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A Load Of Considerations

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Hello again. As we're heading into the middle of the year, this I feel will be worth sharing since earlier this year. So earlier, I took up a challenge to create a 3-dimensional object using paper and/or even cardboard through the SECAN arts hub. And this has been an intriguing part to open up another medium of art and even more avenues. And with the 2 years since I've taken up art again, my momentum has steadily been growing with the total of 5 art exhibitions participated and counting, having my Instagram account to showcase my artistic talents and considering how Australia isn't that cultural, it has helped me build up my purpose in life among other things. But still, not everything is straight forward. Although I'll continue with my art, hurdles and barriers can get in my way such as employment, building up a bigger social life and perhaps, some indication of potential home ownership. And to make things hard, not knowing where to go is the problem and at some point,...

If Recycling Is A 'Scam'

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Hello everyone. This'll be good to pick your brains. Throughout the dawn of our civilisation, the early people gather materials to make anything to survive and improve their lives in many ways. With discoveries of metallic ores in particular which they got smelted, they became tools, weapons, useful materials for construction and even money. It's worth looking at this mine rich in iron deposits and along with metallurgical coal, we create steel and use its applications since the iron age. And then, we have copper especially for our power needs along with aluminium, gold and other resources such as wood for timber and paper productions and crude oil for plastic products. However, there are environmental costs with the amount of energy used to extract resources, waste pollution and worse still a risk of scarcity making items we all use. With the idea of recycling, anything no longer useful can be recovered, broken down and processed to create new products. With that, recycling sa...

Anything's Better Than Nothing - Part 2

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Hello again! As I'm approaching the middle of this year when winter here will be approaching, I'm not too phased out about the cold weather with many things happening since my recent post here. With work, I've been filling in at the Pakenham Repco store for 2 months and having a lengthy process of re-learning to do trade and retail sales, picking orders even for click and collect sales, filling in some delivery driver duties and even fulfilling material requests from other stores. But then, I'm also filling in at the Narre Warren store only mornings. Along the way, I've been tidying up trade aisles where parts were located in wrong spots. That's a problem when other staff members have to pick the parts when times are flat out busy. This reminds me on the earlier days working at the Doveton store where everything's quite a mess and potentially being the busiest store in the south-east of Melbourne, that's when moments get sour. I can even remember various...

Anything's Better Than Nothing - Part 1

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Hello everyone and I hope you're travelling well towards the middle of the year. Whilst I'm on hiatus and not filling in many shifts at work, I still have the task of tidying up the backyard with the series of trimming back bushes. Just to recap, I was given a task by my parents to tidy up those bushes especially the rose and daisy bushes. Also, we have a grape vine and also trimmed it up as well and one extra bit, it has grown some grapes that we ate. And also, the garden area beside the house has also been tidied up. The gate towards the backyard is all go after the tidy up. With all this, I've been wandering how the messy bushes and trees can affect the value of a house, and if so, how much. I hadn't gone far to considering buying a house yet but it'll be worth understanding how those things can potentially reduce the selling price. Likewise, I'm learning. I've mentioned earlier when I was doing the pruning work in a previous post so for those who are kee...