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Week 2 and still home alone. Manage to clean out the study room so one more room to go (kids’ room).
Managed to sort out all the great kitchen stuff that Chris left me. Washed them and organized them into proper storage location.
Sat: went out with the guys to Cash and Carry – man it’s massive! It’s located inside the industry area in Canning Vale, just across the road from Halliburton’s office in Perth. It’s basically a massive warehouse of household stuffs. If you buy them in bulk then some items can be really cheap.
Note: You need to own a small business or be RAC member to get in.
Sun: cooked breakfast and lunch. Found out that I don’t have a knife yet to used scissors to cut up the bacon bits hehe. Had to stand to eat on the counter – I have zero chairs.
Went out to see Raymond who is so nice to give me his old TV cabinet. It ended a lot bigger than I got but lucky the Euro’s door can swing wide open. Thanks Raymond!
Here are some of the appliances I bought from Retravision, and got a great money saving tip from Raymond. Bargain and shop around. Always do price match. I got the fridge down from 988>900>789.
Look at the awesome white LEDs!
Got this washing machine got a good deal too! 8KG for 700.
Decided to “Asian out” (as in chicken out) and bought Samsungs instead of local brands 
Oh and I had to get a Dyson:
It’s a Dyson DC23. These Dyson are crazy man – they suck suck and suck (in a good way) all the dirt off the carpet. The tank was nearly full from just a room! If you got carpets, go get one. AUD800.
Getting into rhythm now, Sat = shopping, Sun = laundry + clean house.
So when me and Sean was trying to install the Samsung washing machine, this piece of instruction came up:
Look closely on the lower left hand corner. Sean was actually confused as he only recognize the Malay word “tikus” but he can’t remember what “papan” was. So he asked me “how come they mixed Thai and Malay in the same sentence?”
Talk about globalization and the level on English worldwide.
That’s Wye home shopping with me.
So I moved into the new place last Saturday. AF and Fiona was nice enough to help me shift in and had a short tour of the (empty) house.
Sleeping alone is creepy. Sleeping alone in a new country is even more creepier. I kept psyching myself that there is no ghost in the house. Or as AF puts it, “Australia where got ghost one.”
You can argue that I have sleep in hotels before, but there are actual human beings next door, or at least a lift down. But this is suburbia at it’s finest – i.e. quiet. And the house being a single storey bungalow does not help either.
Interesting fact about property terms:
Only have 3 things in the house now:
As hermit as it gets.
Hey guys did you know that you can issue IRC like commands in Skype? OK if you don’t know what’s IRC then you are probably born > 1990.
How awesome is that. Anyone wanna feel how it feels to be kick or kick/banned? hehe.
Extracted From https://support.skype.com/faq/FA10042/What-are-chat-commands-and-roles
/add [Skype Name]
Adds a contact to the chat.
/alertsoff
Disable message alert notifications.
/alertson [text]
Allows you to specify exactly what needs to appear in a chat for the chat to pop up. For example, your name.
/call [Skype Name]
Starts a Skype call.
/clear
Removes the chat history entirely. Cannot be undone.
/clearpassword
Remove the password security.
/find [text]
Finds specific text in a chat.
/get allowlist
Details people with access to the chat.
/get banlist
Details people banned from the chat.
/get creator
Details the person who created the chat.
/get guidelines
See the current chat's guidelines.
/get options
Details active options for current chat.
/get password_hint
Get the password hint.
/get role
Details your role in the chat.
/goadmin
Puts a Creator tag next to the chat creator's name.
/history
Loads the complete chat history into the active chat window.
/htmlhistory
An HTML file of the chat history opens up in a browser window.
/info
Details number of people in chat and maximum number available.
/kick [Skype Name]
Eject chat member.
/kickban [Skype Name]
Ejects chat member and prevents them from rejoining chat.
/leave
Leave current chat – unavailable if you are a chat’s creator.
/me [text]
Your name will appear followed by any text you write.
/set allowlist [[+|-]mask] ..
Members allowed in the chat.
/set banlist [[+|-]mask] ..
Members banned from the chat.
/set guidelines [text]
Set a chat’s guidelines.
/set options [[+|-]flag]
Sets options for this chat, see below for more info.
/set password [text]
Create a password (no spaces allowed).
/set password_hint [text]
Create the chat's password hint text.
/setpassword [password] [password hint]
Create a password and password hint for the chat.
/setrole [Skype Name] MASTER | HELPER | USER | LISTENER
Allows you to set a role to each chat member. A description of roles is given below.
/topic [text]
Changes the chat topic.
/whois [Skype Name]
Provides details about a chat member such as current role.
Location:Lorong Seladah 8,Kuching,Malaysia
Got this tip from a comment here => http://www.gkoya.com/2006/11/23/locktight-for-mac-os-x-intel/
As of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, there is one more way to accomplish this, without any extra or third party software.
Use Automator to create and save a ‘Start Screen Saver’ service that accepts no input and is available to all applications. You can find the appropriate Automator action under ‘Utilities’. Then you can simply assign this new service a shortcut from the Keyboard Shortcuts preference pane.
If you would prefer to lock the screen rather than use a screen saver, use Automator to run a shell script with the following command:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend
Then set the keyboard shortcut as before. Huzzah!
Of (unfounded) fear that I would die from not having a chance to eat lunch and no mamak stalls around at night (which is true), I bought tons of snacks on the first day.
Made my own sandwich. The loaf of bread was so big that I could not finish it in time.
The fruit cake from Woolsworth was surprisingly OK.
Here is the horde or food that I bought, which many of them I could not finish in 2 weeks coz I was so stuffed all the time. More on that later.
Did not miss out having to taste ultra fresh Royal Gala apples, my favorite type.
I thought ang moh’s cannot stand spicy food, but hot damn, these Kettle chips were smoking. Took me 3 nights to finish these.
I took too many pictures during my trip to Perth that I got to post these in small batches… Starting with the hotel I stayed, which is “The New Esplanade Hotel”, located on, surprise surprise, The Esplanade Road, which in front of the esplanade. You get the idea.
The rate was going like about AUD110, which is rather cheap. I think they gave quite a fair amount of discount since I stayed there for 14 days straight.
The rooms were pretty decent, with a queen size bed and another single. Had a ViewSonic flat panel and small fridge. Room was clean, but toiletries were minimal. Just towels, no toothbrush.
Here’s the view from the hotel room at daylight.
And at night. The Eye of Perth was on display, but did not bother to try out, as there were many more things to do, and eat. Will show you guys in pictures in coming posts!
