Monday, December 24, 2007

Tickets booked

We googled cheap air tickets and did call several travel agencies. I asked for 1-way air ticket from singapore to sydney. The receptionist is pretty alerted with that and ask bunch of questions to validate if we're qualified to purchase for 1-way ticket. I wonder how serious is Oz treat illegal migrants? From the way the receptionist reacts, I guess Oz might be pretty strict on this.

We finally booked 2 Qantas 1-way air-tickets online. Yeah, we're flying after Chinese New Year. Phew, it's time for packing!!

Thursday, December 20, 2007

We finally got it!

We finally received the grant email on 18th December. I actually called LCU twice. The first call says U's meds was finalized and mine is still under assessment (10th December). The second call on Monday morning (17th December) tells us that mine has finalized too. I think this was the last piece of information the CO is waiting to make the final decision. Such a relief now! Well, it's a wonderful christmas gift for us. :)

IELTS results

I forgot to mention our IELTS journey:
15th November 2007 - We took IELTS listening, reading & writing tests.
19th November 2007 - We took IELTS listening test.
29th November 2007 - We received the IELTS results. My average was 6.5 while U's average was 8. I thought I was poor and prepared to take the Adult Migrant English Programme (AMEP). Well, it seems that I'm disqualified from taking then.











By the way, to establish an expectation on the listening test results, our Listening practice tests were scored around 26/40 to 38/40 on numerous practice tests, and didn't seem to improve by doing more tests. So if you are scoring the same range in practicing, you are most probably good.