my walk with food and beautiful plants and flowers

Friday, February 28, 2014

a memory remembered

Photo: Binatang GIK GIANG,
When I was growing up,
Mum insisted on buying Binatang BOK SHUI,
She reasoned Binantang has a lot of GIK GIANG,
So the BOK CHUI must have a lot of pure GIK GIANG juice,
She visited the bottle factory.
"Where are the GIK GIANG?" she asked.
"Oh, we don't use the GIK GIANG,
We use artificial flavouring."
My poor mum,
she was disillusioned.
But I was privileged to eat real organic GIK GIANG."
I plucked the GIK GIANG from Hwang Tai Tai's trees.
Years later in 2012,
The Principal of Kai Chung, Mr Ting Pang Kheng served us this.

* Gik Giang is the green peel orange found in Binatang/Bintangnor

Mi Ling Chieng, Chen Francis, Lily Chan, Lim Chin Yong, Tionsan Tomas, Kong Hie Ding, Ling Sui Chung, Choon Swee Ning, Vanny Ng, Loi Siok Hung, Jenny ChewKimberly Chew, Benson Chew, Lynn Wong, Mag Chewchia, Susie Wong

Binatang GIK GIANG,
When I was growing up,
Mum insisted on buying Binatang BOK SHUI/soft drink
She reasoned Binantang has a lot of GIK GIANG,
So the BOK CHUI must have a lot of pure GIK GIANG juice,
She visited the bottle factory.
"Where are the GIK GIANG?" she asked.
"Oh, we don't use the GIK GIANG,
We use artificial flavouring."
My poor mum,
she was disillusioned.
But I was privileged to eat real organic GIK GIANG."
I plucked the GIK GIANG from Hwang Tai Tai's trees.
Years later in 2012,
The Principal of Kai Chung, Mr Ting Pang Kheng served us this.

flowerrs: lilies

Photo: My bouquet today goes to the kind lady at Bamboo Resource centre.
http://www.bamboo.co.nz/index.html I wish she can see this, but I didn't get her name.

I am linking my blog post for Heather, whose son was murdered. They are trying to get a bill to pass Cameron's law to make eye witnesses to be responsible.

http://annkitsuetchin.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/support-bill-for-camerons-law.html

https://www.facebook.com/CameronsLaw/info

http://tinaspicstory.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/weekend-flowers-45.html

http://floralfridayfoto.blogspot.co.nz/

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Thursday Challenge: Unusual

I like this photo so much because it showed the creation of two budding photographers.

During my sixteen years in Singapore, one of my favourite places with the children was the Singapore Science Centre. In the humid Singapore, the air conditioned building was a welcomed place to spend the whole day. It was a wonderful hands-on place. The entrance fee was cheap too. When I felt too stuffy inside the building, I would go outside to view the many spice and herb plants.

This photograph was taken by D and G, budding photographers at 15 and 11. Sam was three. Many had tried to duplicate this photograph after seeing this. But none had succeeded. This involves two mirrors attached to a hinge, and by moving the mirrors at different angles, you get different number of reflections.

I took this photo to school, and encouraged my students to experiment with two mirrors. They were very curious.

CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHS (2nd Week) CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHS (2nd Week) (Motion Blur, Long Exposures, Unusual,...)

Thursday Challenge is a place for photographic fun and learning. A theme is announced on this site each week. You may either take a new photograph related in some way to the theme or select one that you have taken previously; Then submit your single permanent link here:

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Pink Shirt Day: Anti bullying 26th February.

http://annkschin.blogspot.com/2009/02/pink-shirt-day-wednesday-25-february.html. Please click on this link on what I wrote last year.

It was last year at this time when my school, teachers and students alike wore pink. Pink Shirt Day is a way for the community to stand up and show that bullying is not okay.

The first Pink Shirt Day took place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, when two 17 year old high school students decided to stand up for a friend who had been harassed for wearing a pink shirt to school.

The boys, David Shepherd and Travis Price, decided that the bullying had to stop. They went to a discount store and bought 50 pink tank tops, sent out the message to schoolmates that night, and the next morning handed them to students to wear. When the bullied boy walked in, according to Travis Price, "It looked like a huge weight was lifted off his shoulders. The bullies were never heard from
again."

Ka pai or good job to all my fellow Canadian bloggers, Barry and Linda and Ruth, for starting this good tradition. Pink Shirt Day is being held on April 14th in Canada this year. Each year it gets bigger and brighter. There with more and more support from schools and organisations.

Mental Health Foundation chief executive Judi Clements says Pink Shirt Day will raise awareness of the link between bullying and depression.

"As recent research and media coverage have highlighted, bullying is a serious problem in New Zealand, and there is a clear link between being bullied and experiencing mental health problems," she says.

"Pink Shirt Day gives us all a chance to make a stand against bullying, raise awareness and discussion of the issues and work towards a society that values equality and respect."

Today, I wore my beautiful pink shirt and taught my little five year olds. I asked them what they knew about bullying. They told me about beating up, punching and kicking. I explained that bullying also involves calling names.

The school is a sea of pink.

http://ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.com/