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Watery Wednesday: Boats of Sarawak

To the children growing up in Sarawak, Borneo, along the 350 miles long Rejang River, "Sing Hai Ching" will give a pang of nostalgia. These river queens used to ply up and down the river, picking up passengers and goods. 

According to the boat owner, it is around 60 years old. That was not the original boat. The one I recalled when I was in lower secondary was very different. The owner might have upgraded a few times though retaining the name

Unfortunately, they were forced to retire and give way to the aeroplane looking type of express boats. This royalty  is now relegated to pick up goods from Bintangor to Tanjong Manis, a tiny town at the sea.


The Reunion of Kai Chung School, aka Lau Peng Yu, July 7, 2012,  is initiated by Jenny Yaw Peng and  Mag Yaw Lee. Francis is doing his part as a local here in Bintangor, knowing that a lot of our long lost friends ; ex-teachers are coming back to this beautiful small hometown. 

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 Jenny

The Grand Lady has been replaced by these aeroplane looking boats called express. They halves the time and nobody took the old launches again.  But these expressess were  deadly time bombs, the windows don't open and if it sinks, you sink with it.

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Ruby red/rednesday" Japanese lunch box.

I was very privileged to meet Chinatsu and be her friend. She is from Japan and we were both faculty wives at Nanyang Technological University.  We did a lot of things together, Bible Study and she cooked Japanese food for our Foodsale. We both loved plants, and my first "Jiang Mien Li" aka see you for the first time gift was a big flowering pot of Jasmine plant.Little did I know that jasmine was her Chinese Father in law's favourite plant, and that gift helped him adapt to life in Singapore.

Though I had left Singapore about 6 years ago, we kept in contact. One year, my husband went to visit Singapore, and she gave a very nice CD to me. He likes it very much and plays it in his car. My car can't play any CD, so I enjoy the music when I am in his car.

I guess you all have heard how petite and nicely presented the Japanese ladies make their food. What Chinatsu packed for her daughter Yiling's lunch box puts me to shame.

It makes me think of a Chinese saying;

Live in a western house,
Marry a Japanese wife,
Eat Chinese food.

That's Utopia.  A Japanese wife is subservient to her husband. 

I post the lunch box, not Chinatsu, because I didn't ask her permission. Perhaps next time.

Rirra Kuma Bento

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sunday bridge, scenic sunday. going to the bush

A bridge at the slope of the Waitakerie ranges so you can go on a trek for 4 days. We were not prepared, we went on a 3 hour one. The bridge is the easy part, afterwards, you have to walk on the muddy trek.






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Yellow beach flowers at Omaha beach.

Sending flowers to Robin Gibb, wishing him a speedy recovery.

Thank you NixBlog for IDing this plant. My big sister R will be delighted.

We went to Omaha beach in Summer. there were fields and fields of yellow flowers. The shrub was about 2 feet tall.

The evening primrose plant is one of the few native wildflowers in North America. As the name suggests, the yellow evening primrose blooms at night. It produces lovely yellow flowers from May to July.
It is considered to have a wide array of medicinal uses from relieving headaches and inducing labor to curing baldness and as a treatment for laziness. All parts of the evening primrose plant can also be eaten. The leaves are eaten like leaves and the roots are eaten like potatoes.














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Skywatch friday; Sky and trees

I am learning to shoot a tree so that it will look very tall. I even lay on the ground, but still have no luck, do you have any suggestion?






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Watery Wednesday: Brisbane, Australia

a group of Chinese asylum seekers who had planned to travel to New Zealand have decided to seek asylum in Australia.

The group of 10, who reportedly left Malaysia last month, arrived in Darwin last Thursday and had been granted temporary Australian visas until this weekend. They said they are Falun Gong members and could be persecuted if they are returned to China.





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