旅行在沒有盡頭的道路上

My QUT, Queensland University of Technology, is one of the largest universities in AU. It owns 40,000 students among 4 campuses: Gardens Point, Kelvin Groves, Caboolture, along with Carseldine. I used to stay in Kelvin Groves campus when I studied in English for Academic Purposes. In the formal master term, I start my learning in Gardens Point campus, which takes only 10 minutes walk from CBD.
When it comes to Gardens Point campus, it is small and crowded. Due to Brisbane's hilly environment, it's interesting that each building has disparity ground level. Sometimes when I walk in the ground level and then go through a building, for instance, I may be in level 3 or level 4 of this building.  As a result, I confused when I came here initially. The photo under is about floor allocation in the library in GP. It can easily be seen that the main entrance/exit is in the third level.  QUT esatblishes a fabulous wireless environment in campuses and  it provides 900MB quota per month for every student. Every student has his/her unique account to access all services such as webmail, QUT Blackboard, and QUT Virtual. All data transmission are encrypted by QUT in regards to Internet security. 
Here locates the Old Government House, an unique architecture with his long history. It was built in 1860 when Queensland became a new state in Australia. In 2002, QUT accepted the responsibility for the restoration, adaption, and future maintenance. Recently OGH is being constructed in order to protect it with a perfect condition.

今晚西班牙鬥牛士Rafael Nadal苦戰五盤，終於以3比2的成績(7-5 3-6 7-6 (7-3) 3-6 6-2 )擊敗強敵瑞士特快車Roger Federer, 拿下澳網公開賽的冠軍。這場比賽雙方卯足全力，精采好球不斷，我雖身在Brisbane也能透過電視觀賞整場球賽。
看直播時，Erik可是Federer的支持者，每當Federer失誤或被破盤，他不是驚嘆就是碎念"shit"，而我沒什麼在看網球，對網球的概念完全是來澳後才吸收的，因為Federer已經拿了17次大滿貫，所以我的心不自覺就偏向 Nadal那邊，不過還是故意保持中立不吭聲。對了還有一點，就是我跟Nadal一樣都是左撇子。我寫字用右手，但事實上這是後天教育改正過來的，任何球類運動，我的慣用手都是左手，所以對Nadal又有一種"左手的溫柔"-土不親人親的感覺(硬要攀關係就對了)。
在最後致詞的時候，Federer一度哽咽掉淚，全場觀眾也起立為他鼓掌，後來Nadal也和他擁抱了一下，頗有英雄惜英雄的感覺。他們都是網壇一代巨星，最後致詞時除了感謝大家，也相約明年再見。
最後要強調的就是這張啦，在頒獎典禮時後方有各國參賽選手的國旗，我赫然發現台灣的國旗就放在Federer站的正後方，見機不可失趕快上樓拿相機下來拍。
看到台灣國旗真好！

There are 7 states and 1 terrotory in Australia. Each of them has state laws and regulations. When it comes to car plate, distinct state prints creative slogen on it in order to promote the state. In following passage, I'm going to introdce each state's car plate and style. NOTE: All pictures are gathered from Google image, and the copyrights are belonged to these original authors.
The former is a previous plate from South Australia. The latter is new plate with slogen: The Festival State

It's from Western Australia: State of Excitement
Another slogen of WA: The Golden State. In the middle of plate there's a swan, I surpose that presents the Swan river in Perth.
New South Wales is the first state established by England.
The Premier State

Victoria: The Place To Be.
On the Move

Canberra is AU's capital, the reign area called Australia Capital Territory.

Queensland is my living state, The QLD plates can easily be seen on roads.

North Territory's slogen: Outback Australia.

Tasmania: Your Natural State
In addition, the plate even can be customised by user, although it's expensive, some 'fat cats' r still willing to pay. This one is 'Minefield'.

Jacaranda is one of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae. It grows in sub-tropical regions such as South and Central America, Mexico, along with Caribbean. It also can be seen in Australia east. The Brisbane city has famous reputation of Jacaranda trees. The Brisbane council has used these trees to line avenues as well as to decorate landscapes.
In Septemper and October, the south semiphere's mid-spring, Jacaranda trees bloom surpringly purple flowers.Brisbane's hilly geography allows views of the city and suburbs in which the brightly coloured flowers can be easily seen for miles.
Although they only bloom last 6 weeks, they are very popular and can be found in South Africa and Israel.

 Queenslander is a kind of house style in Queensland state, Australia.
Queensland state enjoys a well sub-tropical climate, which is very humid, warm in summer. As a result, dwellers lift the height of the architecture of house from ground floor to first floor in order to gain more air-circluation. The balcony and window as well as door size also are enlarged. In summer, this style of house is particularly blew by air flow and that the indoor temperature is always around 23 to 26 degrees Celsius. The ground floor is used by Aussie as garage and storage room.
 

看著皮夾裡的照片，去年的今日，我正在南半球的澳大利亞，享受著悠閒的假期。而一年後的今天，我只能留在台灣，為了不得不完成的役期在營中悶悶的待著。心中的感受，五味雜陳。
我看著網路上的相簿，回憶我人生中最美的那一個月。
從布里斯班搭機來到雪梨，走出機場，剛下過雨的街道，是雪梨給我的第一印象。雖然到了一個完全陌生的都市，不過隨著英文的標示，我們順利走到地鐵站，一上車，就可以來到最有名的Circular Quay。下車後，著名的雪梨歌劇院和雪梨港灣大橋立刻映入眼簾，心中有一種期待雀躍和興奮交互堆疊而成的感覺。沒有真正站在它們之前，是沒有辦法領會那種感覺的。我，像來到夢境中一樣。以前永遠只能在網路圖片中欣賞到的歌劇院，如今以一種完美無暇的潔白呈現在我面前。我從來沒想到，人工打造的建築也能成為大自然的瑰寶，它僅僅只要散發那潔白的光亮，就足以讓我深深著迷。