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TALK: Spring is late
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Monday, September 27, 2010. Went to Canberra to renew the passports for the family. The weather was beautiful. And we just chanced upon the annual flower exhibition - the Floriade, outside Canberra. Took some pictures. It was a beautiful show. Came back totally exhausted - woke up at 4 am in the morning to catch the plane and rushed back straight after getting the passport done. E weather, though, was fantastic. We had beautiful sunshine with a top of 20. Couldn't be better. Happy birthday, Daniel! Just ...
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TALK: December 2010
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Thursday, December 30, 2010. Just last year my daughter managed to trace down a dear family friend that we lost touch with for over 15 years. Through facebook, of course. And today, I "bumped" into a friend on facebook. Didn't know he has come thousands of kilometres away from where we worked together to the same city I now live in. I enjoy friendship greatly. Yet sadly there are people whom we just can't be great friends with. I often wonder why. They are great people, nice people. But s...All town wher...
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TALK: September 2009
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009. This has been a good start for us. For starters, it has been wet over the last couple of weeks, and this brought a relieving supply of water to the dams of Melbourne. Water storage in dams is up, and there is so much snow in the Southern Alpine regions that the snow season is extended. Thank God for such a time. And nestled right in the middle, safe and sound, is Malaysia and Singapore. Praise God for that. Monday, September 21, 2009. Stories of new migrants. There are a lo...
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TALK: Lim Lian Geok - National Unity and Chinese Schools
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011. Lim Lian Geok - National Unity and Chinese Schools. In 1952, he advocated that the Chinese school curriculum be changed to focus on Malaya instead of China. He reasoned, ". we should reform the text books . to prove that our young people are imbued with a sense of loyalty to Malaya.". He continue his fight for the right of Chinese to learn their mother tongue even after that. In 1985, in an interview with the Star, Tunku Abdul Rahman said that the United Chinese School Teac...
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TALK: Bread
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010. The first time I got really excited about baking bread was more than 20 years ago. Back in the 80s bread making machine was a rarity. I visited my friend's house one day and saw that they had such a machine. I was totally fascinated, not only by the idea that you can bake bread at home, but also because a freshly baked loaf of bread smells and tastes so much better. This is my simple bread recipe, and it tastes just as nice as the one bought in the shop. 15 teaspoon of yeast.
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TALK: Friendship
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Thursday, December 30, 2010. Just last year my daughter managed to trace down a dear family friend that we lost touch with for over 15 years. Through facebook, of course. And today, I "bumped" into a friend on facebook. Didn't know he has come thousands of kilometres away from where we worked together to the same city I now live in. I enjoy friendship greatly. Yet sadly there are people whom we just can't be great friends with. I often wonder why. They are great people, nice people. But s...All town wher...
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TALK: December 2009
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Thursday, December 31, 2009. Old Year, New Year. During the last weekend, we brought the kids to one of the places where we used to go as students here. We brought them to one of the Vietnamese streets to enjoy the famous beef pho (rice noodle or vermicelli). The street has not change much. The food was just as fabulous as it was almost 20 years ago. The kids enjoyed the food - or at least we hope they did as much as us. There is a strange sense of familiarity in this street. Somewhere along the dirt...
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TALK: Happy birthday, Daniel!
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010. Happy birthday, Daniel! I have a little nephew. He is an intelligent, fun loving guy. He loves computer games. We recently celebrated his 6th birthday. It was a wonderful get together. It was also great to catch up with friends, family and relatives. His birthday last year was one of the first social event we had when we first arrived. And now, it's another birthday. Time indeed flies. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Happy birthday, Daniel! View my complete profile.
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TALK: November 2009
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Sunday, November 29, 2009. It has been a long while since I could put my thoughts down. It has been a busy two months with my work starting, with adaptation to new work environment, with knowing new colleagues, with finding my ways around . Over the past weeks or so, we have also more opportunity to interact with other migrants, old and new. It is quite interesting to note a few things. Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee. Have we truly the right to exclude others from coming? How are we different from them?
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TALK: February 2011
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011. Lim Lian Geok - National Unity and Chinese Schools. In 1952, he advocated that the Chinese school curriculum be changed to focus on Malaya instead of China. He reasoned, ". we should reform the text books . to prove that our young people are imbued with a sense of loyalty to Malaya.". He continue his fight for the right of Chinese to learn their mother tongue even after that. In 1985, in an interview with the Star, Tunku Abdul Rahman said that the United Chinese School Teac...
