Just become a millionaire.
01 January 2016
01 November 2015
The Millionaire Next Door
很高兴忽然发现了一本描写我的书。哈！
竟然有人特地写书来研究我这种人。哈！
书里有个很妙的方程式 formula 让你算下自己有没有钱。
净资产 > 年收入 x 年龄 x 0.2 就是有钱。
在中间的，就是一般般，还可以。这里有个计算器：http://www.savemillions.com/plan/expectnetworth.htm
比如，20岁的年青人，一个月三千，存到 144 千的话就是有钱。
比如，KL一般的 T80 家庭，一个月一万，存到 72 万的话就是有钱。
比如，马来西亚事业有成、半财富自由的人，一个月三万，有 240 万的话就是有钱。
我本身，需要大概 150 玩才算有钱。暂时写这篇时没有，三年后有了。
01 February 2014
第一份薪水
2009 年，我的第一份工作薪水，拿去买了股票。
2009 年，适逢金融风暴刚刚结束。拿来第一张薪水单，就赶紧去开了个股票户口，投行给我的，还是个 young investor account 学生户口，限额只有五千块。
当时的OCBC 从谷底四块多起来，我的户口一激活，股价就涨过了五块。这代表什么？我永远跟 OBCB 绝缘了。那时的股市一个 lot 就 1000 最少最少也要买五千多，我的户口却有钱也买不到五千多。这种暗锤，永远烙印在我心里。
金融风暴那一年来，我的教授，天天都忙着跟他的股神朋友吃饭，抛弃了我们几个穷学生，连跟我们组员每星期一次的午餐都不吃了。有钱人就是任性。补充一下，我的教授，就是位千万富翁，在马来印尼都各有几百万的房产。
风暴结束后的一天我问他 Starhub 好吗？他说哎呀，这个股票不会有什么 up side 啦。不过我还是没管他照样买了。那时，我只想找个蓝筹股，看来看去，每个都起了一大截，还没起的就唯有 Starhub 而且股息有 10% 看起来不错啊。
买价 $2.00
卖价 $4.25
现在，终于卖掉了，卖掉的原因，是因为看它起了那么多，可是生意 profit 却没有涨 dividend 也没增加。看来，电讯这门生意是一滩死水。既然它涨了一倍，如果现在卖掉，就等于我一次拿完十年后的 dividend 可以啊，就这样做吧！
翻了一倍多，外加每年 10% 的股息，算是我人生中最成功的一次投资。第一次嘛，股市总是会给新手一些甜头，然后才慢慢让你亏完出来。曾经想过，初恋要永远留着，可是又有人说不可以跟股票发生感情，那就让它去吧。
时隔五年，终于拿到了我第一份薪水。
01 December 2013
5th Honeymoon
Day-1: This is the 1st day of our honeymoon. Today we went to rent a van, so that we can bring all our belongings to travel, no need to stay in a hotel. The rental is $50 a day, about the same as staying in a backpacker hostel, but there is another $30 a day for insurance.
The van is very strange, there is no seat behind but it is not empty. There are bed, pillows, sleeping bags, stove, gas, esky, pans, pots, plates, knives, forks, spoons, water tank, sink and many other things. After putting in our luggage, the van becomes so cramped without any space. So I throw one of our baggage so that I have place to sleep.
Tonight we will be sleeping at the beach, hopefully it is safe.
Day-2: We woke up and noticed there were many dogs jogging at the beach, with their owners. Aha, the beach must be a dog heaven.
After having breakfast, we went to buy some super batteries for the camera, because I noticed that there is no electricity in the van, and a pair of sun glasses for driving. Then we went to visit a toy factory not far away from the city, with a famous huge rocking house.
When we were leaving, something unexpected happened. Our van was stuck in the soft ground. Luckily two strong and handsome guys helped us to pull the van out. Thank you very much.
The next destination was Barossa reservoir. I drove onto the wrong way for about 20 km, because there is no GPS in the van. Fortunately I have printed 40 pages of map from Google Map, and finally found our destination.
The place is also called Whispering Wall. It is a strange place. When you are whispering to the wall at one side of the dam, another person can hear it from another side a few hundred feet away because of acoustic effect.
Next, we went to a place that every tour guide will bring people to, a winery. There is an activity that angmo like to do very much, wine tasting. But since we do not know how to taste wine at all, we went to take picture at the vineyard instead.
Our next destination was a sculpture park. We found it from Google Map. This is a hilltop where you can have a fantastic view of the whole Barossa region, and the sunset.
Finally, on our way back to the caravan park we have booked earlier, I lost my way again, and drove some extra 20km.
Day-3: We woke up in a caravan park. It was a safe place, because we need to pay $30 for the parking. Today we spent 2 hours making breakfast and packing the stuffs, slightly faster than yesterday. We need to move out our luggage from the van to sleep in the van every night!
Our first destination is a chateau. There are many chateaus that are wineries here. We tasted a little bit of wine and don’t know how to taste more, because we got nothing to say about the wine!
Then we were on our journey. Today we are going to a place far far away, about 300km away. Bad-luckily, I drove onto the wrong way again, but fortunately, I noticed that after just less than a km and made a u-turn!
Then we had lunch beside a lake. Forgot to say, my wife is an expert in cooking. She can cook anywhere, anything, with any method. So, I don’t need to worry about food at all. After lunch, the same bad thing happened. I drove to the wrong way, made a u-turn, and we were on the Yorke Peninsula. lah lah lah!
Half way there, we found a huge piece of canola farm. The yellow flowers extended beyond the horizon and connected to the sky. My wife was so excited, because she never seen it. I am not so excited, because I know it is very common here. heh heh!
After driving for hours, it seemed like we were not making much progress. It was going to be sun set soon but it looked like we still have a few hundred km to go. Then I saw a beautiful sea, I went down to take a picture quickly and continued driving.
Something unexpected happened. We were running out of fuel! I noticed that there is a small town in the map, so we just hoped that we can find a petrol station there. Bad-luckily, we found two petrol stations in the town and both are closed, because it is Sunday!
I checked the map, there is a smaller town further. I felt hopeless, but still hoped that there is a still-open petrol station in that town, Warooka. You know what? We found one! And the station owner told us they are closing in half an hour!
We reached our destination, Innes National Park, after sunset. We found the self-registration kiosk, and it said we need to pay the entrance fee $15. Actually nobody knows if we pay it or not, but because we are not in Malaysia, we paid the fee obediently. From there till we reached the camping site, we saw no one human being at all!
Day-4: We woke up before the sunrise, and we could see that the new moon is still hanging on the sky. When the sunlight started peeping out from the east, we saw that the surrounding was full of mist. We found something strange, there were small numbers written with finger on our window. It was so strange! Something liked a serial number! We did not notice any human came by the whole night, not even a vehicle!
We went to explore the sea front. When we arrived at the car park last night, we heard the frightening and furious roaring of wave and thought that it was a sea cliff. Finally with the sunlight, we were able to see its true appearance. It was a beautiful beach. We brought two folding chairs to the beach to watch the sun rise. See what we found at the beach? A urchin!
After a few days of experience, we were getting faster and faster with packing. After having breakfast and packing everything, we started heading to the most important destination in this trip, a beautiful lighthouse. On the way to the lighthouse, we saw a lovely kangaroo couple watching the sunrise on top of a hill. But we were too excited going to the lighthouse and forgot to take picture of them!
We were so happy when we saw the lighthouse. Actually I leap all the way from the parking place to the lighthouse. I felt like a child going travelling for the first time. The scene is so beautiful and I really do not know how to describe it. From the tourist information board, we learned that there were more than 10 shipwrecks at this part of coastline since the 19th century.
After seeing the first lighthouse, we went to see a second one. One is always not enough. The path to the second lighthouse was purposely built near to the edge of the cliff, to scare those faint-hearted. There is really plenty of room to build it more inland.
Next, we went to a surf break. The foot path to this place was closed, but we saw that two angmo guys came out from the place, so we just went in. There were millions of ants on the path and we had to jump all the way inside. What in front of us was something unexpected. It was a frightening cliff, where the powerful wave hit the cliff as high as a 10-storey building!
Later we visited a few beaches, the Dolphin beach, Shell beach, Browns beach, Gym beach, Ethel beach, Pondalowie Bay, etc … and most of the beaches are empty! There are more beaches than humans here!
In the afternoon, we headed to the next destination, a wind farm. It was also a place far far away. Today we drove many hundreds km. We planned to sleep at a lake tonight, but we are too late. So just stop here, a very very windy valley, a place you can see the sunset at one direction, and the sunrise at another direction. Tomorrow, with more sunlight, I will show you how beautiful is the place!
Day-5: We woke up before the sunrise, again, the new moon was hanging on the sky. We spent a terrifying night here, a valley where the wind never stops blowing for one second. We have been listening to a low humming sound the whole night, because we slept at a wind farm! We parked our van in front of the gate of a farm which looked like nobody will come in and out from there.
The night before, we have prepared what to say if somebody passes by. We would say we are just taking a rest there and will continue our journey afterward. But after dinner, we waited for a whole night, there was no 1 car passed by until the next morning. I was so surprised, this is a main road connecting a small town to the high way, you can see the map, Mundoora Road. There was no 1 vehicle passes by the whole night!
Forgot to say, we have been enjoying two surprisingly clear nights watching the stars. How clear was the sky? It was clearer than the clearest night I have seen in Malaysia for 30 years. Watching such a clear sky will make you feel dizzy! You can actually notice that the whole sky is rotating slowly, at the same direction as the sun! And you can also see the shape of the galaxy! And gazing the sky for more than 10 minutes, you will see something that you think you are dreaming! You will suddenly see a star that flies though the sky with speed a few thousand times faster than an aeroplane, in less than a second! So I say, it must be a meteor!
In the morning, after taking picture with the sun rise, we took some videos for making MTV, because the place is so beautiful. I lost guard of any person would pass by. While we were busy posing for photos and videos, a truck suddenly came by. We quickly put our stuff into the van so that we don’t look like camping there.
The truck stopped beside us and then came a huge man, more than 6 feet tall. He asked what we were doing there, because he saw our van from his house. Wow, can you see his house (a tiny dot) in the picture? It is more than 1 km away, but he could see our van from there.
I said we were taking pictures with the wind farm. He asked whether we went inside his farm, over the gate. We said no. He asked whether we slept here last night, he just wanted to make sure we did nothing illegal. I said no, we just arrived in the morning!
Then he asked where we came from, Korea? Japan? I said we came all the way from Malaysia just to see the beautiful wind farm! And I asked him how we can see the wind turbine nearer. He was so impressed by our enthusiasm, and he decided to bring us near to the turbine, on his truck, with his two dogs!
We were thrilled! I thought this thing only happens on the TV travel programme. The farm owner would like to bring us to see the wind turbine!
My wife sat in the front seats with the farmer, and I hopped onto the back of the truck with the two dogs. We rode on a rocky path onto the hill. The view was spectacular. Can you see from the picture? Almost everything you can see belongs to the farmer. The dark green pieces are wheat, and the light green pieces are barley.
He explained to us how the government pays him for renting his land for building the wind farm. The government pays him by how much electricity is generated. It is about $26667 per year for one wind turbine! But I don’t know there are how many turbines are on his land! Now I can understand that his is happier on a windy day.
The generator height is 80 m, that is about the height of a 30-storey building. The cost for one wind turbine is $4.9 million! One generator is able to generate electricity of 11 GWh/year, for an average Australian household usage of 1000 kWh every month, a generator is able to supply about 1000 homes!
The farmer sent us back to our van. Can you see the tiny dot? That is how far we were from the van. We said goodbye to the farmer, packed everything, and left the place. We were too happy and forgot to record a video singing the song “The sun above the cloud”
Wu lun shi zhu zai, mei li de gao shan, huo shi tang wo zai, ying an de you gu …
Day-6: Today we joined a tour group to the Kangaroo Island. We decided to join a tour because it is tired to plan our itinerary every day. So, just joined a tour and relax. Another reason is that the ferry fare to take a van to the Kangaroo Island is very expensive, more expensive than joining a tour.
The tour is $349 for each person. Our tour group of 16 is made up of people from 8 countries. They are from Ireland, England, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Israel, 3 from Taiwan, and 4 from Malaysia (a newlywed couple and 2 aunties). This is a backpacker tour group, all of our meals are cooked by our tour guide herself, sometimes she will asked us to help to prepare the meals so that we could finish earlier.
Today is a cloudy day, so most of the pictures we took are not too beautiful. There were some interesting activities today, like sand boarding at Little Sahara, and seeing the protected seals. The places we visited today are:
- Penneshaw
- Prospect Hill
- Little Sahara
- Seal Bay
- Vivonne Bay
Tonight we will be sleeping in a 8-sharing dorm at a farm. Haha, it is so comfortable to sleep on a bed after spending a few days in a van.
Day-7: Today we woke up in a dorm and we ate the breakfast prepared by our tour guide. Today we visited some remarkable rocks which are truly remarkable. The most remarkable one looked like an elephant. They are discovered by Sir Matthew Flinders in 1802.
Then we went hiking to a lighthouse. This is the 3rd lighthouse we visited since the beginning of our honeymoon. Haha, but the other group members seemed like not very interested with the lighthouse, so only we two took a photo with the lighthouse. Is it too common for them?
Then we went to see another type of seal, non protected one. The places we visited today are:
- Remarkable Rocks
- Cape du Couedic Lighthouse
- Admiral’s Arch
- New Zeland Fur Seals
- Flinders Chase National Park
- Hanson Bay Wildlife Park
- Honey Farm
Tonight we are leaving the island and heading back to the mainland and the city.
Day-8: Last night, I sent my wife to stay in a backpacker and I slept on the street, because I have no enough money!
I did some calculation last night, we have spend $1272 in the last 7 days. To finish our honeymoon, we need another $4000, but I only bring $2000 for our honeymoon, because I thought $2000 is very big!
In order to continue our honeymoon, we need some extreme methods, like playing music on the street to earn money. But I don’t know how to play music.
So, I tried to contact some farm owners. I told them I can do anything, I just need a sleeping place and food to eat. I can even eat the pig food. But many farm owners refused to let us stay, because I am over 30 years old and I can’t be on working holiday. They thought I am a prodigal son who wants to feed the pigs.
Finally we found a kind farmer, her name is Sarah, and she will pick us up today from the city, yeah!
Day-9: We are at a farm! We will be staying at a small separated house ourselves, just us! Unexpected! We are treated so well, I thought we will be staying with many people in a room!
The first day we arrived here, we don’t need to do any work. Today work is just cleaning the small house. There is a sleeping room with a double bed, a living room with a table and a sofa chair, a nice old fireplace to burn firewood, a bathroom with Jacuzzi, but there is no toilet, just pee outside!
The farm owner highly recommend us to take a relax bath with the spa bathtub. He said: no need to feel guilty about using a lot of water, because he can use the waste water to water the plants!
In order to stay and eat for free, we need to do some work! Today our job is planting some cherry trees!
Day-10: Planting cherry trees
Day-11: Planting cherry trees also
Day-12: Clearing the weed to feed the pig
Day-13: Today our farm owner decided to bring us to sight-seeing! So good! So kind! We can stay, eat, and play for free. I was wondering where she would bring us to. Then it was a winery. Aiya, it was fun for the other angmo guys but it was boring for us!
Day-14: Moving the compose to the tree holes
Day-15: Moving the saw dust to the tree holes
Day-16: Making apple juice
Day-17: Today our farm owner was going to a church, and she asked us whether we would like to join her, and we said yes! So we went to a small beautiful catholic church on top of a windy hill. Haha, no need to work today!
Day-18: Today the farmer taught me how to use the chainsaw. When I cut the branches too slow, he said I was a coward. When I cut the branches too fast, he said I was reckless. When I let the chainsaw stuck in a branch, he said I was stupid. When I crouched down to add oil to the chainsaw, he said I am not a man. He said a real man never squat on the ground!
Day-19: Picking the branches
Day-20: Moving the old stumps
Day-21: Rolling the water pipes
Day-22: Pruning the peach trees
Day-23: Putting the tree guards
Day-24: This is our last day at the farm. Because we still got some money, we want to go for a tour to finish our money!
After knowing we are leaving, the farm owner decided to exploit us further, to ask us to cook a feast. But he did not know that this is something my wife loves to so very much!
So tonight, we have a big Malaysian feast, with a huge bonfire!
Day-25: Countdown to the last 7 days for our honeymoon!
Today we arrived at a big city, with 3 millions populations! The big city got all kinds of people, from all around the world. It doesn't look like it is in a western country.
Because we have no idea about the city, we hopped onto a free tram to circle around the city centre, to see how the city looks like. The tram took 1 hour to finish a circle, so slow.
Day-26: We got a free half-day tour today.
Today we went to the wet market again, to buy food.
Then we went to the chinatown to take videos for MTV.
Then we went back to the hostel to cook lunch.
Then we went to the cake shops at St Kilda Beach.
Then we went to see the colourful bathing boxes at Brighton Beach.
Then we went to the Shrine of Memorial beside the botanic garden.
Then we went round and round the city and the tour guide kept taking.
Then we went back to the hostel to cook dinner!
Day-27: Today we went to ride the Puffing Billy train !! Boo boo !!
Today our tour included a free breakfast tea. The tour guide showed us two favourite local foods. One is the lamington cake. Another one is biscuit with Vegemite. It tasted like Marmite.
Day-28: A Museum
Today we went to the wet market again, to buy food.
Then we went to the Carlton Garden.
Then we went to the museum.
Then we went back to the hostel to cook lunch.
Then we went to the art gallery.
Then we went back to the hostel to cook dinner!
Day-29: Today we went to the Great Ocean Road. The road is quite long, 300km. There are a few interesting places to visit at the Port Campbell National Park: Twelve Apostles, Loch Ard Gorge, and Gibson Steps. But there are many people today, and I realized it is a weekend + school holidays + chinese national day! It is like people mountain people sea, not good!
Day-30: Today is a rainy day. So it is not good to take picture. Today we are going to a gold mine at Sovereign Hill, Ballarat. The world 2nd largest gold, the “Welcome Nugget” was found here in 1858, it was 69 kg. Hopefully we can find some gold also!
Day-31: Last day. We have spent $2534 during our honeymoon. Over budget! Our budget is only $2000. So how do we pay for the extra? I have borrowed some money from an Ah Long here, so we have to work in a restaurant until we finish our debt. And then work some more days to buy the air tickets to go home! Goodbye!
01 September 2013
三十天三千澳元的蜜月旅行！
第一天。。。
1。在阿得雷德租了一辆有点旧的旅行货车，把行李都搬上去，出发了！因为对这辆车不熟悉，所以就留在城市，到食物地 (Foodland) 买了几天的食材，鸡翅膀、牛排、米、麦、快熟面、面包、牛奶、weetbix、等等。
今晚就睡海边吧！对这辆货车研究了一番，有床、枕头、椅子、桌子、有水、灶炉、炊具、餐具，好像什么都有，后来发现没有电！要去买干电池，不然怎样拍照？
第二天。。。
2。在海边煮早餐，收拾了两个小时，就出发咯！第一站去玩具工厂看巨大的木马。工厂旁还有个小动物园。吃了早上煮的午餐，就往回声水坝去。
为了省钱，没用GPS，看着谷歌打印出来四十张地图，一直走错路。还好澳洲的路都是对的，只是自己看错，最后还是平安到达！
后来去酒庄玩，看旅行团的行程都是这样写的，结果没什么好玩，因为我们人穷不会喝酒。
黄昏去了一座小山看日落，风景很美，可惜这个两百马币的相机拍不出我觉得的美。
晚上被逼花钱去了一间旅行车站（Caravan Park）住，因为电话电脑都没电了，如果不是为了电，就去路边睡省钱。
看到隔壁的大旅行车，是可以站着走进去的，我们的要钻进去。他们还搬电视机火炉出来，很享受。
第三天。。。
3。起程到远远的地方玩，蛋黄半岛。因为不懂路途有多远，中午还睡了一觉。
下午的时候，发现油越来越少，到了一座小镇，找到两间油站，都关门了，因为是星期天！真懒惰！
算了，死就死吧，继续走，往下一个更小的小镇。在这里，竟然发现开着的油站，太好了！店主还说，你迟来5分钟，我就关门了！晚上七点，天色全黑，终于到了目的地，一个国家公园。
到了登记处，我们就当起好公民，自己给钱。 走啊走，一个车影也没有。到了露营地，一个人影也没有，听着海浪拍打悬崖的声音，看着满天的星星，多么浪漫啊！
第四天。。。
4。睡醒了，到处都是雾，发现车窗外写了神秘号码，到底什么人来过？
在海边捡到了一个奇怪的东西，后来查一查，原来是（urchin) 海胆。
我们到海边去看日出。吃过早餐拍了照，我们就出发寻找灯塔去！
路上还看见一对情侣袋鼠站在山顶看太阳。太兴奋，忘了拍他们。
十分钟就到了，看见不远的灯塔，还有一小段路。天气晴朗，天空蓝得摄人，一个小小白色的灯塔，太美丽了。
悬崖下，就是凶猛的海浪，说明板上写着，这海岸曾经是好多船只的葬身之地。
后来，我们又去寻找另一个灯塔，那是一个更可怕的悬崖。然后，去了海边看看，终于看到了两个洋人正准备冲浪。
去了三四个海边，各有特色，多数都没有人，浪漫得可怕！
找了一个树下，吃了午餐，就上路咯。今天也是要驾三百多公里。
我们想去看什么呢？去看巨大的风车。那里绝对不是个旅游景点，是找谷歌发现很美找出来的。叫做 Mundoora 的一个小镇。
赶在太阳西下前，到了伟大的风力发电场，远远的看着缓缓转动的风车，好美丽啊！原本要到湖边睡觉，但是我太不舍得离开这里了。明天待续。。。
第五天。。
5。昨晚，犹豫不决的选了一个地方停下车，后来发现是个好地方。这里是个山坡，一边向着夕阳，另一边则向着日出。这里的风，吹得很出奇，没有一秒钟停过，要烧饭都难，难怪要在这里建风力场。
昨晚，在隐隐约约的风车转动声中睡去，还看着天空的银河。我在马来西亚还真没看过银河，可惜相机不好，不能拍星星。早上，拍了一生中最美的日出，还跟风车共舞拍戏。
正想着有什么方法接近风车的时候，突然来了一辆小卡车。跳下了一个高大威猛的洋人，问到：你们干什么？有没有跑进我的农场？
没有没有，我们在拍照，是特地来仰慕风车的。问明了来历，他竟然要载我们去看风车！我高兴得得意忘形，在他的卡车后跟他的狗狗坐，照片都没拍好来。
原来政府跟他租地，一个风车就给他带来一年$$27000 的收入。好富有的农夫啊。
看着一望无际的农场，他还跟我们解释：深青的一片是小麦，浅青的一片是薏米，还有他的羊群等等。
原来两条跟着他的是牧羊犬，他还示范给我们看，一吹口哨，他的狗就可以把羊群赶回来，好厉害！
谢谢你园主，上帝赐你一片美丽的土地，也赐你一个美丽的心肠，谢谢你在我们的旅途中留下这美丽的回忆。
中午，去一个小镇的公共厕所旁解决了午餐，吃的都是这五天剩下的食物。后来去了一个种葡萄的山谷逛逛，就回到城市还车，因为接着要跟旅行团去袋鼠岛。
第六天。。。
6。清晨一大早就起来，去袋鼠岛咯。现在是跟旅行团，什么都不用想。
这一团的人有：马来西亚，台湾，英国，法国，荷兰，意大利，以色列。都是年轻人，除了两个来自大马定居澳洲的aunties。
今天的旅程是：爬上袋鼠岛最高的山看风景，到海边看受保护的海狮。
还有到小撒哈拉去滑沙。
我们的食物，都是导游自己煮的！因为这是背包团，没有餐馆食物吃。每一餐准备食物，导游都会叫我们帮忙，以便大家可以快点有的吃。
今晚大伙儿到一家农场去住，八人一间房。哇，在旅游车辛苦了几天，觉得有床睡，有水冲凉，好舒服啊！
第七天。。。
7。今天的旅程：去看奇怪的石头。
去走山路看灯塔。去看另一种不受保护的海狮。
去看被海风侵蚀的岩洞，去看躲在树上的树熊，和到处乱跳的袋鼠。
中午吃烧烤香肠和沙律，昨天是烤肉做汉堡，这些应该是澳洲最便宜的食物吧。
最后我们到了蜜蜂工厂。玩了七天，有点累了。
第八天。。。
8。回到这个美丽的城市待了一天，四四方方，一条一条，直直的路。所有的办公室就在这四方格中，格子外是大片草地与住宅区隔开。想到自己乱七八糟的国家，真佩服洋人的祖先在几百年前就能够规划好百年来都够用的城市。真是永续发展的典范。
早上到了大学逛逛，大学旁就是艺术馆和博物馆。这国家真好，所有馆都是免费入门的！
中午去了巧克力工厂，定袋鼠岛旅行团时送的票，后来发现谁都可以去，只是要预定。下午，之前约好的人来载我们，我们要去当免费劳工了！
第九天。。。
9。第一天到农场，园主不用我们做什么，就是打扫房间。这园主的家还真够乱的，两夫妻忙着种树干活。
园主还蛮款待我们的，给了我们俩一间有点破的小屋子住。其他人是睡在屋主屋内的小房间。
晚上屋主还教我们点火，后来几天没屋主帮忙，结果烧完正份报纸都点不着。
10。今天种樱桃树。我们的同事多数是洋人，每天来的人都有不同。
他们拿旅游签证来玩一年，玩了一年还不够，特地来农场工作是为了拿到第二年签证。
11。今天也是种樱桃树。老板可是花了很多钱买树苗。
12。今天除草去喂猪。这里尽然没有锄头。这些大肥猪很贪吃，野草没有掺猪料都吃得那么爽。
13。今天园主宣布特假带我们和几个洋人去玩。去哪儿呢，原来去酒庄品酒，真无聊啊。为什么洋人那么喜欢去酒庄品酒？
午餐，每个人都做三文治各自解决。老板娘买了一条五尺长的香肠，够我们吃很多天。有时候晚餐还会有甜品吃。
老板娘一星期会煮一次米饭，其它天就煮各种不同的西餐。她和别人说我们很好养，煮什么我们都吃。她不知道对我们来说，明天都是很新奇的一餐。他们觉得最不可思议的是，吃饭前我还要拍食物。
14。把碳灰料倒进树洞。
15。把木屑料倒进树洞。
16。做苹果酒。但过程中我们也喝了不少鲜苹果汁。
17。今天老板娘带我们两个去教堂，不用做工，一间在山上的小教堂。现今洋人年轻人都不去教堂的，老板娘也没问他们。
我们一天只工作四五个小时，其他的时间就在看这两个小孩玩得天翻地覆。
看着他们，就让我想起自己小时候在砂拉越的家乡。我家也是种植的农场，我却去别人的农场打工。
还有一群可爱的小猫，躲在天花板上面，不过两个小孩每次把它们当作虐待对象。
18。学用电锯据苹果树。无论怎样学，老板都说据得不对。
19。捡树枝堆成一大堆。
20。搬树头去树枝堆。
21。卷起水管。
22。修剪桃树。
23。放置保护树的塑胶。
工作的时候，永远都会随时出现在身边的管家狗，Tily。
24。这是农场的最后一天了，我们要继续去玩，花光所有的钱。园主知道了我们要走，尽然要求我们烹饪马来西亚大餐才可以走。
好吧，为了报答园主收留我们的恩惠，煮就煮吧，毕竟煮饭对我们来说不是什么难事，难度在于，附近没有亚洲食材店，只能买洋人超市的食材。
我就决定煮海南鸡饭、炸肉丸和菜花、炸春卷和炸云吞。园主还特地拿出那天我们刚弄，酿了几天的苹果酒，好喝！
今晚，就在满天的星空下，我们生起了一团好大好大的火，享受了无比难忘的盛宴！
第二十五天。。。
25。我们坐了一晚的巴士，到达了常常被选为最宜居城市的墨尔本，这城市还真不小，有三百万人。第一天来到，地理不收悉，又拿着行李，于是就坐了免费电车绕市区，绕了一个早上，终于等到可以check in的时间。
这是一间还不错的背包旅馆，可以上网，WIFI 可不是每间都有的，一些非常烂的就没有。
我爱吃 pancake，没想到在这里可以每天自己煮 pancake 吃，要多少都可以。
26。今天有半日旅行团，附送的。去海边看颜色小屋，原来常在明信片看到的就在这里。还有去军人纪念馆。
另外半天去唐人街逛逛，没有什么食材买，还是到回洋人超市买。
27。去坐古老的蒸汽火车。今天的节目很好玩，不过要带点童真去，太严肃可能拍照会不美哦。
这火车可不是为了旅客而做的，平常都有人在使用，它是世上仅存的蒸汽火车，我们坐的只是一小段。
中午，在餐馆吃了我们这次旅行唯一一次不是自己煮的午餐，因为是今天的配套是包吃的！
下午，又去一间巧克力厂，有免费巧克力吃。还有野生动物园。发现树熊都不怎么会动。
28。博物馆，艺术馆。今天带了自制的学生证，所以不用钱，平常人要$10。
今天还到了巴刹买袋鼠肉 ，一公斤十九块，还买了紫色的菜花，袋鼠肉有点膻味。
路上还遇到 SP SETIA 在建公寓。
这家背包店的厨房真的很大，可以十家人一起煮饭也不会打架。
29。今天去的景点算是墨尔本最出名的，就是大洋路与十二使徒。
可惜最出名的地方未必就最好玩，因为碰巧碰上了中国十十节+澳洲学校假期+星期日。
结果就是旅游变了朝圣。。
今天的旅程没包午餐，所以要带便当。吃饱了我们还去海边吵架。
今天的旅程没包午餐，所以要带便当。吃饱了我们还去海边吵架。
30。原本想去雪山看雪，可惜冬天的雪没了，就去了金矿淘金。这地方可是出产了全世界最大的两块金块。
欢迎陌生人 (Welcome Stranger)，和欢迎金块 (Welcome Nugget)。意思不懂是不是欢迎上个世纪的中国来的淘金客？
31。第三十一天，去了植物园，再见了。这么美丽的彩虹，是特地为我们送别的吗？
THE END 。。。
顺便附送一个自拍电影，前面一些是其他地方拍的，后半部才是这次旅行拍的，谢谢观赏。
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDr99gUrfLE
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