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My Five Treasures 2007-08-14 07:09:27 My Five Blogs, My Five Senses At Work, Give Me A Five
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I have finally had all my icons for my blogs. They are as shown above. There are five blogs altogether, with my own domain names. These five blogs are important to me. Why Five? The number five is a good number. First, each of us have five fingers on our hand. We have two hands, total ten fingers. I have here five blogs, each representing one finger each. Human beings have five sense organs — eyes, nose, ears, tongue and skin. With these five sense organs, we are able to see, smell, hear, taste and feel. With our sense organs, we are able to appreciate our environment, the people around us, to show love and care, to communicate and interact with people around us. We are able to make everyday possible because of the interactions of these sense organs at work. It is such a wonderful works of
Peace Haven Park 2007-08-12 07:44:01 Second Life PeaceHaven
Park; 长流不息
Peace Haven is such nice name. There are many places with the name Peace Haven. I have a blog name Peace Haven. I do not know that there were many websites with this name Peace Haven. The only time where I know that there are many Peace Haven places exist in this world is when I was watching the news some time ago, I have forgotten when. I remembered watching the news saying that Peace Haven Hospital, in China. Little did I know that there is a Peace Haven in Second Life too. I was searching for Peaceful Gardens in Second Life and I found Peace Haven Park.
Peace Haven Park is located at Vestal, it is a PG land. In Second Life, there are PG land and Matured land. According to the description of land at Peace Haven Park, it is a peaceful park retreat, to explore, relax, party with friends, or bring that special someone there! It is a big park, with an area of 32016 square metres.
Upon arrival at Peace Haven Park, the first thing w
Second Life Relationship 2007-08-17 23:28:20 Relationship
in Second
Life can be as complicated as first life. Many people goes Second Life
as a means to ‘escape’ from their first life. As I mentioned before the purpose of people going to Second Life, some people goes Second Life just to kill time, while at the same time to find some thrill and enjoyment out of it. Many of the people in this world need to work, they have their stable job. Where most of the time is spent working, upon reaching home, some people have no life at all. They do not know what to do. Second Life is their place to ‘dream’, to ‘visualise’ and to really have a ‘feel’ of what they want and wish to have in their life.
There can be a few kinds of relationship in Second Life — Business Relationship, Love Relationship and friendship or rivals and enemies.
Friendship need not be of the opposite sex. Just like real life, you can be more comfortable ‘talking’ to the same sex and you can hav
Banquet 2007-08-16 21:17:04
This is Banquet
Food Court at Causeway Point Shopping Centre. It is on the seventh floor. Behind the food court is the Cinema, Cathay. There are two food courts at Causeway Point Shopping Center, Banquet is cater for the muslims. I prefer Banquet to Food Horizon, at fifth floor. It is colder at Banquet and moving about is easier too.
The food court design is nice too. It is new but that does not mean that anything new is nice and good. Food Horizon had undergone renovation, but after reopening, it is not much of difference.
There are quite a varieties of food here, fish soup, Japanese food, Yong Tau Foo, Western Food, Cockles Kway Teow, Noodles and so on.
Among the food there, I like Cockles Kway Teow, Fried Sambal Fish Fillet and Yong Tau Foo. Richard was always amazed at the big cups of coffee and tea which Banquet serves. Finally on twice occasion, he cannot resist it anymore. He tried a cup of coffee the first time. He did not finish it. He offers me, which I d
Which School To Go 2007-08-15 20:09:19 似水æµå¹´ (sorrow quotes)
These pictures and videos are taken at QiHua Primary School
garden. I brought my son to the dentist and while waiting for him, I went to the garden. I never know the garden can be so peaceful and it is a beautiful garden. Everytime I walked past the garden, it was just a garden to me. I have not had a chance to really walk inside the garden. But that day, memories of my childhood days just came to my mind. I used to walk in my school’s garden. It was so inspirational and peaceful to walk over the garden’s bridge. Below the bridge were fish swimming among the cattails. The school’s garden was where I used to loiter around during recess time, sometimes alone, sometimes with friends.
To gain the similar experience or to search for the similar feeling, I begin my walk in the garden. At first, I never take any pictures. But walking around, I saw the clear water and the water sound, they were so nice, so peaceful. I cannot help
Loy Kee Best Chicken Rice 2007-08-27 07:51:21
This is Loy Kee Best Chicken
Rice. It has been here at Woodgrove for several years, but I have not seen it full house before, nor was there any day where people need to stand to wait for seats.
The first time I had eaten at the place was probably the very first year where they had moved here, that was perhaps 1997-1998, too long to remember the exact and details. However, the experience and the feeling was not forgotten. Nice food will always be remembered and will always be craved for.
If you want to compare Loy Kee Best Chicken Rice with a neighbourhood chicken rice that I had come across or among all chicken rice that I had eaten, then I would give it a rating of one star. One star for providing air-conditioned restaurant for comfortable dining, and nothing else.
Years back, the reason for eating there was because it was new. The food was not that cheap. The chicken rice taste ‘unique’ for that instance as it was never eaten before. I never say it taste ni
Every Minute Not Wasted 2007-08-25 21:54:58 What am I up to? No updates for a week!
Extremely busy last week. Busy with personal life and busy with blogs. There were two Holy Communion Gathering to go last week — Monday and Thursday. There will be meeting again the next week.
Catechism Class
I had my own catechism class when I was young. Some of the teachings were changed over time, just like the receiving of Holy Communion. The catechism now are more interactive and I find it better than my time.
First Holy Communion
This year Ricsson is going to have his Holy Communion next month. Wearing white is not a compulsory now but it would be preferred. I need to shop for his Holy Communion clothes. There will be four four Holy Communion Gathering sessions. So far, two were attended and I had found it very useful. It not only reinforces what I had learned previously (which I had long forgotten) and it also enables the children to learn more about the church community and things like who is our neighbour.
Church Dog
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, Wasted
Understanding Death 2007-08-24 22:41:19 I have been keen on writing this but there were more important tasks which I need to be done first. Today, I have the time to write about this, a notecard which was given to me sometime ago, on 16 August by Francois Jacques. I do not know who is he but I want to thank him.
Francois Jacques had given me a notecard in Second Life — ‘A Monk’s Understanding
of Death’.
This is what it says:
A Monk’s Understanding of Death
“And you shall
know that I am
the Lord when I
open your graves
and bring you up from
your graves. I will put my Spirit
within you, and you shall live…”
–Ezekiel 37:13-14
As written in The Rule of Benedict, monks are to “keep death always before their eyes.” A “resurrection joy” consequence of their vow of stability means that they pass each day at the place where they will lay after their life on Earth ends. Simple Celtic crosses are most often used to mark t
Sense & Sensibility 2007-09-17 05:20:46
Can she give you money? Can you clear your loan with WOMEN?
What has he been doing? For three years, he should have made more money, cleared most of the loans. Did he?
For three years or more, what had he been doing? You want to have your own dreams. You want to be a millionaire. Is it the right way to do things? Are you on your right tracks?
If you are on your right tracks, show me that you are capable of being a great leader. Show me that you are sensible. You want to fool around, you want to be insensible, be just to us.
What is beauty? Where can you find greener pasture? You are forever following and dreaming. Where is results when there is no hard work? You can see more and more pictures. You can fantasize. Are you going to wake up from your dreams?
You tell me about home loans. No CPF, depleting soon. Yet, this is how you spend money and spend your time. Who will understand my plight? I am regarded as lazy, never do my job. So what if I am a graduate. Read more:Sense
Video Conferencing 2007-09-16 04:08:06
Last night, while walking at home, I can feel my heaviness on my chest. It is still the same now. I can hardly breathe. My eyes are tired and I am having headaches too.
I can hardly breathe. No matter how much sorrows I would like to pour onto my diary, Peace Diary at Blogspot, I had no time nor energy to do so. Yesterday was such a tiring day. So was today. I just came back from church, weekend mass at 6pm. It was lucky that my brother wanted to go. I can take a lift in his car and we went there together. I did not need to cycle.
Yesterday, I was not feeling well already. Nonetheless, I had to send the children to church for catechism. I did not cycle yesterday. I was cycling on Friday night to and fro the library and I had sense ‘darkness’ while cycling. I thought it was safer not to cycle then.
This whole week is really very tiring and stressful. I think I had reached my saturation point as well. Not only is Valerie tired, I am tired too. Just now, aft Read more:Conferencing
My Occupation 2007-09-11 21:23:06
These are the children playing at the playground while waiting for food to be served at the Bukit Batok neighbourhood Seafood Restaurant. On the left is Vanessa, my youngest niece.
Last Saturday while eating dinner at my mother’s place, Vanessa asked me,”Xiao Gu (small aunt), why you keep taking photographs?” I told her it is my job. She does not believe. She giggled.
I have several blog advertising companies with me now, but not all of them are on my browser toolbars. I had signed up for Loudlaunch, and it takes more than a month to two months to get my blogs approved. At Smorty, everything is in the express lane. You get paypal payment from approved blogs posts that you had done for advertisers. Paypal payment from Smorty is always ‘automatic’. I do not need to worry that they do not pay me at all. For a small amount of $6, I was even paid promptly. Can I not trust them? Can I not say good things about them? I had just written a post “
SL Classic Chinese Impression 2007-09-09 05:18:19 鐵血丹心
This is a region at Anastasiya, a sim own by Richard Palace. The creator of this beautiful land is a China man. He had named this place YanYi, China — Fly Mall. I had spoken to this man probably a week ago. He was full of dreams for these plots of land that he had rented. The first time I stepped onto his land, he told me his plans and dreams — what he wanted to put on the lands. I had told him that I was going to put his creation on my blog and he had agreed. I was busy and sick and was not able to log in until last night. It was so lucky that I managed to take a last look at the beautiful place. I had compiled all the pictures into a music video of the song iron blood loyalty 鐵血丹心, one of my favourite song from the Hong Kong show 射雕英雄傳, Legend Of Condor Heroes.
Little did I know that this China man, the tenant of the land, YanYi, had his lease due already. I was exploring the place, taking pictures, when I saw Richard Palace fl Read more:Classic
, Chinese
, Impression
My Birthday 2007-09-08 06:00:23
This is my mother. She has more white hair now.
It is my birthday today. On this day, I went to my mother’s house. I had not gone to my mother’s house for more than a month. I had intended to visit her last Saturday, but our family had a family dinner to attend. In the end, I could not go to visit her. On this day, even though it was my birthday, I choose to visit her. I know she feels lonely and how she hopes to have her children visit her often. As usual, I asked my sister, but she was not interested to go at all.
On Friday, Johnny came to fetch Valerie. I told him about visiting mother but he could not confirm it. But today it was lucky that he called and he wanted to go to mother’s house. We were lucky because we could take a lift from him.
My mother all alone at home when we arrived. My father had gone tour again. As she was all alone, we decided to go downstairs to the seafood restaurant to eat dinner(so that she did not have to cook herself). The Read more:Birthday
Crabs 2007-09-07 07:00:45
Today Valerie came for tuition again. Everyday her mother asked about her progress. I can understand how she feels. However, there is really no such thing as overnight progress. I had only started to give her tuition on last Monday. She did not come for tuition on Thursday. So for four days, I had been coaching her. I had given her tuition for 2 hours each session. But their parents want her to stay longer so that I can teach her more. So normally she would leave my house at about 5.30pm to 6pm. Tuition starts at 2.30pm.
Maths is a subject that needs practice. Understanding is not enough. It takes practice and more practice. I would hope their parents would understand. However, on my part, I will always try my best to teach her. But I also need her cooperation as well. If she would not like to study hard, there is no way I can help her to improve as well. So when it comes to students’ progress in their work, it all need the help of all parties involved to w Read more:Crabs
Having Insomnia 2007-09-03 07:19:09
This is a comfortable position to sleep especially when not feeling well.
Tuition
Today Valerie came to my house for tuition. For a few days I was sick and had not done much work. Last Friday, Valerie’s mother called me. She wanted me to give tuition to her daughter. I accepted her request only if Valerie comes to my house.
This is a picture of Cebest, another picture that I had found in one of my CDs.
Cebest
Last night, I had a rather good dream. I dreamed of hugging Cebest. Cebest was on my body. I could not remember the details. However, I remember the moment I saw him, it was so surprised and so real, and so nice. Nevertheless, it was a weird dream. I dreamed of my ex-boss too. I did not like that. If that part was not in my dream, then dreaming of Cebest would be a sweet dream last night.
Paranormal Experience?
I had not been able to sleep well. Having
sleep the whole day while I was sick, it made me having difficulties to sleep in the nights. Other thing Read more:Insomnia
MoonCake Festival 2007-09-28 05:37:11 Mooncake Festival
(中秋节)
Mooncake Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival was on 25th September 2007. It was late to post about Mooncake Festival now. I was busy as usual on that night, as promised to my children. They looked forward to this day and as soon as we had finished dinner, we went downstairs. Prior to that, we had already got all the necessary stuff ready for that night. The children bought fire sparklers, those with whistle and those without sound too.
Play Fire Festival or Lantern Festival?
Every year, the Lantern Festival seem more quiet than before. I remembered when I was a child, there used to be so many lanterns and goodies such as mooncakes and pomelos selling almost in every shop. However, nowadays, lesser of these are seen, though they are not ‘extinct’.
It’s boring to carry lanterns
I had got two free paper lanterns on Mooncake Festival Day. They were free when you purchased $5 or more of Old Chang Kee food. In order to get two lante
Loans Lovers 2007-09-24 22:32:54
The PEOPLE who love loans with the people who do not love loans.
I am very mad about Loans
, especially Personal Loans. Everyday, the subject of loans keep revolving around me. Day in day out, I see bills and phone calls from banks and everything is all about money, more money, loans and more loans. Whether it is Payday Loan or secured loan, I am not interested! I hate loans. For loans which PEOPLE had incurred, it has affected me and my family! There is no peace and no security!
Recently, the PEOPLE want to find alternative source of loan again. I never grant his wish. Today, another anonymous caller from overseas called, claiming to be staff of Citibank. She asked for the PEOPLE. The PEOPLE talked to her very politely, as usual, because it was from an opposite sex. If it was a guy, that would be the end of call. I cannot understand this, an overseas call from Citibank, and asking him about his balance transfer and asking him to apply for more credit cards. More suspic Read more:Lovers
Regrets And Guilt 2007-09-24 14:40:11
Life is like walking along a path at times you will be offer a key or two. Accepting the key(s), you have to face the consequences of your action. You cannot see what is behind the door. Only when you open it, in it, can you see the real thing, real experience. The person who offer you the key can say so many nice words, offer so many fine things, but it is your discretion to believe them. To gain, you have to risk. For not able to say “NO”, you have to face the consequences too. Which door am I going to open next? I had just accepted another key.
Life is no bed or roses. My life is just so ordinary. I am not acting, it is not a show. I write what is true and real. It would be nice to dream of sleeping among roses, having rose petals shower and lying on a soft bed made of down feathers. However, dreams are still dreams. We have dreams when we sleep too. Dreams will disappear when you wake up. Dreams will still be dreams, merely imagination, if you do not ha Read more:Regrets
Peaceful Dance Garden 2007-09-23 03:46:12
This is another peaceful place in Second Life. Some of the other peaceful place which I had visited in Second Life includes Peace Haven Park, Garden
of Sorrow and Forest Walk. The difference between this garden and the rest of the garden which I had visited is their dance. This is a place in Sphinx (24, 70,22). It is called Salsa Salsa Tango Dance
Garden. It has an area of 4608 square metres. It is a Romantic Dance Garden. If you do a search, you will notice their description — Salsa, Tango, ChaCha and slow dances — Latin Music.
When I first step on the place a few days ago, I was invited by its owner to join their group, Salsa Lover. To date, I had received a few group notices from them, about their event “salsa salsa tango party” to be held at Salsa Salsa Tango Dance Garden.
The place is a wonderful place to socialize and make friends. It is a great place to dance. If you like to immerse yourself in sorrows and to feel peace, Garden of Sorrow is Read more:Peaceful
Woodlands Chicken Rice 2007-09-22 14:51:10
This is Woodlands Ave 1, the nearest MRT stations is Marsiling. This is the place where my children love to eat Chicken
rice every weekends.
There is no air-con here. There are smokers. Even with smoking and non-smoking area, there are still ’smoking’ smell, which I hate. However, it is not that bad. The most important is the children like the food and it is far better than Loy Kee Best Chicken Rice. Staying for about ten years in Woodlands, I had tried almost all the food in Woodlands. Woodlands North Plaza has chicken rice. Woodlands Mart food court has chicken rice too. So does Admiralty food court. However, none can be compared to this one at Woodlands Ave 1.
No one has ever mentioned that this chicken rice is good in Woodlands. Nothing was mentioned about them. They are proclaimed that they are the best, they are the humbly good Chicken Rice stall who never waste money on Advertising. They just continue to maintain their chicken rice’s standard
Phone Cards 2007-09-30 22:20:35
Not long ago, my mother’s phone was not working. I gave her my old phone, Nokia 8250. It was in good working condition and I had given her the charger, batteries and handphone cover as well. However, in the end, she gave everything to my uncle, her fourth brother. Then she does not have a good handphone herself. Her friend gave her this handphone. It was not in good working condition too. That day when I went to her house, she asked if Ricsson wanted the handphone. Ricsson was elated about it. I bought a prepaid card for it, but in the end, only to be discovered, it was still faulty. Ricsson was disappointed and I had wasted money on the prepaid card.
The prepaid card had brought back memories of the past. Richard used to buy lots prepaid cards during his overseas trips. The long distance calling card that he bought were expensive. They will not allow him to talk more than half an hour. Every minute of long distance call was expensive. In the past, there were no h Read more:Cards
, Phone Cards
Shopping Cart 2007-10-13 05:15:54 Shopping
is a common routine for Second Life users. Residents want to look pretty and there is a need to do some shopping every now and then. However, I find that none of the shop in Second Life has shopping cart. Many times when I was shopping, I found that there was much inconvenience. As with real life shopping, I want to compare prices and normally, there was so much choices. At the end of shopping, we would want to make our selection. However, at big stores, by the time I had finished with the whole store, I had forgotten how to go back to the place where I had found the items I like.
Shops in Second Life should have a shopping cart. They should scripts like that of shopping cart software so that shoppers can put in all their favourite items in their shopping cart. I would like to make payment at the end of shopping. However, in Second Life, shopping for your favourite items are done item by item. There are no ‘basket’ or trolleys or shopping cart for c
Myself 2007-10-12 23:01:49
I can never finish talking about myself. Just managed to do some editing to my profile at “About Me“. You can read about why I never write “about me” all this while. If you have clicked on About Me before, you would have noticed it was merely ‘a creator’ of blogs… I do not think this is a good introduction about myself. However, today, I have managed to done some changes to it. It is not the end yet. I have some more plans in mind. When I am finished with everything, I will really call it “All About Me”. Up to now, this is only so much for today and I need more time to accomplish my mission.
Things To Buy 2007-10-12 07:16:11
This is the laptop which I had seen at Dell Roadshow. I had been looking for a notebook. My notebook had been faulty recently.
I am looking for a notebook. My Dell Notebook, Inspiron 6400 is reaching ‘hell’ soon. Yesterday and today, I had difficulties in powering up my notebook. Today, I attempted to switch on my notebook several times, but to no avail. Finally, when the battery was taken out, I was lucky to have the laptop working again. This dell battery of mine had finally reached the end of its life.
I am searching for promo codes especially that of dell coupons at Coupon Chief. CouponChief.com is a wholly owned subsidiary of Coupon Chief, Inc. At Coupon Chief, they strive to provide a one stop coupon deal and discount resource for their Web site visitors. Their focus on customer support and providing up to date coupon codes and promotional deals and discounts is unparalleled in the online shopping e-commerce industry. Using coupons can save a lot of mo
SL Business 2007-10-12 06:35:05
No more casino in Second Life. No more gambling in Second Life. What is there left for you to do in Second life? There are so many Second Life competitors out there in the internet. There are many similar sites like Second Life around. One of them is redlightscenter.com. The banning of casino in Second Life definitely has a great impact on Second Life. Business
seems to have slow down a lot. This means that traffic is greatly reduced too.
In the past, there are more people who can come in to Second Life for more thrill — thrill and excitement in chatting with the opposite sex(flirting), dancing, sex, gambling and business people who are doing business in Second Life.
The main business in Second Life is selling textures, clothes, scripts, skins, body shapes, houses, gadgets and furniture. People who need to sell these things need to rent or buy land. Sales of land and rental of land goes to property owners, the real estate specialist. To attract people to your shop
Simple Is Nice 2007-10-11 19:07:30
This is not my home. But this is the kind of neat and clutter-free home that I would want. Houses are getting smaller nowadays. I used to stay in bigger house and my children can have their own room now if we are still staying there. However, now both the children need to share a room and they have lots of stuff.
I am always looking at storage solutions for my house. A few days ago, I threw away some old stuff and move some cupboards around. I created an empty space in the end. Clara was so overwhelmed after she got back from school. Her first remark was “wow so nice!”. It was just an open, empty space. And yet she exclaimed it was nice. In fact it was. Even children know and understand this fact.
Open space, clear space, any space that is free of clutter is always space for inspiration, space for your imagination to run wild. Even children love to have more space. That is why storage solution is so important. Cupboards, cabinets, drawers and shelves, al Read more:Simple
Second Life Interview 2007-10-11 16:43:13
Standing at the balcony, enjoying beautiful sceneries at Malyshkin, one of Richard Palace’s sim. This is a world of imagination and you do not need to touch it to believe it. Feelings is enough.
Last week, I received an email from a person who claimed she was a student from NTU. She wanted to interview me for her class assignment on Second
Life. She wanted to write some news articles on Second Life
and she came across my blog. She wanted me to grant her an interview. I thought since she wanted to write about Second Life, she should have an account with Second Life. I did not ask her about that.
I replied her, asking her about the details of the interview. I would be glad to help her if I can, but I am not ready to ’sacrifice’ too much of my time. Every minute is not wasted. I have lots of things to do. I would not want to meet up with her unless I am making money out of it. This is the reality of life. If I am single now, I do not need to work that ha
I Signed Up PPP! 2007-10-09 19:34:17
With the money earned at PPP, I am able to new clothes and shoes for my children.
I am not the newest PayPerPost(PPP) member but I am relatively new as compared to the old members who had earned more than $15k. It is way to go for me. I had wished I had known payperpost earlier! This is a sponsored post by PPP, the first post sponsored by PPP ever since I added this blog to PPP a few weeks ago. Because of PPP, I am able to get my own hosting — I am able to work online, blogging at home, doing the things I love.
Many blog advertising network around now. Some people are happy with some companies while others are not. Recently, some people were unhappy about interim post at PPP. I find that every company has their own policies and their uniqueness. My purpose is to earn money. PPP provides plenty of opportunities for that. Although I do not get to ’snatch’ the $50, $70, $500 or $700 sponsored post, I am still happy blogging at PPP. They are always there, Read more:Signed
Pokemon Inspiration 2007-10-08 06:09:40
I am more relaxed now, though not fully yet. One hurdle less, another hurdle more to go.
I had a wonderful dream last night, an unexpected sweet dream. I dreamt of Pokemon
. Pokemon had brought me happiness and he had once dedicated this song, The Most Beautiful Woman In The World to me. He told me I am a great mother. He was very good to me.
Dreaming of him, remind me of some Pokemon Arts which I had done with my children last year, during the school holidays.
The Most Beautiful Woman In The World
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Portable DVD Player 2007-10-06 07:59:20
Things That Captivate The Children’s Heart
One of the night, after the mass ended, the children, Richard and I were walking to take our bicycle at the car park, Ricsson was attracted by a car with a mini-television in it. The children in the car was watching DVD cartoons. He was filled with awe and he gave a loud ‘Wow!’. It was such a great idea to keep the children entertained in the car.
Children Get Bored Easily
Children are smarter than many years back. They cannot sit still and they have to move around or be entertained (otherwise you can really have no peace!). My children hate traveling and they hate long journey to anywhere. We would always travel by train (MRT). Whenever we go out, the children would get hold of Richard’s PSP and my handphone for some amusement.
Wish For Portable
DVD player
This is the children’s gift for Children’s Day on 1st October 2007. Each of them was offered a cup of Slurpee only. Last week, Ricsson borrowed this Read more:Portable DVD Player