Scenic Sunday: Guangzhou Asian Games

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I teach ESOL on Wednesday mornings to adult students at Mt Albert Baptist Church. Some of them come from the Guangzhou area, and I ask if they knew my ancestral home Kwong Ning. I told them my great grand father left China for Borneo more than 100 years ago.

They tell me I should visit the land of my roots. Last year, Guang Zhou which is 4 hours bus ride hosted the Asian Games. The 16th Asian Games will be held in Guangzhou of China from November 12 to 27, 2010.

Someday, I will visit and meet some of my cousins I have never met.

Hongkong walkway

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marco weekend flower: White tropical flower

Macro Flower Saturday

Botanical Name: Mussaenda philippica ‘Aurorae’ (named after Dona Aurora, wife of a former President of the Philippines)
. Each flower is composed of an inconspicuous small tubular five-petalled corolla in orangy-yellow and five greatly enlarged sepals (bracts). It is really these showy corymbs of white or off-white enlarged leaf-like sepals that contrast beautifully against their dark green elliptic to ovate leaves that are the attention grabber.





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They were seen at the Singapore Zoo. May be Jama and other Philippino blogging friends can confirm us the name.

Skywatch Friday: Tern Rock

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At Whatipu, the white light house stands on top of the rock. You may see the whilte patches which are the droppings of the tern birds.

watery wednesday: Summer joy

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Autumn has officially arrived. It was marked with thick fog today.

This photo was taken in summer when my son and his friends went diving from the Cornwallis wharf. He will have to wait another year before he gets to do it again.

Ruby Red/Rednesday: New Zealand

The New Zealand Flag.



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Today is a week since our Christchurch city was struck by the earthquake.

Today, at 12.51pm, the nation will observe a 2 minutes silence. The Mayor has asked even traveling vehicles to stop where they are . "The two-minute silence at 12.51pm is really about whatever you are doing, stop ... and we all stand together as one," he said.

It is going to be a very somber feeling as we pause and reflect and think how we are going to move forward.

Addition:

Our principal assembled all 660 students and teachers under our big tree. It was in the mid of our lunch hour. The weather was hot, most of the kids were in the sun. The kids all came early. We were waiting, when a neighbor went hammering. Our principal went to the fence and told him about the 2 minutes silence. He soon stopped.

We started our silence, and a church bell tolled from far away. The kids were very good. We had a few handicap kids on walkers and clutches. Only an aspergers boy remained in the play ground.

The principal thanked the students for giving up part of their lunch hour.

weekend bridge: Time to catch the boat

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Photographed in Hong kong