Bell Beach

Today, i worked on a site in between Anglesea and Bellbrae, and on the way, i got the chance to sneak to the famous Bell Beach for a minute. Not a good thing to do, but it wont happen often anyway. Bell Beach in Torquay is famous for being a porpular surf beach in Victoria.

Nice Mountain view...sorry the resolution is a bit bad...
and the lime stone cliff with the huge waves.... one day it will just become one of the apostles...
its being chilling and cold to work near the beach in winter, but anyway, it is a good experience to me, afterall, you dont get very often to go to beach everyday....

Today I wanna show you my current project with my company, The reconstruction of Geelong Eastern Beach Seawall… Been to Geelong for a few time before, never know that there are such place in which they got this blocked area for people to swim in there without worrying about the shark etc etc.

So, all these seawalls will have to be demolished and replaced with a new one. Sounds exciting isn’t it, judging that you are working just next to the sea and you have to watch out for the tide to plan your activities. Hopefully it wont be too complicated then. Anyway, I am just an engineer, anything wrong the manager will get the bomb first. :P

And lastly, My car posting next to the sea. this is probably the first time she is so close to the water.... :P

Brisbane trip 2

Well, it was my second Visit to Brisbane in one week. This time the stay was a bit longer, judging the fact that there are some important decision to be made. Brisbane office is not very big, looks more like an apartment to me. Anyway, Brisbane indeed a very different city compared to Melbourne. This city got the size and structure of a big city, but the pace of Adelaide. In the office, people gathered for breakfast, for lunch, for afternoon tea etc, as if they haven’t got a lot to do…
The famous Queensland Sun, very strong and very bright, so strong that you can feel that there must be a lot of radiation in there. No wonder Queensland is the state in Australia who got the highest rate of Skin Cancer.
And my powerful V6 Ford Falcon, very good car, very responsive, and very powerful… will definitely consider it if the fuel price is lower….
Back to the Huge Brisbane Airport. This time I wanna show you something special on the Virgin Blue Aircraft. If you look at the top of the body, you can see a “hump” on top of it, and that’s the satellite receiver for the inflight Foxtel TV. And not all Virgin Blue got that hump, so you know which flight got the Foxtel and which one didn’t…
As a Civil Engineer I like observing the building, sorry can’t help it even though I never build one before so far. Anyway, found out a special acoustic design for the airport. There are “fins” installed on the ceiling all over the terminal building. I hope I am right, the fins serve as a medium to direct the sounds straight down to the floor vertically and disallow the sound to travel horizontally on the ceiling. This reduced the echo effects in a big building so passenger could hear a clearer announcement. To make it better, the floor was covered with carpet which absorb the sounds once it reach the floor. And in fact, the sound system is one of the best I came across so far in Airports.
And that’s it, I am done with everything in Brisbane and back to Melbourne. A bit disappointed for not being able to continue what I should be doing here, but that’s okie, the next destination will be in Geelong…

Chinese style dinner

Last night i decided to have a chinese style dinner. Guess what, this is the first time i tried something chinese in Brisbane. Despite being a smaller city compared to Melbourne, the price of chinese food is average 50cents to 1 dollars higher than those in melbourne. I ordered the curry spiced beef with rice, looked yummy, smelled nice, and infact, its nice!
the only problem is.....

look at the container from the side, it was fully packed of rice, and then pityfully packed with the curry beef on top. with the price of $9.80, i think they can improve a bit on their serve...

Portugese Egg Slice

I bought this Portugese Egg Slices couple days ago. well the first reason that I would buy this is because of its packaging. it is a very big steel container with the height of my palm. Plus, better still, its only sold for $5.90. Sounds to be too good to be true, but hey, it is cheap.
When i opened the lid, it was only like 3 quarter full.... a bit disappointed, cheated by marketing strategy again...but nevermind, since its such a big container, 3 quarters still acceptable with the price...
and then, hang on, i saw something white beneath. I took out the bag of egg slices, aha, guess what, a plastic foam beneath...
judging from the thickness of the foam, its about one quarter thick of the container. Well, so, i lost a quarter at the top and a quarter at the bottom, so basically half of the container spaces are filled with air only. what a successful marketing strategy....
so, if sometimes something sounds to be too good to be true, it probably is....

Asianised Melbourne

Today, let me share to you what I will come across every morning when catching the bus to my works. You can see peoples are rushing, squeezing, clustering into the bus as the bus stop right in front of them. Well, i am not sure if this is Melbourne culture, but when i was studying in Adelaide, peoples are actually queueing up to get on the bus, and often during peak time you can see people queueing up along the street on King William for like 20, 30, 40 metres, in ONE lines. That actually gave me a good impression about Adelaide, and Australia, made me feel like i am in Australia, not in any of the Asian countries. But, But here in Melbourne, perhaps we got too many Asians here, and thus, what a shame Melbournians had been asianised, after all, its easier to learn something bad rather compared to something Good. May be i should write something to Today tonight, but probably the story will be too small to be put up with anyway...

Inspiration from Anglesea Toilet...

Few weeks ago i had the opportunity to travel to Anglesea for works. i was doing a road guard rail inspection there and i stopped by in Anglesea for lunch. what attracted me there is the public toilet there, it was nicely painted with pictures and words, very different from ordinary public toilets though. i think the message on the walls inspire me a bit on how i should view my life, therefore i wanna share this to you all here, specially the girls, coz these pictures are in males toilet....