Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
This afternoon when I was out walking Pepper with Susanne and Frisa, we found an injured pigeon. It was sitting on the drainage on the road in one of the cul-de-sac in Limekilns. I was trying to take it home and report to RSPCA but it wasn’t stay still and I didn’t want to make any more damage so I let it go. It hopped away into one garden. Susanne had Pepper and Frisa while I was with the bird, she met a woman from that cul-de-sac who said she saw this bird hopping about since yesterday. We came back home and I was busy with other thing and forgot about the bird, until when I was washing the dishes and I saw a pigeon in my garden. It reminded me of that poor bird. I got quite upset that why people in that cul-de-sac didn’t do anything to help the bird. Susanne and I went out in the evening to look for the bird. I brought a box and a pair of gloves with me. We couldn’t find it but we managed to talk to one woman who lives nearby. She said she saw this bird just after lunch when she went to get her kids. I gave her the number for RSPCA just in case she found the bird. I am still a bit upset but at least I tried to do something.
Sunday, May 10th, 2009 at 12:50 am
My second week was not as crazy as the first one. HG would like to have lunch with me every day while I am here if possible. So about 11:30am every day I walk down to Fortitude Valley to have lunch with him. After that I either walk straight back to the apartment or walk to CBD to the farmer market on Wednesday or supermarket in Queen Plaza. HG finishes his work at 4pm and walks back home. It took him about 15 minutes. We normally cook our dinner during the week. It was not easy to cook with electric cooker and limited utensils. When I cooked Thai food, I realised that I had to cook rice manually which I had never done before. I always use electric rice cooker. So Google is still my best resource for this kind of thing and cooking rice manually is not that difficult as I thought.
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Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 at 10:58 am
It’s our first weekend here in Brisbane. We got up at 10:30am. We can’t get up late in Scotland because of Pepper. It’s not that he would come to wake us up but we knew it wouldn’t fair to his little stomach and his tiny bowel. We decided to explore the city by walking today. We walked to South Bank Parklands because there was a Buddha’s birthday festival there. It’s a bit early than the one in Thailand. At South Bank every Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday there is a lifestyle market features a range of arts and craft. There was not a lot of people at the Buddha’s area but a lot at the market. We had lunch at Deck’s seafood express. I had calamari and chips. HG had fish and chips.
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Friday, May 1st, 2009 at 11:12 pm
After a crazy walk on the first day, my feet were sore and I didn’t really want to abuse my feet anymore. I decided to take it easy today. I went to Cole’s supermarket in Queen Plaza for groceries shopping. It was not too far from the apartment even though I need to walk uphill back. The supermarket is well organised and well stocked. I got some chocolate croissants for HG for breakfast and some food for dinner. I came back from the supermarket and started cooking. I had to meet HG at HSBC on Queen Street at 4:20pm. He wanted to check something with the bank before we went to Medicare Office at Myer Center. We waited in the queue at Medicare office for a while and found out that HG didn’t bring enough document for them to proceed further. So we had to come back the next day.
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