Got employer wanna employ students without a car or not ??
Damn my uncle (last time from melbourne I think), told me he lied to a company that he has a car to get a job.
I was like . I don't do stuff as crappy as that.

ahhh a new commuter in town.....well hav fun chatting up the chicks in the train......and time ur train rite to coincide with ur target train-chick.....and when the train is overcrowded....ur hands can wander abit astray....and then blame it on the train driver's poordriving skills...     quite gerenti that the chick wont mind....  

haih why dun dare.....if the trai brake abruptly.....sure passengers will get thrown forward...and by natural reflexes the hand will try to hold on to sth to prevent a fall and it just happened that the hand landed on sum not so pleasant place....(not so pleasant for the chick but not for u)i bet the chick will understand.....  

anyway....source
good news for u guys....i think i wasted like $60 to apply for permission to work on my visa.....       good job labor govt!!! i wish msia got labor party too......sick of all those 'elistist' party and theres no one in msia that takes care of average working msian families....

haih why dun dare.....if the trai brake abruptly.....sure passengers will get thrown forward...and by natural reflexes the hand will try to hold on to sth to prevent a fall and it just happened that the hand landed on sum not so pleasant place....(not so pleasant for the chick but not for u)i bet the chick will understand.....  

dun worry chicks in clayton dont interest me....chicks in melb central / melb uni  tram stop is my fav....

whoops....shizzz i think somewhere in the thread, my name was mentioned rite??!?!??! shizzy!!! i hate non-anonymous internet.....

this might seem odd question, but does anyone here knows the cost of getting a pet cat? particularly at adelaide, since i'm there now, and will be for the next four years..

i'm used to pet stray cats but never have i bought one before and kept indoors.. so is it easy to train it to do its business on litter box?

the fares will also rise 0.6% something next year 

Don't you know? The RBA calculated the inflation rate in the first quater to be 4%. Looking at my grocery bills, that sounds about right. I wouldn't bore you with the stats, but suffice to say it is a general indicator.

$30 bucks don't go as far as it used to.

agree agree haya....inflation in aussie is pretty bad.....ive not been here long enuff but can see the inflation effect.....everyyear the public transport fare will be hiked.....same goes to housing / rentals...and groceries oso....

Why this happen when I wanted to go there to study 

This is what you get from living in a free market economy, unlike Malaysia, where it is a controlled economy. Free fall price rises and falls.

In the days of old, there were the 2 camps: a planned economy (think the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, North Korea and gang) and a free economy (UK, USA, Sweden, NZ etc). Malaysia (like many countries in the region) has opted for a controlled economy, where the price of essentials are set by the government, and prices kept low by government intervention (read: subsides).

So when calculating the CPI and the inflation rate, a basket of, you guessed it, essentials is used, from food to petrol. In Malaysia, that is convinently kept in control by a controlled economy. While in Australia, it is set my market forces (and some say, the duopoly between Woolies and Coles).

But even my grandmother can tell you that overall cost of living has gone up by more than 3%, no matter what Zeti says. (http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/4/26/business/21072504&sec=business)

Its easy to blame food prices in the international markets without checking the fundimentals of a country's economy.

So you say that inflation in Australia is bad, but is it any better in Malaysia? You say that milk has gone up from 1.90 to 2.10 for 1 liters, but my bowl of kolo mee has gone up from RM 2.20 to 2.50 in about the same time.

And why the RM has been weak? The US$ is partly to blame, but its also due to the fact that a weak RM is in the interest of the Malaysian economy.

hahaha haya ur way of seeing it is very simplistic....but anyway.....the thing is i think the rising prices of good is all down to the increase of oil prices.....its just a chain reaction.....

anyway back to our aussie discussion.....i think in some sense vic public transport is still better than KL's....KL's public transport is more exp.....if u dont convert and just comapre the figures (its a simple way of putting it coz in comparison the ppl here n msians earn about the same figures in salary)

Why not?

I think it's ok here.

It's up to you anyway.I prefer to have 1 thread for studying in australia than 2.

omg it's so COLD today..

btw I didn't get through to the 2nd round of Safeway interview ..

http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/news...428111138.shtml

We'll(Sydneymates) have more entertainment soon I guess
Lets hope it happens during my stay there

LOL,F1 is coming to Sydney.

I might watch if the tickets isnt too expensive.

sure super expensive..

Aww Mark Webber's an Australian. No Australian supporting him?
HAHAHA

Guys, with calaboration with KVReninem, I have created a thread over at kopitiam..
Life at Australi@

Feel free to spam at there & try to keep this current thread informative & tidy...

TQ

hey guys...where can i watch football in melbourne city??

I personally feel that splitting the thread into 2, trying to draw a line between chit-chat and information is counter-productive. As you can see, this thread has been pretty much abandoned, through not in a bad way.

I usually don't even bother with the Kopitiam, but there are some gems in the "Life at Australi@" thread. In particular, HyeoshinX's experience can be a valuable resource.

But then, the deed has been done. If no one else, I'm quite happy to let this experiment go on, to see if this can help weed out the clutter and chaff that has invaded Education Essentials as of late.

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Added on May 2, 2008, 1:40 pmAnd it would be great if we could have a discussion on what Griffith is like, and the issues it is facing. Or are Malaysians incapable of open discussion?

I still prefer this thread.Dunno why.

Maybe you should put the link on the first page for the Aus mamak thread.

what can I say.... Weather 4 seasons (Melbourne, Geelong), I don't really like winter though, cold weather don't really suit my Malaysian body. Summer, good season to work, good many. Too many picking, packing, sorting job in the farm. Too many good money to make.  

Foods, I can't say much since I'm a Muslim, but still you can easily get halal food or even asian foods.

Education, way much better than Malaysia, I'd done my first degree in Malaysia and it was really not like studying in Australia. Different style, broaden perspective....I love it. Except, lots of reading for Architecture course.

Facilities, really efficient, only once in while you will experience late or delay...

Girls here, Should or should not i say ? heaven?

That's extremely subjective.
Why heaven?
Why no guy's heaven