Thursday, June 30, 2005
This week has been quite an interesting one. First a couple of Malaysian families just arrived in Melbourne during its cold winter season to start a new life. The first one a doctor from the KL Hospital and his family and another a lecturer from UIA and her family, a Phd candidate with Monash at Berwick
Berwick, hmmm I've been there once. I took my wife and kids there to check out the Kids Market held at its county hall. Its a nice area with beautiful landscape. It reminded me of the Salem High Country advertisement a few years back in Malaysia. So I took the lecturer's family on a house hunt in Berwick. it was a tough one indeed. The rentals in Berwick seems to be on the high end. Even the primary school is in a posh housing estate facing the Eastern Freeway. To me its a reflection of Damansara Heights facing the Kerinchi Link.
At one of the real estate agencies, I asked the lady about the housing market in Berwick. I was surprised to hear that the small town is one of the favourite areas for Melbournians to stay now. No wonder the number of houses that is affordable to us Malaysian students are very limited.
In my mind, Berwick would be a nice place to stay, especially if one is going to settle down. However, the support system for students especially us Muslims from Malaysia is not established yet. Issues about masjid and halal meat supply is a great concern if one is going to stay there.
Nevertheless, we applied for 3 houses and now it is the waiting game.
Today, Dr Azman and family would be leaving Ozzie's soil. By now he and his family would be a quarter way through their journey back to Malaysia. I met him and his family first in November last year. It was my first outing with Malaysians in Melbourne which we called Kg Victoria. It was 8 months ago. As such it is true that they say time flies. I'd better take note of this and remind myself about time!
Time, I'm always at lost... Dear Allah, please give me the strength to keep up with time and at times that I fall behind, give me the courage to continue the chase, Amin
~Re-flectionz of my mind~
