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Food Handrers


See this story about dodgy food outlets.

Sushiman is an outlet in Box Hill Centro and unfortunately I have bought my sushi from that outlet a number of times before.

This does nothing to my disdain for Chinese migrants who bought up food businesses simply as a means to maintain their residence status. For may of them there is little interest in the food business overall, let alone safe food handling issues. In the case of Sushiman apparently a fine of $145,000 was levied. Again, this is of little consequence to Chinese migrant business owners. Sure, such a fine hurts and it may make them take more notice but I suspect it would have little impact on the malaise of Chinese businessmen buying up food outlets with little or no interest in food service. Many of these business persons are wealthy and what drives them is not the relatively puny fines but maintenance of their residence status. The way to deal with this effectively is to disqualify them from owning, operating or investing in food business. Some form of risk assessment which takes into account what can better act as deterrence or incentives, ought to be in place to deal with this. Just my untutored observations…

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Coming to terms with my new world


After over a month’s hiatus, I was back at the MST library on Sat morning, trying to work out the research load for the essay for this semester. It was good to be back researching something to write about again. Later that afternoon we went about our usual chores and errands before visiting a mate’s home for his youngest’ 2nd birthday.

On Sunday, after church and lunch thereafter with a bunch of people including pastor TF, Tress and I went back and attacked the house cleaning tasks, hoping to make it a touch cleaner before the home group meets later in the week. When everything was done it was close to 6 and I was just settling down on the couch for a breather when I was letting out choruses of snores within minutes. It was just for a few minutes before I woke to fix kiddo’s dinner.

Earlier this arvo a mate texted me to say he was near my office so I ducked out for lunch with him and his family. It was the first time I visited this place although it’s just a minute away (across the street from the office).

It has been a really busy but strange day in office – I was the only one there. In an office of just 3 full-time employees, it is easy to have days like  today but when it happens, it’s a strange mix of being busy with loads to do but being all by myself. Thankfully there weren’t any tricky tasks – just loads of little things to do. I had to put up little notices on the door a few times today, when I had to duck out for something and leave the office unmanned. I remain happy and satisfied with work however, and am very grateful for this.

It’s a different world for me these days…

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