at cooking."
Word spreads out. Let's put aside that car crash, the credit card debt, there is still something good about me. :)
I start to get bored of being unemployed now. Even though, every morning I feel a great opportunity is just around the corner for me: look at the sun shine, look at all the Christmas happiness in the streets and shopping centers, and ... look at all the lovely vacancies in the Seek website... there have to be something for me.
I registered with Centrelink the other day. The employment service there sent me to an agency. When I stood in front of a huge board with the exact street number I got from them, I realized, behind that board, there was no single building but a park. My first gut feeling about this park was that it was a cemetery. What a great humor it would be if it was really a cemetery. But later I found out it was actually a college.
Once upon a time, some one talked with me about "career".
"What is your Mom's job?"
"She is a primary school teacher."
"What does your grandpa do?"
"He is a permanent resident of a cemetery."
"Oh, well, then what are you going to do?"
"An accountant."
But it is 7 O'Clock in the evening. Forget about the accounting for a while, and... let's cook!
A Day of Remembrance
I had my first serious car crash yesterday. My little old beetle was completely crushed from the front. It seemed as if it just finished a boxing match, and had been beaten badly in face. I don't want to go to visit it a second time. And I know, Yesterday was the Remembrance Day of Australia. The downtown was packed with the crowd wearing red poppy petals. I wonder, whether I should buy a poppy flower for the crushed beetle. The first love is destructive, so is my first beetle. I could do nothing but leave some words of my remembrance here for my beloved bug: may my love be with you. ||||::2 minutes silence::|||| 10月26日 Between The Lives 生活之间平庸的生活和彩色男人西服 (A boring life and men's suits in colors)
 有怀旧情绪的街角pub,周日下午一直播放Phil Collins 和 Bob Dylan 的音乐。
  10月12日 阿童木糖果店说起童年，我们这一代人谁也忘不了那些陪伴我们成长的卡通人物。机器猫，樱桃小丸子，蜡笔小新，乱马，流川枫，到不久前的幽灵公主，网球王子...... 可是昨天和朋友一起逛街，转过街角的一家糖果店，看见里面摆满阿童木的糖果盒。阿童木，还有什么能比阿童木更动人心弦的呢？那个勇往向前，大无畏的阿童木，最先装入我们幼时心怀。
10月8日 赋闲在家的几天从工作了两年多的公司辞了职，除了感觉清除了一些鬼魅魍魉的阴影之外，也有些无所适从。所以就痛痛快快的打包，将自己遣送回家，大修几天。这个世界，醉卧沙场君莫笑，莫以成败论英雄。PAUSE-+-+PAUSE-+-+ (:-D)
可是回了国，我也觉得赶不上趟。去趟超市，老妈直嫌我慢，我却奇怪她老太太一个，推个小推车，还能健步如飞；挤公共汽车，我挤不上，老太太反过来要帮我占座。排个队，好不容易轮上我，正要抬腿上前，一不留神，后面的人早已涌到我的前面，一面还没好气的回头来句：“这人怎么呆站这儿，不往前走啊？”蹬上中学时代破自行车，去儿时那几个街头地盘转一圈，发现这地儿，这地儿，再也不是当年的我们曾经横跨过的地方了。
9月15日 My Interpretation Version - Viva La Vida
9月6日 Optus Wireless Helpdesk I have been using Optus wireless for about one month, and so far I have made about 10 calls to their helpdesk. 5 for connection; 5 for my plan. The first time when I called Optus helpdesk was during a lunchtime in the office. To successfully reach the helpdesk consultant, I have to answer a machine some generic questions. “You are calling Optus. Is your call about a phone, a mobile or internet...” “inter--” I said. The girl sitting behind me happened to throw a pile of clips into a box. Then the machine choked and said, “Sorry, I did not get your answer. Please tell me what are you calling for...” Someone sitting in another block 5 meters away was coughing hardly over there. The machine choked again, “Sorry, are you calling...” Another colleague who was working under a great pressure while others were having a happy lunch break banged his desk badly with his mouse. The machine choked again and started over, “Sorry I must have made a mistake. Is your call about...” Then I hung up my first Optus helpdesk call with all the background noises in the office and a choked answer machine on the other side of the line. The conversation with a helpdesk consultant was even funnier. “What can I help you, Madam?” It was a guy with an Indian or Turkish accent. “I cannot connect my laptop to the internet with the Optus wireless modem.” “Madame, did you connect your modem with your computer?” I felt my face flushed, “Yes, I did.” “Could you take it out and replug it in?” “I did that several times, but it does not work.” “Then, could you please turn off your computer and turn it on again?” I felt my face was turning redder and redder. I saw a Souvlaki restaurant guy, standing behind the falafel counter, one hand holding my helpdesk call, the other hand spreading lamb, lettuce and onion on a piece of pita. Then I had to press the “end” button on my hand phone and exit from this helpdesk call quietly. The latter experiences with Optus wireless helpdesk turned to be much better. Last time a young boy with a handsome Australian accent answered me and told me the software I was using must have collapsed somewhere and what I need to do is to simply reinstall the software. And alas!---it works! Except that he also told me I could not set up the network mannually. So since then, whenever I got trouble with my wireless connection, I will simply restore the wireless connection software without any trouble of entering IP, submask, or gateway addresses. The similar trouble also existed when I tried to change my monthly plan. I could not change my plan online with my login. And the technical guy in Optus told me that I had to call the customer services. Then everything restarted: the easily-choked machine, the long time of waiting and the helpdesk background music. Today I finally had my plan changed after a 40 minutes' waiting. When I complained to that helpdesk guy, he said, "Madam, we are currently having another 30 incoming calls waiting for an answer." One month passed since I started using my Optus Wireless Broadband, and I think I am able to work as an Optus wireless helpdesk now. 8月30日 It Is 11:00 am
Internet, coffee, and a good toasted sandwich: having a quiet Saturday morning at home.
8月28日 Crazy CarrotI think I have developed a kind of disorder called "food boredom" in Australia. For the whole season, there was only one single type of thing I wanted to have for lunch, pumpkin soup . From Monday to Friday throughout the whole winter, a slim pale boring-look woman, would step down from the office building at one o'clock, stop in the hallway for 30 seconds with hesitation, then turn to right, walk into a fruit & salad Cafe called "Crazy Carrot", and queue for that holy soup. An indian waitress, would look up at her with a teasing smile and say, "Pumpin soup?" with an explicit indication of "I know what you are going to order. Everyday you eat the same, hahaha...". And I could hardly drive away the Janice-type of laughters from my mind. (You know Janice's laughters throughout the episodes of "Friends", which Chandler can never get away from.) It seemed the same as Miranda's Chinese Take-away scene in "Sex and the City". I could, now, sincerely understand her. The Cafe owner seemed a bit unhappy about my over-fixed schedule in his shop: 2 Jaspers at 10 and 3 , and soup at 1. There was once when I walked into his cafe as usual, he frowned and said " there is no soup today. It's sold out." Then this poor woman, had to turn around, and walk into the cold wind to search for another lunch place. Things seemed boring enough so far. But actually there were changes happening from time to time in that cafe. For example, since the joining of that Indian girl, they started to add some new varieties, like indian curries and snacks. And I could tell the curry is a very genuine curry type from the south part of India. And weeks later, the indian snacks disappearred and were replaced with steamed dim sims. So I guess the indian snacks were probably proved not to be a profitable product line under a "trial-and-error" testing time. There was also a tiny Italian cafe, similar to this "Crazy Carrots", that I would like to talk about here. It was at about 10 minutes' walk distance from the office. They had some nice cold couscous salad, perfect for the hot summer days. When the christmas came, the cafe owner would have it shut down for about two weeks and travelled up to Spain or Morocco for a sunny holiday. [http://www.crazycarrot.com.au/]
 6月28日 Trouble"shooting" With The Internet Connection of My MacbookA month ago, I thought I could happily dump my outdated old enough laptop and start a fresh internet life with my new Macbook. But I was wrong. I only had one happy "honey-week" with it, including a couple of joyful mornings with breakfast and free Wi-Fi browsing in a downdown cafe. Since then, the wireless connection simply refused to work with it.
I called my current wireless provider several times to search for the help. One helpdesk boy once spent half an hour over the phone trying to solve the problem but had to give up in the end.
Well, I cannot abandon my lovely Macbook just because of this. Today, I went to Optusworld to check upon their wireless service. Everything is good: 24-month plan, cheaper price, faster speed, bigger volume, and wider coverage, except that, in the end, the shop assistant said to me, "We have technique support for windows, but not Mac. So if there is any problem with the wireless connection of your Macbook in 6 months, we can do nothing about it and you still need to pay for your 24-month lockup time." This sounds really frightening. I think anybody who want to buy the wireless connection for their Mac will hesitate at that moment, as I did. I don't want to complain about this customer service; actually, I wonder whether I should feel thankful for her honesty and straighforwardness.
I remember we talked a lot about the manipulating power of Microsoft and all sorts of tough situations faced by other players when in school. And its monoly power seems also moving along with the internet providers. But I like Apple, and its rejuvenation from the close-to-death situation about a decade ago. I think the launch of the iphone together with Optus and Vodafone is a strategic move in this local market, for both Apple and Optus, a "drive-thru" of the monoply pressure.
6月22日 Home & NationalitiesWeeks ago, a friend told me with a sort of relief and joy that her application of Australian Citizenship has been granted, and she was waiting for that grand official ceremony in the local coucil. Two years ago we waited for the permanent residency visa together, and now, it is the citizenship time.
It has been quite a dilemma to me, to change my nationality or not? To give up my Chinese passport means I will become a visitor officially when i go back home. "This is awkard," I called a friend and said.
Years passed since I came to this country as a student and traveller. The wrap-up of a city also faded away. The question in front of me is "will I be better off by living in Australia and will I be able to set up a life I like to live in the future?"
Once upon a time, I tossed up a coin to decide whether I should stay with a boy in a city far away from home, and today, I am wondering whether I should do the same, to memorize this and that moment in a humorous way.
5月18日 Love? or, Not So In Love?
The New York Times held a nation-wide Modern Love essay contest in America early this year. And this year, I happened to be 30. When following up with all the essays posted in the column, I , myself, at the age of 30, after several fall-ins and fall-outs, and years of being single, and years of living overseas, have to wonder "shall I still believe in 'love' or shall I have to take it as a 'fable'? Months ago Mom asked me in a very careful manner whether I was with someone as she was that afraid that I was going to continue being just single like this. The last time we talked about "love" was more than 2 years ago, when I cried to her over the phone in the basement of the University and told her that I was broken because of someone. Then, there was a time that I was very puzzled and hesitated about how much love I should give to that person, how much intimacy or independence I should keep when I was with him, and how much of my true self I should show to him, etc. etc. In a word, I wanted to keep myself from that hurt. But, whatsoever how much puzzled and worried I was and would be, love still comes and goes, so does hurt. Noise and fury, and loneliness. Or, maybe, I should, like what many women of this age do, consider love is for fun at this stage. So, I started to date and look for all the humors behind those scenes, and...try to enjoy myself when I am in it. But love is love, dates are dates, humor is humor, and... boredom is boredom. Yesterday, I dropped by someone's website to see how he was going. After going through all the hugs and kisses from other girls, I found no way to say hello again. At the age of 30, another thing I learned is, how to walk out quietly. 4月26日 Things Beyond GamesThese days, what my friends and I talked the most about, undoubtfully, is Beijing Olympic Relay in Canberra. And what happened in Canberra this Thursday, was, as I expected, the orgainsed group of Chinese students on one side, and pro-Tibettan protesters on the other side.
It seems the all-the-world relay run has met a lot of difficulties, almost everywhere, Europe, Australia, Japan... I don't know how Chinese Government prepared for this relay run, but to me, the difficulties were predictable. The chaos in Tibet was a sign.
Olympics, we cannot just see it only as games. Many people say that we should separate this game from many othe political issues. But how? How can we avoid all the fact sheets we are facing? Money, politics, powers of different voices, etc. are all in it. Attention, all kinds of political or non-political groups are taking this chance to draw the attention of the world. Chinese government and groups are using it to make people outside of China know more about China; many groups are also taking this chance to arouse the awareness or conciousness of Chinese government and people towards the issues like environment, human rights, etc. The Olympics is a great stage: the game is the main character on it, and we cannot expect that it is the only one.
One of the hot topics in America 2008 election is the global environmental issue; it was also the main topic of 2007 Australia election; and Al Gore held the world campaign for it last year... But how our Chinese government react on this issue so far? The leaders of the government should lead the directions of the society. I am not sure about other chinese fellows, but before i came to Australia, I myself, was not that concious about many issues.
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