Blog reborn… (This is not a Phoenix Egg..!)

After several years of inactivity, I finally updated this blog to make it back to work.

The most trouble is the disappearance of “Picasa Web Album” service. There were plenty of photo albums to store in the Google Cloud Service. But it has already been discontinued in 2016.

Picasa Web Albums (PWA) was an image hosting and sharing web service from Google, often compared to Flickr and similar sites. The service links with Google’s photo organizing desktop program Picasa. It was discontinued in May 2016 and succeeded by Google Photos which does not support sharing photo albums on the public world wide web. It allowed users with a Google account to store and share photos in public albums with an initial free storage offering of 15 GB, that is shared with Gmail and Google Drive. Storage was unlimited for photos of resolution less than 2048×2048 pixels for Google+ users, and for photos of resolution less than 800×800 for everyone else. Videos shorter than 15 minutes also don’t count towards the limit. Once the storage is full, uploaded photos are automatically resized to fit the resolution for unlimited storage.

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Travel in Sydney 2010

28 Dec 下午從布里斯本出發!

這是我跟Christine,在2010年Dec出發去雪梨,參加跨年煙火的紀錄。
想要到雪梨去看煙火,其實挑戰很多的;
首先,也是最重要的,是搞定住宿問題。
我們是拖到九月底才找住宿的地方,所以,手頭上沒有甚麼可以選的。
Backpacker,ㄟ,雖然便宜,大約一晚30-40,可是卻全部店家都要求住宿十晚以上;
而且,很少Backpacker是有提供雙人房的,大部分都是四人或六人以上。
這樣看看,恩,乾脆去住等級高一點的,三四星級的飯店好了。
所以,最後選擇了Ibis Sydney,Airport;這家自稱有四星級的等級。
(不要拿台灣的標準來看澳洲的飯店……如果真要比較,通常降個半星到一星會比較適合)

這樣五晚的價錢,大概加起來就是一千澳幣上下。(每一晚的價錢都不同。跨年夜的那晚,印象是285一個雙人房)

接下來,就是機票了。坐JetStar的廉價航空,每個人也要250左右。不算便宜,因為有聽到朋友成功搶到一百多的機票。

結論是!要去就要早點做規劃,快點下手訂機票 + 住宿。九月底真的太晚了!

Crowdsssssssss!!

十月份的吃喝玩樂?上半段

上一篇文章,已經是去年九月初拍的。

短短的半年學習內,好多事情發展地令我難以招架;像是找到人生中難得的另一半,她,現在正在身旁的沙發上好好地睡個午覺。

現在的我,某種程度上說是很滿足,但是,相對而言,也有很多的不清楚與空虛。
可能是因為畢了業吧?!接下來的步伐,到底又該往哪邊邁進呢?

先不說這些了,去年(2010)的十月,剛好是她跟另一個同學的出生月,就幫兩個人一起慶生了;不過,其實是她們自己姊妹滔本來就會辦的,我算是插花啦!哈哈!

這個十二月,挺精彩的!

這是指說,我在2010年Dec除了順利拿到畢業文憑之外,其實還做了不少事:

1. 將兩箱20KG左右的行李給打包好,跟同學一起寄回台灣

2. 又帶同學一起去吃我打工的餐廳,Morrison Hotel

以相同等級的餐廳而言,這家是在Brisbane頂級牛排店中價錢最低的;主要是停車位超級少,然後周遭景觀很差。不過,一個頂級牛排只要二三十出頭,又能有多計較呢?另一家我吃過的Normal Hotel,一個人大概就要六十出頭了….
PS: Normal Hotel的副招牌是,Brisbane’s Worst Vegetarian Restaurant

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