Cynix’s World

It’s around 5am now at Houston, but I’m blogging now coz I can’t sleep. Still need some time to get use to this time zone I guess. Anyway, as some of you might already know, I took the LA route to Houston, which works like this, KLIA->LAX->IAH. I have a stopover at CKS, Taipei for about an hour as well.

Friday morning, I checked in my luggage using KL CAT at KL Sentral & took the ERL to KLIA. The KLIA Express cost me RM35 and the check in facility is free. Since I do not have my own transportation to KLIA, this service is definitely worth it for me. The ride to KLIA is ok, nothing special but the scenery is not too nice, can’t expect much of that anyway Arrived at KLIA early, walk around the Duty Free Shops, the stuff there are quite expensive, no reason to buy chocolates or liquor or cigarettes so just window shopped. Taking Boeing 747 to LA, not as nice compared to Boeing 777 that they normally use to fly to Melbourne. BUT the economy return flight ticket to Melbourne is around 2k, mean while the LA return flight ticket is around 3k, so yeah… no complaints there.

There’s a family with a baby sitting in my row but luckily I am at window seat and they are at aisle. A woman sitting with them decided that it’s better for her to move to my place since there’s 2 empty seats beside me. Found out that she’s from Penang and is a lecturer from USM! She’s going there for a conference about music in LA. She told me she’ll be doing her presentation on saturday morning and she needs to get more sleep in the plane. Cool eh.

Still quite sleepy, apparently.

Chiang Kai Shek international airport

After a few hours, we arrive at taipei for stopover. Malaysia airlines issued us a transit visa. The airport looks kinda old & run down, the promoters looks kinda pretty but snobish at the same time & some can’t speak english. Had a look at their duty free shops. The price is alright, USD1 is 32 Taiwan Dollars. Went in a duty free shop called Ever Rich and bought a souvenier that has the word “Taiwan” for the sake of it. It’s 2 metal keychains, one is phoenix & the other is a pen with a dragon design. Cost me USD8, got some taiwanese coins as change. William kept that tho. After walking around for a while, we decided that there’s not much to do there anyways so we went to the boarding area. There are many ppl lining up to get onboard the plane. Quite many taiwanese going to LA I suppose. Waited until almost everyone went in before lining up, just need to pass back the transit visa then all good to go.

Los Angeles International Airport

Opposite Terminal 6

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First of all, Welcome to my blog. As some of you might already know, I have been resting in my home in Australia after I graduated. During that period of time, I tried to look for job both in Mildura & Melbourne. As Mildura is a small town that produces fruits & wine, most jobs available there are farm work. There are no IT related jobs and very few computer hardware stores. There is one major computer store called Harvey Norman but they are not hiring either. There is also one computer training centre that seems quite impressed with my resume but suggested that I try looking in Melbourne instead.

Anyway, after I got my PR visa number, I applied for Newstart Allowance under Centrelink. This allowance is only available to Permenant Residents so I make sure that I make good use of it. After a simple interview with Centrelink, they decided to give me AUD400 fortnightly. Not bad at all, isn’t it. All I have to do is proof that I look for work at 7 companies every 2 weeks. That’s easy, since calling them to ask whether there are vacancies or not also can be counted. They also made a compulsory appointment for me with MADEC, to help me write my resume. The girl that is suppose to help me write my resume is so happy when she saw that I have prepared it earlier. So I said that I’ll email it to her when I reach home. Then she started to help me key in my details in JobSearch.

But as weeks go by, there are still no jobs referred to me. As for Melbourne, applying for it is much harder as they prefer hiring australian university graduates. Most MNCs had already interviewed the graduates they need for the 2006 intake. Needless to say, I have been getting AUD800 monthly by emailing resumes for a few hours weekly.

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