What are the top things on your bucket list?

Olivia Newton-John Besides being a famous singer decades ago Olivia Newton-John has been an advocate for health awareness that she involves with various charities, health products and fundraising efforts. Due to her life experience of having breast cancer; she has inspired the general public by sharing her own story. In order to pass on her message across to the country, she came to Parliament House to meet with the policy makers in relation to the breast cancer issue yesterday. As she is one of my favourite singer since I was young. I can tell she must have the plastic surgery done before. I believe her breast cancer must link to the breast implants that she has taken before. If people can accept the ageing problem, I believe there will be less problem creating to the world.

Constructive feedback request! Dear Italki Users, I am so glad to have an opportunity to post my journals in here to share my thoughts with you through my ongoing writing exercises. For those who direct or indirect helping me to bring up my English level through constantly gave me correction or encouragement – heaps of thanks! I have poor English skills although I live in an English speaking country, and writing is my weakness part over my English skills. Recently, I feel a little bit lost without hearing from you. I will be grateful if you can give me some comments about my writing, and what is my current writing level. Furthermore, I have a question but I am not sure whether should I ask or not. If my journal is no correction does it mean I did not make mistake OR there is no one interested of my writing? I hope my silly question will not scare you away because I eagerly want to know why my writing has not been corrected for a while. Your response for my request will be highly appreciated!

Unpleasant driving experience It was an early morning in the office. My colleague received a call from her mum who was sobbing over the phone saying that she killed her husband accidently. As the context was incomplete, my colleague had to comfort her mum on the phone, in order to get more from her mouth. After many attempts, her mum still kept saying she killed her husband. Then my colleague told her mum stayed where she was and waited for her to come. In the afternoon, my colleague rang us and let us knew what had happened to her parents. It was a day; the couple was driving their old car to swap their new car in the car dealer’s shop. While they were driving their new car home, they dropped by in a plaza. After the car was stopped, friend’s dad went to his wife side and for some reasons, his wife hit him unintentionally (friend’s dad cannot be hit on his head and he just a surgery by drilling two holes on his skull to release the pressure built up from internal bleeding). Friend’s mum realised what the consequence would be if her husband had an injury on his head. So she felt panic and accidently accelerated the car and it suddenly moved backward to damage another three cars seriously. Friend’s mum did not know how to handle the situation even though some people around by were trying to help out before the police and ambulance arrived. In between the police arrived friend’s mum was emotionally threaten by the incident, so she was weeping in front of the public. After the incident, friend’s mum was told to re-do her driving skill assessment, and before the assessment is done she is not allowed to drive her new car any more. In fact, her new car is in the garage for repairing at the moment. Having said that, actually many people have a car accident when they are driving their new car. It is because they are not familiar with the wheel control buttons, plus the engine capacity is different from their old one.

Have you ever had an experience with AIR BNB’s accommodation while you are travelling in overseas?

I do have once but it was not very good experience for me because I don't like to share with someone who I don't know well under the same roof.

It was my trip in New Zealand and I booked two night accommodation with a New Zealander's family in Wanaka. I was arranged to stay in a room which used to be a garage. Although the workmanship of the transformation was ok but I did not feel comfortable since I realised the room was a garage before.

May be the owner used that room as her storage room and all the wardrobe was occupied with her personal stuff. I even could not find a place to hang my clothes in. ( I was paying $175.00 per night).

WIth this price in Australia, I can get a high standard hotel to stay. Therefore, I will not try and AIR BNB accommodation again.

I would prefer stick with my favour brand hotel when I am travelling in the future.

If you have any comment about  Air BNB, I would love to hear from you.

Thanks in advance! 

Human Right Human right what a complicated term to interpret? I believe it is an open interpretation for everyone across from cultures, religions and philosophies. Yesterday, the Commonwealth agrees to pay Manus Island detainees $70 million in class action settlement and it is the biggest pay out in Australia’s history. The asylum seekers claimed they were illegally detained and harmed on Manus Island, and they were asking for justice to be done and must be resettled in Australia immediately. For the 1900 asylum seekers, the amount of money will be distributed individually even some of them already returned to their own countries. Funny thing is if they already back to where they came from that means their claimed for asylum seekers were not legitimate, why the Commonwealth is still liable? If the doctrine of precedent has been laid down, I would feel sorry for the victimised countries by the fact that they did not invite the asylum seekers to come to their countries but they just trespassed. The countries have forced to absorb the heavily burden without having a chance to say “no”. I can’t see why it was a problem to move the asylum seekers to somewhere for processing to verify their claims. Imagine, if someone went into your house without your permission and you could not ask them to leave, but have an obligation to look after them, and if they did not satisfy your service you had to pay them for compensation. End up you are the vulnerable person. What a crazy world! Furthermore, if human right is concern about dignity, I think, there are many people in the world are eligible to claim for compensation from their government. For example, in the poverty countries where children cannot afford to go to school but go to the landfill to look for something that allows them to generate a small income to support their living. In addition, many people in the world cannot afford to keep a roof over his head and food in his fridge. They can sue their government for not taking care for its citizen, if the doctrine is applied. Then consequently, the law firm business will be boost up.

Food Waste How can we minimise food waste and protect our environment for future generations? The question needs to be addressed as soon as possible. As we cannot wait longer to stop the fresh foods are being thrown out from giant supermarkets Chain. Here in Australia and worldwide, one-third of all food grown goes to waste: some of it over-ordered, ugly, spoilt and unsaleable. Although legislation are banned supermarket to have truckloads of food dumped on their doorsteps. Each year tonnes of unopened carton or package fresh food have been wasted unethically. As we are lucky and we have never experienced what famishment feeling like. For those if you have read your ancestor diary carefully, you will understand that food is so precious in our lives. When I was little, my parents already taught me, I should treat the respectful farmers nicely and appreciate their hard work. So I never dare to waste any food in front of my parents. Sometime if we eat out, if there is any leftover on the plate. My parents would ask the waiter doggy-bag to avoid the edible food being thrown away. If we had buffet, my mum would remind us if you could not finish the food on your plate, tried not to take it. I know in a commercial perspective, throwing away the fresh food the cost will be much lower than keeping the food on the shelf. I was wondering, if the giant supermarket can offer a food clearance for free after 5:00pm each day, rather than chuck the food into the bins. I believe it will be directly beneficial to the low income earner. It will be a win-win solution to prevent food being wasted and saving money for the low income earner.

What is the mininum wage in your country?

The fair work Commission has announced a 3.3% increase to minimum wages and the effective date of the increment is the 1st of July 2017.

Our current national minimum wage is $17.70 per hour or $672.7 per 38 hour a week (before tax).

For casual employees it will get a least a 25 per cent casual loading on top of the salary for compensation.

 

I would be keen to know what the minimum wage in your country is.

 

Thanks for your participation! 

 

Perception Reassessment Living in a diversity or multicultural country allows me to meet with people from all walks of life. As the range of people that I have to deal with in my daily life is broad. Sometime if there is any unpleasant experience occurs while handling the relationship between nationalities, I would choose to stay away from that particular nationality. I do not know why, may be it is a psychological resistance. In the past, I have tried to escape or find an excuse to avoid direct contact with them. This morning, I think, my judgement or perception have to be reassessed. I have ever deal with a male like Dr K….before. He is a good example of friendly person that I would like to deal with him in the future. As he is so engaging, his talk is slowly and clearly. His voice has power to make client eager to have further discussion with him. This morning I raised a number of questions whether should I take the surgery or not. He explained to me clearly and calmly. My experience told me that he must not bring up in his own country but a western country because his manner and behaviour. I know the way how he handled the customer relationship was not just polite but I felt he had sincere intention from his heart. I am glad to deal with a professional medical staff like him, as he was not just good at his subject matter, but importantly, he understood as a professional staff, he had an obligation to provide professional services in a professional manner. It all came through systemically life training. Thanks for being my specialist Dr K….