After my 3mths break, I'm back at this little aussie kampong. My term started off pretty rough, almost causing me to be stuck at the airport and loaded with toilet paper.
Just some tips when traveling:
- Always carry the currency of the country you are traveling to.
- Even if you do not, AT LEAST carry currency of you own country.
- If you own the ATM card of the country you are going to, please remember you PIN.
- If you think that you will not remember the PIN, please write it down and keep it save.
- If you do, please remember that you have wrote it down before trying to block your card by having too much wrong tries.
- Sorrowful and anguish emotions will embrace you if you happen to find your PIN after you block your card.
- Prepaid phone cards, be it your home country or the destination country, will never work without credit balance.
Yes and that pretty much sums up all the possible mistakes you could make, all of which I have made. Only through a godsent miracle did I manage to get out of Brisbane International Airport and safely arrive at Goldcoast.
The rest of the week was not smooth flowing too.. I have been hungry, ill and embarrassed a couple of times accompanied by many hot and sleepless nights. Thank goodness, however, that things are taking a turn for the better.
Not sure if it was featured in the the Singapore news but a cyclone named Hamish appeared near the shores of Queensland around a week ago. It started with an intensity rating of 4/5 and travelled south towards Goldcoast. After a few days however, Hamish changed course back north and died down. Peace and justice prevails yet again.
I've taken up basic japanese again! Hopefully this would be the very last time I will ever have to again. My japanese education have had a long history that dated back to when I was in primary school which I begin my first self-taught japanese lessons online. Up to date, I have had 3-4 formal basic japanese lesson but unfortunately, have never proceeded to Advance Japanese due to the fact that i nv mastered reading and writing. This time, I'll make sure I do.. yoroshiku!
