watery wednesday; Outdoor wednesday: Rock water hole

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This is among the best place I have been in the Gold Coast. I guess it is also the locals' secret hideaway. Removed from the hustle and bustle of the city and hordes of tourists, families come to play and picnic. The trees provide shade and the water is cool. Best of all, it is free, just a water hole in the bush.

My sister Helen took me with her children. When the weather is scorching 30 degrees, and there was lots of shade under the trees, this place is heavenly. There are eels to attract the children, and tiny fish to give me a foot spa treatment. What a life!

There is a stream where the water falls from cascades to a big water hole. Here boys and girls, men and women risk their lives by jumping, diving and flipping into the water. Some of them descend as high as three storeys up.

I wandered around, there is a big sign warning deaths had occurred, but nobody takes any notice.

Happy Lunar New Year

On Sunday, February 14th, the lunar new year will usher in the tiger. To be specific the white or metalic tiger. Most people associate the tiger with bravery.

I decorated my door with two chinese fans, the Chinese word FU and wished all my Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Thai, Japanese and Korean students a Happy New Year.

Mellow Yellow" Aeroplane

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This plane was at the Auckland Airport. It has no markings. May be it is a private plane of some rich recluse.

Scenic Sunday: Duck weeds, sea lettuces and other aquatic plants

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When I was in my early teens, it was my sister Margaret aged three and half years younger than me and my responsibility to go to the near by creek aka longan by the main road to collect sea weeds and lettuces to feed the ducks.

I don't know about Margaret. Boy! did I hate the job because we always collected them at the time when Dad's friends came home from work. When they asked what we were doing, I lied that it was for our fish tank. At that time, it wasn't fashionable to keep organic or free range chicken or ducks, and I was embarrassed.

Margaret has since become a Professor in plant Pathology and is more equipped than me to write about this post. I am a hobby environmentalist writing my cause with passion.

When I saw this lake choked with duck weed, I lament that there was no one like my mother who have seen this as a useful food for her ducks. By collecting the weeds, we give life to the lake as duck weed is a pest that comes in as contaminants. Duckweed can become a serious weed in nutrient rich, shallow ponds.

Weekend Reflection: Auckland Airport

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Located in the washroom of the departure lounge of the Auckland International airport was this receptical for used needles. In this day of Aids and hepitities, I wonder if there are still people gambling with their lives and sharing needles.

Friday Skywatch: Where is the sky?

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I didn't know the word haze until ten years ago. Why? Because before that, the haze hardly exists. But now, it is on people's lips when they visit some countries where the PSI is high. During the Olympics 2008, it was quite worrying.

A friend took this photo.

ABC Wednesday: Round 6: Letter C

Letter C for cabin crew. We left on our holiday just before Christmas, the cabin crew had Christmas theme on the plane which is very nice. This male steward was very friendly.

On our way home, the cabin crew announced," Down the plane is the beautiful __________, in the front is the beautiful ___________, and I am the most beautiful of them all. Sir Charles Branson must have trained them all. And she had a frangipani in her ear."

Fellow blogger Ngao asked if I wanted to be a pilot, yes, that would be my answer if I was thirty years younger. But now, my memory is fading, I might land him in a wrong island.

Once upon a time, if you landed on a island, you will be welcomed with the sound of the conch. Last year, I was at a re-inenactment of the White Governor Sir Hobson to Maori Orakei land. I saw a person blowing a conch.

Sam was given a "Rich and Famous" welcome to the land of Oz. His uncle Joseph picked him up in a Mercedes Convertible.

We had a holiday of a life time. Thank you for whanau aka family. We had a wonderful Christmas.


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