1987年末我在澳洲第一次遇到华人

yang195508

1987年12月27日上午，我乘坐的加拿大航空公司班机降落在悉尼。我是前一晚从温哥华机场起飞的，中国大陆护照上贴的是澳大利亚驻温哥华领事馆签发的独立移民即P R 签证。当晚在温哥华机场及飞机上旅客很少，好像人人都在昏昏欲睡，也无交流。在当时华人面孔罕见的悉尼机场，我推着行李车走过机场大厅过道的时候，恰好遇到一位个头不高的新加坡华人男子。他与我年龄相仿也是30岁出头，肤色稍暗，两人英文交谈。得知我来自中国大陆，他显得很高兴。交谈中他知道我一人来澳，尚无安排住处，就邀请我到他的公寓里暂住，因为他是一个人住。我很高兴，起先正一路盘算下机后如何寻找住处呢。我跟着他去了他在悉尼东郊Bondi Junction 的公寓。他未婚，一个人住在高级公寓群的一个三居室内，说是当时价值30多万澳元。我当时对澳洲房价一无所知，口袋里只有一张自己在加拿大用所有剩余积蓄购买的3000多元旅行支票（当时加元澳元1:1汇率），很庆幸这位新加坡人帮我省了临时寻找旅馆的麻烦。如今那个公寓楼群还矗立在Bondi Junction 沿着公路边的Westfield 购物中心附近，我感觉应当就是79-81 Grafton Street那座浅红色的公寓大楼，看最近网上销售当时的三居室如今价值应接近300万澳元。

这位新加坡男对我独自一人以独立移民身份来澳洲表示欣赏不已，估计也有点惊讶。他说他父亲是位富商，但在家中很专制。他自称非常崇拜香港的李嘉诚，自己也要学李嘉诚成功创业经营等等。他的新加坡口音英文我第一次遇到，比如他说 “thinker” 我听成 “tinker”, 但两人交谈基本无障碍。我告诉他我会很快自己找到住处搬出去，且会自己寻找工作。他跟我说会帮我找电脑程序员工作云云，我虽感激，也未太抱希望。因为据我在加拿大找程序员工作的经验，知道得有一些过程和手续。

这位独身新加坡男的三居室公寓在高层，进出有安全门卡，室内有门禁对讲机，但除了床和简单桌椅沙发外，并无什么豪华家具装饰，我甚至都不记得他有私人电话？因那时大家也无手机之类移动通信器。我也未见他有女朋友之类，也无人来访。白天他出去大概是交际应酬或工作？但那时正值圣诞至新年的澳洲假期时节，估计也没多少人认真打工。我自己忙于打公用电话找单独的住处，也未在意新加坡人如何进出公寓。他倒是对我毫无防范，给了我入门钥匙门卡等等，但我估计他公寓内也无贵重物品，连厨房都挺干净，大概他不怎么做饭。

我买了报纸查看各种租房子的信息，看到悉尼的租金显然比我刚刚离开的加拿大维多利亚小城昂贵不少，而且可租房源也紧张。当时悉尼甚至有些专门帮助潜在租客寻找房源的公司：就是你交给这些公司一些钱，他们帮你找一些适合你条件的潜在待租房子，你可以去挨个看看合适与否。我没有想使用这些掮客公司的服务，自己按照报纸广告信息打电话寻找了几个房源，甚至坐火车从市政厅站一直跑到南边较远的Cronulla 站。因为我初来悉尼，对地理远近概念模糊。一开始我甚至对如何确认澳洲的住宅地址都不清楚，因为澳洲的街道名字有许多都同名，比如乔治街George Street, 到处都有，但与街名后面的郊区名（Suburb）联合起来，就可以准确识别一个地址的位置。这许许多多的郊区把整个澳洲划分为易于投递邮件与区别地址的小块地域，每一个或几个郊区享有一个唯一的邮政编码，比如Sydney 2000， Blacktown 2148, 等等。记得我那次找到南边Cronulla 的一间出租房，收拾的挺干净，屋主是西人妇女，但我感觉离市中心较远，就没有租。后来我匆匆租了一个在近市中心Petersham 郊区的Terrace 小楼房里面的一个房间，租金现已记不太清，但应该是每周$100以下（相比之下我在加拿大Victoria市租一个单间是每月$175），就决定搬离新加坡人的地方，因为我感觉总免费住在人家那里过意不去。我起先告诉他我欲在Petersham 那附近找住处时，他还帮我分析，说那里会有公交车服务等等。

确认租到住处后，正好新加坡人不在家，我写了张感谢与告别纸条，与他给的钥匙和门卡一起留在他桌子上，带上房门，就拖着两个行李箱乘出租车去了新租的房间那里。对新加坡人的几天免费招待我心存感激，但当时他家里并没有电话，所以从此也就没有再联系了，其实心中还是挺遗憾的。 如今四十年过去，不知这位老兄是否仍在悉尼啊？ 衷心祝福祝愿他这些年及今后一直安好。

In the morning of Dec. 27, 1987, my flight from a Canadian airline landed at Sydney airport. I boarded the plane the previous night from Vancouver airport, carrying my Chinese passport with an immigration visa to Australia issued by the Australian Consulate in Vancouver. In the airport corridor where Asian faces were seldom seen at that time, I met a Singapore Chinese man at his 30’s, similar as me. When he learned I was a mainland Chinese coming to Australia as an independent immigrant he was quite surprised and felt happy to meet me. We chatted in English for a while. As he learnt I haven’t had a place to stay in Sydney yet, he invited me to stay with him in his apartment, since he was living alone. I thanked him and felt grateful for his generosity since all along the flight I had been considering how to find an accommodation once arriving in Australia. The year end Vancouver airport and the flight across the ocean had very few passengers around and everyone seemed to be very sleepy so hardly any verbal communication happened.

The Singaporean man had a slightly darker complexion and relatively short height. He lived in a high rise apartment in Bondi Junction. The building had a light dark red external colour, several dozens storeys, security access with swipe cards for residents —— from today’s viewing online it could probably be the 79-81 Grafton Street, Bondi Junction building that still stands close to the Westfield shopping complex.

The apartment the Singaporean owns has three bedrooms, showers, bathrooms, toilets, kitchen, balcony, etc, plus intercom for communicating with downstairs visitors. He told me the apartment had a value over $300k, which I had little understanding since at that time Sydney’s realestate market was totally unknown to me.

Singaporean man told me his father back in Singapore was very rich and also quite dictatorial. He himself admires the HongKong merchant tycoon Ka-shing Li and aspires to become a similarly successful merchant, etc. It was my first close encounter with a Singaporean and his English accent sounded a little bit strange for me, however we mostly chatted along smoothly. When he learned I will be starting job hunting soon he said he will help me find computer programmer job the next day or so, which I appreciated but understood that might need some effort and procedures as I experienced in Canada in the previous year.

The apartment was very simply furnished with beds and sofa plus a few chairs and tables. Kitchen was rarely used so looked quite new and clean, I then cooked instant noodles a few times there. I don’t even remember he had a telephone at home. Apparently he didn’t have a female partner, nor visitors either during those days when I was there. In the daytime he went out to meet people or handle his usual business so left me alone at home. He trusted me quite well by leaving me entrance keys and security swipe card(although honestly speaking there were very few valuables in the apartment, apart from the TV set probably?)

I was a total stranger to Australia at that time. Choosing to come to Sydney was purely because it was the largest city of the country so I reckoned here it might be easier to land a job. All I had with me were luggage suitcases and a $3000 plus traveller’s cheque that I purchased with all my remaining money in Canada (then Canadian dollar and Aussie dollar had exchange rate of 1:1).  When looking around for accommodation initially I couldn’t even identify property’s address correctly, since many streets share same names such as George, High, etc. There are many suburbs that divide Australia’s cities and countryside so locating a property’s address its street no. and name need to be combined with its associated suburb name plus the postcode. At that time Sydney’s rental property market was very tight with very low vacancy rate, plus the year end/new year start was holiday season so relatively few rental properties were on the market. There were even rental property agents then who were charging people money by simply showing you potential rental properties: often several potential properties will be offered to you after you pay the agent some fees. I didn’t pay money to these kind of agents, but started looking for new rental properties by browsing through newspapers’ advertisements. Public telephones were my main tools to talk to potential landlords who advertised on the newspapers. Since my lack of geographic knowledge of the Sydney metropolitan area, sometimes I went quite faraway from the city centre to inspect a rental place. Once I went to the suburb Cronulla where an Australian lady had a room for rent, that was very clean and quiet. However considering the train travelling distance and time I didn’t take that. I also once travelled to Granville to inspect a rental property, and to the suburb Rockdale. I particularly looked at near CBD inner west suburbs such as Petershsm, Stanmore etc. I remember when I mentioned Petersham the Singaporean started discussing with me if there was bus service there to the City etc.

The Singaporean man’s trust on me made me quite grateful. However I did feel it wouldn’t be appropriate for me to overstay too long in his place free of any possible payback, so  once I locked in a rental room in Petershsm suburb along the Crystal Street with a weekly rent below $100, which in comparison with the rent in Canadian city Victoria BC was much higher (I was paying C$175 per month for a single room in 1987 whole year), I packed my luggage suitcases and prepared to leave. I wrote a thank you note to the Singaporean and left it on the desk, together with his security swipe card and door keys. Closing the apartment door then taking a taxi downstairs, so I left the Bondi Junction building with some regrets, since the Singaporean wasn’t at home that entire day. Unfortunately ever since then I haven’t had a chance to meet him again. Thirty eight years on today I do wholeheartedly hope he has been faring well, and wish him well in all future years. Maybe you are still living in Sydney nowadays, brother?

john-2204

感谢分享！

有点不明白，生活在悉尼，这么長时间，总应该抽空去拜访叙叙．．

nuannuan123

人生如此！ 错过就是一辈子

yang195508

john-2204 发表于 2025-12-27 20:16
感谢分享！

有点不明白，生活在悉尼，这么長时间，总应该抽空去拜访叙叙．． ...

没有门卡，根本进不去大楼。而且也无电话。未再见面，是挺遗憾的。

15Feb2015

闲着。。。

这个故事读起来非常有年代感，细节丰富，情感也很真挚。但如果从考据的角度来“找茬”，确实存在几个明显的硬伤（Hard Facts）和一些逻辑疑点（Soft Logic），这表明记忆可能出现了偏差，或者故事有虚构成分。
以下是几个主要的“破绽”：
1. 致命硬伤：航空公司 (The Airline)
故事描述： “1987年12月27日……我乘坐的加拿大航空公司 (Air Canada) 班机降落在悉尼。”
破绽分析：
在1987年，加拿大航空（Air Canada）并没有执飞温哥华到悉尼的航线。
* 当时垄断这条跨太平洋航线的是 CP Air (Canadian Pacific Air Lines)，就在1987年，CP Air 被收购并改组为 Canadian Airlines (加拿大国际航空)。
* Air Canada (加航) 直到很晚（大约2007年左右）才真正开通温哥华直飞悉尼的航班。
* 如果是1987年，你坐的飞机尾翼上应该是CP Air的橙色标志，或者是刚改名的Canadian Airlines的标志（大雁），绝不可能是Air Canada的红枫叶。
2. 地标年代错误：Bondi Junction 的高楼 (The Building)
故事描述： “79-81 Grafton Street那座浅红色的公寓大楼……当时（1987年）价值30多万澳元。”
破绽分析：
* 建筑年代不对： Bondi Junction 现在的地标性高层住宅群（尤其是 Grafton Street 附近的高楼，如 The Oscar, The Elements 等）绝大多数是 1990年代末到2000年代初 随着城市士绅化（Gentrification）才兴建的。
* 在1987年，Grafton Street 一带主要是低矮的商业建筑、旧式排屋或工业用地。你提到的地址（79-81 Grafton St）现在对应的是 "The Oscar on Hollywood"，这座楼是 1999年 才建成的。1987年那里不可能有一座“高级三居室高层公寓”。
* Westfield 购物中心： 现在的 Westfield Bondi Junction 是在2003-2004年左右合并了原来的 Grace Bros 和 Carousel 之后建成的巨型商场。1987年虽然有商场，但规模和形态与现在完全不同，并没有那种“沿着公路边矗立在Westfield旁”的现代即视感。
3. 价格体系矛盾：房价 (The Price)
故事描述： “三居室内，说是当时价值30多万澳元。”
破绽分析：
* 价格过高： 1987年悉尼的房产中位价（Median House Price）大约在 $120,000 - $140,000 澳元左右。
* Bondi Junction 当时并非顶级富人区（那时还比较乱，虽然交通方便），一套公寓卖到 $300,000 在当时属于天文数字，这价格在当时可以在富人区买独立屋（House）了。如果那个新加坡人真住了30万的公寓，那绝对是当时悉尼最顶级的豪宅之一，但这与你描述的“家具简单、无豪华装饰”相矛盾。
4. 逻辑疑点：陌生人的信任 (The Logic)
故事描述： 机场偶遇陌生人，对方富有但住高级公寓，直接邀请初次见面的你入住，并给你钥匙和门卡，自己经常不在家。
破绽分析：
虽然80年代民风淳朴，但这部分剧情过于“小说化”：
* 富家子弟的防范心： 一个自称父亲是富商、崇拜李嘉诚、想创业的新加坡人，通常具备较高的社会警觉性。把一个刚下飞机的陌生人（完全没有背景调查）带回存放自己家当的公寓，并给予全套钥匙，这不符合“精明生意人”的人设。
* 各种巧合： 他正好一个人住三居室、正好没女朋友、正好没亲戚来访、正好你找到房子那天他不在家让你留条走人。这一切虽然不是不可能，但作为剧本来说，“功能性”太强了——这个角色的出现纯粹是为了解决主角“落地第一周住宿”的难题，解决完就完美消失，连电话都没留，这非常不真实。
5. 生活细节：租金 (The Rent)
故事描述： “Petersham……租金现已记不太清，但应该是每周$100以下。”
破绽分析：
* Petersham 租金： 1987年，悉尼内西区（Inner West）如 Petersham 是工人阶级区，非常便宜。当时的周租金，$100足以租下一整套两居室的老旧公寓（Unit）。如果你只是租一个房间（Share a room），租金应该在 $40-$60 左右。
* 你说“100以下”虽然技术上没错，但如果你租单间接近100，那你绝对被宰了（这也可能是新移民常态），或者记忆中的价格体系混淆了90年代的物价。
总结
这个故事很可能是一个基于真实经历的“重构记忆”。
作者确实可能在80年代末移民澳洲（对签证、汇率、找房方式、郊区概念的描述很准确），但他可能：
* 记错了航空公司（把 CP Air 记成了 Air Canada）。
* 记错了具体的公寓位置（把后来Bondi Junction繁华后的印象“移植”回了1987年）。
* 虚构或过度美化了“新加坡人”这一段落，也许当时只是住了一个普通的Boarding House或者廉价旅馆，为了增加故事的传奇色彩，编排了一位“贵人”。
最直接的证据： 去查一下 79-81 Grafton Street, Bondi Junction 的 Title Deed（地契）或建筑历史，你会发现1987年那里没有那栋楼。

gongxd

    抱歉、发重了 。
   

gongxd

     那个年代国人出去的不多，碰到了会有种莫名的亲切感，也非常愿意提供帮助。当时一般没有手机就会有座机，楼主怎么不等人回来当面道个别说声谢谢，那怕留个通信地址也好啊。

绿草地

我朋友八几年去美国也是飞机上认识的人留宿的，当时社会风气好，人善良，这个事请不用怀疑。

Jianlin

刚开放的时候新加坡的华人对大陆去的国人非常的热情。现在……

Purplelight

绿草地 发表于 2025-12-27 21:54
我朋友八几年去美国也是飞机上认识的人留宿的，当时社会风气好，人善良，这个事请不用怀疑。 ...

哈 我也是在来澳的飞机上 认识了邻座同一所大学的大男孩儿. 本来他父母都安排好了和同行的使馆人员一起去使馆住，结果下飞机的时候他不放心我还没找地方，非要带上我，说不管哪里都行，最后使馆那几位没办法 只好帮我们联系了大学里的华人学者联盟住下.

后来还成了好朋友，好几门选修课做实验都是partner. 碰到我不太敢做的步骤都是他亲自来. 印象很深的是有一次需要碾磨人体的肝脏然后分解测试，他看我盯着那块肝脏为难 二话不说拿着肝就去研磨了.

那个圣诞节，刚来十天，我们一起去Maroubra beach游泳；那时刚来不了解澳洲的海，游的有点远. 后来浪潮太大我怎么也游不回来啦. 就是那种往回游一米 被打回两米 永远在做无用功的感觉. 也来不及呼喊. 正在绝望的时候 一把拉到了什么东西. 一把抓紧 才看到正是好友. 后来才知道一把抓的 是他的游泳短裤 啊 人家是救命稻草 我这是救命短裤

气人的是，交作业前，他会急急慌慌跑来找我 快 作业本拿来 得赶快抄. 但是考试的时候 每次都分数比我高. 那段日子，回想起来蛮有意思，而且真的是很纯洁的友谊.

那个年代的人，真的好纯真. 我找工作也碰到不少热心的人. 那时候我胆子也大，现在想想，幸好碰到的都是好人.

ymf9901071

我以前的邻居，马来西亚华人，60年代来的澳洲学习，说经常有本地人请他去吃饭

yang195508

15Feb2015 发表于 2025-12-27 21:02
闲着。。。

这个故事读起来非常有年代感，细节丰富，情感也很真挚。但如果从考据的角度来“找茬”，确实存 ...

哈哈哈， 碰到一位持放大镜讲华语的福尔摩斯： 估计是在大陆被共产党文化浸淫过久， 不相信有人以真名实姓真实不作假地写生活回忆。大陆人的回忆，在大陆显然作假甚多，言论无自由之下，生活如履薄冰，动辄得咎，文字自然不敢全真；不过说我在澳洲写的生活回忆是假的，你算第一人。 你指称我说的加拿大航空公司名称不对，有barking at the wrong tree 之嫌啊：我本来就并未自以为自己至今仍记得当时飞机公司到底是哪个，总归是加拿大的一个航空公司（所以我文中说“加拿大航空公司”， 但我并未说Air Canada, 还劳您费神去考古1987年哪个加拿大航空公司从温哥华飞悉尼澳洲了， 真辛苦您啦），而不是澳洲或其它国家航班。你在我文字中考古， 大可不必， 有功夫练习下如何在澳洲当私人侦探，似乎更合汝天才？ 说我回忆录虚构作假， 颇为可笑，也是至今唯一。我感觉你对大陆人真名实姓写人生细节的不适应，大概要多于你质疑我回忆真实性的诚意吧？

至于那座粉色公寓到底是不是我说的那个grafton st 地址上那座， 现在我也没把握， 但如今看那附近只有那一座（包括好几栋楼）是粉红色的。还劳您考古说那座楼建筑时间？ 真够费心的啊。不过新加坡人亲口告诉我他的三睡房公寓价格30多万，我记得清清楚楚，就不必劳您大驾去论证或曰证伪啦。 习惯一下有北京人真实地真名实姓地回忆生活吧。

您这段话：《虚构或过度美化了“新加坡人”这一段落，也许当时只是住了一个普通的Boarding House或者廉价旅馆，为了增加故事的传奇色彩，编排了一位“贵人”》，颇为武断无聊啊。您咋知我在 “虚构或过度美化” 呢？ 还辛劳费心地“编排了” 一段 “一个普通的Boarding House 或者廉价旅馆”， 想象力爆棚啊

15Feb2015

杨光老先生，读完你这篇气急败坏的檄文，我只看到了四个字：恼羞成怒。
我不过是指出了几个物理世界的硬伤，你这一跳三丈高，张口就是“共产党文化”、闭口就是“言论自由”，这套**“政治碰瓷”**的把戏，你在海外玩了几十年还没腻吗？
1. 别拿“反共”当脑萎缩的遮羞布
你最大的可笑之处，就是认为只要你立场反共，你的记忆就是圣经，谁质疑你谁就是“五毛”。逻辑和事实是没有政治立场的。 1987年没有加拿大航空飞悉尼，这是物理事实；1987年那个地段没有那栋楼，这是建筑事实。
你指责大陆人“不敢全真”，可你呢？你是**“不能全真”——因为你的脑子记不清了，而你的虚荣心又不允许你承认。你这种“凡是指出我错误的都是政治迫害”的思维方式，才是最典型的文革遗毒**，只不过你把它搬到了悉尼，换了个“民主”的马甲而已。
2. 关于“加拿大航空公司”的狡辩，无赖至极
你说你写的是“加拿大的航空公司”而不是“Air Canada”？行，咱们来看看原文，你写的是**“我乘坐的加拿大航空公司班机”。在中文语境里，这就是专指。
退一万步说，即便你玩文字游戏，1987年那是 CP Air（加拿大太平洋航空）！作为一个声称“真实记录细节”的回忆录作者，连载你跨越半个地球的载体都搞不清楚，被指正后不是脸红，而是撒泼打滚说“不必考古”，这种学术流氓**的态度，还好意思谈什么“真名实姓的尊严”？
3. 关于那30万的豪宅：你是真傻还是装傻？
你还要坚持那个新加坡人说的是真话？
一个刚下飞机的傻小子，被一个陌生路人吹牛逼忽悠了，这一忽悠就是40年，至今还把别人的大话当成澳洲的历史行情。
你引以为傲的“记忆清楚”，记生下来的不过是你当年的无知和轻信。你不仅没有随着年龄增长长出智慧去分辨当年的虚实，反而把这种无知供上了神坛。那个新加坡人要是还在，看到你这么单纯好骗，估计大牙都要笑掉了。
4. 收起你那套“老资格”的傲慢
别列书单了，杨先生。出版过书不代表你就不撒谎，更不代表你就不会老糊涂。白纸黑字印出来的垃圾也是垃圾。 你提到的那些书，如果都像你这篇网文一样，充满了臆想、美化和经不起推敲的“事实”，那它们也就是一堆废纸，唯一的价值就是证明了人的记忆是多么不可靠。
最后送你一句：
真正的真实，是经得起放大镜看的。只有赝品，才会在鉴定专家的放大镜下瑟瑟发抖，然后破口大骂专家是“找茬的”。
您继续活在您那“完美无瑕”的自我感动里吧，毕竟在您的世界里，事实不重要，您爽最重要。

yang195508

15Feb2015 发表于 2025-12-28 00:55
杨光老先生，读完你这篇气急败坏的檄文，我只看到了四个字：恼羞成怒。
我不过是指出了几个物理世界的硬伤 ...

哈哈哈，别这么激动，后生，我都70啦，您若能使我“恼羞成怒” 还真不容易，福尔摩斯先生（或女士？）。我这篇美好心情回忆贴下，碰到您这么一位跳脚骂街的伪福尔摩斯，算是来搅局的？如前述，让我入彀你编造的“恼羞成怒” 不容易。 本帖我衷心地怀念文中那位新加玻老兄，无论您如何搅局跳脚虚构“檄文”等等。一边是诚心真情地回忆友人，一边是披头大棒撒泼般“气急败坏”，如我上述，您对大陆人真名实姓回忆生活的不适或反感，多于您装扮福尔摩斯考古于我帖子内容啊。

fj2108

15Feb2015 发表于 2025-12-27 23:55
杨光老先生，读完你这篇气急败坏的檄文，我只看到了四个字：恼羞成怒。
我不过是指出了几个物理世界的硬伤 ...

很棒

胡扯而已

yang195508 发表于 2025-12-27 22:07
哈哈哈，别这么激动，后生，我都70啦，您若能使我“恼羞成怒” 还真不容易，福尔摩斯先生（或女士？）。 ...

最烦这种倚老卖老喜欢给别人扣帽子的人，记不清楚了有人指出来可能有错的地方，解释下就是了，几十年前的经历，可以理解。非要死不承认，反咬别人，有意思吗。

绿草地

yang195508 发表于 2025-12-28 00:09
哈哈哈， 碰到一位持放大镜讲华语的福尔摩斯： 估计是在大陆被共产党文化浸淫过久， 不相信有人以真名实 ...

我问过来的早的人，他们说当时三十几万就是很贵的了，一个普通的西区house，五千英镑就可以买到。

max2001

"估计是在大陆被共产党文化浸淫过久， 不相信有人以真名实姓真实不作假地写生活回忆。大陆人的回忆，在大陆显然作假甚多，言论无自由之下，生活如履薄冰，动辄得咎，文字自然不敢全真"

原来就是一可怜人????

yang195508

我亲身经历的1987年末来澳事实过程，对一位新加坡同胞哥们的感谢与记忆，准确而清晰，偏偏有大陆被共产党毒素洗脑至深之徒，胡搅蛮缠之辈，口沫飞溅，蹬腿撒泼，搅扰胡闹，颇为无聊无赖，真正是：
三八年前登陆此
只为哥们感谢情
总有苍蝇嗡嗡闹
酸臭倒也映人生。

又道：
中文泼皮到处多
酸货入澳骚依旧
福尔摩斯事妈味
藏头掩尾嘴喧嚣。

装逼装得特严肃
搅局搅得甚高潮
三八年前哪窝着？
三八年后一样骚。

zwczcy

yang195508 发表于 2026-1-1 14:22
我亲身经历的1987年末来澳事实过程，对一位新加坡同胞哥们的感谢与记忆，准确而清晰，偏偏有大陆被共产党毒 ...

支持你，别理，都是一群loser!人间自有美好在，你的经历我在悉尼也同样经历过。

yang195508

zwczcy 发表于 2026-1-2 13:06
支持你，别理，都是一群loser!人间自有美好在，你的经历我在悉尼也同样经历过。 ...

非常谢谢。澳洲善良事例俯拾即是，许多移民来后也都被感化同化变得善良起来，正所谓近朱者赤啊。

yang195508

同一内容的英文回忆：

《My first encounter with fellow Chinese in Sydney》

In the morning of Dec. 27, 1987, my flight from a Canadian airline landed at Sydney airport. I boarded the plane the previous night from Vancouver airport, carrying my Chinese passport with an immigration visa to Australia issued by the Australian Consulate in Vancouver. In the airport corridor where Asian faces were seldom seen at that time, I met a Singapore Chinese man at his 30’s, similar as me. When he learned I was a mainland Chinese coming to Australia as an independent immigrant he was quite surprised and felt happy to meet me. We chatted in English for a while. As he learnt I haven’t had a place to stay in Sydney yet, he invited me to stay with him in his apartment, since he was living alone. I thanked him and felt grateful for his generosity since all along the flight I had been considering how to find an accommodation once arriving in Australia. The year end Vancouver airport and the flight across the ocean had very few passengers around and everyone seemed to be very sleepy so hardly any verbal communication happened.

The Singaporean man had a slightly darker complexion and relatively short height. He lived in a high rise apartment in Bondi Junction. The building had a light dark red external colour, several dozens storeys, security access with swipe cards for residents —— from today’s viewing online it could probably be the 79-81 Grafton Street, Bondi Junction building that still stands close to the Westfield shopping complex.

The apartment the Singaporean owns has three bedrooms, showers, bathrooms, toilets, kitchen, balcony, etc, plus intercom for communicating with downstairs visitors. He told me the apartment had a value over $300k, which I had little understanding since at that time Sydney’s realestate market was totally unknown to me.

Singaporean man told me his father back in Singapore was very rich and also quite dictatorial. He himself admires the HongKong merchant tycoon Ka-shing Li and aspires to become a similarly successful merchant, etc. It was my first close encounter with a Singaporean and his English accent sounded a little bit strange for me, however we mostly chatted along smoothly. When he learned I will be starting job hunting soon he said he will help me find computer programmer job the next day or so, which I appreciated but understood that might need some effort and procedures as I experienced in Canada in the previous year.

The apartment was very simply furnished with beds and sofa plus a few chairs and tables. Kitchen was rarely used so looked quite new and clean, I then cooked instant noodles a few times there. I don’t even remember he had a telephone at home. Apparently he didn’t have a female partner, nor visitors either during those days when I was there. In the daytime he went out to meet people or handle his usual business so left me alone at home. He trusted me quite well by leaving me entrance keys and security swipe card(although honestly speaking there were very few valuables in the apartment, apart from the TV set probably?)

I was a total stranger to Australia at that time. Choosing to come to Sydney was purely because it was the largest city of the country so I reckoned here it might be easier to land a job. All I had with me were luggage suitcases and a $3000 plus traveller’s cheque that I purchased with all my remaining money in Canada (then Canadian dollar and Aussie dollar had exchange rate of 1:1).  When looking around for accommodation initially I couldn’t even identify property’s address correctly, since many streets share same names such as George, High, etc. There are many suburbs that divide Australia’s cities and countryside so locating a property’s address its street no. and name need to be combined with its associated suburb name plus the postcode. At that time Sydney’s rental property market was very tight with very low vacancy rate, plus the year end/new year start was holiday season so relatively few rental properties were on the market. There were even rental property agents then who were charging people money by simply showing you potential rental properties: often several potential properties will be offered to you after you pay the agent some fees. I didn’t pay money to these kind of agents, but started looking for new rental properties by browsing through newspapers’ advertisements. Public telephones were my main tools to talk to potential landlords who advertised on the newspapers. Since my lack of geographic knowledge of the Sydney metropolitan area, sometimes I went quite faraway from the city centre to inspect a rental place. Once I went to the suburb Cronulla where an Australian lady had a room for rent, that was very clean and quiet. However considering the train travelling distance and time I didn’t take that. I also once travelled to Granville to inspect a rental property, and to the suburb Rockdale. I particularly looked at near CBD inner west suburbs such as Petershsm, Stanmore etc. I remember when I mentioned Petersham the Singaporean started discussing with me if there was bus service there to the City etc.

The Singaporean man’s trust on me made me quite grateful. However I did feel it wouldn’t be appropriate for me to overstay too long in his place free of any possible payback, so  once I locked in a rental room in Petershsm suburb along the Crystal Street with a weekly rent below $100, which in comparison with the rent in Canadian city Victoria BC was much higher (I was paying C$175 per month for a single room in 1987 whole year), I packed my luggage suitcases and prepared to leave. I wrote a thank you note to the Singaporean and left it on the desk, together with his security swipe card and door keys. Closing the apartment door then taking a taxi downstairs, so I left the Bondi Junction building with some regrets, since the Singaporean wasn’t at home that entire day. Unfortunately ever since then I haven’t had a chance to meet him again. Thirty eight years on today I do wholeheartedly hope he has been faring well, and wish him well in all future years. Maybe you are still living in Sydney nowadays, brother?

最爱是古典

谢谢杨先生的分享。其实，大家不必为了细节较真，包括为了蒸汁立场，毕竟，每一个人以及自己的家族的经历不一样，对同一个事物的感受会完全不同。我记得我2009年到Wagga Wagga，一边读TAFE 一边打工，为了省钱经常吃面包牛奶或者白粥加酸奶。有一次去周末跳蚤市场，遇到了一对年轻夫妻摆摊，男的镇海中学毕业，好像是技术移民到澳洲，到了澳洲在WaggaWagga 的 Cargill肉厂打工，老婆做啥有点忘记了。我就记得当时男的跟我说以后打算开一个餐馆。为啥我记得这么清楚，因为，男的看我可怜，给了我一张免费的餐券，让我大吃了一顿。我不记得是否加了QQ，但是，后来，QQ丢了，就再也无法联系。一直都很遗憾没有和这对有爱心的夫妇保持联系

yang195508

最爱是古典 发表于 2026-1-2 15:37
谢谢杨先生的分享。其实，大家不必为了细节较真，包括为了蒸汁立场，毕竟，每一个人以及自己的家族的经历不 ...

为细节可以讨论争执，没问题。但恶意搅局装X胡闹瞎扯污蔑，就属无事生非类啦，有点讨厌，当然我遇到更恶的比此番小闹儿甚多，并不介意，不过随手趁势练下笔头而已。如前所述，澳洲良心善意事件甚多，令人感叹，我十分珍惜，多希望中国大陆也能步入文明社会，同胞间多些善良善意。

wwzinoz

挺有意思的。87年我都还没出生. 想不到现在都要快40年了 时间过的真快，变化真大也真小. 希望你还能找到当年那个新加坡人吧

yang195508

wwzinoz 发表于 2026-1-2 18:04
挺有意思的。87年我都还没出生. 想不到现在都要快40年了 时间过的真快，变化真大也真小. 希望你还能找到当 ...

是啊，时光如白驹过隙，人生如晨夕轮替，百年一瞬啊。想想40年前我离开中国北京机场时，还是刚刚结婚几天的30岁年轻人，如今已华发苍颜，镇日里观花修草，回望前尘啦。希望年轻人能珍惜光阴，不虚度年华。