I finally will be able to move to new place which is located around 10 minutes far from Melbourne city centre by tram. I am gonna work there as a house manager of a relatively small hostel. Manager! I can't imagine how I will manage to deal with tasks in the hostel. I can't imagine I will take a big responsibility. Since this is my first experience, I don't know how to work as a manager. It will definitely be tough for me but at the same time it will be exciting and great step to start my new career.
I have been waiting for one month to start to work. It was such a long time. I've never experienced this boring life. Even though I would feel tired and irritated when I was busy, working is much better than not working at all. No matter how busy I was, no matter how I felt exhausted, I had something to do at least and made money to live and enjoy. In this month, however, I was really nervous because of not working at all. I don't have enough money to spend on study or leisure. The life with nothing to do is totally meaningless. Totally invaluable. I spent a whole month on listening to English Podcast, reading books I've already read a few times and internet. A whole month! Can you believe this? It is so harsh that I was almost out of control. It was not good for mental health. If this kind of life kept one more month, I would get depression or something. And the reason I didn't write so many articles on this blog was that I didn't feel like to do so. Nothing to do means nothing to write.
Fortunately, though, I will start new life. I know nothing is harder than present situation. I must feel excited about that. It's time to change everything. I never want to be at as same situation as present.
Feb 19, 2014
Feb 10, 2014
Toyota's Decision
On 10th February, Toyota has made a "heart-breaking" decision that it will stop manufacturing in Australia by end of 2017. This afternoon I just happened to turn on TV, noticing the Japanese guy with familiar face was making an announcement. He was Akio Toyoda who is CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation. The program I was watching was ABC News and it spared most time of evening news on this sudden announcement.
I, as one Japanese staying here in Melbourne, was sad to hear this news. Apparently we can find a number of Toyota cars here. There is no wonder because Toyota has the biggest market share in Australia. According to Key Automotive Statistics 2012 issued by Australian government, the percentage of market share by Toyota is 19.6%, followed by Holden (10.3%) and Ford (8.1%). To make matters worse, these Holden and Ford already stated that they will also finish their manufacturing in Australia as well as Toyota. Holden will close in 2017 and Ford will close in 2016. Unbelievably, totaled 38.0% manufacturing in Australia market share will end in 2017. How is the industry going to be?
The car industry in Australia will definitely be obliged to change in three years. According to the comment from the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the decision could cost as many as 50,000 jobs and wipe $21 billion from the economy. The affect of Toyota's decision broke today must be huge. We have to keep an eye on what and how the government or the industry will deal with it to support workers who are supposed to lose their job. I hope they will make the industry and the economy better soon.
I, as one Japanese staying here in Melbourne, was sad to hear this news. Apparently we can find a number of Toyota cars here. There is no wonder because Toyota has the biggest market share in Australia. According to Key Automotive Statistics 2012 issued by Australian government, the percentage of market share by Toyota is 19.6%, followed by Holden (10.3%) and Ford (8.1%). To make matters worse, these Holden and Ford already stated that they will also finish their manufacturing in Australia as well as Toyota. Holden will close in 2017 and Ford will close in 2016. Unbelievably, totaled 38.0% manufacturing in Australia market share will end in 2017. How is the industry going to be?
The car industry in Australia will definitely be obliged to change in three years. According to the comment from the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the decision could cost as many as 50,000 jobs and wipe $21 billion from the economy. The affect of Toyota's decision broke today must be huge. We have to keep an eye on what and how the government or the industry will deal with it to support workers who are supposed to lose their job. I hope they will make the industry and the economy better soon.
Feb 6, 2014
Awesome OmmWriter
In these days, I haven't uploading this blog so often. Not because I didn't have time to do it, but because I always hesitated to write an article. One reason is that it is difficult to find a topic to write about. For another reason, when I face to my laptop, I am often made to look at other softwares or windows because the laptop has lots of attractive things. I guess most of you have the experience that you can't focus on what you are doing right now because being attracted with other things on your personal computer. I am, of course, not an exception. However I finally found an excellent text editor called "OmmWriter". It manages to make me focus on writing really well by creating a beautiful writing environment. This OmmWriter would change the frequency of uploading my blog hopefully. In this article, I am happy to introduce this brilliant text editor.
OmmWriter official website: http://www.ommwriter.com/
At first, I was just wanted to find a text editor to make a draft of an article because it is inconvenient to write directly to my blog online. I sometimes failed to save the article and had to write it again from scratch. It was horrible mistake, resulted in total waste of time. To avoid this I really wanted some useful text editor. Unfortunately, pre-installed ones in the computer are not good enough to write an article.
I found some free text editors. They must be useful, at least better than pre-installed ones. However, they didn't struck me so much probably because they are not for focusing on writing itself but for editing program languages such as C, C++, Java or HTML etc.
Fortunately I finally found one great software for editing text. That is the "OmmWriter". Briefly speaking, it is not cutting-edge or high-tech software but is very simple. Simple enough to focus on typing.
First of all, when you open the OmmWriter, a display comes up with FULL SCREEN so that you cannot be attracted with other windows you are opening or some other applications you can use just to click once. The only way you go through to see other things is to minimize or close the window. But you cannot see the buttons to minimize or close unless you move a mouth. Since it takes a little time to click these buttons, I am sure you rarely do that.
Second of all, OmmWriter has background sounds and typing sounds you can choose from. The background sound makes you relaxed and the typing sound makes you eager to type more. Thanks to these sounds, I am sure you can focus on what you are doing, i.e. typing.
Lastly, you can choose the colour of the background display. There are eight colours you can choose from and they are totally simple which means there are no textures, patterns or images at all. This also strongly affect your eyes relaxed and to focus more on typing itself.
As I wrote above, OmmWriter is very simple. This total simplicity affects the way you type. You cannot help but type without much thinking about other subjects. Indeed it is not free but very cheap. You can purchase this excellent software just in US$4.11 at least, it depends on how much you want to pay (you can decide how much you pay when you download).
Needless to say, I wrote this article using OmmWriter. It is amazing. How could I expect I wrote the article so smoothly. The more I focus on writing an article, the better the quality of the article will be. I will definitely take advantage of OmmWriter to keep my blogs frequently.
If you are interested, Please check out the official website. This is worth purchasing if you really want decent text editor to be able to focus on typing whatever you want.
OmmWriter official website: http://www.ommwriter.com/
OmmWriter official website: http://www.ommwriter.com/
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| OmmWriter Homepage |
At first, I was just wanted to find a text editor to make a draft of an article because it is inconvenient to write directly to my blog online. I sometimes failed to save the article and had to write it again from scratch. It was horrible mistake, resulted in total waste of time. To avoid this I really wanted some useful text editor. Unfortunately, pre-installed ones in the computer are not good enough to write an article.
I found some free text editors. They must be useful, at least better than pre-installed ones. However, they didn't struck me so much probably because they are not for focusing on writing itself but for editing program languages such as C, C++, Java or HTML etc.
Fortunately I finally found one great software for editing text. That is the "OmmWriter". Briefly speaking, it is not cutting-edge or high-tech software but is very simple. Simple enough to focus on typing.
First of all, when you open the OmmWriter, a display comes up with FULL SCREEN so that you cannot be attracted with other windows you are opening or some other applications you can use just to click once. The only way you go through to see other things is to minimize or close the window. But you cannot see the buttons to minimize or close unless you move a mouth. Since it takes a little time to click these buttons, I am sure you rarely do that.
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| The display of OmmWriter - You can't see anything except for words you are writing unless you move a mouth. |
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| When you move a mouth, you can find some buttons to choose the sound or the colour etc. |
Lastly, you can choose the colour of the background display. There are eight colours you can choose from and they are totally simple which means there are no textures, patterns or images at all. This also strongly affect your eyes relaxed and to focus more on typing itself.
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| You can choose different colour's background |
As I wrote above, OmmWriter is very simple. This total simplicity affects the way you type. You cannot help but type without much thinking about other subjects. Indeed it is not free but very cheap. You can purchase this excellent software just in US$4.11 at least, it depends on how much you want to pay (you can decide how much you pay when you download).
Needless to say, I wrote this article using OmmWriter. It is amazing. How could I expect I wrote the article so smoothly. The more I focus on writing an article, the better the quality of the article will be. I will definitely take advantage of OmmWriter to keep my blogs frequently.
If you are interested, Please check out the official website. This is worth purchasing if you really want decent text editor to be able to focus on typing whatever you want.
OmmWriter official website: http://www.ommwriter.com/
Feb 1, 2014
Greenhouse Backpacker
Greenhouse Backpacker is located in the city centre and is very closed to United Backpacker I mentioned before. Since I just wanted to see different backpacker and to stay cheaper, I decided to move to this backpacker. Indeed I stayed only for two nights because I had to move to another place due to my working condition. As I haven't started to work I can't wirte about the details. However I believe it would be a great experience for me.
In this article, anyway, I want to introduce the Greenhouse Backpacker a bit. This backpacker was really clean and tidy. I thought this was a professional work. Since this backpacker has a weekly rate, you can stay a little cheaper than United Backpacker.
What I preferred the most was a spacious and clean common room. This common room was comparatively quiet and it made me feel relaxed. Free Wi-Fi was also available there. Moreover I could enjoy the free breakfast which is available EVERYDAY. It was really nice because I didn't need to prepare my own meal in the morning and I could save money.
At first I paid for one week because they have a weekly rate. As I mentioned above, however, I had to move to another place, I checked out early. What this backpacker was great was that they refund all the amount I didn't stay, though of course they changed it to nightly rate. I didn't expect I could get my money back, I was really grateful.
United Backpacker and Greenhouse Backpacker have high rate in Melbourne. If you want to make friends and have fun with them or want more friendly services, I recommend United Backpacker. If you want to be relaxed and save money but still need high quality to some extent, I recommend Greenhouse Backpacker. Both these two backpackers are great. You won't regret whichever you would choose.
After all, however, you need to find a shere house, a flat, or an apartment if you plan to stay in Melbourne for a long time. As the living cost is extremely high here, room share is a popular option the most working holiday makers choose.
In this article, anyway, I want to introduce the Greenhouse Backpacker a bit. This backpacker was really clean and tidy. I thought this was a professional work. Since this backpacker has a weekly rate, you can stay a little cheaper than United Backpacker.
What I preferred the most was a spacious and clean common room. This common room was comparatively quiet and it made me feel relaxed. Free Wi-Fi was also available there. Moreover I could enjoy the free breakfast which is available EVERYDAY. It was really nice because I didn't need to prepare my own meal in the morning and I could save money.
At first I paid for one week because they have a weekly rate. As I mentioned above, however, I had to move to another place, I checked out early. What this backpacker was great was that they refund all the amount I didn't stay, though of course they changed it to nightly rate. I didn't expect I could get my money back, I was really grateful.
United Backpacker and Greenhouse Backpacker have high rate in Melbourne. If you want to make friends and have fun with them or want more friendly services, I recommend United Backpacker. If you want to be relaxed and save money but still need high quality to some extent, I recommend Greenhouse Backpacker. Both these two backpackers are great. You won't regret whichever you would choose.
After all, however, you need to find a shere house, a flat, or an apartment if you plan to stay in Melbourne for a long time. As the living cost is extremely high here, room share is a popular option the most working holiday makers choose.
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