tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18044786059605607912024-03-13T04:17:48.777-07:00Inspirational ThoughtsAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748140733626800565noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804478605960560791.post-19638522631073500922023-12-23T14:17:00.000-08:002023-12-24T19:54:14.160-08:00Beautiful Arabic Songs<p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxx1RTU5lbPFp9qsYiZDZk7erRa_XqlUg5uRr5m5mVmcY385f9vexXT1zOH2uCP2aQ_Fk_zNvQvHIPf-R52WaB0Yt2MQX9b7_lFCmqD3O8gezXe0CCy-uzYWy5d6oL1HD9LVYIGURoD9PfF4DMUXwSw6ZlhdDq1nJs3DTx7gFo-bZ7XKq4TPpia725GJvw/s5000/vecteezy_eid-mubarak-high-quality-4k-ultra-hd-hdr_30666695.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5000" data-original-width="5000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxx1RTU5lbPFp9qsYiZDZk7erRa_XqlUg5uRr5m5mVmcY385f9vexXT1zOH2uCP2aQ_Fk_zNvQvHIPf-R52WaB0Yt2MQX9b7_lFCmqD3O8gezXe0CCy-uzYWy5d6oL1HD9LVYIGURoD9PfF4DMUXwSw6ZlhdDq1nJs3DTx7gFo-bZ7XKq4TPpia725GJvw/s320/vecteezy_eid-mubarak-high-quality-4k-ultra-hd-hdr_30666695.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">When you see Guzheng (a major Chinese musical instrument), what can you imagine? An ancient woman in an elegant oriental costume is playing Guzheng in a Chinese pavilion near a peaceful lake? </span></p></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">When you see Xiao (a Chinese vertical flute), what can you imagine? Chinese
painting of oriental landscape with water and mountain , very spiritual and
clam.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;">Maybe you can think of the Chinese martial art novel 笑傲江湖 </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;">📕</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;">(The Smiling, Proud Wanderer) … Not 葵花寶典, Not 辟邪劍譜, But 琴簫合譜 😆 (not Sunflower Manual, not Bixie Swordplay Manual, but Qin Xiao Compose Manual which is the same as Guzheng ➕ Xiao 😄)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">If we apply Guzheng and Xiao to an Arabic song, what would happen❓ Far East music and Middle East music are very different. Why I have this
question … because of inspiration (like the name of my blog)! I have been
inspired by the video …</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uoXyN9R51n8" width="320" youtube-src-id="uoXyN9R51n8"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Although the musical instruments are not the same, they look
and sound similar. Qanun is like Guzheng, except it is played by a muscular
powerful man with sunglasses on 😎 (cool!) and he is very skillful. I believe Qanun
can be used to play a soft song too to express the beauty of Middle East. Just
like Guzheng can be used to play a soft song to express the beauty of Far East. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Ney is like Xiao, both can be played to express the beauty
of their countries (like Palestine in video) and their cultures. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Talking about musical instrument, there is a very
interesting and special one that I have never seen before. It is called reed,
which you can hear it at the beginning of this video (Mawtini = My Homeland).
From listening to the sound of this instrument, I can imagine the mysterious
Middle East but it’s very touching at the same time. Must be a masterpiece! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And it is also a respectful song … suddenly everybody
started to stand up! Maybe because the song was a popular poem written by the Palestinian 🖋 Now is the national song of Iraq.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Rb-KJrb7REA" width="320" youtube-src-id="Rb-KJrb7REA"></iframe></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It is unbelievable that Arab TV would have a show which was from the idea of The Voice … “The Voice Kids” 🎵🎶</span><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This song is called “Give us our childhood”. The first few
sentences are very touching and impressive: We’ve come to celebrate with you.
This holiday we ask you. Why don’t we have decorations or festivities? O
People, my land is burned down.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Kc1yfZngUms" width="320" youtube-src-id="Kc1yfZngUms"></iframe></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">It was performed by a Syrian girl, she started crying once
she sang “our sky is dreaming and it’s asking the days”. I was interested in
the judges’ reactions since I had no idea who they are and where they are from.</span></p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The female judge, should be the youngest among the three,
was very sweet 😍 She was the first one to press the button, turned around and
opened her arms to greet the girl. When she saw the girl cried, she went up to
the stage and sang together. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The younger male judge was the second one to react. He
pressed his and the other male judge’s buttons (was this allowed?). Also went
up to the stage, sat down and waved his hands. He must enjoyed the performance
very much 😊<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The last judge, didn’t press the button nor go up to the
stage. However I could feel he was full of emotion through his eyes 👁 I think he
has lots of sadness and pain memories in the heart. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I searched more information on the internet, then I realized
the sweet female judge is a Lebanese, the encouraging male judge is an
Egyptian. The one with less motion but full of emotions through eyes is an
Iraqi. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4SpNOjKcVak" width="320" youtube-src-id="4SpNOjKcVak"></iframe></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Normally Arabic songs in my mind are mysterious🌛and Arab beauties would link to belly dance. But this video shows me the other side. The opening has a very warm heart melody (very similar to the cosy Cantonese songs that I listened in the 80s).</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The singer in this video is just like a fairy 🌷 The song expressed their desire for peace. I
was influenced by her when she dropped tears …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My song is for the child and childhood<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For the innocence's shy laugh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For boys playing with sand<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Their voices open a thousand
doors<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From stingy eastern stories<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My song for a child and
childhood <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My song is a plane saying: in
our East the Deprivation has not flower<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Why can't the child in my
country receives the same kindness that children receive in other countries? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Some Arab children are born in
wars</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Some Arab children are raised
in wars</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Chinese New Year! 新春快樂! 虎年健康! Wish everybody a healthy life while we are still facing the pandemic. I
am pretty sure everyone already knows how to avoid getting COVID – wear face mask,
wash hands, no gathering, etc. (瞓著覺都識背 😴) How about improve the immune system through diet? I think that’s an important way of staying healthy 最重要是增強自己抵抗力😊 </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #073763; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #073763; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I found a nice product that I would like to share in the Year of Tiger. It contains protein, potassium, calcium, iron, vitamin A, vitamin B12, vitamin D, vitamin E,
riboflavin (vitamin B2), magnesium and zinc. I personally feel like spending the same amount of money as coffee or bubble tea for a larger size and more
nutritious drink 🍵</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhGVJS1yGQtEh1aKNw92mbMyXNSdF5R1Cpu6Bghazt9S5aNz9UTOG0zZdzbBAVSa8dQHEslkdOFfibOeGelhHfb1IHoxZn5fxWkqa37HUnI8Bs_5v-j2zpo6GyFxfn6X4nuYDMkOBTMdCQWdDGU50ELVQOin9xuf8LOiu9G50Xt3vQSOx150ozim_GFBw=s653" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="653" data-original-width="565" height="517" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhGVJS1yGQtEh1aKNw92mbMyXNSdF5R1Cpu6Bghazt9S5aNz9UTOG0zZdzbBAVSa8dQHEslkdOFfibOeGelhHfb1IHoxZn5fxWkqa37HUnI8Bs_5v-j2zpo6GyFxfn6X4nuYDMkOBTMdCQWdDGU50ELVQOin9xuf8LOiu9G50Xt3vQSOx150ozim_GFBw=w448-h517" width="448" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span>The
design of its carton with a bunch of symbols is quite impressive – Non-GMO,
Dairy Free, Gluten Free and Vegan, etc. Basically 99.9% people should be able
to drink this product. It also states “grown using half the water of dairy” and
even this carton is made from plants</span></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> 🌳 </span>Sounds very
interesting and environmental friendly!</span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtn7HE6ofhmn4vRIhTANiauA2WZZJnzNl5UQx-lUju_6Wh-yKqmQl-JYgJkvtMOwWTqgayvgJ4iH28VNk30N3__Bbm8H-A8JdjQrLvQTYeRxYhJteA4u-uzF19U696ePbaogl9DZK18SDrYYRqMN5xORFPkQ6sffVqVfSuJeKoQNshbav0P5ERyId6uw=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="472" height="632" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtn7HE6ofhmn4vRIhTANiauA2WZZJnzNl5UQx-lUju_6Wh-yKqmQl-JYgJkvtMOwWTqgayvgJ4iH28VNk30N3__Bbm8H-A8JdjQrLvQTYeRxYhJteA4u-uzF19U696ePbaogl9DZK18SDrYYRqMN5xORFPkQ6sffVqVfSuJeKoQNshbav0P5ERyId6uw=w466-h632" width="466" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: times;">I hope it
grabs your attention now. Here’s the product name: Earth’s Own So Fresh Almond
Original</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTO--9LAd8ekJ1sA0LgYJ9OYRCuQkPnGrN6NGpaC0HwrXQsTguxJp9FLzWCbenAi5OWpO2VUTtE7oOkVZ4_j1_Hl9RjJMPzMHPJQrABXtQT2QEksB1cehdmB_H6WnNMJraN-M19lxYw4LXI9EfxbBNBbvmTRmU4fz1lJtIwbR1te4SvNcf50xPCTZIbQ=s391" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="391" data-original-width="343" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTO--9LAd8ekJ1sA0LgYJ9OYRCuQkPnGrN6NGpaC0HwrXQsTguxJp9FLzWCbenAi5OWpO2VUTtE7oOkVZ4_j1_Hl9RjJMPzMHPJQrABXtQT2QEksB1cehdmB_H6WnNMJraN-M19lxYw4LXI9EfxbBNBbvmTRmU4fz1lJtIwbR1te4SvNcf50xPCTZIbQ=w390-h444" width="390" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: times; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">如果天天飲牛奶、咖啡、奶茶、果汁, 有冇諗吓轉口味? 我試過 Earth's Own So Fresh Almond Original 都 OK, 重點係包含好多所需營養 … 蛋白質、 鉀、鈣、 維他命A、 維他命B12、 維他命D、 維他命E、 核黃素 (維他命B2)、 鎂、 鋅。加上非機因改造、 不含乳製品、 個包裝是用植物製造, 感覺是有質素嘅良心飲品。價錢都唔貴, 正價 $4、 減價 $2.50 (946 ml)</span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: times; font-size: large;">。</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The
taste was okay. I purchased it mainly for its nutrition and the sustainable package. Why not support a business that has products good for health and good
for environment? I really wish more companies will use plant-based cartons for their beverages in the future. I’m planning to buy the chocolate flavors –
chocolate oat milk and chocolate almond milk as they are on sale. Maybe these ones taste as good as chocolate milk (but dairy free). 如果唔鍾意原味杏仁口味, 可以試吓朱古力口味 … 有兩款 Choice: Chocolate Oat Milk 和 Chocolate Almond Milk.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZRar8HlWtjjBKBkGbop7TJnTBldf-74tHABH8BlxHwn_3zvUF3dEeAec-3qdt02KfjdTY7pbKYDCP7doNx-E2Y0jFkK8xMfydMsNmgw1WR5BVjDma4JEpAsV9bYvMD38vgXARlYhBpBQ9hzrS5RPL12UY3htyeCSSAdoV8fZT2sXraE64E7rplDq6Hg=s791" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="791" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZRar8HlWtjjBKBkGbop7TJnTBldf-74tHABH8BlxHwn_3zvUF3dEeAec-3qdt02KfjdTY7pbKYDCP7doNx-E2Y0jFkK8xMfydMsNmgw1WR5BVjDma4JEpAsV9bYvMD38vgXARlYhBpBQ9hzrS5RPL12UY3htyeCSSAdoV8fZT2sXraE64E7rplDq6Hg=w441-h280" width="441" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748140733626800565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804478605960560791.post-84830606431176322612021-02-07T20:12:00.003-08:002021-02-07T20:20:29.488-08:00Happy Chinese New Year!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh5xUyWd26rN_36mENPkUQLrl63KPmGxLp7OxPx_2kaAPO_cMx5OxHYb2d69PL9eRd3XLGsGbFs2qpwC1FlMnZfLlDZQ43g39_01HYGnVwa94G4FLuQ9EZO8Ac493xms4GmwsvWtUbqHj8/s582/dish+00.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="467" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh5xUyWd26rN_36mENPkUQLrl63KPmGxLp7OxPx_2kaAPO_cMx5OxHYb2d69PL9eRd3XLGsGbFs2qpwC1FlMnZfLlDZQ43g39_01HYGnVwa94G4FLuQ9EZO8Ac493xms4GmwsvWtUbqHj8/w514-h640/dish+00.JPG" width="514" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Lunar New Year is approaching 😃 Wish everyone the very best
in the Year of Ox!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part of the Chinese
New Year is to enjoy dinner together with<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>families. Traditionally the dishes have meat, but vegetarian cuisine can
be just as yummy as non-vegetarian dishes as long as good-quality ingredients
and tasty sauces are used.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444;">The first time I saw pictures of well-presented Chinese New
Year vegetarian meal was from Leezen Magazine few years ago (</span><a href="https://www.leezen.com.tw/pdf/NO40.pdf"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Unknown (leezen.com.tw</span><span style="color: #444444;">)</span></a><span style="color: #444444;">. I was inspired by the pictures,
they looked so delicious. Why not just do something special this year? Eat
veggie to save animal lives and save the earth! </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Don't know how to make veggie meal! No worries, let's look at Leezen pictures of each dish to get some creative ideas. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The first dish is an appetizer, Rainbow Salad 千紅萬紫蔬菜沙拉!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFHAUYn804_diHu9z9y8Xe1oWGdWFABx2el6xEwJJDapjshhy-69U2m8gRdq6UgiWlfksXXY5C9EhQ3-V9fbHd8PZBfbg78P98HWsSBGmdXPlHveUrmnhaQ9hGUr8Aw3CYZayQ7N50XrD0/s860/dish+01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="860" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFHAUYn804_diHu9z9y8Xe1oWGdWFABx2el6xEwJJDapjshhy-69U2m8gRdq6UgiWlfksXXY5C9EhQ3-V9fbHd8PZBfbg78P98HWsSBGmdXPlHveUrmnhaQ9hGUr8Aw3CYZayQ7N50XrD0/w400-h266/dish+01.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.leezen.com.tw/article_organic.php?id=42"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">【主食】千紅萬紫蔬菜沙拉 | 沙拉 | 蔬食食譜 | 天天里仁 每一天更安心的選擇 (leezen.com.tw)</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="jlqj4b"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It contains vine lettuce, red and yellow peppers, apple, kiwi,
small tomatoes, small cucumber ,bamboo shoots, dried kelp buds, pleurotus
eryngii, mushrooms and camellia seed oil.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="jlqj4b" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="jlqj4b"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">
I remember the dried kelp buds and camellia seed oil can be found
in Yes Natural Goods store since it sells Leezen products (www.yesnaturalgoods.com). Although they are a bit pricy, I like the fact that all Leezen products are vegetarian, natural , no preservatives, and non GMO. Leezen helps the local farmers by cooperating with them to manufacture
organic and pesticide free products in order to protect our environment, ecosystem and save the animals. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="jlqj4b"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></p><p></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk0bNzsdowPux4A_HdT7r2m_QsOVxIvNw5MEnAT3j2nfzeWjNuKf0diANmn0973tNsZnnVT0noc-XjPOEtWwcm7J9hpYtgHo2qE_moE1r2EcHX3busKmHd0IvTyK7EIEc7JW-hxKtlBkoZ/s880/dish+01AA.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="880" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk0bNzsdowPux4A_HdT7r2m_QsOVxIvNw5MEnAT3j2nfzeWjNuKf0diANmn0973tNsZnnVT0noc-XjPOEtWwcm7J9hpYtgHo2qE_moE1r2EcHX3busKmHd0IvTyK7EIEc7JW-hxKtlBkoZ/w400-h223/dish+01AA.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">Of course there should be some salad dressing. What flavour do you
like? For me, I like sesame or Hakka orange sauce. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgupmbHX-LrusSjwtxEBCaie4qX4JiSaZ2hacMSMWuZN8j2BuOuUfSF6TzRSVuG1E9iPXh1RNLch1XfR9sKEvo7erQJuQZe4_ISbJHzyUNVkofndRlrH-F7xMuXwY_Te8liZCNk6d6tbGl3/s910/dish+01A.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="491" data-original-width="910" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgupmbHX-LrusSjwtxEBCaie4qX4JiSaZ2hacMSMWuZN8j2BuOuUfSF6TzRSVuG1E9iPXh1RNLch1XfR9sKEvo7erQJuQZe4_ISbJHzyUNVkofndRlrH-F7xMuXwY_Te8liZCNk6d6tbGl3/w400-h216/dish+01A.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Now I am thinking of some other ideas ... how about add some basils to the salad to enhance the aroma. For those who don't like kiwi, it can be substituted with dragon fruit 😃</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The picture also shows some nice side dishes -珍饌馨意福氣拼盤. With Google Translate, it becomes Treasure Delicacy Blessing Platter 😊</div></span><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.leezen.com.tw/article_organic.php?id=41"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">【主食】珍饌馨意福氣拼盤 | 主食 | 蔬食食譜 | 天天里仁 每一天更安心的選擇 (leezen.com.tw)</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzhxKo3VrFH8Ryn5W1V1K9MjiUZ7RDF87B9m-FewKHOk5oe5tu-duTXtOH1O_QSGGv3trmtuF1cEqiisrjyZCFp9-RZGFUO6yAE1es6moy3nMK9v0VzAG-IJ9PB5uDGiIsO0Dtw3YsJywX/s860/dish+02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="860" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzhxKo3VrFH8Ryn5W1V1K9MjiUZ7RDF87B9m-FewKHOk5oe5tu-duTXtOH1O_QSGGv3trmtuF1cEqiisrjyZCFp9-RZGFUO6yAE1es6moy3nMK9v0VzAG-IJ9PB5uDGiIsO0Dtw3YsJywX/w400-h266/dish+02.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Basically the first bowl contains dried tofu with shredded cucumber in Chili pepper sauce. The second bowl has golden jujube with pineapple jam. The third bowl has pine nut and water chestnut with diced pepper and camellia seed oil pine nut paste. Oops ... no information found for the other two side dishes ... I guess marinated red carrot or yam (whatever it looks like). The other one can be white carrot with pea in cold noodle sauce 😏</div></span><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX1Qz8gaRiaFA1g-GCPN_O_9eg66fxwX9wN0w9clrQCbArUhunSCL6j106owMX32RyI4DKOQXAc8ltQM7CS6yV5AUSEhO65745kjiHTF2JBV7yDXBoeE_oxci6cgvYxCC05UYGIO-AYqvo/s775/dish+02A.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="775" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX1Qz8gaRiaFA1g-GCPN_O_9eg66fxwX9wN0w9clrQCbArUhunSCL6j106owMX32RyI4DKOQXAc8ltQM7CS6yV5AUSEhO65745kjiHTF2JBV7yDXBoeE_oxci6cgvYxCC05UYGIO-AYqvo/w400-h131/dish+02A.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Here comes my favourite dish - Tang Yuan with Longan and White Fungus 😍</div></span><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.leezen.com.tw/article_organic.php?id=40"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">【主食】桂圓銀耳湯圓 | 主食 | 蔬食食譜 | 天天里仁 每一天更安心的選擇 (leezen.com.tw)</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy35Ah0QOdLNeeTn1x0QI8bN1-YRTy_epkSIoCJVTwlxM5jIwsd8zNsazDLRcmpSfdmvVSUpyLZJiAO-uOexnlSKHZbIG1SHO802dkL_iSVhHL4Zu-aWFkFNq2fxDCeM7ik4Uk7yJzTIV6/s860/dish+03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="860" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy35Ah0QOdLNeeTn1x0QI8bN1-YRTy_epkSIoCJVTwlxM5jIwsd8zNsazDLRcmpSfdmvVSUpyLZJiAO-uOexnlSKHZbIG1SHO802dkL_iSVhHL4Zu-aWFkFNq2fxDCeM7ik4Uk7yJzTIV6/w400-h266/dish+03.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As the name of the sweet soup, it contains tang yuan (plain glutinous rice balls and glutinous rice balls with sesame paste), longan fruit and white fungus. lotus seeds, red dates and cane sugar are added to the soup too! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This one should be a fun to make! All the ingredients can be found in Yes Natural Goods store 😊</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTffkJVeUy51K5AcXfPBLv6qgcN1ilzroUQkA709qATSwxt8IanBBuqYtpJDHvAoa6lIX5IjaJuAEFx_8neaMIEimh86HoaVJTj9EKNhlVG-0wAyHkfhUC5FXLLxbCcNjIyUu_I4JjoT-H/s980/dish+03A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="980" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTffkJVeUy51K5AcXfPBLv6qgcN1ilzroUQkA709qATSwxt8IanBBuqYtpJDHvAoa6lIX5IjaJuAEFx_8neaMIEimh86HoaVJTj9EKNhlVG-0wAyHkfhUC5FXLLxbCcNjIyUu_I4JjoT-H/w400-h276/dish+03A.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Finally comes the main dishes - start with Vegetarian Steak with Sweet Peppers</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.leezen.com.tw/article_organic.php?id=39"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">【主食】甜椒燴豆腐素排 | 主食 | 蔬食食譜 | 天天里仁 每一天更安心的選擇 (leezen.com.tw)</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid4aCgOoqO6AYcnTrRU1Pako-8OdpWmmsF47sQGWhuOepvDRItCAiLb-dkoP3exncrhoxPi3wE3gdsp0vaUucbB5akZmk8RUXI-a3mFXMpQlf2NJSn0VZ2XLQxSoLH0nf8ovLmU1LX2Sro/s860/dish+04.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="860" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid4aCgOoqO6AYcnTrRU1Pako-8OdpWmmsF47sQGWhuOepvDRItCAiLb-dkoP3exncrhoxPi3wE3gdsp0vaUucbB5akZmk8RUXI-a3mFXMpQlf2NJSn0VZ2XLQxSoLH0nf8ovLmU1LX2Sro/w400-h266/dish+04.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Good to enjoy a warm dish during winter :) It looks like vegetarian fish to me but it contains vegetarian steak 素排, lotus root powder 蓮藕粉, vegetable broth, some green/yellow/red peppers, golden needles 金針 , silver sprouts with vegetarian oyster sauce 素蠔油, black vinegar and a bit of rice vinegar plus mirin seasoning.</div></span><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTX6JmTBZyBbH5AjSK_B0VuK9utJF4CwRr_tiGxMR-2llOQRI6ayJymBq97-8JZ_EL9s2kNKg6TVUYzSQpZskje1t3NpqTKs-0mvg0DquSQ7qRVM0Qmss4yn2jIjT11OBh1_P_35QaOf3y/s980/dish+04A.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="980" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTX6JmTBZyBbH5AjSK_B0VuK9utJF4CwRr_tiGxMR-2llOQRI6ayJymBq97-8JZ_EL9s2kNKg6TVUYzSQpZskje1t3NpqTKs-0mvg0DquSQ7qRVM0Qmss4yn2jIjT11OBh1_P_35QaOf3y/w400-h176/dish+04A.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For me, I would also put some coriander (芫茜/ Chinese parsley) and white sesame on top to enhance the flavor. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The second main dish is Casserole Stewed Golden Tofu Balls.</span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.leezen.com.tw/article_organic.php?id=38"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">【主食】砂鍋彩燴豆腐丸 | 主食 | 蔬食食譜 | 天天里仁 每一天更安心的選擇 (leezen.com.tw)</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Besides tofu balls, it has wild vegetable balls in vegetable broth, baby Chinese cabbage, green bean starch noodles, lotus root powder, minced ginger, diced eryngii mushrooms 杏鮑菇, diced red and yellow peppers mixed in miso chili sauce, vegetarian oyster sauce, mirin, soy sauce, black vinegar and sesame oil.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiGPC1SOKx8Cv82tKBRBY158C1-rre6thrMcaswKWeuZW97rEUm9GwtCsdHu4UqvjUDziF3lyuvK2d-MU7vQ-MqMjlpBKy_B2qxTzpiqA0EE_I_bTIR22EwZw23i5NQUq7F5K_C6d68-TR/s894/dish+05A.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="894" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiGPC1SOKx8Cv82tKBRBY158C1-rre6thrMcaswKWeuZW97rEUm9GwtCsdHu4UqvjUDziF3lyuvK2d-MU7vQ-MqMjlpBKy_B2qxTzpiqA0EE_I_bTIR22EwZw23i5NQUq7F5K_C6d68-TR/w400-h193/dish+05A.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">
Now I think such a nice meal can be prepared for other occasions - birthday, housewarming party once life is back to normal. Again, for me I will add coriander. It should always be flexible, can use tofu balls or vegan imitation meat balls or mushroom balls. I wonder how it will taste if I use lemongrass tom yum sauce to replace miso chili sauce? Thai style vegetarian dish 🌴</span><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8xQAUaC24UWkbSnqFBfX6Etlujlfxg4y7v_IXJxbakmTKfx5JoOAIFpprWEwqUh6_Ng8_wx8du78F7DhgpBEWY4qveKpXAaz3cqwZ2-vKMcqg2NreXJ3vpYG9AZcGAp1tLrY1g31KWv-s/s585/dish+05B.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="585" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8xQAUaC24UWkbSnqFBfX6Etlujlfxg4y7v_IXJxbakmTKfx5JoOAIFpprWEwqUh6_Ng8_wx8du78F7DhgpBEWY4qveKpXAaz3cqwZ2-vKMcqg2NreXJ3vpYG9AZcGAp1tLrY1g31KWv-s/w400-h241/dish+05B.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The last main dish has my favourite ingredients! Bamboo fungus and Chinese mushrooms!!! This dish is called Bamboo Fungus Chinese Mustard Vegetable Ball Soup.</div></span><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.leezen.com.tw/article_organic.php?id=37"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">【主食】竹笙芥菜丸子湯 | 主食 | 蔬食食譜 | 天天里仁 每一天更安心的選擇 (leezen.com.tw)</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM6eu2sm1Qm_iSqaGy8M3BVQ0U3bXtMTbiD9Z83fmjl5tzTRzQnUYn2W3i-5XHx8I-UyLeI4SKYWRqir3zljcTVHYn4jaNxZUpaxkSvTyS2sLE-fYJUHTcrq7Kt4l6fsUWEi0i0OrxGXW5/s860/dish+06.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="860" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM6eu2sm1Qm_iSqaGy8M3BVQ0U3bXtMTbiD9Z83fmjl5tzTRzQnUYn2W3i-5XHx8I-UyLeI4SKYWRqir3zljcTVHYn4jaNxZUpaxkSvTyS2sLE-fYJUHTcrq7Kt4l6fsUWEi0i0OrxGXW5/w400-h266/dish+06.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">I remember the bamboo fungus and Chinese mushroom soup that I had before was very tasty. They are a perfect match. It's exciting to see these ingredients here. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Also bamboo fungus, which symbolizes the rise of each step, is matched with the seasonal mustard greens in winter, bursting out sincere blessings of creativity and health. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The soup contains Chinese mustard, peeled and shredded ginger, sea salt, camellia seed oil, vegetable broth, bamboo fungus (soaked in water and cut into 2 sections), dried shiitake mushrooms 乾香菇(soaked in water), hericium mushrooms 猴頭菇, vegetable stuffing balls and ginkgo.
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tranquil Christmas and wish you a healthy New Year 😀</span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This year is no doubt the most special
as every single person in the world has been facing the same virus, everyone's
life has been impacted by the virus no matter where you are - have you ever imagined you have to wear a mask in your daily life? I have never before 😷<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">How can we defeat the virus??? I have a
different idea on this <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>... hehe! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still completely agree to wear mask,
maintain social distance, wash hands and stay home as much as possible. But at
the same time I am thinking of </span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;">因</span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">果</span><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU; mso-themecolor: text1;"> concept. There should be a reason for the virus
out break. As you can see, many developed countries are seriously affected by
COVID. Aren't they supposed to be able to prevent it better than the poor
countries? <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU; mso-themecolor: text1;">Of course there are many factors that
contributed to the out break and loss of control ... not listening to the
government, reluctant to wear mask, gathering with friends (or secret partner </span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">小三</span><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU; mso-hansi-font-family: MingLiU;">?). But how did we treat our mother earth? Did we
respect our land and ocean</span><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU; mso-themecolor: text1;">? </span><span>我們是怎樣對待我們的地球?有珍惜過嗎?The wealthier countries respect less (even no respect at all) to our mother nature 🌍</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Believe it or not, here are the statistics:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3n3Jjv67yI924BYy87WfykukMP7b4U8E8WsF_uYxXSnGRYtRblHAT9X4rZLgVenLmIlFSPwfAtHv-WD2XT4L10I_T5ljdSqllmm1Xmy48AfX5SJ6aXiqw8dNjaqgU09JR4nqtPJLaaEfb/s1396/01+2016+World+Consumption.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1396" data-original-width="850" height="558" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3n3Jjv67yI924BYy87WfykukMP7b4U8E8WsF_uYxXSnGRYtRblHAT9X4rZLgVenLmIlFSPwfAtHv-WD2XT4L10I_T5ljdSqllmm1Xmy48AfX5SJ6aXiqw8dNjaqgU09JR4nqtPJLaaEfb/w341-h558/01+2016+World+Consumption.jpg" width="341" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I thought USA consumed the earth resources the most, but the table shows Australia consumed the most (year 2016). Wow! Australia used more than 5 earths' resources while USA used almost 5 earths' resources. 很多發達國家用超過一個甚至兩個地球的資源. See how bad we treat our mother earth! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Not only we used up the earth resources, we also created tremendous
amount of garbage, especially during the
pandemic when billions of disposable masks and gloves are thrown away every single
day ... increase burden on our earth 😭 (同時我們製造大量垃圾污染整個海洋,特別現在我們每天都棄置億萬口罩和手套)
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">See what happened to our ocean ...</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Gmmlu2pIa_xhy_Jd331N-5E2thhY-m4WfgAyNJAosSYgRxQgzbmMi9rTrh1fkaU327o6b5zllpqkjwrjvJCNgly1Ju2r27QTaaNLWzsXp4xzRvZdQwCLNKCot2E5zm6HHMBbZhbqcZ8l/s845/02+The+Incentive+2020-04-13.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="845" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Gmmlu2pIa_xhy_Jd331N-5E2thhY-m4WfgAyNJAosSYgRxQgzbmMi9rTrh1fkaU327o6b5zllpqkjwrjvJCNgly1Ju2r27QTaaNLWzsXp4xzRvZdQwCLNKCot2E5zm6HHMBbZhbqcZ8l/w624-h334/02+The+Incentive+2020-04-13.jpg" width="624" /></a></div><br /><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This is just one of the photos I found
(source: </span><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://theincentive.org/2020/04/13/can-worms-curb-the-effects-of-plastic-waste-on-marine-life/">Can Worms Curb the Effects of Plastic Waste on Marine Life? – the incentive</a>).
There must be thousands of photos similar to this can be found on the web as
all our oceans across from north to south, east to west are heavily
polluted, no kidding.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Then we consume excess meat to increase
our air and land pollution. Why??? To make it simple, I just give 3 reasons:
animal farming releases almost 1/5 of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, animal
farming increases acid rain, and animal farming requires deforestation (cut all
the trees in a forest) for animal grazing and feeding. 吃肉也增加環境破壞和空氣污染 - 畜牲業增加溫室氣排放、酸雨和森林砍伐...
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Here's another table to show the
consumption of meat among the countries:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin-0UxjBeLQ3ioK1TmKTG3-ncXawu_OY1T6jd0jl8YHR5dLOrL05chxWVajsFhp4cBhyphenhyphen0EDWJa6LzK61l0JuVtkY8-G0SConN4f4IJZIJwtqDU0P3vBRsy7jHGMQSozDVjb7WEDFtF1pxh/s650/03+2018+Meat+Consumption.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="595" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin-0UxjBeLQ3ioK1TmKTG3-ncXawu_OY1T6jd0jl8YHR5dLOrL05chxWVajsFhp4cBhyphenhyphen0EDWJa6LzK61l0JuVtkY8-G0SConN4f4IJZIJwtqDU0P3vBRsy7jHGMQSozDVjb7WEDFtF1pxh/s320/03+2018+Meat+Consumption.JPG" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">
These are all the bad 因 we made in 因果 concept. Finally I remember the terms in English ...this is the concept of cause and effect which is equivalent to karma. Now humans plant lots of bad causes (or bad seeds, 壞因) into our mother nature. Once all these bad causes (or bad seeds, 壞因) become mature, the bad results or returns (惡果) will arrive.
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Hopefully we can all work together to change the bad returns (such as global virus ) to the good returns by planting more good seeds now 🌱 減少破壞環境,種下善因,讓善果快來 💖</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Have you ever thought of making a meatless Christmas dinner? I saw this offered by One Nature in Taiwan which is just as amazing as a regular Christmas dinner (賣相很吸引的素聖誕餐).Now we can plan a home-made meatless dinner for New Year Eve or Valentine's Day or next Christmas 😋</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM9MHfLqgoniDhGdpjgBrof_5nH7azqXcey1rcVn2DrpPBpsc27hpCleTOFhyphenhyphenrn3PmuJt-0zu-MXvRFycXHd3iKcIIk-ozaGegv5lq4fFrwrwZZ9M2mQRe_5UXUXqZ_sa5OgtZR4Dcp_Nt/s900/04+One+Nature+13.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="900" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM9MHfLqgoniDhGdpjgBrof_5nH7azqXcey1rcVn2DrpPBpsc27hpCleTOFhyphenhyphenrn3PmuJt-0zu-MXvRFycXHd3iKcIIk-ozaGegv5lq4fFrwrwZZ9M2mQRe_5UXUXqZ_sa5OgtZR4Dcp_Nt/w491-h291/04+One+Nature+13.jpg" width="491" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">If you think this is a dish contains ham and fish slice ... haha ... they are actually cheese and boletus (像魚排的牛肝菌菇). </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I have been thinking how to minimize the garbage on our landfill in our daily life. I can tell you it's not easy but then the world will get worse if nobody is willing to take an action on it. And I believe in 因果 concept (karma concept), more bad behaviours will create more bad returns. Probably that explains why many developed countries are greatly affected by COVID. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Here I would like to share the eco products that I've discovered or purchased in a year. I wish more people can support these products or businesses as they contribute to our earth's sustainability. 今年發現的環保產品,值得推介!</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUZw4sxhZnzkO6H34SIRTjlsmJYSPUiRgTyy9ds_uVrTT7l78RwpukKWZosMyr824D0vMDD5yu40RZAmtrisdFehqlTigix3mloTnP7IsXDyiUiFmWu9RzQY2cJZhXVNNJtkUPKmbIsreg/s1984/05+recycled+batteries.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1488" data-original-width="1984" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUZw4sxhZnzkO6H34SIRTjlsmJYSPUiRgTyy9ds_uVrTT7l78RwpukKWZosMyr824D0vMDD5yu40RZAmtrisdFehqlTigix3mloTnP7IsXDyiUiFmWu9RzQY2cJZhXVNNJtkUPKmbIsreg/w565-h424/05+recycled+batteries.jpg" width="565" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The well-known battery brand Energizer has made it's batteries with 4% recycled battery material (含4%回收電池材料的電池).The company is planning to raise the recycled portion from 4% to 40% by 2025.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmroMDRCqLednn_6OEiipunHK3AwJqj4UWpe0BCZKgYZxZeJlLm8w3HokMNnwhEmkipdVMUje6LDwNPR-BT-IX2CCmDZYcpA_oILZ7ZpXBooiKJbmr1tMl8tpk495LZVDl40XfF0FZebqO/s685/06-07+recycled+backpack.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="685" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmroMDRCqLednn_6OEiipunHK3AwJqj4UWpe0BCZKgYZxZeJlLm8w3HokMNnwhEmkipdVMUje6LDwNPR-BT-IX2CCmDZYcpA_oILZ7ZpXBooiKJbmr1tMl8tpk495LZVDl40XfF0FZebqO/w473-h314/06-07+recycled+backpack.JPG" width="473" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcuXNexMmQqVNApJV4PrkbGOeiqryjO9TE5HAXRPySHGWuYMIPfwhkmfzMrXZbtQ_sXnXMk4SrYAI_F9ZS80lPeEPQoJk_Mk4-6Ozh32uwLnKRvtnfPW34ZqrUIAYH2SgvSOG6wj9fygIB/s713/08-09+recycled+backpack.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="713" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcuXNexMmQqVNApJV4PrkbGOeiqryjO9TE5HAXRPySHGWuYMIPfwhkmfzMrXZbtQ_sXnXMk4SrYAI_F9ZS80lPeEPQoJk_Mk4-6Ozh32uwLnKRvtnfPW34ZqrUIAYH2SgvSOG6wj9fygIB/w469-h310/08-09+recycled+backpack.JPG" width="469" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpJ3bsxETU_-6aGA1b6RHVAht431rQEIUDRd4KAQKoSPU7inobVWG9kzGGc-XQyWi5KXmWohpQH03bNWs9tm0WGno1LOy7ZmLVsfaoXaaM4sOeVnscbihezp5EInP_cuJYy2PQSOwGbMPg/s1024/10+recycled+backpack.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="473" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpJ3bsxETU_-6aGA1b6RHVAht431rQEIUDRd4KAQKoSPU7inobVWG9kzGGc-XQyWi5KXmWohpQH03bNWs9tm0WGno1LOy7ZmLVsfaoXaaM4sOeVnscbihezp5EInP_cuJYy2PQSOwGbMPg/w473-h473/10+recycled+backpack.jpg" width="473" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This is a school bag made from 11 or 12 water bottles and the diamond logo is made from apples. A 15" inch laptop can be fit into this bag, very functional. Also a good way to educate children to purchase something meaningful as this bag eliminates water bottles in landfill.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">水瓶座的女人?水瓶座的男人?這是水瓶座的書包,因為用水瓶做 💧</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">還有用蘋果皮做的鑽石型標誌 Cool!</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-QUJ41TOGoI2dV6vqvJvMm6i9cOogjV77KUdwnCXW0nuAlNwW8_14c0-m-AZ9qrw-fti0xxcSKCB4PXs2HKFtkn3H-RHAU2LmonNnCCDVSV5Fa8hJZEJbKpjdsECYAzQfauSkUhDOKAuu/s735/11-12+green+bag.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="491" data-original-width="735" height="337" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-QUJ41TOGoI2dV6vqvJvMm6i9cOogjV77KUdwnCXW0nuAlNwW8_14c0-m-AZ9qrw-fti0xxcSKCB4PXs2HKFtkn3H-RHAU2LmonNnCCDVSV5Fa8hJZEJbKpjdsECYAzQfauSkUhDOKAuu/w501-h337/11-12+green+bag.JPG" width="501" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIMTghIkAHPwR0nKMp3T5vgDxtRNv4YKxSgDkSVo3CgELiAsBJhLE-RXDDyMURNdxId3mvkhh0QqrCsUWcscV_ZLvIWhQoezZxWlPuN6dRu6NnNCvzj6CXlGTg3wIxYf1JvtkvMYweL3zp/s711/13-14+recycled+bag.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="711" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIMTghIkAHPwR0nKMp3T5vgDxtRNv4YKxSgDkSVo3CgELiAsBJhLE-RXDDyMURNdxId3mvkhh0QqrCsUWcscV_ZLvIWhQoezZxWlPuN6dRu6NnNCvzj6CXlGTg3wIxYf1JvtkvMYweL3zp/w501-h312/13-14+recycled+bag.JPG" width="501" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhayjuiHEgERXO21ziDLTUdutddGRyw2NXVTM2OfaVCG3n8kl9M_MUIpf0wWpX3CbYWaHhl62qLH_tQk_mqKTwtkMEDNSKJ5y3XffLvwO6UlsOIlcXnz6cjn92GQ0J-sc0QQ6FdhsOHRhP8/s716/15-16+recycled+bag.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="716" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhayjuiHEgERXO21ziDLTUdutddGRyw2NXVTM2OfaVCG3n8kl9M_MUIpf0wWpX3CbYWaHhl62qLH_tQk_mqKTwtkMEDNSKJ5y3XffLvwO6UlsOIlcXnz6cjn92GQ0J-sc0QQ6FdhsOHRhP8/w503-h334/15-16+recycled+bag.JPG" width="503" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">There are more options for the children or students 😉 Another company Dakine has produced school bag from recycled plastic bottles and cinch pack from recycled polyester.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEu3Xyf1zPhx54Ly8AwjytNNgpARyE79ptWN0FSPgU-nnECnNE3JP5h_SCDrcMi9FGgT-TBZVH2MmZ2-MvkJaEXTHadF225WUGjb5koREo1iPHwzovwh7qTcyGfNDem1vHnzhXfeLRU8QJ/s731/17-18+handbag.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="731" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEu3Xyf1zPhx54Ly8AwjytNNgpARyE79ptWN0FSPgU-nnECnNE3JP5h_SCDrcMi9FGgT-TBZVH2MmZ2-MvkJaEXTHadF225WUGjb5koREo1iPHwzovwh7qTcyGfNDem1vHnzhXfeLRU8QJ/w442-h252/17-18+handbag.JPG" width="442" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz8iNciZ5brAy58QI-nDZHjAd8q0xQZMioEBQui-fUyMv4st-IsbTfNctbpHVctb8uDg_sx2Lue_CLb_0DCYa4HUPbZlECWxa3mZej1gWukA8m7NpWo9sHAlksC5KDnK_7WtaSvJB0zMUJ/s1200/19+handbag.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz8iNciZ5brAy58QI-nDZHjAd8q0xQZMioEBQui-fUyMv4st-IsbTfNctbpHVctb8uDg_sx2Lue_CLb_0DCYa4HUPbZlECWxa3mZej1gWukA8m7NpWo9sHAlksC5KDnK_7WtaSvJB0zMUJ/w438-h438/19+handbag.jpg" width="438" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Besides Matt & Nat, Pixie Mood is another cruelty-free, vegan handbag company. Instead of killing the animals, tearing their skins to make the bags, both Matt & Nat and Pixie Mood use recycled plastic bottles to make their bags. I think they are pretty similar. 環保手袋(無動物皮, 由純素皮革製成)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Matt & Nat is a Canadian company in which since 2007 they've been committed to using linings only made out of 100% recycled plastic bottles. They have also recently introduced recycled bicycle tires to their collections. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Pixie Mood states that their SS20 collection diverted 100,000 plastic bottles from landfills, repurposing harmful plastic into recycled fabric. I wish there are more companies like this and more customers to support the companies! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Here's just one example of Pixie Mood bags I found in a store. This is called Leticia Bucket Bag, really looks like a bucket. The colour and the size are not bad, except that it doesn't have any zippers. But they have lots of other collections and different colours as well.
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These eco containers are available in different sizes and colours. They are also BPA free, leak proof, microwavable and dishwasher safe. Most importantly, these containers are made of leftover or surplus plastics. Instead of throwing away the plastic residues, they are collected and transformed into food safe plastic containers 👍</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Starfrit LocknLock 環保食物盒有不同尺寸和顏色, 它們可放入微波爐. 最重要是這些食物盒是由剩餘的塑膠製成, 讓這些塑膠不用丟棄.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghjD_GaZYDkUTcHIaihwgP7-Ad2pWWUsH4QFGWPK_akrttuO9ukcUC6eKzbcB-tqDLezgrOZ2guk5eiIfrEPxshJcURWQpdcX7bVgOg6rOtGWKSPws4KCbExBkyntyanZI2X3MEFeB46YC/s3968/25+socks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2976" data-original-width="3968" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghjD_GaZYDkUTcHIaihwgP7-Ad2pWWUsH4QFGWPK_akrttuO9ukcUC6eKzbcB-tqDLezgrOZ2guk5eiIfrEPxshJcURWQpdcX7bVgOg6rOtGWKSPws4KCbExBkyntyanZI2X3MEFeB46YC/w618-h464/25+socks.jpg" width="618" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjdSoQmSG_vSVCptWHhtWWYRo2JFd4UR4HN3-KgyhyRUkN7_hN7UPBHZbc6s8_5PaQeq6NINYNEO3n3CpF8GCLCgbkAoS6aEp9mugGhs8lYTLJl4a5DDH3cvgfWlum9iBEfXMcLmlAqtw1/s3968/26+socks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2976" data-original-width="3968" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjdSoQmSG_vSVCptWHhtWWYRo2JFd4UR4HN3-KgyhyRUkN7_hN7UPBHZbc6s8_5PaQeq6NINYNEO3n3CpF8GCLCgbkAoS6aEp9mugGhs8lYTLJl4a5DDH3cvgfWlum9iBEfXMcLmlAqtw1/w622-h466/26+socks.jpg" width="622" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Muji has lots of products made from organic cotton. These pairs of socks are made of 78% - 91% organic cotton (有機棉襪). Even the little hooks are made of recycled wood, very thoughtful! (連掛襪的小鉤也是用回收木材做) </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Now it's on sale with 3 pairs of male or female socks for $12.90, not bad considering it is only $4.30 for a pair of high quality organic cotton socks 😊</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWJKAUrS1ssMSAf9Jb-ks5Qcdqv4qbCUjPaHqwNm374sE4yrxzjL6d5wrU0oermU6Ad97E4aihkT63wSXKtRDBSEgTw5AjTKpInGJ72B4G-iF-ip9n3TZKWHjDyK63XqXaeCCPOZoh5F8c/s770/27-28+underwear.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="770" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWJKAUrS1ssMSAf9Jb-ks5Qcdqv4qbCUjPaHqwNm374sE4yrxzjL6d5wrU0oermU6Ad97E4aihkT63wSXKtRDBSEgTw5AjTKpInGJ72B4G-iF-ip9n3TZKWHjDyK63XqXaeCCPOZoh5F8c/w640-h242/27-28+underwear.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEF3326f-CFK3RpQPcmVf3zORpojxfZ_bFOKa_7XJXF_Yu-oYW430VGH0_94M5aPwazplGlIs9UpWPMpUsd83UCJs6pkBOiLaAwBudueB1FApd1Sofe2tXH7fF9QCPlNdjakhH-jQXUhWF/s1080/29+underwear.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEF3326f-CFK3RpQPcmVf3zORpojxfZ_bFOKa_7XJXF_Yu-oYW430VGH0_94M5aPwazplGlIs9UpWPMpUsd83UCJs6pkBOiLaAwBudueB1FApd1Sofe2tXH7fF9QCPlNdjakhH-jQXUhWF/w640-h480/29+underwear.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Another amazing thing I like Muji is the elimination of plastics for their packages. They also have organic cotton underwear for both male and female in which the package design is paper-based, made of recycled commercial packaging. See! The hooks are paper made, not the plastic ones 😄</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">有機棉內褲的小鉤也是用回收木材做, 它的環保包裝已為頭六個月減少了26噸塑膠!
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">如果每位女性可以每月用少3塊即棄衛生墊,一年就減少36塊對地球嘅污染, 積少成多... 30年就減少1080塊. 作為一個有思想嘅女性, 要過方便物質還是環保有質素嘅生活, 妳話呢?
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">(好似以前90年代啲廣告... 😅)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Well, we can still choose to live in the most convenient lifestyle, but our children will pay the price.
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">如果我們再不好好珍惜資源、保護環境, 將來就由我們的下一代來承受.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u_IV7NnStqM" width="433" youtube-src-id="u_IV7NnStqM"></iframe></div><div><br /></div>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748140733626800565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804478605960560791.post-56166902092884479042019-12-31T15:08:00.000-08:002023-12-24T19:57:13.429-08:00Trip to Okinawa in 2015 - Day 6<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Finally it came to our last day in Okinawa. I recall after
we checked out from our apartment, we would be able to get a taxi right away
(very lucky 🚕😄) Here comes a question, how could we tell the taxi driver where
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airport. We went to the food court in the domestic terminal, which I think it's
on the 2nd or 3rd floor??? Anyways it doesn't matter now since there was a
renovation in early 2019 which I believe the domestic and international
terminals are connected together and the floor plan might be different from
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As you can see from our photos 4 years ago ( I don't know
how it looks like now). The food court was spacious since not many people there
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There were some souvenir shops across the food court, good for last minute shopping! I remember my mom bought a local bitter melon 苦瓜 for her brother. It was the most beautiful bitter melon we've ever seen. It was very green and fresh.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The picture of Shureimon gate (守禮門) at the food court reminded me that I forgot to visit Shuri (首里) which was a royal capital of
the Ryukyu Kingdom (琉球王國). A number of famous historical sites are there including Shuri Castle and
Shureimon gate and they are all designated as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO.</span></div>
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edible thou. What can you imagine by looking at the display above? I could
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floor with my mom. She saw the display of avocado and vegetable sandwiches and
decided to buy one. Now she knew the
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Thoughts"? I was inspired by this simple and healthy sandwich ... should
make some for summer picnic ✌</span></div>
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few more days. When we were waiting to board on the plane at the boarding gate
in the international terminal. The flight attendant of Hong Kong airline let us
go to the front because of my mom (not my auntie as she looked much younger
than her age). Very good service, they respected the senior and we were the
first to get on the plane! </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Overall it was a relaxing trip and nice experience. We had
some fun also. I learned two Japanese words to use in Okinawa - konnichiwa
(hello) and arigato (thank you). Then I got mixed up when I talked to the
cashier in a convenient store. Before the payment, I wanted to say hi but I
said arigato. Then after payment, I wanted to say thank you but I said
konnichiwa. Even my brother noticed the words were wrong 😅</span></div>
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I finished writing my Okinawa trip before another new year. Thank you for your
patience 🙏💓</span></span></div>
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Holidays Everyone! Now I continue to write my blog for the trip in 2015 ...
haha. Does the above picture look like a traditional Chinese garden? It is a
Chinese garden in Naha, Okinawa called Fukushuen 福州園 (https://www.naha-navi.or.jp/fukusyu-en/). </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The scene I like most there was its pavilion with the waterfall and a bridge in front.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As Fukushuen is a representative of traditional Chinese garden, there are many Chinese couplets found at different entrances. Examples:</span></div>
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After visiting Fukushuen, we headed towards Naminoue Shrine (波上宮) since it's within walking distance. Probably another 10 minutes to get there. What's special about this shrine? I think it's the location as people can overlook Naminoue Beach and the ocean at a particular spot in the shrine.</span></span></div>
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I found this restaurant on a website and like it very much since it is similar
to <span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">草</span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">楽</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> buffet I
had when I travelled to Nagoya in 2012. Both restaurants have lots of wood
design creating a cozy and natural environment. They offered local ingredients
and seasonal vegetables. Every time when I had buffet in this type of
restaurant,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt I was in a
countryside garden (<span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: "pmingliu" , "serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">很有田園氣色</span>).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">However Karakara Buffet was not easy to find. We were almost
there but had no clue about the exact location. None of us can speak Japanese
so we just picked a young guy to ask for the direction. With simple English, we
hoped he could understand what we asked. It turned out he's so excited to be
able to practice his English with us. Although his English was a bit limited,
he was able to use the term "elevator" because the restaurant was
just located on the 9th floor in the building behind us...haha!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As you can see from the pictures, the restaurant provided variety of vegetables and sauces, noodles and two types of rice. The desserts were light and tasty! The most popular dessert was almond tofu pudding which was gone very fast. Once we saw the staff bringing a bowl full of almond tofu pudding, we grabbed it right away 😆</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There were several signs in the restaurant to indicate the food category by three colours - green, yellow and red. Green means fibre, yellow means carbohydrates and red means protein. Then it showed us how to place our food on their plates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wanted to be creative so I didn't follow their way. I put
whatever I like on the plate. One thing I like their plate design is I could
try nine different food but each one was just a small portion (like a sample
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Just right outside the restaurant, they put pictures for the
dishes available in November (the current month). I think it's a very good
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After we returned to our apartment, I was trying to check my
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Happy New Year! It's been a super busy year for me in 2018,
but I haven't forgotten about my trip three years ago. Let's continue on …</span></div>
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In the morning of November 25, 2015, we enjoyed our last breakfast in Rizzan Sea-Park Hotel. I believe it was a Japanese/ Western style breakfast buffet in Seaside Restaurant Tancha Bay. It was a huge restaurant with 50% of the tables occupied. I love the hotel very much since it never got crowded due to its tremendous size.
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couldn't figure out how to use the pepper. With little knowledge of English,
the chef used body language to show us how to use it. We looked like bumpkins 大鄉里,
very embarrassed 😐 When we returned to our seats, we saw pepper and salt on our
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My mom met a woman while she was watching an entertainment
show in the hotel the other day. During the breakfast, the woman and her family
sat beside us. What a coincidence! She was originally from Shanghai and
currently resides in Tokyo, a very sweet and friendly lady 🙂</span></span></span></span><br />
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chance to stay in a hotel in Japan where the facilities existed. Just before
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drove us around on November 24? He kindly offered to give us a ride to our next
destination Naha. But then he received a call from another customer so he asked
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As promised, his friend drove us to Lazor Garden,the most
beautiful crystal church I have ever seen! Thank you to both drivers 😊 I know
Okinawa has many beautiful churches for weddings. Without the drivers, I don't
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ft</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">er about 1 hour and 35 minutes, we arrived at our
destination Villa Coast Nishimachi guesthouse (apartment hotel). Although the
driver could not speak English, he was polite and provided good customer service.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We checked in at our guesthouse two hours earlier than
expected. The manager there was a young man who could speak English since he
studied in Canada (I believe in Ontario) before. Yeah! Friends from Canada! He
was super friendly and let us go to our guestrooms right away since they were
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I reserved two guestrooms on Booking.com - one for my
brother and me, one for my mom and my auntie. Each room had 2 twin beds and
cost $80 per night. The rooms we stayed were on the 7th floor, units 703 and
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slippers before getting on the laminate floor. Right side was the kitchen with
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was Sharp RE-T13 and 2 cups were provided. Fridge brand was Sanyo. Are we
heading to the bedroom now? Not yet, don't forget there's a toilet on the left
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on top of the tank? How it works? We flushed first, then washed our hands
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twin beds! The complete floor plan from Villa Coast Nishimachi can be found on Booking.com 🙂</span></div>
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supermarket which was around 10-15 minute walk. There were food samples of
dumplings that my mom loved but we were not sure what kind of meat they
contain. Because my mom had gout, she could not eat beef. None of the people
there could speak English ... BINGO! I found pictures of cow, pig and chicken,
let's take a photo of them and show it to the staff. It worked, she pointed to
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cartoon on the computer. No idea what they were saying (all Japanese) but it
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Happy New Year! Wish everyone a healthy and joyous year in 2018 🙂 Let's continue on with my exciting trip in Okinawa. On the third day we visited 4 different attractions. </span></span><br />
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In the morning, we had the complimentary Japanese breakfast buffet first. It was different from the lunch buffet we had yesterday but still very enjoyable with both the ambiance and food.
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Then we got ready to meet our taxi driver while my mom was ready to spend her whole day in the hotel (she couldn't walk too much and well so she decided to stay in the hotel, it's worry free for us since we already got her familiar with the hotel the other day). We booked a tour taxi from Okito Taxi Company (<a href="http://okinawatravelinfo.com/tour/okito-taxi-chuhokubua/">http://okinawatravelinfo.com/tour/okito-taxi-chuhokubua/</a></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">) for 8 hours. I requested for a Cantonese driver, the company told me the name of my driver was Mr. Sakamoto and he could speak Cantonese. Wow ... a Japanese can speak Cantonese. Amazing!!!
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Guess what? It's completely different when I met our driver. He has a Japanese name but he is a Chinese who can speak Mandarin only. Never mind at least I can speak some Mandarin. When I showed him our itinerary in English he got no idea at all, good that I also had it written in Chinese so he knew where we planned to visit. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Visiting 4 attractions in 8 hours was a bit intense since some places required more than half an hour drive and we had to skip lunch in order to have enough time for all the attractions. We purchased three admission passes in advance from JAPANiCAN.com</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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floor in the ocean tower is the shell museum with more than 10,000 shells
gathered from every part of the world. The most impressive display I saw was
the elegant white heart made by beautiful shells.</span></span></span></span><br />
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take as many photos as we wanted, maybe it was in the morning. It was quite
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our last attraction was Ryukyu Mura (Ryukyu Village) 琉球村, a theme park about ancient life during the Ryukyu Kingdom. Okinawa used to be an independent kingdom called the Ryukyu Kingdom 琉球王國. Here we saw the historical houses, traditional clothes, weaving/dyeing, folk music and dance, goat, the traditional way of processing brown sugar and Habu snake specimen!</span>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I love snack so the happiest moment for me was the discovery of snacks in souvenir shop! I bought almost all the favours in this photo - lime, salt and purple yam 😙</span></div>
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Our driver was quite talkative but friendly. He knew we would travel from Rizzan Hotel to Naha city on the next day and the taxi normally cost around 9000 - 10000 yen. He kindly offered to give us a ride for 4000 yen plus bring us to see the most beautiful crystal church Lazor Garden. YEAH!
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Second day we didn't go outside the resort. We decided to stay in the hotel and browse around since it is huge! From one end to another end takes at least 10 minutes to walk. I'd better have my mom to be familiar with the hotel since she would stay there by herself on the third day ... hehe! </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let's take a walk along the beach in the fresh morning, there is a chapel next to the hotel. Although it is not the spectacular crystal church, I found it adorable and a good option for couples who love to have a wedding in an ocean view chapel within budget</span> 🙂</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When we looked out into the ocean, we saw a lighthouse. It looks not too far hey! According to Google map, the distance is 14.6 km which takes 3 hours to walk from Rizzan to the lighthouse!!!</span>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rizzan has several restaurants including Seaside Restaurant for Western breakfast buffet, Shichifuku for Japanese and Ryukyu (Okinawan) buffet, Blue Lagoon for Western lunch and dinner buffets, Mandarin Court for Cantonese cuisine (that's where we had dinner buffet on the first night!), Churahama for charcoal-grilled yakiniku at the outdoor seats in front of the beach, Prashanti for homemade sweets and Coral View for wine or cocktail. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Guess which one we went to on November 23, the second day? Because we could have either free breakfast or free lunch buffet, we picked the later one. It was in Blue Lagoon, I recall the choices were good, food was decent and the ocean view made the ambiance very relaxing and enjoyable </span>😊</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here's the picture of Blue Lagoon lunch buffet from Rizzan website:
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After lunch would be a good time for walking to burn calories ... hehe. Even just wandering around inside the hotel was fun! It has convenient store where we purchased our dinner there (less expensive than going to a restaurant plus we got a 10% discount coupon from first night's dinner buffet in Mandarin Court that we could use in the convenient store</span> 😉 <span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">), it has some souvenir shops too. I recall the 10% discount coupon could be applied to both convenient and souvenir stores.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Anyway, I enjoyed this place with ocean view more than the sweets. When we checked in, the hotel gave each of us a welcome drink coupon for Coral View. Since we didn't use them for the drinks, we redeemed the coupons at Prashanti as cash value for the buffet.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;">My
auntie in Hong Kong was looking forward to travelling abroad with us including
my mom, my brother and me. Since my mom was already over 65 and my auntie was
over 75. I had to plan a trip that would fit their energy level ... hehe.
Finally we decided to let our auntie have a relaxing vacation in the beautiful tropical
island Okinawa (</span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;">有東方夏威夷之稱的沖繩</span><span style="color: black; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">)
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;">It was from November 22 to 27. Since we
travelled there by ourselves (</span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;">自由行</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;">), lots of
preparation and research needed to ensure the trip would be running smoothly! First
was the flight which we decided to fly with Hong Kong airline (</span><span lang="ZH-HK" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;">香港航</span><span lang="ZH-HK" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;">空</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;">) instead of
Cathy Pacific (</span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;">國泰航</span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;">空</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;">). Guess how much we could save by choosing
Hong Kong airline? Both offered direct flights - Cathy was about $4000 HKD each
while Hong Kong airline was $1500 HKD per person. 4 of us would save $10,000
HKD!!! Probably around $1700 CAD ...</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;">On November
22, we departed from Hong Kong around 11:45 am and arrived Naha airport around
3:10 pm. Once we were in Naha airport, we were looking for the station to
purchase our bus tickets as we would be taking shuttle bus to </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;">Rizzan
Sea-Park Hotel. I could not find the station at first cause it was located in
the domestic terminal but we were in the international terminal. Finally we
were able to buy the tickets and it took us 1 hour 15 minutes to bus to the
hotel. We paid 6400 yen (1600 yen per passenger), around $80 CAD.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our hotel was in the resort in Onna </span></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">恩納村 (</span></span><a href="http://www.rizzan.co.jp/english/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">http://www.rizzan.co.jp/english/index.html</span></span></a><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">). </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was the largest
and the most economical hotel in Onna although it was not the fanciest one.
Staffs were very friendly and some of them especially the front desk people can
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;">The room we stayed was for 4 guests with
ocean view and it was extremely huge (over 530 square feet)! Here is the
picture of a 4 person room from its webpage.</span><br />
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cuisine Mandarin Court (</span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;">中國菜自助晚</span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;">餐</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;">).
Service was very good since they automatically found a Mandarin speaking lady
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enjoyed the desserts a lot - almond tofu pudding, mango pudding, jello cups.
Overall the buffet was quite nice and cost around $38 CAD per person. After we
paid, we received coupons to use in the hotel's convenient stores, like a 10%
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;">Just like all standard hotels, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;">Rizzan
provided hair brush, tooth brush with toothpaste, shower cap, etc. I always
appreciate how hotels provide all the necessities, on the other hand it creates
more pollution as the wraps and supplies will be thrown away when guests leave.
Alternatively we can bring our own sets for each trip instead of using the
toiletries offered by hotels.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748140733626800565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804478605960560791.post-38420348264727781752017-06-19T23:02:00.001-07:002017-06-19T23:02:50.041-07:00Lunch at Shangri-La Hotel <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Haven't written my blog for a while, time for update but I
would like it to be a bit different from the past, more pictures less words to
make my blog followers (if there are any?) have more visual pleasure <span style="font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">J</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Those from Hong Kong would know
the above photo is the Kowloon Mosque and Islamic Centre in </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsim_Sha_Tsui" title="Tsim Sha Tsui"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tsim Sha Tsui</span></span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (</span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">九龍清真寺暨伊斯蘭中</span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">心</span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">), where I passed by when I was on a bus heading to </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kowloon Shangri-La
Hotel on December 2, 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Looking at this photo reminds me of a Muslim friend who
always supported me when I was very down in my life. Now he has already left
Vancouver to his home country, I sincerely wish him safe and happiness forever.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Invited by my friend Charles, we had an enjoyable lunch buffet in Shangri-La Hotel on a Wednesday afternoon <span style="font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">J</span></span></span>
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salmon. These were something new to me - beetroot marinated salmon, wasabi
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here were my dishes!!! The first one was a presentation of
veggie garden with marinated salmon, second was fresh sashimi. Third one was a
bowl of green noodle in </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">soup. Last one
was Christmas dessert with fruit.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some
people might think the portions were too small, actually this was pretty good
enough since the green noodle was super filling! Most importantly, I would be
able to have an enjoyable chat with Charles in a relaxing and quiet environment
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It seems to me people in big cities like Hong Kong know very
well how to taste the food, thus love to criticize the quality. Recently I </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">started to appreciate all the food I have
every day no matter they are tasty or not. Let me tell you the trick, this good
practice of appreciation is very easy to do. When you go to YouTube or internet
and watch or read about the famine crisis in East Africa and Yemen, seeing more
than 20 million people starving with no food and water. Then imagine Hong Kong
has a population of 8 million, Vancouver has a population of 5 million ...
together is 13 million, still much less than 20 million. After that, you will
be satisfied with your meals.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">I've heard of Snoopy's World in Shatin Hong Kong from my Filipino colleague for a long time but never been to there until my recent Hong Kong visit. I was sure this time I would not miss it during my stay in Shatin. Luckily uncle George (uncle 7) and auntie Tammy (auntie 7) were very enthusiastic in accompanying me, and they are experts in Snoopy's World since their daughter, my coursin Ada 昫盈表妹 is a big fan of Snoopy! 真係天助我也, 唔駛自己揾餐死!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">First area I noticed in Snoopy's World was Snoopy boat <span style="font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J </span></span>I would like to ride the boat too, but I was embarrassed to do that by myself as I am way too over aged. Next time I will take my little niece or nephew there so I can ride the boat with them. 下次等我帶埋 cousin D小朋友先坐船 hehe ...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">I like snoopy but had no clue when it was born until I went to the Snoopy's World. </span></div>
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1950, much older than Hello Kitty. Do you know all the peanuts characters?</span>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Snoopy's House with a Big Snoopy lying on the roof! uncle George and auntie Tammy always said "peepee"?! 唔通成日要去厠所? 唔係 ... 係"peepee'" in lower tone --> "pypy". It must be how Ada called snoopy when she was a baby <span style="font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Let's have a seat in Snoopy's house. Oops! wrong spot, it's a short table. Glad that I was not over weighted to break it. 哎吔, 枱仔當凳坐, 好彩冇塌倒.</span>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Snoopy is using a typewriter above his doggy house. I don't know if this scene is still common now, but it was one of the most popular images as almost everyone had used a typewriter in the past! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">七十一梗有一間係左近, 打字機梗有一部係屋企. 不過我部很久巳掉了.
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Suddenly I thought of my autograph in grade 6 in primary school. My mom bought me a very lovely autograph with nice drawings of little bears collecting apples on a meadow. But when I saw my classmates holding a snoopy autograph, I was attracted by its design more than my own autograph!</span>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">I thought it was Snoopy's papa. He is called "Spike" based on my web search. A brother of Snoopy!</span>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">The Snoopy's World was first opened in 2000. It was there for 15 years already when I visited the attraction. Some displays or figures were dull due to the long time outdoor exposure. D公仔曰曰曰晒雨淋, 係時候翻新一下 <span style="font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">The workers were doing a good job in repainting the figures. Only 50% were repainted or renovated when I was there. Hope everything will look new and fresh when I visit Shatin next time!</span>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just right after we booked the hotel, I recall there's another hotel in Shatin. Which one is connected to New Town Plaza? When I checked ... "OH MY GOD! It should be Royal Park Hotel 帝都酒店". It was too late, my fault. 唯有將錯就錯住麗豪酒店, 唉!
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Looked at the ratings for both hotels. Royal Park had 8.3/10 while Regal had only 7.3/10. A bit disappointed, but Regal was 500 CAD cheaper than Royal Park thou.</span> </div>
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Restaurant discounts for hotel guests. Couldn't imagine that this middle size
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Still wonder why there was a Japanese schedule? It was for Kobe City College of Technology. During my stay, I saw Korean tour group, Japanese high school students and Japanese college students accommodated in the hotel. This gave me more confidence with the hotel ... hehe!</span>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now walk to the other side of the hotel, there is a green park across the street! It has a giant Banyan (一棵壯大榕樹), free exercise facilities called green health system. See the old lady enjoyed playing the fitness bike (睇阿婆玩得幾過癮 ) Another one in the picture is taiji pushing/ tai chi pushing (冇對手嘅太極拳推手?) Is better to practice tai chi in a group then. Isn't it great to do tai chi with others under trees in the spacious park? 感覺好正好舒服啊!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everybody wants to have a happy life! The topic of my secret trick is "life change starts from the heart"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(改變命運從心開始)</span> </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">❤</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It means the important factor to change one's fate is from the change of one's mind. That is why there is a Chinese saying 相由心生 (one's appearance is reflected by the heart)
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Life will gradually become better when one keeps thinking in
a good way.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This trick is not for instant result. But it is simple and
easy to practice. Then good returns will slowly come.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><u><strong>1st Level of the Trick: Don't blame too much, be more appreciative (少怨恨, 多感恩)</strong></u>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">When you start to blame everything every day, please think
deeply ... are you the top 10% luckiest person in this world? Don't believe?
Let's pay attention to the statistics.<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></div>
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If you have enough to eat, to wear and a shelter to live, you are wealthier than 75% of world population</span></li>
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<!--[endif]-->If you have savings, cash in your wallet. WOW! You are already among the wealthiest 8% in the world</span></li>
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If<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you are not ill and you don't have disaster, you are better than 1 million people who cannot survive through this week.</span></li>
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If you have never experienced war and never in prison, you are better than <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>500 million people</span></li>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also can you
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><strong>70%</strong> of world
population live in <strong>THIRD WORLD</strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><strong>50%</strong> of world
population have <strong>less than $3.50 CAD</strong> to spend each day</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><strong>1 in 3</strong> people have
<strong>no toilet</strong> to use in the world</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A shocked news is <strong>10%</strong> of world population is <strong>child marriage</strong>, with most
of them are Forced Child Marriage!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's why we can practice appreciation more often ... show
appreciation for our meals, our clothes, our house and don't forget to show
appreciation for<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the TOILET ... HaHa!</span>
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</strong></u></span><u><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>2nd Level of the Trick: Be less cruel and more kind (少殘忍, 多愛心)</strong></span></u></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most people think they are not cruel at all, and they are
full of love and compassion!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They would think ... "I never hurt people, never kill
people, treat everybody kindly, always donate $ and give seats to elderly ,
super care my family and friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Absolutely
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">level 0 in cruelty, level 200 in
kindness!</b>"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana;">Undoubtedly you are very good ... to humans. <strong>If you can treat all animals the same way, then you are truly full of love in your heart.</strong> <span style="color: red;">❤❤❤</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not only pet such as kitten and puppy, but all animals have
feelings, have nerves, have consciousness, can feel pain, can feel scared ...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>All animals include those who can fly in sky, walk on the
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remember people always say : when someone passes away, don't
burn the body or donate the organs immediately since this person still has
consciousness within 8 hours. In fact, other animals are the same! When they
are cut right after being killed, they would feel extremely PAINFUL!!!</span></div>
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fashions</strong> including jackets, pants, boots and handbag that are made of animal
skins. Think of many animals are killed and have blood removed while they are
not completely dead and are conscious. This is a <strong>BIG SUFFER</strong>!</span>
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It is a very <strong>BLOODY</strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>product<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as animals are being killed or their furs are
removed while they are still alive .</span>
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silk is to use boiling water to kill huge number of silkworms</span>
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of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>real or fake perfume, but many high
end fragrances contain MUSK. Musk can be from the killing of male musk deer or
civet.</span>
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Chinese banquets have stopped serving shark fins which is nice. But they are
still serving roasted baby pigs per table, serving lobsters. Do they know the
roasted baby pig </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">乳豬 is a piglet fed on its mother's milk and is slaughtered between the ages of 2 and 6 weeks ... very pity <span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">L</span></span> Lobsters suffer greatly when their urethras are destroyed before they are killed, too brutal <span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">L<span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">L<span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">L</span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span>
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Mouse and Donald Duck, not only we need to love our pets Hello Kitty and Snoopy,
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This one is very easy, just always keep in mind that "<strong>We don't need too much, but we want too much</strong>". Because when most people find items on BIG SALE, their minds keep thinking "Buy more, buy as many as possible, I got to buy <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all stuffs with the best deal!!!" How many will they actually use?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>World Vision</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Plan Canada</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)</strong></span><br />
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night! According to the news this morning, it was 4.3 magnitude (Canada) and
4.8 magnitude (US). I didn't know it was an earthquake, otherwise I would have
been more well-prepared. Luckily no damages, no tsunami and nobody gets hurt <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At around 11:39 pm last night, I
was watching YouTube on laptop in my bedroom. Suddenly I heard strange noise
from the ceiling and then it started to shake slightly. "What are the
neighbours above doing???" I thought. Then I started to think "But
the neighbours above us are old couple. Although they are big but their motions
are super slow due to their age." ... "Do they have a guest staying
overnight??? Just above my bedroom?" ... "Is the guest pushing HEAVY
STUFF around to destroy the room?!" OH NO!!!"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The noise from the ceiling did
not stop and it kept shaking. "What should I do, it's scary ~~~". I
looked at my YouTube then back to the ceiling, YouTube again then back to the
ceiling, YouTube again then back to the ceiling. My mind was already saying
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of a sudden, I felt the
ceiling was moving forward to the window side and finally reached to the point
that the corner<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> JUMPED</b> forward. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What was that? I had never
experienced it before. I went to my brother's bedroom right away and checked
with him. "Was there a shake?" ... He said yes. Then go to my mom's
bedroom, but she fell asleep already. I hope the structure of our building is
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">死啦</span>,<span lang="EN-US">會唔會又嚟架</span>? <span lang="EN-US">都係上床</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: MingLiU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU;">瞓</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU;">.</span></span></span></div>
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" I don't know " ... "turn off laptop, turn off light,
sleep". That was my solution. Next morning from the news, I knew it was an
earthquake. What a relief! Not from my neighbours or building damage. </span></span><br />
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minute and the shake was not too strong. I practiced this before at work but
didn't do it properly last night. I should review it ...</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The second part of my Hong Kong vacation was from November
28 to December 10, 2015. We were in Hong Kong from November 15 -21 then
travelled to Okinawa on November 22-27. There are too many photos to share so I
will write about Snoopy World, Cheung Chau Island and Ocean Park separately. I
will also share my pleasant experience in Okinawa on my blog shortly. Stay tune
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above picture was taken nearby Long Ping Station 朗屏站 while we were walking to bus terminal for 268C to Kowloon Bay 九龍灣. I used to think Hong Kong is lack of green spaces since it has excessive high rise buildings. I
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">More pictures from Yuen Long, I think this small local cake
shop or dim sum restaurant<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span lang="EN-US">街坊麵包店</span>/<span lang="EN-US">街坊茶樓</span> represents<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the life of middle or low income class in
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Do you think the dishes, soup and dessert look mouth watering??? Wa! 睇見都流口水? These were all vegetarian food from a Veggie Palace in Wan Chai (灣仔一間叫貴德宮嘅私房<strong><span style="color: blue;">素</span></strong>菜, it was my first time having 私房菜 ... with全齋宴).<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The atmosphere in Yuen Long was different on Sunday. See how many customers Western Union had. Why??? </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">These were Indonesian maids 印傭sending $$$ back to their families, I think. Sundays are their holidays also picnic days. There were so many having picnic on the street or in the park. I kind of understand, they are also humans who need buddies to communicate but I hope they would not leave garbage everywhere after picnic. I was told by the street cleaners that they left lots of garbage after picnic back in year 2012. 同好姊姐傾心事唔緊要, 最緊要保持香港清潔.
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The benefit was to buy the yummiest breakfast at the least cost. Deep fried
dough (<span lang="EN-US">油</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";">條</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">) and sesame rice dough were $7 HKD each (about $1.20 CAD). The
brown sugar pudding cake in a little bowl called </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">put chai ko (<span lang="EN-US">砵仔糕</span>) was only $3 HKD each($0.55 CAD).
The one shown in picture has no red bean, but we often bought the ones with red
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wedding party packages! The packages include venue decoration, customized games
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places I would like to visit in Hong Kong. Finally uncle George (uncle 7)
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times travelling to Hong Kong, I feel uncle George can read my mind now on
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Mei Ho House has a little museum for the exhibition of early
Hong Kong resettlement areas <span lang="EN-US">徙置屋邨</span>. The early Hong Kong
resettlement areas which don't exist anymore except the one converted to museum
and youth hostel in Mei Ho House were complex of H-shaped architectures for
Hong Kong public housing in 1950s to 1980s. It was part of my early childhood
memories as my grandparents lived in this kind of building when I was very
little. I even wrote about it when I started my blog (</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://chan38.blogspot.ca/2009/05/life-in-half-century-ago.html">http://chan38.blogspot.ca/2009/05/life-in-half-century-ago.html</a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">).<br />
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toilet <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">舊式「一渠通」廁所</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">) but my mom insisted she never took me to
the toilet there. Why would I have such an excellent memory of</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">一渠通</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-hansi-font-family: "MS Gothic";"> toilet??? 2 possiblities:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1) As uncle George said, I passed by the
toilet when I walked from my grandparents unit to my grand auntie's unit (they
lived on the same floor), 2) I as a very small girl at age 3 or 4 secretly went
to the toilet to explore around ... hehe</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";"> (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">小學雞靜雞雞去遊覧一渠通廁所</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";">?)</span></span></span></div>
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my special travel for this year. I had been to Harrison Hot Spring twice but never
stayed overnight until this year. You may wonder why? Because I won a prize
from the Korean festival for a one night stay in Harrison Hot Springs Resort
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16 and came back on March 17. During this trip, there were few things that I
experienced for the first time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First
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away from Vancouver, its transit system is different so it wouldn't accept
Translink monthly pass or faresavers. Since we had to take two buses to get to
Harrison Hot Spring (Route 1 Vedder & Route 11 Agassiz-Harrison), we paid
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<span style="color: black;">First time to stay overnight in a Harrison Hot Spring hotel. We had a corner unit, nice guestroom!</span>
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<span style="color: black;">View from our guestroom. Wow ... March was still cold but quite a few people were swimming in the outdoor pool!!!</span>
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just right beside the hotel, very convenient! Goodbye Harrison Hot Spring
Resorts and Spa ... nice free stay </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span></span></div>
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Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748140733626800565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804478605960560791.post-70145695994444504042014-12-31T00:35:00.000-08:002014-12-31T01:44:27.206-08:00Fun Day in Downtown<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: black;">Sunday December 28, I spent the day with my good friend in Vancouver downtown. The weather was sunny but chilly ~~~ especially at night. Let's see what we found in downtown ...</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I know what you are thinking of ... Victoria's Secret? Yes it is even without V and part of I in the photo. Anything else?</span>
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<span style="color: black;">The location of this Victoria's Secret is considered a heritage building by the City of Vancouver. It was a Vancouver public library central branch from 1957 until 1995. Cool! I didn't know it was a library in the early 90's.
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<span style="color: black;">When I first came to Canada in 1990, there were four big department stores: The Bay, Eaton's, Sears and Woodward's. Woodward's was closed in 1993, Eaton's was closed in 1999 and now Sears in Richmond Center will be closed after February 2015 </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">L</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Maybe it's a good way to tell who is old immigrant 老華僑 and new immigrant 新華僑. Do you know about Woodward's? How about Eaton's? Anybody knows at least one of them is old immigrant 老華僑 like me! Haha ...
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<span style="color: black;">"Santa Baby, I want a yacht and really that's not a lot" oops, should have recorded more. IT IS NOT ENOUGH!
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<span style="color: black;">You know what? While we were looking at Woodward's Windows, the red-nosed reindeers were watching in Rudolph's theater.</span>
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<span style="color: black;">Next we visited Bright Nights in Stanley Park to support the BC Professional Fire Fighters' Burn Fund. I think this Christmas fundraising event in Stanley Park has been run for more than 10 years to help burn survivors and their families.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Today our boss treated us to some panforte which I have never tasted before. One of my colleagues said it is similar to Turkish delight. According to Wikipedia "Panforte is a traditional Italian dessert containing fruits and nuts, and resembles fruitcake. It may date back to 13th century Siena, in Italy's Tuscany region". </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The night is too long <br />The darkness and quietness are very drepressing <br />Insomnia with headache and fears <br />Going to washroom every hour <br />How many nights can I pass through? </span></div>
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748140733626800565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804478605960560791.post-34110491347332812932013-12-23T22:54:00.000-08:002013-12-23T22:54:54.623-08:00Soledad<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">Darkness is occupying my space, loneliness is swallowing my soul <br />Headache is torturing my brain, insomnia is accompanying my mind </span></div>
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748140733626800565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804478605960560791.post-76940912463485982342013-12-22T22:02:00.000-08:002013-12-22T22:02:18.492-08:00Friend's House<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">I saw wedding pictures in my friend’s house, wedding rings on their fingers. <br />I met a new friend there, her story is similar to mine but the ending is different. <br />She met a Japanese in Vancouver, she will marry him and leave Canada. <br />Beautiful ending doesn’t come to me. My finger doesn’t have a wedding ring. <br />My friend played a very touching song in the house, I’ve never heard it before. <br />By coincidence, it is from a Japanese animation directed by Studio Ghibli. <br />At that moment, tears almost dropped … </span></div>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/1HrnaVzqRfs" width="560"></iframe><br />Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748140733626800565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804478605960560791.post-27803769922498626542013-12-22T16:30:00.000-08:002013-12-22T16:31:50.033-08:00Shopping <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">The atmosphere of shopping centres was killing me. Couples were all around. <br />I feel I am the one being abandoned, I am the one being isolated. <br />Loneliness and fears are getting very strong. I feel very very cold in my heart. </span></div>
Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748140733626800565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804478605960560791.post-77740614386133275152013-12-20T21:36:00.000-08:002013-12-20T21:36:31.583-08:00Trip to BC Interior – 2013 (Part 7)<br />
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<span style="color: black;">Now we were going to the last destination of the trip. Do you remember which park we would be going? It was Alice Lake Park. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black;">Joseph asked the driver to stop and drop us off in the middle of the highway so that we could enjoy the scenic spot. Quite a few cars stopped by for the view also. <br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black;">Finally we arrived at Alice Lake Park. It was a hot summer plus long weekend that many families came here to swim. I felt it was more like a beach than a park. Anyways behind me was Alice Lake. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black;">In a hot summer day could still see mountain capped with glacier across the lake <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black;">Joseph brought up a vey good question: While so many come here to swim, how many will follow its trail to visit its dense forest? <br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">What was so special about this forest? When one tree fell down automatically, another tree would grow on top of the dead tree. See the roots of alive tree are grabbing the body of laying tree. I think this was for nutrition purposes. <br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black;">Oops … our group kept going while one of the tour members, a senior woman 婆婆, was still there to take pictures. I’d better wait for her so that she would not get lost (actually her son was waiting for her also but I didn’t know that). 婆婆 appreciated my kindness and asked my Chinese name, then she told me I need to practice Mandarin more since I couldn’t pronounce my name correctly. I felt a bit embarrassed. <br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">When it was time for group picture, 婆婆 was concerned that I was blocked by the others so she grabbed my hand and pulled me forward. But picture was taken while she was pulling me so she said unhappily “NO, we were not ready yet!” <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black;">If my memory is correct, the leaves (in red circle) have a spicy taste which bears love to eat. So if a leaf is partially bitten, that means a bear has been to this area. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black;">After we walked through the forest, we were on the other side of Alice Lake. Just like across, there were lots of people swimming there. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black;">On the way back to Vancouver, we had a nice ocean and mountain view again. The ocean is called Howe Sound 豪灣 and I think the mountains are in Sunshine Coast 陽光海岸. <br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;">I hope everyone will cherish the nature. I hope someone will cherish my love. </span></div>
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