Mirror Mirror Please Tell Me

Being beautiful, becoming more beautiful and staying beautiful is every women’s dream. Because of this, mirror mirror on the wall, you are my best friend of them all. Just like every women in the world, the love for beauty is my 1st priority in life. I cannot live without having a mirror in my life.

Mirror Mirror on the wall

Am I looking alright with this outfit today?

From the mirror, I can find my confidence

From the mirror, I can find my flaws and correct them

But There were 3 incidents in my life that change my view of the mirror.

First incident, I started falling in love with a man. His name is James Bond.

James Bond is a man with character and principle. Every word he said is like a famous quote engraved on the wall of fame.

He said , the women he love is the women with inner beauty

What does he mean by inner beauty? Our personality our character. I suppose that is what he mean.

Mirror Mirror Please tell me

What is my inner beauty ?

The mirror can only show me what the eyes can see. My Exterior beauty and not my inner beauty.

2nd incident, I visited a new museum in my hometown. On the wall of a museum, I found a beautiful picture of large flower fields. Below the picture, there was a paragraph that read,

“People who are filled with love will live in a world full of love. People who are filled with hatred will live in a world full of hatred. Every person that you meet is your mirror”.

This sentence makes me realize that there is another mirror in our life. That is our friends and best friends that we hang out with everyday. They are the mirror of our personality and behavior. Through them, we can see ourselves. And this mirror is a valuable mirror to have. If we want to have a great inner beauty, it has to start from ourselves. A kind hearted girl will be surrounded by kind hearted friends. The invisible mirror is everywhere in our lives.

The 3rd incident, my mom told me about my grandmother’s youngest sister. At 17, she was the most beautiful girl in her school. My grandma said, she was not only the most beautiful but the most popular girl in school. What makes her popular? She help every single person that comes to her. The one story of her benevolent act that stays till today is her story of paying the medical bills of her friend’s sister by raising money from a part time job she worked everyday after school. She worked as a ticket seller at a theatre. I decided right then that I have got to see her. She has both inner beauty and exterior beauty. When we arrived at her home, she was busy entertaining a group of friends. After waiting for almost an hour, I decided to enter the room and I met a group of 7 womens in one table. Just one look, I knew she is my aunt Elly. When we met her, her exterior beauty was no longer with her, but it was her inner beauty that makes me realize she is who she is. Surrounded with many friends at the age of 70. The only thing that people will remember you for, is your behavior, your actions and your personality.

These three incidents has made me realize the mirror mirror on the wall cant compare to the mirror mirror i met in my life. Through the mirror I met in my life, that is, through my friends, I can find my inner beauty. inner beauty is what a man would love you for. Inner beauty is ever lasting. To attract the right mirror, it starts from you having a good personality and behavior. Today I can stand in front of you and give a speech, Because of you my Mirror. Mirror Mirror please tell me.

Once upon a time

Some things can never be explained with words. It just takes a moment to feel and realize for ourselves. The ropes to my goal is straining my courage. It makes me hope for less each day each month each year. Walking forward is what I should have done, but I found myself walking backward most of the time. Lethargic moaning has overtaken the precision futuristic state of mind.

I had a real strange dream last nite. I was carrying a guitar bag walking in the dark along the alley of new york city. With no knowledge of whats inside the guitar bag, I entered into a pool that allows me to breathe into a different underwater world. In there I met a gigantic fish with metallic fins all over his bulky body. He guarded the palace. I did not understand or remember what I did inside the palace. Eventually when I got out of the pool, there were policeman and secret agents surrounding the streets and my guitar bag was found half opened. Inside contain full sets of human bones.

I was extremely horrified and the shock wakes me out of my dream. If I were to interpret this dream, where do I begin...

It is said in the fengshui almanac that it is bad to have mirror inside the bedroom where we sleep. It will lead to nightmares and it is a platform to another world. In Buddhism, there are 6 worlds aside from the human world. Was i traveling to another world or it was a recalling from my previous life as a human trafficking agent

Indonesia Today

Indonesia is South East Asia largest economy. Between the years 1965 and 1997 the Indonesian economy grew at an average annual rate of almost seven percent. This achievement enabled Indonesia to graduate from the ranks of 'low income countries' into that of the 'lower middle income countries'. However, the Asian Financial Crisis that erupted in the late 1990s caused a severe negative impact on the Indonesian economy, resulting in a decline in gross domestic product (GDP) of 13.6 percent in 1998 and limited growth of 0.3 percent in 1999. Between the years 2000 and 2004 a period of economic recovery took place with a combined average GDP growth of 4.6 percent annually. Hereafter GDP growth increased to an annual average of at least six percent with the exception of 2009 when, amidst the global financial turmoil, Indonesia's GDP growth fell to - a still admirable - 4.6 percent.

Indonesia is increasingly mentioned as an appropriate candidate to be included in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) as the country is rapidly showing signs of similar newly advanced economic development. Recently, a new set of emerging economies has gained public attention. Members of this set are countries that contain promising markets with diverse economies, reasonably sophisticated financial systems and fast-growing populations. These countries are grouped under the acronym CIVETS (Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa), and its combined Gross Domestic Product is predicted to account for half the global economy by 2020.

Prudent financial macroeconomic policy is one reason why Indonesia was resilient to the global financial crisis of 2008-2009. Both public and private debt have fallen sharply (as a percentage of GDP), international reserves have grown fast and inflation has been under control. In combination with relative political stability and certain favorable demographic trends it provides opportunities for strong economic performance over the medium term. Regarding the longer term, the Indonesian government aims to be in the top six of largest global economies by the year 2030.

Another key element that accounts for Indonesia's recent economic growth is domestic consumption. In line with rising per capita GDP and low borrowing costs, Indonesia's private consumption is robust. It accounted for 56 percent of the country's economic activity in 2011 and future projections indicate that it is to grow further.

The table below indicates a remarkable development during the last five decades in the percentage shares of the three main economic sectors (to wit agriculture, industry and services) with regard to Indonesia's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Indonesia changed from being an economy that was highly dependent on agriculture into a more balanced economy in which the percentage share of manufacturing in the country's GDP quickly exceeded that of the agriculture sector. This also indicates that Indonesia lessened its traditional dependency on primary exports, although it still remains relatively high today. It should also be underlined that all of these sectors underwent rapid expansion, despite the fact that its contribution to Indonesia's GDP fell (agriculture) or remained at a similar level throughout the indicated period (the services sector). For a more detailed account please click on one of the sectors in the table below.

Sailormoon Second Series: Sailormoon R

The Second Sailormoon Series is the Sailormoon R

Usagi regains her memories after Luna revives them when a new enemy force shows up to attack Naru. The enemies are Ail and Ann, two aliens who take energy from the humans on Earth to feed the Makaiju, the tree that is their life source. Ail and Ann, lovers, pose as two students, Ginga Seijuurou and Ginga Natsumi, brother and sister, at Juuban Junior High School. The plot becomes strange as Ail falls in love with Usagi and Ann falls for Mamoru. The other Inner Senshi regain their memories in episode 48 after Luna restores them while the enemy is fighting Sailormoon, but Mamoru still doesn't, much to Usagi's horror. Instead of Tuxedo Kamen, Tsukikage no Knight, a new ally, appears to save the girls. Sailormoon gets her powered-up transformation when her first season powers prove too weak to fight the new threat on Earth, receiving the ginzuishou back in the process. The other Inner Senshi eventually gain powered-up versions of their old attacks.

The Makaiju finally lashes out after being fed so much energy and getting some of Usagi's: it attacks Ail, Ann, Mamoru, and Usagi. This is where Usagi reveals her identity to the aliens, and Mamoru remembers his past when she tries to protect him. The Makaiju reveals its past and that of Ail and Ann, who discover what love is after Ann dies protecting Ail from the tree, and then Sailormoon heals the Makaiju. The Makaiju revives Ann, and then she and Ail then go off into space to start a new life with a Makaiju sapling. Tsukikage no Knight also reveals his true identity as being a part of Mamoru's soul.

In the second arc, Chibi-usa arrives from the future to find the ginzuishou to save her mother, Neo-Queen Serenity, in the 30th century. She stays with Usagi's family having hypnotized them into believing that she is a family member. The new enemies are the Black Moon Family, consisting of the Ayakashi Sisters and the main family members: Rubeus, Esmeraude, Safiru, Demando, and Wiseman. Usagi and Mamoru break up in this arc, thanks to visions Mamoru receives from his future self, King Endymion, warning him that he must stay away from Usagi or else she will die.

The Black Moon family is after Chibi-usa and the ginzuishou in order to take over the future Earth. However, the Ayakashi sisters fail at this task, and they are healed by Sailormoon after they are betrayed by Rubeus. Chibi-usa eventually discovers the Sailor Senshi's identities, and Usagi and Mamoru get back together. Chibi-usa then takes them to the future to save her mother. There, they meet another new senshi, Sailorpluto, the guardian of time. To make everything shorter, the Sailor Senshi find out that Chibi-usa is the daughter of Usagi and Mamoru in the future. The Black Moon are actually exiles from Crystal Tokyo, the Utopia of the future, which Usagi and Mamoru's future selves are the leader of as Neo-Queen Serenity and King Endymion. The Black Moon desires to take over Earth so that their people may live there. However, they are unknowingly being manipulated by Wiseman, or Death Phantom, for his own purposes. After running away from the Palace upon Sailormoon being unable to awaken her mother, Chibi-usa is kidnapped by Wiseman who warps her mind and causes her to transform into Black Lady. In episode 88, Usagi transforms into Neo-Queen Serenity and with Tuxedo Kamen's help, she manages to get Black Lady to remember her true past. Chibi-usa then discovers that she had the ginzuishou all along (it was sort of absorbed into her), and she and Usagi combine the power of their two ginzuishou to defeat Wiseman.

Sailormoon First Series: Sailormoon

To you out there who have no clue what sailormoon is all about and why I am so addicted to it. Its a series of episodes as follows:
Episode 1-46: Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon
Episode 47-89: Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon R
Episode 90-127: Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon S
Episode 128-166: Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon SuperS
Episode 167-200: Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon Sailor Stars

Will start with a summary of Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon Series

Tsukino Usagi is an ordinary 8th grade schoolgirl who, one day on her way to school, saves a cat with a crescent moon on its forehead. At home, depressed after having failed a test, Usagi meets the cat again in her room. The cat, amazingly, can talk, and she introduces herself as Luna. Luna gives the dubious Usagi the ability to transform into Sailormoon, the pretty sailor suited soldier of justice.

Sailormoon faces the Dark Kingdom, an enemy group that wants to take over the Earth. The Dark Kingdom consists of Queen Metallia, Queen Beryl, and the four generals: Jadeite, Nephrite, Zoicite, and Kunzite. Sailormoon's mission is to protect the world while finding the Moon Princess whom she is sworn to protect. She finds allies in Tuxedo Kamen, a mysterious masked man who assists her in her fights but has his own agenda (and whom Usagi/Sailormoon has a huge crush on), and the other Sailor Senshi that she gradually discovers in four other girls: Mizuno Ami/Mercury, Hino Rei/Mars, Kino Makoto/Jupiter, and Aino Minako/Venus.



Usagi's main relationship crisis throughout the season consists of her problems with Chiba Mamoru, an attractive but annoying college student who constantly teases her. He is really Tuxedo Kamen, but he (and the Sailor Senshi) don't discover this fact until much later.

The Dark Kingdom's first job is to gain energy for Metallia by draining the life forces of humans. Later on, however, they begin to look for the ginzuishou ("mystical silver crystal"). Eventually this leads them to go after the seven rainbow crystals sealed inside seven people who were originally the Dark Kingdom's seven original youma. When brought together, the rainbow crystals create the ginzuishou. Thus the new priority of the Sailor Senshi is to find the seven rainbow crystals before the Dark Kingdom does. The Dark Kingdom, the Sailor Senshi, and Tuxedo Kamen all vie for the crystals. Eventually because of the crystals, Usagi and Mamoru discover each other's identities when they are trapped together by Zoicite. Usagi is the true Princess of the Moon, and Mamoru is her lover, Prince Endymion of Earth. Usagi receives the ginzuishou, but Mamoru is kidnapped and brainwashed by the Dark Kingdom.

After a whole bunch of filler episodes in which the Dark Kingdom and evil Prince Endymion/Tuxedo Kamen try to get Sailormoon to hand over the ginzuishou, Usagi, Ami, Rei, Minako, and Makoto must confront the Dark Kingdom, learning about their pasts on the moon in the process. In episode 45, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus all die trying to protect Sailormoon. In episode 46, Mamoru, as evil Prince Endymion, tries to kill Sailormoon, but before he can finally do so, Sailormoon revives his memories. Mamoru then dies trying to save Sailormoon from Queen Beryl. Sailormoon then defeats Beryl and Metallia as Princess Serenity using the ginzuishou and the other Sailor Senshi's powers, then dies, since that is the consequence of using the full power of the ginzuishou. Usagi's last wish is to live a normal life as a normal girl, so her wish is granted, and at the end of the episode, all the girls and Mamoru come back to life without their memories.

Next series --- Sailormoon R --- > will share the summary next time ^^

My speech No. 8: Empress Beauty

Being Beautiful, becoming more beautiful, staying beautiful is every women’s dream, since millennium years ago. As early as the Han Dynasty 241 BC, women have continuously looked for ways to sustain beauty through healthy herbs, aromatherapy, organic facial mask in effort to maintain their flawless complexion. To you beautiful women and men here today, I want to share with you the beauty tips from Empresses, Concubines and Princesses of China.

First from Empress Wu Lu Zhi: Empress Wu luzhi, was the wife of founding emperor of Han Dynasty. She started each day with a bowl of soup made from this jelly fungus call Tremella Fuciformus. Tremella fuciformis is sweet to taste and rich in natural colloids. Consuming this fungus keeps facial pigmentation and freckles away, promotes gastrointestinal digestion and reduces fat absorption. Simply soak it in water and braise with rock candy, lotus seed, and pawpaw to make a thick, nourishing soup.

Zhang Lihua: renowned beauty and concubine of the last Southern Dynasties Emperor, compiled the earliest recorded imperial skincare recipe. Zhang preserved her good looks with the help of a facial cream made from egg-white and powdered vermilion. The cream whitened and smoothed the complexion.

Yang Gui Fei was the most favored concubine of Tang Emperor Xuanzong (685-762). Her power over him secured high government appointments for members of her family. Historical records speak of Yang Guifei as having a "face that puts flowers to shame." Yang maintained her luminous complexion with her own almond cream recipe. The combination of almond oil and honey softens and smoothes the skin. Bathing in spring water toned her body, keeping it supple, and milk baths moisturized her skin, bringing out its healthy glow.

Empress Wu Tse-Tien was the first and only female emperor in Chinese history. Wu Zetian had been a de facto ruler of China through her two husbands Emperor Taizong and Emperor Gaozhong and her two sons emperor zhong2 (Lixian) and emperor ruizhong (Li Tan). She broke all precedents when she founded her own Zhou dynasty. Historical records speak of her youthful-looking complexion at the age of 80. Chinese motherwort (yi mu cao) was a main ingredient of Wu's facial beauty preparations.



Method
1. Pick Chinese Motherwort (yi mu cao) and let it dry in the sun.
2. Pound the herbs into powder, add flour and water and shape them into egg-shape pills;
3. Burn the pills and pound them into powder;
4. Add talcum powder and kermes (dried bodies of female scale insects).
To use:
Wash face and body with the powder, morning and evening.
Wu Zhi Tian also nourished her complexion with a more complex herbal facial mask.

Method:
Mix with lard the powdered Chinese herbs
1. Siebold wildginger (xi xin),
2. Rhizoma polygonati odorati (yu zhu),
3. astragalus root (huang qi),
4. Typhonium rhizome (bai fu zi),
5. Chinese yam (shan yao),
6. Magnolia liliflora (xin yi),
7. Cnidium officinale (chuan qiong),
8. Radix angelicae dahuricae (bai zhi),
9. Fructus trichosanthis (gua lou)

To use:
Spread this herbal mask on the face Leave on for 10 minutes and rinse off with cold water.
Wu Zhi Tian habitually ate food rich in protein and microelements, such as skin and tendons, aquatic foods and flower jam. She was also a devotee of aromatherapy, and would burn special herbs whose fragrance cleared her head and helped her stay alert.

In ancient China, jade powder was used to remove pigmentation and aid in whitening the skin. It forms a moisture barrier on the skin to help protect the skin from losing moisture, elasticity, and stimulate the regeneration of new cells.

During the time of Princess Taiping (Wu Zhi Tian’s daughter) an exclusive facial mask recipe made of Grind peach blossoms that have dried in the shade into powder and mix into a paste with the blood of a black chicken. The mask nourishes and whitens the skin and stimulates the metabolism. Soup made from this breed of "black-bone" chicken was, and still is, considered a tonic of immense medical properties. Tang dynasty women dosed themselves with black-bone concoctions to replenish their qi (vital energy) and blood, regulate menstruation and inhibit leucorrhea (period pains).

Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908), popularly known as the West Dowager Empress, was of the Manchu Yehe Nara Clan. This powerful and charismatic figure was the behind-the-scenes ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty for the 48 years between the death of her husband in 1861 and her own demise in 1908. During her time, women of China started using Pearl as a source of their beauty and healthy remedies. Pearl Powder is a natural source of calcium made from the choicest freshwater pearls. It nourishes the bones, skin, and nervous system.

You can be beautiful just as long as you never stop putting in effort

Learning Cantonese

I recently bounced into a useful website for learning cantonese fast and easy.
Click LearnChineseEZ

My Speech no.7 : My Beloved Someone

Dear Fellow Toastmasters and Friends,
Today I want to share with you a story of someone I deeply love and respect. In my younger primary school days, when I ran away from home, she would take care of me. Tell me stories of her younger days… She is my grandmother. She went through 3 transitions in her life. Each transition brought with it lessons for every women in the world. First as an orphan second as a wife third as a widow

It was the year 1931 when she was born. Her parents were killed when she was two. She know who her dad was, because The brother of her real father adopted her. What she doesn’tknow, as of today, who is her real mother. All she was left with was this small suitcase containing her mother’s handkerchiefs and a dress. On the handkerchief there was a signature SUMI. My great grandfather then decided to name her SUMINJATI. And so what was the lesson that she learned as an orphan living with her relatives? Well for a start, When she was fourteen, her stepmother said to her : Listen carefully, you are a women. All you can be is to be useful to your parents, siblings and your future husband. I am going to teach you everything only once. You are to follow everything that I ask you to do. She gladly accepted her fate. She woke up at 5am every morning. She mopped the floor and cooked dinner and lunch for 15 coolie workers and 11 family members. The lesson that I get from here is that, often times being born a girl, our parents would ask us to do the brainless work like helping to clean the backyard or mop the kitchen or help me around when I cook. While the boys would be asked to do more intelligent things like watching the news on television. My grandma taught me that, gladly accepting what you were told to do, you will be a better person in the future. Today, She is talented not only in cooking, sewing and cleaning. But everything that she learned, just by seeing it once, she can create exactly the same thing that you want. Because is embedded in her mind, My mama said “I am going to teach you everything but only once”.

The second transition in her life took place when she was 18. A fairy tale was coming her way. She became very beautiful w skin as white as paper , waist as small as 65cm and her hair were long like a willow tree. The chinese proverbs that she taught me to remember was : “The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him” My grandfather first spotted her when she was sitting in front of the house balcony waving fans to get rid of the heat from her sisters in the night. Ever since, My grandfather passed the house everyday riding a bicycle wearing khakis and a white shirt. My grandmother’s first impression of him was , a poor coolie in khakis passing my house every evening. My grandfather eventually asked a matchmaker to approach my grandmother’s family. The matchmaker came to tell my great grandfather that the son of TAI SAN would like to marry your eldest daughter. My great grandfather said my daughter is going to marry the kang family’s eldest son. Their wedding will take place on the fourth month next year. The matchmaker delivered the news back to my grandfather family. My grandfather did not give up. He kept riding his bicycle every nite passing my grandma’s house.


When March came along, the father of Kang family came to inform my great grandfather that they would like to pospone the wedding . My great grandfather was furious and decided to cancel the wedding altogether. To console my grandmother of the sudden news, my grandma’s first brother took her on a ride to see the house of TAI SAN. It was like a palace with 12 bedrooms and 3 balconies overseeing a pond. My grandmother’s eyes lightened up and ever since she waited everyday for the matchmaker from taisan family. 2 years went but the matchmaker did not come. Instead, all she saw was the man in white shirt riding a bicycle passing her house every nite. My grandfather was the eldest son of Taisan and he was the bicycle rider. But my grandmother had not clue at all. Finally one day my grandfather heard that my grandmother’s first proposal had been cancelled. My grandfather quickly asked his mom to propose. And thats’ how they got married. The lesson that I learned from her story as a cinderella of her time is that : Sometimes A women may not have a choice whom she wants to marry. Willingly accept the fate that comes your way, is what will make you a real happy women”

The third transition in her life is being a widow. The day my grandfather passed away, she was only 50 years old. Thankfully all her children were married off. The only thing that was unsettling for her is the next 30 years of loneliness. Being a widow was another difficult life on her own. But she passed each day with enthusiasm and energy. She may look like an 80 year old lady but when you hear her voice, she has a voice of a 50 year old lady. The lesson I learned came from The chinese proverbs that she sing in the temple , “You may not be Forever young but if you can refill your mind with new things everyday, you will be a happy young girl in your heart”

Taeyeon - If

Please listen . . .. till the end

with both english and korean sub titles
The first time I heard this song,,,,,I just remember that sometime ago...
Originally written for a Korean Drama (a princess and the warrior)

Click and watch this:Taeyeon - IF
English Lyrics
If i were to go

What would you think?
I don’t have the courage.

If you were to go,
If you were to leave.
I don’t know how to send you away
It keeps hanging on my mind

I know i am a fool and can only watch you from afar
Your heart may look away from me…
And so we could even become strangers
Just like a fool i can’t even say .....
TO BE CONTINUED

English Lyrics from WonderfulGeneration.net

SNSD Five Years Forever

SNSD Five Year Anniversary
So-Touched
SNSD Five Year Anniversary No. 2
Tears SNSD Five Year Anniversary No. 3
SONE FOREver!

Do you Remember

Do you remember the happiness* this same time last year...? I remember At that time, Sunday was a day to look forward to

My Name - Light

My name means LIGHT . It is suppose to shine brightly. Have I take notice of it earlier or Have I done nothing but depreciate its value. I begin to appreciate it now.

The Blue Team

Combo : Flavor of Latin, Hip Hop and Salsa
Only at Celebrity Fitness
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Some Humor Thrills

The Bears Talk China's Manipulated currency

A life as Analyst (cartoon) : Analyst

A life as CFA candidate (humor): CFA Candidate

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What is QE ?

I learned from cfa-economics chapters the following

Before reading below , watch this Quantitative Easing in Cartoon

Credit bubble is a time when banks around the world lost equity capital. For this reason, they decreased lending even though the government increase money supply and interest rates fell. Short term rates fell to a point near zero, economic growth is still poor and a real threat of deflation, central banks began a policy termed Quantitative Easing.

In the United Kingdom, quantitative easing entailed large purchases of British government bonds in the maturity range of three to five years. The intent was to reduce interest rates to encourage borrowing and generate excess reserves in the banking system to encourage lending. Uncertainty about the economy's future caused banks to behave quite conservatively and willingly hold more excess reserves, rather than make loans.

In the United States, In the United States, Central Bank buy Large amounts mortgage securities from banks to encourage bank lending and to reduce mortgage rates in an attempt to revive the housing market, which had collapsed.

When this program did not have the desired effect, a second round of QE2 was initiated. The Fed purchased long term treasury bonds in large quantities (hundreds billions of dollars) with the goal of bringing down longer term interest rates and generating excess reserves to increase lending and economic growth.

Developing economies often face additional challenges when implementing monetary policy:
-Absence of liquid bond markets through which to conduct open market operations
-Lack of credibility resulting from prior poor track record in controlling inflation
-Rapid changes in the economy, making it difficult to ascertain the trend rate
-Rapid financial innovation resulting in changes in money supply definition
-Political interference resulting in a lack of central bank independence

Once upon a Time

A list of Fun Things to Do!

I just found a list of fun things to do!!!
Credits to this website: http://www.fanpop.com/spots/random/articles/56936/title/101-ways-annoy-teacher

1. When the teacher says to “take a seat”, you answer “take it where”.
2. When the teacher calls your name at roll call, you answer “Absent”.
3. When she calls roll, you answer “yo mama”.
4. When the teacher says something, you say “is that so?”
5. If you so happened to not turn in your homework say, your class pet ate it.
6. Tell your teacher you’ll turn in your homework, as soon as your parents finish doing it.
7. Fold your homework into a cootie-catcher.
8. Fold your homework into a paper airplane and fly it to the teacher’s desk. Extra points if it hits the teachers head.
9. Beg your teacher for extensions on reports. To practise your negotiation skills since young.
10. Whisper to your neighbor during a test, but claim it was the sugar ants on the floor.
11. Argue with your teacher about your test grade and claim it was supposed to be one or two points higher than it actually is.
12. When the teacher ask a question, wave your hand like a palm tree in a hurricane and say “pick me, pick me!” When the teacher finally calls on you, say “never mind”.
13. Raise your hand. When the teacher calls on you, look innocent and say “I was just stretching”.
14. When the teacher says “Pay attention please” reply “how much should I pay?”
15. When the teacher calls on you, talk so softly that the teacher can barely hear you. When she tells you to speak up, pretend to be dead on your desk.
16. Don’t work when the teacher is looking. Work when the teacher is working.

5 minute about myself

Curiosity Illuminates my Life Cherish the Feelings, the Tears, the Laughter, the memories, Epiphany of Life. Let no one take that away from u Grin to cover unshed tears 'cos life is not always the way we expected it to b...but it is okay ^^ because....

I always have time for everything , Aries the Master of Time

SNSD mY*LOVE

My Favorite songs from SNSD in Descending love order:
1. "Kissing You"
2. "Bad Girl"
3. "Its Fantastic!"
4. "Ice Boy"
5."Oh!"
6. "Genie"
7. "Day by Day"
8. "Snowy Wish"
9. "Into the New World"

Not just the dance move, but the characters in SNSD is totally awesome!
My favorite is Taeyeon
I am on my way , in memorizing the korean lyrics for the first three songs on the list above~Join me~on my obsession by click click click here
1.http://soshified.com/
2.http://sofifisofiani.wordpress.com/
3.http://www.snsdindo.web.id/
4.http://loverskpop.blogspot.com/search/label/SNSD
5.http://www.askactor.com/actress/Girls_Generation/
6.http://snsdlyrics.wordpress.com/
7.http://kavenyou.com/
8.http://www.ohkpop.com/all-news

Here are the english sub of "Into The New World" song:

I want to tell you, even though the sad times have already past
Close your eyes and feel, how you affect my mind, how you attract my gaze.

Don’t wait for a miracle, there’s a rough road in front of us
with obstacles and future that can’t be known, yet I won’t change, I can’t give up.

Keep your love unchanging for my wounded heart
Looking in your eyes, no words are needed, time has stopped.

I love you, just like this. The longed end of wandering.
I leave behind this world’s unending sadness.
Walking the many and unknowable paths, I follow a dim light.
It’s something we’ll do together to the end, into the new world.

Don’t wait for a miracle, there’s a rough road in front of us
with obstacles and future that can’t be known, yet I won’t change, I can’t give up.

Keep your love unchanging for my wounded heart
Looking in your eyes, no words are needed, time has stopped.

I love you, just like this. The longed end of wandering.
I leave behind this world’s unending sadness.
Walking the many and unknowable paths, I follow a dim light.
It’s something we’ll do together to the end, into our new world.

Feeling alone in this dark dark night
Your soft breath,
This moment, warmly entwines me in your presence.
I want you to know all my tremors

I love you, just like this. The longed end of wandering.
I leave behind this world’s unending sadness.
Walking the many and unknowable paths, I follow a dim light.
It’s something we’ll do together to the end, into our new world.

Translation Credits: GorJESSexICA@soshified.com/forums

Moon Calculator

Did you know that your Moon Sign is as important to your personality and view on the world as your Sun Sign? The attributes of your Sun Sign will be seen by those around you, but the attributes of the Moon Sign will be felt within you. Your Moon Sign is the internal You affecting the way that you feel, the way you react and even your instinctive behaviors. These all become recognized as your emotional life. Your Moon Sign helps to define how you will relate to yourself and your emotional needs. Some Moon Signs may be so strongly felt that they may even overshadow the traits of the Sun Sign!

Here is a Moon Calculator

My Moon sign: Gemini
Positive: conversationalist, fun loving, creative intellect, extrovert, alert
Negative: Restless, unfocused, gossipy, rationalizing, fickle
Primary: Presentation, Cognition, mental passion
Quality: Mutable, Versatile, Adaptable
Keyword: Variety

Old Memories

Don't know how many times I had walked down the ailes as flower girls'
Thank Heaven for giving me so many uncles and aunties

Sailormoon got Kissed^^

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My grandma always tell me, when you make a wish with a full heart and the rain started to drop ....a heavy one....it signify that God has heard your wishes and your wish will come true. I wonder why and I wonder who told her so. To God I do wish is true because these few days its' been raining when I look up the sky and said "please Rain otherwise I will cry".....

I am the Maple Tree - 12TH APRIL

Druid horoscope for Maple.

The Maple is known as the luckiest of trees. It embodies a happy spirit because it represents very desirable qualities, such as success, wealth, and general prosperity. This is a very positive and constructive sign. It is only natural, then, that Maple people are always pleasant to be around because they are cheerful, joyful, and active. These dynamic people are quite adventurous and always seek out excitement. Even when a Maple Tree person isn't the most gorgeous one in the room, he or she can easily compensate for it with an outrageous, interesting, and outstanding personality.

Maples are known to be offbeat, extravagant, and even a bit bizarre. They are always aware of all the new trends, social customs, and the most recent discoveries in the world around them. On any given day they are involved or considering any number of interesting and exciting projects. However, they rarely implement any of their daring ideas. Maples prefer to watch others achieve their goals.

Maple people have irrepressible energy; they are simply restless! They are interested in too many things at once. Sometimes Maples feel that if they stop even for a moment, they will miss out on something very important. Despite their daring personalities, Maple people are not extremely courageous. The only reason they decides to take a risk is because Maples have a very low sense of danger.

Maples are social butterflies; every day they make new connections. Because of their warm and inviting nature, people trust them with all their secrets. They know that no matter what, this sign will never reproach them or disapprove of them.

Even though Maples love to be the center of attention, they don't care what kind of impression they make on people or what kind of attention they garner. They don't follow the rules, and they actually enjoy provoking others.

Although a logical mind helps them to find solutions to the most difficult problems, Maples' path in life is never easy. They rarely achieve great success.

Maple people don't need love to be happy. If they don't ever find a "partner in crime" they manage just fine on their own. This sign will never complain about an ill-fated life or shattered dreams. Maples have a way of learning to be content with what they already have.

Maples can be quite cynical. They will notice someone's flaws, but never hold anything against that person. Maples have a many-sided personality; they are full of surprises, both good and unpleasant.

Speech 2 : Sailormoon

“Fighting Evil by Moonlight
Winning Love by Daylight
Never running from a real fight
She is the one named
Sailor moon


Sailormoon also known as Bishojo Senshi Sera Mun was one of the first Magical Girl Manga that use the power of magic to associate with human’s most precious desire. That is Love Friendship and Justice.
Dear Fellow Toastmaster Ladies and Gentleman
Today I will take this moment to tell you
About the Origin of Sailormoon, the Story, Sailormoon today , What I learned from Sailormoon

Main Points:
1. The Origin of Sailormoon
Takeuchi Naoko was the founder and writer of Sailormoon. Sailormoon catch its first public attention by appearing on television channel in Japan as early as March 1992. The first manga series was published a month earlier. But it was the anime television series that catched a massive attention from the public. By the end of 1995, sailormoon managed to reach 23 countries worldwide.
Do you know the story of sailormoon ?

2. The story
A thousand years ago, there was a kingdom under the rule of Queen Serenity. It was the happiest kingdom when all the planets were at peace. Queen Serenity raised her daughter Serena to follow her footsteps, but most of the time Serena spent staring at the earth, for she had fallen in love with a young man from there. He was Prince Endymion of Earth. Everything was peaceful until the arrival of dark power of Metalia. On the earth, she found an ally in Queen Beryl who was propelled by her lust for power and unrequited love for Prince Endymion. Together with Shitennou and Seven Great Youma they conquered the Earth then moved to the Silver Millenium in order to obtain the power of the Silver Crystal. Princess Serenity, Prince Endymion and Sailor Senshi were all killed in the battle and in her grief, Queen Serenity used the Silver Crystal, despite the fact that it would cost her life. The power of the crystal sealed away Metalia’s evil and fulfilling the last wish of the dying queen. That is to send Serenity, Endymion and the Senshi into the future in the hope that they could be reborn again on earth and live a peaceful lives.

And so our story begins…
Sailor moon was reborn as Usagi Tsukino, an ordinary 14 year old school girl who is lazy, a cry baby and she spent all her free time after school at the game center playing the Sailor V video game. One day she bumped into a talking cat named Luna and discovered that she was a Sailor Senshi, destined to protect the princess and the world from the evil forces of the dark kingdom. As Sailor Moon, Usagi later joined by Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Venus and occasionally helped by Tuxedo Mask. Eventually Usagi discovers that she is the Princess and the reborn heir to the ancient moon kingdom and wielder of the silver crystal.
Just as the sailor soldiers were back on earth, the evil minions of Queen Beryl also returned to earth. Queen Beryl and Metalia emerge from the seal placed upon them by Queen Serenity in the past and threaten to destroy the Earth once more. The stories endlessly involved the battle between queen beryl and sailor senshi. As the series progresses, gradually Usagi discovers the truth about her own past life, her destined true love, and the possibilities for the future of the Solar System.
The story that I just told you is the Sailormoon first season.
Altogether there are actually five Sailor Moon TV series aired in Japan:
1. Sailormoon - The Dark Kingdom
2. Sailormoon R - The Dark Moon
3. Sailormoon S - The Mugen (Infinity)
4. Sailormoon Super S - The Yume (Dream)
5. Sailormoon Sailor Stars - The Sailor Stars
6. PGSM (Pretty Guardian Sailormoon (The human version of Sailormoon)

3. Sailormoon Today
Spain and France became the first countries outside of Japan to air Sailor Moon, beginning in December 1993. Other countries followed suit, including Australia, South Korea, the Philippines, Italy, Peru, Brazil, Sweden and Hong Kong, before North America picked up the franchise for adaptation.
According to Facebook, there are 22,322 Fans around the world. This exclude Japanese fans who submitted their membership through japanese websites, that is unreachable.
122 Fans club around the world (exclude japan)
Numerous people wrote and composed music for the Sailor Moon with frequent lyrical contributions by creator Naoko Takeuchi. Takanori Arisawa, who earned the "Golden Disk Grand Prize" from Columbia Records for his work on the first series soundtrack in 1993, composed and arranged all of the background musical scores, including the spinoffs, games, and movies. In 1998, 2000, and 2001 Takanori Arisawa won the JASRAC International Award for most international royalties, owing largely to the popularity of Sailor Moon music in other nations
 Wikimoon - ongoing project to create a definitive database of information about Sailormoon. It started in May 2006. The project users have created 3125 articles http://wikimoon.org

4. What I learned from Sailormoon
Friendship is a free gift from God
Truly Believe in what u Wish for
By Fate and not By Coincidence
You are Invincible!
Dreams only come true in Cans and not Can’ts

Never stop dreaming
Only you can make your dreams come true

The Best Of Times

It was a moment in my life when I realize true Achievement. On the field. Together with 100+ Cedarians marching all the way with full confidence. Amazingly the heat, the uniform, the cheers, the announcement all came together. We won Singapore Youth Festival Gold! National Competition. First position. The only Girl School participated.

Confidence is what we have, Conviction is what we show, Commitment is what we pledge, Cedar is what we are

Cedar~You taught me how~you are the fabulous maestro in my heart always & forever

Sailormoon Manga Online

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My First Toastmaster Speech : A moment in My Life

Date: September 8th 2011
Venue: Mayapada Building 17th Floor , Jakarta Motivators Club



Word by word:

My name is Ariel. I am delivering my first speech today, the icebreaker, the title: A moment in my life.

Today I want to share with you a moment in my life that makes me who I am today.
This moment in my life is when I fell into a real deep failure and I manage to rise from this fall.

Before the age of twelve, I was already tired of living

In fact, I ran away from home to live with my grandma, repeatedly that mom and my dad quarrel because of this little daughter who doesn’t want to be born a girl.

My mom made me attended piano, ballet, violin, mandarin, drawing and I have a tutor who visited me like a living ghost every night including Sundays to make me do my school homework. When I argued why alex (my brother) and albert (my younger brother) doesn’t have to do all these, why I am the only kid being tortured here.
My mom would say
Because you are a girl !
Because you are a girl !
Because you are a girl !

I hear this a thousand times, that I just begin to wonder of the possibilities of faking myself into a boy like Mulan. One day I came home and my brother wasn’t around. I looked all over the house and waited till bedtime for my brother to show up. He did not. The next day I discovered he has left the country. I escaped from home the following day after school and wrote a horrifying letter to my mom.
My mom sent me to singapore the following DAY. It turns out that my mom did make a plan for me afterall.

Leaving the country was a new found happiness for me. I thought I can now be free from all the crazy piano teachers and my challenging mom. However when i arrived in Singapore, there was a whole new challenge waiting for me. I got admitted into a girl school that was ranked 8 in singapore. My grades were extremely poor that hardly anyone wants to be my friend. Not only that i have no friends, I have Miss Vimala Kumar as my english teacher. The teacher most noted for her strict and fierce teaching skills in the entire school

At that point in my life, I almost wanted to kill myself. I did not feel like going to school and I did not feel like going home to Indonesia. For one moment, I thought I HAVE NOWHERE TO GO. I STARTED DAY DREAMING in class. One afternoon, I stared blankly at the band members marching across the school field. It was like a calling inside me that I should join the band.

And I did. I joined the band. Joining the band turns out to be the savior of my life. It lifted my entire spirit and mind. I learned that success require perseverance and positive attitude towards everything. Curiosity can bring us to a place further. Curiosity makes me found seven new best friends in the band. Soon I came to realize that I wasn’t the only one struggling in this world. They also have a challenging mom and every daughter and son is treated differently, They also have red color grades to work hard on. During that year, our school band was selected from a pool of 150 schools to participate in the SYF Band Competition. After six months of practice under the hot sun, 110 band members together we wont the 1st position in the 1996 SYF Band Competition. Winning the competition lifted my confidence about myself and how much I can achieve by working extra harder. I started achieving good grades in school and graduated from O LEVEL with 6 As. Following O LEVEL, I also did very well in college and graduated at 22, the youngest from MBA Class in America. On my last day at Cedar, Miss Vimala Kumar gave me a novel call “Anne of Green Gables”

In the novel, she wrote this:
God makes everyone of us unique and different. You may think that your life is the worst in this world. You may think no one in this world live such a horrible life as yours. But don’t be sad. Because God makes everyone of us unique for a reason. Soon when you grow up you will learn to love yourself.

Today when I look back at this book, I finally understand why Miss Kumar gave me this book. It was because, I was just like Anne, the main character in this novel. An orphan girl who refused to follow the rules and uniquely different from everyone yet she finally manage to find happiness.

Sightings Today

When I see 325 drove pass thru my sight, it gives me a set of predicament about the person behind the wheels. He must be the kind of guy who is ambitious yet down to earth, who is neat in the way he dress and the way he arrange his belongings. There is a solitude yet warm attitude within him that draw people to him. But often turned out is NOT what I've imagined...Instead its a driver with a perky mousstache, dirty looking obnoxious face and smokey white hair. I bet all other girls carry the same wonder as me and to be dissapointed just as well.

Now to You-Out-There, who fit a little of the charming aspect of the ambitious gentleman above, who happens to be driving this car, I have to say : You have eliminate one dissapointment out of the mass dissapointing truths out there

The Rich Soil

Indonesia's commodity Production is coming to center stage in the world..the numbers tell it all:
CPO = 2.5 million tons (No.1 in the world)
Rubber = 2.1 million tons (No.2 in the world)
Kakao (Choco) = 934.000 ton (No. 3 in the world)
Rice = 63.8 million tons (No.3 in the world)
Corn = 17.7 million tons (No. 1 in Asia)
Coffee = 698.000 ton (No. 4 in the world)
Seaweed = 1.9 million ton (No. 1 in the world)

Blessed with a rich soil but with no advancement in technology and human resource, we can only be an exporter of raw materials instead of an innovative industrial nations. We need technology and we need brilliant scientists to work for this nation. With so much capital bubbling into the country's capital market in the first quarter of 2010, that makes the analysts panic with fright, direction and governance from government is crucial to fully utilize the capital that comes in and turn this nation into one of the leading industrial nations of the world. O. please dn't fall apart. you have come thus far. my country.

Undigestive Words

"Janganlah kau menyakiti dirinya"
"Don't u hurt her"

"Good, u r safe"

"Talk to me more please"

"Are u currently attached?"

"When is your birthday?"

When a guy say these words to a girl,,,isn't it mean something ?

Oooo please! dnt be sensitive~is nothing !

Ooo YES it does mean something....he likes u a little thereee

Think optimistic.....or worst case?

There's one that gets stinky if u dn't digest it immediately....
"I'll call you" = it literally means = bye bye

boots

Which one do you like? Tellme tell me. I personally like F, C, G , M. . . . .M is my favorite. A good side reference for me. Certainly all getting all 14 pairs will keep you in the safe zone of being trendy. The boots I already have is similar to pattern A and N. Blue boots "J" will be really sexy if u wear it w "blue sheer" stockings and shiny flashy blue mini skirt. I have a mini skirt blue Indonesian Batik, its' only 18cm long I think from Body&Soul.

Sailor Soldiers Intro

Left to Right:
1.Sailor Moon: hobby is eating cake, eat and sleep. Dream to be a bride. Strong point is crying.
2.Chibimoon: The daughter of Neo-Queen Serenity and King Endymion (the future Sailormoon and Tuxedo Kamen)
3.Sailor Mercury: A virgo girl who is good w mathematics and dream to be a doctor
4.Sailor Mars: Hobby is fortune telling and love meditation
5.Sailor Jupiter: Has trouble with airplanes and love cooking
6.Sailor Venus: A libra girl who dream to be an idol
7.Sailor Uranus: An aquarius girl who love to race and hate confessing
8.Sailor Neptune: A violinist pisces girl who love collecting cosmetics
9.Sailor Pluto: Hobby is shopping and dream to be a designer
10.Sailor Saturn: A capricorn girl who love purple

Sailor-moon and Sailor Pluto Hobbies closely relate to mine ^_^
More SAILORMOON Drawings coming up~drawing in progress

Are you a CUIFACS ?

CUIFACS = Caring, Understanding, Intelligent, Faithful, Affectionate, Cute, Slim

This is the sum of attractive attributes in an ideal girl.

I found this formula from a guy

If we can be CUIFACS, isn't it fabulous ?

Patient is another quality that a guy look for in a girl. But is it truly necessary?

Positive Vibrant

Aren't we all want to be surrounded by positive news, positive outcome, positive people, positive thoughts and positive future? This is what I call positive vibrant. The most effective impetus to positive vibrant is Confidence. We all need positive vibrant in our lives to stay happy. When you are happy, you can certainly win a greater crowd.

How do we gain confidence in ourselves?
Being able to project a confident character for some people needs no effort.
As for me, confidence only come when I am in a good mood. This isn't good. Let me repeat, this is no good. That is why I am writing this memo today. I wanted to remind myself that my confidence is at stake. As I come across more confident people, I learned that you need not be well informed to be confident. All you need is to believe that you are better than the rest. Once you do, its' a free-flow reaction, just like the blood that flows through our vein every miniature second.

Pursuing confidence is everybody's business. I do not think that conquering our fear as a path to gaining confidence. It maybe for some people but not for me. Gaining confidence is simply believing that we are better than the rest. Of course, to believe that we are better than the rest, we have to start by improving ourselves and never stop developing our three greatest gifts. Intelligence, communication and passion.

Achieving intelligence takes 99 percent of perspiration and 1 percent of inspiration, according to Thomas Edison.

Achieving good communication takes great patience in listening and courage to try.

Passion is something that will make us shine and a passion can be developed into talent if only we make an effort to do it

Happiness

Dogs give unjudgmental smiles ~ at the sight of you, they would wag their tail and stick their tongue out as if saying HELLO kissme! touch me! walk with me! just look at me! and came running towards you....

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think that decide whether you are happy or not. Make yourself think that you are happy, and believe it or not, you will be happy.

This is why, there is a blank in my happiness equation , its' perpetually changing like the weather

Biofuel in general

Biofuels are now being used worldwide and supporters claim that they are a sustainable, renewable and cleaner alternative to traditional fossil fuels like coal and petroleum, supplies of which are becoming exhausted. Biofuels are increasingly used in the transportation sector. The main producers of biofuels are in Asia, Europe and America. They can be produced from any carbon source including landfill gasses and recycled vegetable oil but most of the biofuel produced around the world is derived from photosynthetic plants. The two main types of plant used in production are those high in sugar, which are fermented to produce ethanol, and those high in oil which have the oil extracted and heated to reduce viscosity. Burning biofuels releases the same amount of CO2 that the plants took out of the environment when growing so there is no net increase in levels of atmospheric carbon.

Global Warming

Some studies of temperatures around the world have found that global warming is speeding up and claim that the 1980’s and 1990’s were the hottest decades for the past 400 years. The average global temperature has gone up by 0.8°C in the past 125 years, from 18°C. Some areas of the Arctic across Russia and Canada have had an increase double that of the global average increase, shooting their temperatures up to 13°C. The changes resulting from shorter, warmer winters are affecting all aspects of life for the indigenous INUIT people. The ice melts faster restricting access to hunting sites and making it harder to find the basic building material for the igloos widely used on hunting trips. This is causing difficulty for the INUIT, as hunting is their primary food source.

Forbes Most Powerful People, Nov 2009 Report:

The LIST is out,

Glad: Goldman, Google, Michael Bloomberg, Michael T Duke (Walmart), FIFA,

Controversial: Hillary Clinton, Gordon Brown, Oprah Winfrey, Dmitry Medvedev

Surprised! : Bernard Arnault(Louis Vuitton),

Words of Inspiration

Words I heard and valued, I am sharing it with you today. Lets hear them:

Business and Finance is undoubtedly becoming ever complex
This is the world where ignorance really can damage your prosperity
Thrive and grow is a matter of necessity

Learning doesn’t stop in business school. It is forever

Confidence is what we have, Conviction is what we show, Commitment is what we pledge, Cedar is what we are
Cedar~You taught me how~you are the fabulous maestro in my heart always & forever

Piano Pieces

Playing the piano is an endless trip to heaven for me. The sound of the keys combined to form algorithm and algebra in our mind.
The pieces I had memorized but needs re-practising again:
1. Fantasie Impromptu - Chopin
2. Waltz in D Flat Major - Chopin
3. Prelude No. 1 from Well Tempered Clavier - Bach
4. Voices of Spring - Fruhlingsstimmen
5. Ballade Pour Adeline - Richard Claiderman
6. Marriage D'Amour - Paul De Senneville
7. Forrest Gump Suit
8. Fur Elise - Beethoven
9. Pathetique Movement 1 - Beethoven
10. The Entertainer - Scott Joplin

The pieces I am about to start learning:
1. Claire De Lune - Debussy
2. Liebestraum - Franz Liszt
3. Moment Musical - Schubert
4. Pathetique Movement 2 - Beethoven
5. Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven
6. Intermezzo - Schumann
7. Christmas Song - Santa Claus is coming to Town
8. Christmas Song - The Twelve days of Christmas
9. Christmas Song - Frosty the Snow man
10. Christmas Song - Here Comes Santa Claus
11. Christmas Song - Its Beginning to look like Christmas
12. Christmas Song - Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
13. Christmas Song - Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas
14. White Christmas
15. First Noel
16. Silent Night
17. Gershwin - Embraceable You
18. Gershwin - The man I love
19. Scott Joplin - Maple Leaf

A list of pieces waiting for me to memorize:
1. Be Our Guest - Disney (Beauty & the beast)
2. Beauty & The Beast - Disney
3. Once Upon a Dream - Disney (sleeping beauty)
4. So this is love - Disney (Cinderella)
5. Some Day my prince will come - Disney (Snow White)
6. Its' a small world
7. Part of Your World - Disney (Little Mermaid)
8. ZHU FU 祝福
9. My Heart will go on - Titanic
10. What the world needs now is love - Carpenters
11. Arthur's Theme - Carpenters
12. Close To You - Carpenters
13. Thats' What Friends are For - Carpenters
14. Pachabel - Variation from Kannon
15. Scherzo - Chopin
16. My Way - Frank Sinatra
17. Fly Me to the Moon - Frank Sinatra

Total Scores= 46 pieces , Will I make it there! . . I shall not expand this list any further~phew!

Spotlight in Asia

Jim Rogers (Co-founder of Quantum Fund who is currently focusing on Commodities and China)
"If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London,
If you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York,
If you were smart in 2007 you moved to Asia "

Lawrence Ho
The male heir to Macau's richest tycoon, Stanley Ho.
Lawrence Ho after moving to Canada when he was only 9 years old, Lawrence returned after completing bachelor of arts degree from University of Toronto in 1999. Rather than join any of his father's companies, he worked for Jardine Fleming and Citibank. Two years after his graduation, he bought Melco, a distressed asset listed on Hongkong Stock Exchange. The company grew from nine employees to 10.000. Melco Crown Entertainment just opened the USD 2.1 billion City of Dreams casino resort in Macau

September & October in China

16 days abroad to China and Singapore brings me many meaningful and thoughtful memories. Our first destination was Dalian, followed by Luoyang, Hangzhou, Xuzhou, Xi An, Shenzhen, Hongkong and Singapore. We visited 6 factories, 8 major tourist destination and 5 minor tourist destinations. The major tourist destination include China’s First Emperor (Qin Shi Wang) Terracota, Liu Bang First Emperor of Han Dynasty’s Archeology Museum, Yang Gui Fei’s Bath Mansion called Hua Qing Shi, Tomb of Guan Gong (Guan Yu), Temple of 500 Buddhas, Gate of Red Dragon across the Yang Tze River, Mountain of Yun Tai Shan where we witnessed the first discovery of red stone Quartz 3000 years ago, and the home of SHEN WAN SAN. The visit to these major tourist destinations has augmented my curiosity of the history and myths left behind by 13 dynasties of China. Most notable is the Tang Dynasty and the Han Dynasty. With that, we were fortunate to be served with many delicious feasts from five different states that somehow gave us a little insights about the emperor’s taste

Besides the adventurous tourist destination, we also observed a great change in the public road, public transportation, airports, highways, public laws and the number of new factories that sprang across the South of China. China’s government has truly succeeded in providing a better commerce and humanitarian world for China’s within. The country’s GDP Growth has brought pride to the G20 meeting and overseas Chinese businessman. We see many domestic brands such as LI BAI (detergent brand), HONGQI (Limousine) started occupying the market. We believe that China’s reliant on exports will no longer be a threat to the nation and soon China will become the greatest consumer in the world.

Despite the slum currently facing foreign car manufacturing companies, the Chinese auto market remains buoyant, with supply unable to keep up with the robust demand. In the first half of this year, China overtook the US as the largest auto consumer market in the world, with total car sales of 6.09 million units. In first tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, families are now buying a second car, with 18% of buyers financing these purchases with a bank loan, a situation unheard of even a few years ago.

The China’s property market has taken just one year to rebound from the hit it took at the start of the financial crisis, but both house prices and sales volumes in 70 large and medium size cities have picked up since the spring festival. China gave out more than RMB 7.4 trillion loans in the first six months of this year, which is the primary reason for the quick recovery of the property sector.

In this journey we also experience the first three days of sensation in the month of October. It was sensational to both China and the world. October First is China’s National Day which is China’s 60th Anniversary of victory as an independent nation. That very day, Beijing’s traffic reached 70.000 people per day. Newspapers were populated with testimonials about China’s 60 years of change. Overseas Chinese around the world were also celebrating by holding a gala at the capital city respectively. On that day, our family were leaving the state of Xuzhou and arriving at Xi An at 17:05. People all around China were watching television which show-case the National Day ceremony and parade. The ceremony began with 60 cannon shots and the release of 60 thousand pigeons on the sky followed by Military parade that lasted about 66 minutes. 56 phalanxes to represent 56 ethnic groups, 14 more phalanxes, including one with 378 female soldiers, 30 military weapon display teams and the highlights display of the latest spaceship, battle tanks and helicopters. At 9:45pm, world’s largest fireworks show case 300.000 shots, double the Olympics size and the dance performance by 50.000 dancers concludes with song led by Hongkong Star Jackie Chan and mainland singer Liu Yuan Yuan.

The number “60” holds a unique significance in Chinese society. In the ancient Chinese caendar of 10 heavenly stems and 12 earthly brances, a span of 60 years is known as jiazi formulated in the ninth century BC. It was amazing to realize that flipping the number “60” upside down produces “09” which correspond to the year 2009.

During this National day, China’s prime minister Wen Jia Bao deliverd a speech to 4000 invited guests, saying that “through consistent efforts of future generations, China would emerge as a rich, democratic and harmonious country when it celebrated its’ 100th anniversary”

The next day, we were awakened by news broadcast of Brazil victory in becoming the home state for 2016 Olympic competition. The day following that was the 15th day of the 8th lunar month where Chinese around the world shared a moon cake with their families. It was an auspicious day with people making wishes to the moon above. These three days were truly meaningful to me. I sent out messages to the people I love. I was very happy to receive a reply in return.

The day after that, we were once again on board the flight to Singapore. We found a bridge that was served as a short cut land journey from Shenzhen to Hongkong. On arrival at Singapore, I was pleased to meet my Cedar classmates who still remained a good friend to me till this day. They have all grown up to be beautiful ladies. Hopefully we will stay in touch all throughout our lives.

Ken the Panda

Your tenderness remains in my heart
Like a bookmark that stays inside an unfinished novel
Forever unremoved and untouched by anyone else except myself

Our days together did not last a fairy tale
But the thought of it makes my day a happy ending ones

You didn't mind
You never mind
You will not mind
about who i was or what i do
that is why you are the lovely panda in my mind

My Hydrangea

I am taking care of her like a baby. She is certainly becoming more beautiful each day. Water is like her blood. Hydra is a Greek word for water. The leaves will begin to droop if the soil is too dry. Too much water, the leaves begin to get brown/black marks on the edges. I am reading up on how to take care of her. It is interesting to note that the acidity of the soil determine her color. When the soil is above PH6, which means alkaline, the flower will bloom into a brilliant pink color. When its’ below PH6, Acidic, she will turn cobalt blue. Add aluminium sulfate to soil to make flowers bluer or add lime to soil to make flower pinker (apply to root plant zone). As the blooms mature, they turn to a more purple/lavender color, then to lime green, and finally white & brown. I hope one day she will grow to become like the images _______________________________________________-- here =

This is how my flower looks today. She has five younger sisters who are still baby buds. They are all growing in one pot. I can't wait to see her bloom. I need to go to pharmacy and get PH measuring device. She belongs to the Macrophylla family.
Taking my research step further from being just my hobby, I would like to know more about another family, that is Hydrangea - Serrata. Its' use in making herbal tea. There are altogether 44 families of hydrangea growing around Japan, Korea, and relatively around most of Southeast asian countries.

Sushi Potluck

It was Sunday and we started the day at 4am. Preparing the ingredients take up almost 3 hours. Cutting and slicing carrots, cucumber, avocado, seaweed, crab stick, egg omelette. Frying the omelette is quite a challenge. I don't have the right saucepan, so the twist and turn resulted in fatal condition. As for the shrimp, its' perfect. We made a great tempura. I had three helpers, that makes four of us.

In the end we managed to make TEN combinations:
1. Futomaki - Ham and Cheese = 100 pieces
2. Futomaki - Shrimp and crabstick = 100 pieces
3. Futomaki - Tuna and seaweed = 30 pieces
4. Futomaki - Salmon and seaweed = 30 pieces
5. California Roll = 150 pieces

6. Nigiri sushi - Shrimp = 20 pieces
7. Nigiri sushi - crab stick = 20 pieces
8. small roll - seaweed = 30 pieces
9. small roll - tamago = 10 pieces
10. small roll - tuna = 20 pieces

Altogether adds up to 510 pieces. Haven't include the unsucessful breeds. Those that look a little like moth-balls.....rather than rolls. Preparing the ingredients takes up almost three hours. The number of bowls and plates that we have to wash at the end of the day is just unbelievable.

Preparing the ingredients is a challenge. We were shot of crab sticks and shrimp. Also, this time, the ham and the omelette didn't come in square-blocks. I hope I will improve the next time.