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| so was skinny, a telephone provider. Our Youth worker works for them. |
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abc Wednesday lettter V
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FSO Red and Green
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Cotton On Foundation.
http://www.cottononfoundation.org/
I bought some of my Christmas presents here.
We want to let everyone know that the Cotton On Foundation is Not Just any charity. Our people are not just any people, our goals are not just any goals and our products, you guessed it, are not just any products. Our new Not Just campaign aims to turn our customers' incidental and everyday purchases like water, mints and tote bags into funds that support local and international communities living in poverty. 100 per cent of proceeds from the sale of every Cotton On Foundation product help support our local and global projects, which focus on four key pillars of education, health, infrastructure and sustainability.
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Yellow: Buzzy bee
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abc wednesday: Letter W
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No Blade of Grass (1970)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066154/
When a deadly virus strikes London, John Custance takes his family to hoped-for safety in Scotland.
Director:
Cornel Wilde| I was twenty, straight out of high school when I watched this environmental movie. It had molded my thinking. I am a staunched thinking of keeping the world in it's natural form. Hence in my books, Mail Order Bride I wrote about saving beached whales, I wrote about saving beached whales. It is very sad to see whales coming to the beach and die. |
Storyline
A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John Custance, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's farm in Scotland, where hopefully, there will be food and safety for all of them. Along the way, they encounter hostile soldiers, biker gangs, and all manner of people who are all too willing to take advantage of travelers for a mouthful of food.↧
My Mama's Christmas tree.
My Mama once grew a small cute tree. A mother bird made a unusual nest with eggs. My Mama lug it upstairs. My papa came home and scolded my mama. He made her take the tree down to the garden. My mama refused, she said it was too hard to lug it upstairs. My mama used a string and tied the nest to another bush. We didn't know what happened to the nest. We were not allowed to look at it.
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FSO: Share with us fresh (or old) snowfall in your town or surrounding landscapes.
I dug up my cold winter photos in the winter of 1975 when I was a student in Windsor, Canada. This school yard was behind the apartment I stayed. During the school break, school children frolick. These photos were taken during the holidays, and we went to try out this fun. A couple of Canadian kids were there to show us play.
That was my first ever winter. They reported it was the coldest ever recorded, a minus 28 degrees. A lot of melted snow had flowed under the bridge. I wonder where all those young men and women have gone. We were from Tropical Borneo and Singapore and were feeling very BRRRR!
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yellow: dragon fly
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ABC Wednesday: Letter X
Photos from Stuff NZ.
Land developer had been wanting to fell this 300 Kauri tree.
This is terrible, security guards, cutting the tree with chainsaws while a protester was still in it. Ring barking, also called girdling, is the process of removing bark in a circle around the base of the tree which often causes it to die - usually within a year.
The Save our Kauri group said neighbours tried to stop the men but were too late to stop them ring barking the tree.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/75392986/west-auckland-kauri-tree-ring-barked-by-security-guards-with-chainsaws
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FSO: show us your snow landscape
Lincoln in Yellow, holidaying in Japan.
This reminds me of an anecdote in my parents family. Mum and Dad were in the era of the Chinese Confucian believes that families should have boys and of the Roman Catholic faith that they shouldn't practise family planning.
I was 11 when the twins were born. A boy Henry and a girl, Helen, the 3rd boy and 5th girl. I was really looking forward to babying them. I was too young to enjoy the last brother. Dad was working at the Education Dept and had returned from England.
Two old maids came to offer to "relieve Dad of the responsibility." They had university degrees when many girls in their generation didn't even go to school. They said that they would send Helen to study abroad. By staying with my Dad, Helen would have no chance of going abroad to study.
Mum and Dad did not know how to reject their proposal and it would be rude as Chinese to tell them no. Eventually, they used my name and told them that Ann said "NO." They went away reluctantly tell Mum and Dad to dissuade me, after all how can a kid make such an important decision.
Very often I tease Helen that I saved her from an upbringing bereft of siblings and brought up by old maids. We often wonder why they came to us, a middle class family, and why they did not go to the country to look for a girl. Perhaps they wanted the good genes of Dad.
Helen lives permanently abroad and has 3 lovely children.
This is her latest:news:
Lincoln has achieved the DUX academic award for his school. He also received special science award and small cash prize from Griffith University. We are very proud of him.
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Yellow: Notice broad.
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ABC Wed: Letter Y
school yard
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Is Tranquility the same as Music Box dancer? Was it played by Frank Mills then?
I am not a music lover, but I love certain songs and there is one piece of music. It has much significance to me.
I first heard the music piece on the radio called Tranquility in 1984. I just had a twenty six hours of difficult time giving birth to my first born. When I went to my room with my baby, totally exhausted, this music was played in the pipe line. It gave me tranquility as I lovingly gazed at my sleeping baby.
I fell in love with the soothing music and it became my favourite music.
Is Tranquility the same as Music Box dancer? Was it played by Frank Mills then?
This same baby plays the piano, and lives thousands of miles in China. When she plays it to me over the phone, it gives me tranquility.
Many parenting experts suggest playing music to your baby while she/he is still in your stomach. D is the only child who plays the piano. I wonder if her listening to this piece when she was a few hours old have anything to do with it. What do you think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N_tmH6y7ng
http://www.frankmills.com/
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ABC Wed: Zamioculcas zamiifolia. and zabaglione
Just thought I will feature two unfamiliar Z words which I have been encountering, but I don't have photos for them.
Known to be a plant that will make you prosperous. However, it has a bad name. It is rumoured to cause cancer .Zamioculcas (Common name "Zanzibar Gem") is a genus of flowering plant in the family Araceae, containing the single species Zamioculcas zamiifolia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamioculcas
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zabaglione I watch the making of this at cooking shows, I don't have a photo for you. It is part of a Semifreddo
One of Italy's great gifts to the rest of the world, zabaglione, is an ethereal dessert made by whisking together egg yolks, wine - traditionally marsala but champagne or wine is often used for a savoury version - and sugar.
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http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/13742/zabaglione
Finally, a word I have learned from when I was six years old: In Singapore Zoo, a surprise not to see animals in this section.
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Known to be a plant that will make you prosperous. However, it has a bad name. It is rumoured to cause cancer .Zamioculcas (Common name "Zanzibar Gem") is a genus of flowering plant in the family Araceae, containing the single species Zamioculcas zamiifolia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamioculcas
zabaglione I watch the making of this at cooking shows, I don't have a photo for you. It is part of a Semifreddo
One of Italy's great gifts to the rest of the world, zabaglione, is an ethereal dessert made by whisking together egg yolks, wine - traditionally marsala but champagne or wine is often used for a savoury version - and sugar.
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/13742/zabaglione Finally, a word I have learned from when I was six years old: In Singapore Zoo, a surprise not to see animals in this section.
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Red: Hairdressing
I just had a shampoo and cut. Rachel is always friendly and has been at Shop E at Pt Chevalier Mall for 25 years. I like her shampoo assistant Nan, and we enjoy talking about Thailand. I made an appointment and I didn't have to wait. I look pretty good after my cut. Hairforce salon, ph: 8151052
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Letter E for escalator
PHOTO: LIANHE WANBAO
I am a country pumpkin at heart.
Rumour had it that the first escalator installed in Sibu was bought second hand. It was bought from Singapore where there was a fire and lives were lost.
When the Sibu one was built, we were so pleased to try it. I was in my last year of high school.I wore open toe jandals/slippers. At the top of the escalator, it bit my toes. I always have a phobia.
In Singapore , there are a lot of escalators. In my 16 years, I rode a lot of them. My heart always miss a beat when I first step on it.
SINGAPORE - A woman escaped injury after a step on the escalator she was riding on at The Arcade in Raffles Place broke.
An eyewitness, named only as Mrs Liu, told Chinese evening newspapers that she heard a loud bang coming from the escalator, which runs from the first to the second floor, at about 3.30pm on Tuesday (Jan 5).
Two people were riding on it - a man who had just reached the landing on the second floor, and a woman who was about three steps behind, Lianhe Wanbao reported.
One of the steps in front of the woman suddenly broke and the escalator stopped immediately, Mrs Liu said.
Photos from the scene, including one posted on Facebook by netizen Sandy Low, show an escalator step that seems to have broken into three parts.
While the woman was not hurt, she looked shocked and could not speak for a while, and had to be comforted by passers-by, said Mrs Liu.
The building is especially crowded during lunch and in the evening, Mrs Liu said, and the escalator is usually full of people.
"It's very lucky the incident did not happen during peak hour, if not it would be terrible," she told Wanbao.
The Chinese daily also said that the area had been cordoned off, and that repair work was ongoing.
Escalator safety has come under spotlight after a string of incidents in China, including one in July 2015 in which a woman died after she plunged through the flooring over an escalator in a department store, seconds after thrusting her toddler to safety.
An eyewitness, named only as Mrs Liu, told Chinese evening newspapers that she heard a loud bang coming from the escalator, which runs from the first to the second floor, at about 3.30pm on Tuesday (Jan 5).
Two people were riding on it - a man who had just reached the landing on the second floor, and a woman who was about three steps behind, Lianhe Wanbao reported.
One of the steps in front of the woman suddenly broke and the escalator stopped immediately, Mrs Liu said.
Photos from the scene, including one posted on Facebook by netizen Sandy Low, show an escalator step that seems to have broken into three parts.
While the woman was not hurt, she looked shocked and could not speak for a while, and had to be comforted by passers-by, said Mrs Liu.
The building is especially crowded during lunch and in the evening, Mrs Liu said, and the escalator is usually full of people.
"It's very lucky the incident did not happen during peak hour, if not it would be terrible," she told Wanbao.
The Chinese daily also said that the area had been cordoned off, and that repair work was ongoing.
Escalator safety has come under spotlight after a string of incidents in China, including one in July 2015 in which a woman died after she plunged through the flooring over an escalator in a department store, seconds after thrusting her toddler to safety.
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/woman-escapes-injury-after-escalator-step-suddenly-breaks-apart-at-the-arcade-at-raffles?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#xtor=CS1-10
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BEVERAGE
"BEVERAGE - week 2 of 2" (Coffee Maker, Cafe, Tea, Water, Glass, Wine Glass, Cup,... )
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FSO Forests
Forests [Friday My Town Shoot Out Link-Up]
It's time to return to nature. Show us your favorite spots in forests and woods surrounding you.
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The blanket
This is my story with my grandma.
Grandma taught me to make these stars on the quilt. I am using this as an illustration of my story.
I was at my local mall when this old man approached me, and said," Teacher, how are you?"
I couldn't recall, and ask," B?"
"No, it is S, I am S's grand dad."
"Oh yes, I remember S, she must be in high school now."
This is the privilege of being a teacher, especially a teacher of immigrants.
I remember S was restless and I wanted to scold her.
"Ann, I got no sleep, it was so cold and I got no blanket."
I went to church and got one with a children's pattern on it.
"Ann, my brother was cold, my mum gave her the blanket."
I went to church again and got her another oversize one.
"This is very big, I will drive you home."
I drove S and her grand dad home.
It's been many many years, I had forgotten.
But S's grandfather did not forget.
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