Dispirited, he joined his parents in Australia, where he learned interior decoration skills with in contractor during the day and worked in a Chinese restaurant as an assistant cook at night.
意興闌珊之餘，他於是到澳洲跟著父母過日子，白天隨一位建築商學習裝修技術，晚上則在中國餐廳打工，當助理廚子。