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Save the world. Save our Dolphins.
http://reducefootprints.blogspot.com/
From my friend Ngarimu's facebook post.
Gutted to see this Aihe (dolphin) washed up at Browns Bay yesterday. It had drowned from fishing line tangled around it's tail, fins and body. One of it's fins had been torn by the fishing line... If you're a keen fisherman like myself please be aware of the damage that can be done by treating our moana (ocean) like a dump. That old fishing line off your spool belongs in a bin not tossed overboard! Otherwise this is what happens!I'm hoping these photos will bring awareness and understanding to the adverse effects of irresponsible actions and the impacts they can have on the innocent and through that understanding we all can have an improved respect for our moana and our natural environment... Mā te rongo, ka mōhio; Mā te mōhio, ka mārama; Mā te mārama, ka mātau; Mā te mātau, ka ora.
Through resonance comes cognisance; through cognisance comes understanding; through understanding comes knowledge; through knowledge comes life and well-being
Tangaroa Kiokio drowned from entanglement in fishing line
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FSO Skyline
Skyline [Friday My Town Shoot Out] [Link-up]
From cityscapes to rural settings. Show us what the skyline looks like in your town, city or village. This can be the traditional skyline or sights of clouds and sunsets over fields and buildings.
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Domestic Purposes Benefit
Serious time.
"When she only 19, Paula Bennett was on the Domestic Purposes Benefit but was able to buy her own house in Taupo for $56,000, courtesy of Housing Corporation loan. Bennett said she'd worked part-time but that she "pretty much fell apart because I was exhausted and I WENT BACK ON THE DPB".
"When she only 19, Paula Bennett was on the Domestic Purposes Benefit but was able to buy her own house in Taupo for $56,000, courtesy of Housing Corporation loan. Bennett said she'd worked part-time but that she "pretty much fell apart because I was exhausted and I WENT BACK ON THE DPB".
"But now she's a minister it's a different story" said Harawira.
"It was OK for Paula to go back on the DPB because it was too hard to survive,but it's tough luck for her sisters today.
"It was OK for Paula to get a Housing Corp loan back then,
but National made sure that it's no longer available today."
"It was OK for Paula to stay on the DPB to raise her daughter, but she's
making sure that young woman won't have that privilege anymore."
"It was OK for Paula to get a paid tertiary education back then,
but not today. In fact she was the Minister who abolished the Training Incentive Allowance."
"Paula Bennett basically set herself up in life with direct assistance
from the state,but now she's the Minister of Social Development, she's gonna make sure nobody else can ever get that kind of help"
"Her hypocrisy would be laughable, except it's so bloody tragic."
Hone Harawira Mana-Te Tai Tokerau MP
My character in Mail Order bride was on the Domestic Purposes Benefit and so were characters in Cry of Oppressed women.
"It was OK for Paula to go back on the DPB because it was too hard to survive,but it's tough luck for her sisters today.
"It was OK for Paula to get a Housing Corp loan back then,
but National made sure that it's no longer available today."
"It was OK for Paula to stay on the DPB to raise her daughter, but she's
making sure that young woman won't have that privilege anymore."
"It was OK for Paula to get a paid tertiary education back then,
but not today. In fact she was the Minister who abolished the Training Incentive Allowance."
"Paula Bennett basically set herself up in life with direct assistance
from the state,but now she's the Minister of Social Development, she's gonna make sure nobody else can ever get that kind of help"
"Her hypocrisy would be laughable, except it's so bloody tragic."
Hone Harawira Mana-Te Tai Tokerau MP
My character in Mail Order bride was on the Domestic Purposes Benefit and so were characters in Cry of Oppressed women.
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our world, outdoor wednesday
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Andrew's birthday month.
On Sunday, a new friend gave me this lovely infinity scarf. I was chatting with another friend when I got this glow of fuzzy feeling. When I was pregnant with Andrew, I knitted a coat with a similar texture and colour. I wore it everywhere I went. It was stretchy just like this scarf, and I wore it even when I was 9 months pregnant.
I had forgotten about this purple coat until I chatted with Roz. Andrew might have died, but he is in my heart, and it was having him that I became a writer.
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Our church's community Love where you live: eWaste collection and food drop
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FSO: our favourite streets.
A long waited tunnel, spaghetti junction will shorten our trip to the airport and to the downtown.
Streets [Friday My Town Shoot Out] [Link-up]
This week, show us your towns streets and corners. This can go from highways, to rural country roads. What is your favorite street and why?
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University Graduation
Last week, I was driving past a university, and I saw some students taking their graduation photos in the rain.
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When you have slogged three, four, six, ten years. Don't you think you deserve an elaborate ceremony like this? The water engineer getting his PhD.
***Inside the Auckland Town Hall***
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This was my capping/graduation/convocation with Mark. I walked from the campus at Princess Street, down Victoria Street, walked up the stairs into the Great Hall. Then I never saw him again. I wonder where he is now.
My reflection for this week is two profound ideas. I just learn that some Town fathers wanted to demolish this building. Luckily there was some wise people who opposed to this move. Imagine this grand old lady was gone? What a great loss it would be.
The other is some people advocate that you don't need to succeed in life without an education. I beg to differ. Education has served my family very well. My grand grand dad had a SIEW CAI, and equivalent of a university degree more than 100 years ago in China. The family had instilled in us the value of education. Yes, we may not be rich financially, but we have a wealth of experience.
http://ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.com/
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When you have slogged three, four, six, ten years. Don't you think you deserve an elaborate ceremony like this? The water engineer getting his PhD.
***Inside the Auckland Town Hall***
This was my capping/graduation/convocation with Mark. I walked from the campus at Princess Street, down Victoria Street, walked up the stairs into the Great Hall. Then I never saw him again. I wonder where he is now.
My reflection for this week is two profound ideas. I just learn that some Town fathers wanted to demolish this building. Luckily there was some wise people who opposed to this move. Imagine this grand old lady was gone? What a great loss it would be.
The other is some people advocate that you don't need to succeed in life without an education. I beg to differ. Education has served my family very well. My grand grand dad had a SIEW CAI, and equivalent of a university degree more than 100 years ago in China. The family had instilled in us the value of education. Yes, we may not be rich financially, but we have a wealth of experience.
http://ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.com/
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outdoor wednesday: portable BBQ
We went to a BBQ, the city's free BBQ allows you 1 hour of free use. This guy was very smart to bring his own.
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my books as a reference for professionals
Published May 2014
Women face many kinds of oppression.
A counselor/therapist read my book and said she would use it as a reference for her work. This is the best accolade one can get from a professional. Cry is my second book where it is used.
Diary of a bereaved mother is used in a university hospital in Canada as a reference for professionals in neonatal intensive care.
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Isabel Allende, woman writer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VwSP92gvzI
Isabel Allende (Spanish: [isaˈβel aˈʝende] (
); born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean writer.[1][2] Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the "magic realist" tradition, is famous for novels such as The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002), which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author".[3] In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters,[4] and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize.[5]Allende's novels are often based upon her personal experience and pay homage to the lives of women, while weaving together elements of myth and realism. She has lectured and toured many American colleges to teach literature. Fluent in English as a second language, Allende was granted American citizenship in 2003, having lived in California with her American husband since 1989.
Isabel's second book was written when her daughter died. She wrote about void, emptiness, darkness Just like Isabel, my first book brings someone to connect with me almost every day. As a writer, the greatest accolade back from a neonatal nurse from the University hospital of Toronto. She said she read my book. The head of the NICU there gave her the book to read before she took up her position.
I would be a dream I won't ask if I can achieve a fraction of her success. I have already succeeded. Recently, a counselor/therapist read my 4th book, Cry of oppressed women told me she will use it as reference for her work.
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Slow change to spring in New Zealand.
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While you have Autumn/Fall in the Northern Hemisphere, we in the South are changing to Spring, though Jack Frost is very reluctant to go, slow approaching is the right word. Sometimes the lambs come too early, and a cold snap is sad news to the farmers.
Seasonal Changes [Friday My Town Shoot Out] [Link-up]
Changes are all around us right now. Slow approaching in some places, and well under way in others. Show us your early autumn images or images of the changing season in your town, village or city.
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Tracy Mulgrew, singing from the heart
Tracy Mulgrew have a lot in common. We live in New Zealand. The main thing is something I wish I knew her from different circumstances.
We both are bereaved mothers. Tracy lost her daughter to cancer at 10 years. Honestly her grief is deeper than mine as Andrew was just 55 days.
Bereavement brings out some latent talent in us. Tracy shares her grief in song and poems. They are beautiful and they are sang from the bottom of her heart. Just like I express mine in writing.
I've written nine songs now, all of them unique. The local radio station has been playing some of them but home recordings and said I should go and get them recorded professionally, have been in contact with polytechnic in invercargill as they have an audio/sound production course, the guy is putting it to his students to see if it's one they want to take on. Curtis and I reworked this first song I ever wrote, it's adapted from a poem I wrote not long after Jessica's death. I was thinking if I did get a CD made I could give it away but ask for donations for Child Cancer instead.
Tracy has also helped other bereaved parents by forming the Bereaved Parents of NZ on facebook
Bereaved Parents of NZ.
Thanks Tracy. Paki Paki and Kia Keha.
https://soundcloud.com/tracy-mulgrew/how-could-i-lose-her
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a bootie never worn
A bootie never worn.
Today I had an idea,
I will use it for my camera pouch.
Twenty five years ago, at 7am,
My little boy Andrew was born.
Twenty five years ago, at 8 pm
We were told he was dying.
Happy 25th birthday in Heaven.
You are forever in my heart.
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My translator : Mr Ting Kong Siin.
When I published my books, my Chinese speaking friends request I publish them in Chinese so they too can read it.
Mr. Wong Meng Lei of Director and Chief Editor at SCAC - CMM offered to publish my From China to Borneo to Beyond. This news was greeting with interests among the guests at my book launch and the media.
Meng Lei introduced and highly recommended Mr. King Kong Siin to be my translator. He is a retired engineer.
My sisters Rose and Elizabeth and I met with him at the hotel. Elizabeth found we have mutual friends. Rose and Elizabeth know Chinese and they would approve what Kong Siin had translated.
Kong Siin and us communicated by email. He was very meticulous, and enthusiastic. He even went to Padang Road to have a feel of what I had written.
Kong Siin has finished translating, and I want to thank him publicly for doing a great job.
I can't wait to see the books go to press. It is my dream to have the book available to readers in China.
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Translating my book.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153348828515541&set=a.10153348808115541.1073741874.744380540&type=3&theater
my From China to Borneo to Beyond 海外华人的中国魂: 从中国，到南洋，到更远 book has been translated by Ting Kong Siin, my two sisters Elizabeth Kit Penn Kalang Madoayu Pa'ukat and Rose Kit Fon were my supervisors. I must reiterate all my siblings and nieces and nephews all contributed to the book. I merely compiled the book.
my From China to Borneo to Beyond 海外华人的中国魂: 从中国，到南洋，到更远 book has been translated by Ting Kong Siin, my two sisters Elizabeth Kit Penn Kalang Madoayu Pa'ukat and Rose Kit Fon were my supervisors. I must reiterate all my siblings and nieces and nephews all contributed to the book. I merely compiled the book.
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FSO: Auckland University.
The Old Arts Building, an icon. I had my Economics papers here. It was freezing here.
Choral Hall, I had my business and management studies here.
Engineering school of Auckland University where the water engineer spent 10 years of his life there as a student, and a further many years as a staff.
I am very privileged that my alma mata's library is circulating all my 4 books.
My second daughter did her LLB in the university.
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| University of Auckland | |
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| Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau | |
 Coat of arms of the University of Auckland | |
| Motto | Latin: Ingenio et labore |
| Motto in English | By natural ability and hard work |
| Established | 1883 |
| Website | www.auckland.ac.nz |
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The clock tower building (Old Arts Building) on the City campus. The building is protected as a 'Category I' historic place, and was finished in 1926. It is considered an Auckland landmark and icon of the university.[2]
Show us your town, city or village from a personal side. What is the most connected to you? What reminds you of your past?
http://mytownshootout.blogspot.co.nz/
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save the world, recycled containers for gardening
http://reducefootprints.blogspot.com/
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Farewell, Bro in Christ, Leo Zhang
Leo Zhang went to meet the Lord on 30th September. Today, on the 4th October, we gathered at Mt Albert Baptist Church to celebrate his life. His wife Huamei very bravely gave the eulogy and spoke of his life.
Leo was born in 1963, too young to die to many people, especially when Huamei is so young, and the children are so little.
God prompted me to say a few words. I recounted the time when Leo performed magic during a Chinese New Year celebration. Leo made all of us clap and laugh.
Finally, I told Huamei and Mandy that it was ok to cry. Just like 25 years ago, I was told, it was ok to cry.
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