Activities in Melbourne

Our first outing in Dobson Park on 8 Jun, about 40km away from our house. That's the time we first drove that far away from our house. Tao's birthday party was in one of the bible study group we attended regularly, mostly from Hong Kong and one brother from Sam Tet (Haha.. found a senior buddy in Melbourne). We had our first day trip two days ago to Melbourne City, visited Victoria Market, museum and state library. Guess what, we were having family fun time in the library playing computer games.

Schooling in Melbourne

Lim Tao started his first day at kinder (owned by Uniting Church) yesterday. He is the only Chinese in his class. The kinder here is very much different from Malaysia, mainly playing. The classroom is settled up by different playing stations/corners, more than 10 corners (art and craft, puzzle, drawing, music, computer, reading, clay, block etc)and of course some outdoor activities. The kids here are well-behaved and respect each other, no shouting, screaming , fighting among the kids. They obey the instructions set by the teacher. Surprisingly, the teacher is a very soft-spoken lady and you cannot imagine she can control and manage the class without shouting at all. No homework, of course. The maximum hours for kids in kinder is 10 hours a week, either 2 days a week or 3 days a week.

Lim Yue enjoys her school very much, no homework and no book bring back from school. Today is school market day. Each pupil need to bring something to sell at school. The objective is to learn how to count cost, loss and profit.

I know that they will enjoy very much with the education here. However, I do worry when come the day they have to go back to Malaysia....So, I am a home tutor now to guide them with the Malaysian syllabus, especially Bahasa, hopefully they would not suffer so much later...

Hospital

05 June 2009

Cycling to work in the morning. Meet up with my supervisor, Prof Sam Berkovic. Attend the first weekly comprehensive epilepsy meeting in Repatriation Hospital, followed by an epilepsy round in Austin Hospital. This is my first day in work. 

Meet up with Ramesh today, the first Malaysian doctor I met in Melbourne, getting to know more about the medical life and routine here. He is already one year in Melbourne.

New life in Melbourne

A new car, Mazda 121 (1997, 80000km). Guess how much?

A new bicycle, which I assembled myself. Of course, with a helmet.

Extra large Yao Zha Guai in winter.

And new playground for the kids. 

Heater,  

       

A complete kitchen (most things you see are wonderful gifts from brothers and sisters in Christ) and free gospel newspaper from the market in Boxhill (one of the Cina towns in Melbourne).