今天我所讲的是澳大利亚著名华裔先贤梅光达先生。

在早期移居澳大利亚的华人中，梅光达传奇般的经历在当地广为流传。
梅光达，1850年生于广东台山的一个小村庄，9岁时便随叔父来到了澳大利亚。在当时“淘金潮”的诱惑下，叔父带领一队矿工来到澳大利亚新南威尔士州的金矿区采金。他们到达目的地澳大利亚新南威尔士州的阿拉顿矿区之后，与同行的乡亲马上进入到各个矿场，本来还需要大人呵护的梅光达经叔父联系到了英格兰人汤玛士.福斯特的杂货店当杂工。梅光达以他的勤奋赢得了福斯特的信任，福斯特逐渐将每日记账记日志的工作交给了这位来自中国的少年。受采矿人的影响，年幼的梅光达逐渐明确了自己的目标：采矿发财致富，当杂货店的伙计绝不是他到澳洲来的目的，所以他利用业余时间开始自学地质学知识。这位勤恳忠诚、聪明好学的东方儿童引起了常来杂货店的英格兰人爱丽丝.辛普森夫人的喜爱，在征得经营金矿的丈夫同意后，梅光达被辛普森夫妇收为养子。这一奇遇改变了梅光达后来的生活。

来到辛普森家，梅光达开始接受严格的西方教育，在养母的影响下成为一名基督徒。随着年龄增长和养父矿场业务的扩大，他更多地协助养父管理矿场，担任翻译，沟通200多位广东籍矿工与场主的联系。同时他自学的地质学知识也给自己带来了财富，在养父的矿场拥有了自己的股份。21岁那年梅光达加入澳大利亚籍，成为澳大利亚第一位华人公民。1877年养父去世后，已有相当经济实力的他放弃了与养母一块去澳洲北部发展的计划，继续留在矿区拓展自己的事业。1882年，梅光达的事业进入了一个新的发展阶段，他由阿拉顿矿区迁到悉尼，开始了向商业发展的计划。他一方面开设进口商行和百货公司，源源不断地从祖国输入丝绸和茶叶，从事中澳贸易；另一方面开设了中国茶楼、酒楼，传播中国饮食文化。后人认为梅光达是开启中澳之间商贸和外交往来的先行者。19世纪晚期，悉尼几乎没有适合上流社会女性聚会的场所，于是梅光达有了开茶屋的想法。他的连锁茶屋品位高雅，刚一出现，就成为当地女性趋之若鹜的地方。这是悉尼最早的公共茶室，它创立了一种独具异国情调的社交文化。很快梅光达卓越的经商才能使它成为悉尼最成功的商人之一。矿场和商业的成功发展，为梅光达向学校、教会、慈善机构捐款，从事公益活动提供了物质基础。
在经商的同时，梅光达还四处奔走，为华人争取更高的社会地位。梅光达在澳大利亚的成长和发展过程，正是澳洲排华势力形成、扩大，发展成“白澳政策”的时期。随着其经济实力的增强，社会地位的提高，梅光达进入了澳洲政界，1883年出任新南威尔士州调查委员会委员，他利用自己的特殊身份，积极周旋于澳大利亚政府与华人社团之间，并向清朝政府反映澳洲华侨的问题，提出护侨建议，为反对种族歧视政策维护华侨权益而尽心尽力。同时，他还曾努力阻止悉尼进行鸦片贸易。历史学家认为，梅光达可能是早期澳大利亚惟一一位被当地社会完全认可和尊重的华人。
1903年7月26日，梅光达在悉尼病逝，享年53岁。出殡那天，3000多名悉尼的华侨和市民自发地为这位实业家、社会活动家、反抗种族歧视的斗士送葬，澳大利亚的报刊也载文称颂他是出生在中国的杰出儿子，是集中国人勤劳、智慧与才干于一身的伟大侨领。

view my sample page at member’s works :3 hehe

well for the new term, i edited the site a bit, :3~ check out the new project + member’s work section ^^

also the first day of school; Tuesday lunch time, will be the first meeting of the term :3~

yep ~ Tony Taka Artwork :3~

well~ this is due to the fact me, wayne, ron (aka. Fayt) is having our half yearlies and will not be at school for most of the time.

All further development to the project will be posted on this site.

We have our first meeting on tues the first day of term 2 ~

In the mean time~ Chilis~ XD get fired up for exams :3

On that summer afternoon, I was making my way home from school. It was the same route as always. I have always walked through the shady alleys and thorny bushes for as long as I care to remember. Today was no different. The same scene, different day. I hated this route. I hated where I lived. I hated the school I went to. Mother always told me to be grateful for what I had, no matter how little they were. I have tried to live by her standards, but I’m not her. Mother accepts our condition, I loathe it. I envy others. Some people calls that a sin. I call it my will to live, something that I want to achieve, to have a better future than mother did.

The hot summer wind gently kissed my face. Summer, my favourite season. I have already made plans for my summer vacations. During summer, I can forget about all my worries and problems, and just enjoy myself. I crossed into the alleys. In front of me is the bush, the short cut to home that I have been using for the past 5 years. But not today, I don’t want to go through the same old way again. I decided to walk along the road, around the bush. At that moment, I had made the worst decision in my life.

I can hear the faint sound of an engine. A car. The engine sound grows louder and louder. The ground slowly began to vibrate. There it is, right behind me. There was a flash, than silence. The most perfect silence I have ever felt. I can no longer feel anything. It’s almost as if the world around me no longer existed. Later I found out that it is me who no longer existed.

On that summer afternoon, I died.

That summer afternoon, I became a prisoner. Trapped inside time. Time for me had stopped, but the time for the livings did not. Yet, I had not parted from the world of my sufferings, instead I remained a fading siloughete. Unable to break free from my loneliness as I watched the earth slowly age. I saw into the future. I saw my mother, bent over my cold, lifeless body; I could no long read the emotion on her face. The pale white face, with all the happiness and hope drained from it. I don’t want to see her get hurt. Yet I cannot do any thing. It’s like watching a movie. No matter what I do, I cannot get inside the movie. I have never felt so helpless, but I can do nothing more then watch on as time passes. Mother grew older and older. Mother never went to find another husband, to find happiness, she lived by herself, nobody was there to care for her. Mother passed away at the hospital, with nobody by her side, she left with tears in her eyes. It felt like I had died again, all I wanted was to be there, next to her, to tell her that I love her, and to thank her, to see her smile one last time. Yet I can do nothing but hopelessly watch on. < I have decided to put in my original for this section >

Wayne’s Version [ I saw my mother, bent over my cold, lifeless body; I could no long read the emotion on her face. A few years later she moved away, unable to carry the burden of her lost child any longer she fled the town; going to a place I could not follow (indicates death? maybe). ]
It was on another summer afternoon that my the long forgotten feelings of happiness flushed through me. It had been a day like any other, the sweltering summer sun scorching the asphault as the crickets began their endless chirping from the shades of the naked sakura branches. I was the only one standing outside staring aimlessly into the bright radiance of a nearby river, the sun did not effect me, though I wished it did, I wanted to once again feel its warmth, or even its fiery intensity, yet all those things were forever lost to me. Lost in my trance like state, I would have not have noticed him if he hadn’t spoken.

Wat are you doing out here? He had asked looking directly at me. Slowly I looked around scanning my surroundings and to my surprise saw no one but him. Beginning to think he might have been a little crazy from the heat, I continued my silent staring at him as he unblinkingly returned the gaze. Can you understand me? Do you want a drink? Again he had continued his monlogue as I stood in silence not even daring to get my hopes up.

Even though I ignored him he stood there, as if waiting for an answer that was not likely to ever come. I had thought there was no way he could posibly see me, a ghost or something even less and yet he stood forever waiting. As I continued my ignorant waiting game with him, it was I who finally broke, waving my hand through his head I had been utterly surprised when he had flinched, just a little yet did not seem shocked.

‘I know you are ghost’ he had continued. That line had someway or another formed a deep imprint in me, to have my existence acknowledge after so many years of solitude I almost felt like I was living again.

[middle part where girl follows guy around, guy lives in much the same conditions as she did when she was living (yet he is happy), she realises how much she would like to of been able to live that life again and because of this she can finally go to the afterworld where her mother is waiting for her.] <Extension of this section is in progress>
FIN

Ok, new version with Wayne’s Edits

Accepting more new ideas~ please post~ Nipa ^___^

On that summer afternoon, I was making my way home from school. It was the same route as always. I have always walked through the shady alleys and thorny bushes for as long as I care to remember. Today was no different. The same scene, different day. I hated this route. I hated where I lived. I hated the school I went to. Mother always told me to be grateful for what I had, no matter how little they were. I have tried to live by her standards, but I’m not her. Mother accepts our condition, I loathe it. I envy others. Some people calls that a sin. I call it my will to live, something that I want to achieve, to have a better future than mother did.
The hot summer wind gently kissed my face. Summer, my favourite season. I have already made plans for my summer vacations. During summer, I can forget about all my worries and problems, and just enjoy myself. I crossed into the alleys. In front of me is the bush, the short cut to home that I have been using for the past 5 years. But not today, I don’t want to go through the same old way again. I decided to walk along the road, around the bush. At that moment, I had made the worst decision in my life.
I can hear the faint sound of an engine. A car. The engine sound grows louder and louder. The ground slowly began to vibrate. There it is, right behind me. There was a flash, than silence. The most perfect silence I have ever felt. I can no longer feel anything. It’s almost as if the world around me no longer existed. Later I found out that it is me who no longer existed.
On that summer afternoon, I died.
That summer afternoon, I became a prisoner. Trapped inside time. Time for me had stopped, but the time for the livings did not. I saw into the future. I saw my mother, bent over my cold, lifeless body; I could no long read the emotion on her face. The pale white face, with all the happiness and hope drained from it. I don’t want to see her get hurt. Yet I cannot do any thing. It’s like watching a movie. No matter what I do, I cannot get inside the movie. I have never felt so helpless, but I can do nothing more then watch on as time passes. Mother grew older and older. Mother never went to find another husband, to find happiness, she lived by herself, nobody was there to care for her. Mother passed away at the hospital, with nobody by her side, she left with tears in her eyes. It felt like I had died again, all I wanted was to be there, next to her, to tell her that I love her, and to thank her, to see her smile one last time. Yet I can do nothing but hopelessly watch on.
As time goes by, the future of mankind starts to unfold in front of me. I witnessed great catastrophes, rise and fall of civilizations. I saw how mankind slowly brought themselves to extinction. I watched as a new life form was born onto earth. I told myself that I have seen enough. I closed my eyes. I slowly started to reminisce events of my life. Shattered fragments of my memories slowly immerge from deep inside my head. I start to regret my old ideals. Right now I would give anything to wake up in my room, and take the old route to school. Mother was right, I should have been grateful for what I had, no matter how little it was. I should have valued what I had. Our home was small, but enough for me and mother. My school may not have been the best, but it had my friends inside it. My usual route to and from school may not have been gifted with beautiful scenery, but it was the fastest. Nothing can be perfect. I should have been grateful for what I had. I was controlled by greed and envy, and that was definitely a sin, not a way of life.
My only wish now is to reach the end of time, and disappear.
Edited by Ron~ due to my grammar errors >.>

ok~ this a quick summary~ but with this done, we can start on many aspects of the visual novel project.

screenies :3

So~ Download here XD < http://www.zshare.net/download/59343375c0b118/ >

well~ to the point, i wish to have friday as a general character design day~

basically people are to make up their own original characters, which have a little background attached to them ^^~ e.g. godly ninja XD

so~ yer guess we will draw a bit again XD, i’m sure you people does not hate drawing :3~

So~ we do original characters~ and show off our creativities~

P.S. another thing is that, if people have artworks that they are happy about, please send me scans of it so i can put it up on the member’s works section

sending me a link under comments is also fine.

Also you may do it at home and bring on friday or just do it on friday, depends on u

After the world population and economy is devastated by simultaneous hyper-hurricanes, many different factions and fledgling nations appear. In Japan, an elite class called Logos appears, controlling special zones in the country which have most of the wealth and resources. The Logos exercise control over the Levinas, the lower class which struggles day to day in order to stay alive. The Levinas are restricted from entering the special zones, causing tension which creates a resistance group which fights back against the Logos.

With the tagline “A Near Future Late-Shogunate Action Animation”, the story draws analogies with 19th Century Japan at the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate period, just before the Boshin War.

Jō and Jin escape from Phantom, an elite military group which is used to control the Levinas. When they escape, they take a young girl named Sana with them. The series follows them as they work to avoid being caught by Phantom and the regular military forces of the Logos.

Bring ur Friends ^^