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Winter

Annie — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:10:31 +0000

I don’t think, from my memory, I have ever been looking forward to a winter season so much like this year. I feel like I have the warmest shelter from the cold, though my perception might not be what the truth is. I am just completely swooned by this little metal box. To me, it is like a magic.

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Bed Time Stories

Annie — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:41:38 +0000

Our recent reading is Pamela Allen’s “Are your grandmother a gonna?” and “Grandpa and Thomas and the green Umbrella”. V seems never get enough of them, especially the Thomas series. Now she can pretty much recite the grandma story herself. She could say “Chuffa…chuffa…chuffa…”, then “Thoo Thoo…off they went”, which is so cute.

When we firstly got these two books, I found the pages were quite intimidating. They are full of massive animals, like gonnas, hippos, walruses, gorillas… To me they are not cutest or adorable animals at all. But they worked for a young reader’s heart. Now, they are growing on me as well. I found myself attracted to them more and more, and began to search all the interesting children’s books in the library.

Sitting in a quiet corner to spend 5 minutes reading a children’s picture book is such a relaxing thing. Have you ever tried it?

In the last two days I was in a boring training sessions at the work and I almost have gone insane. I pulled out these books to read when having a break (despite people’s strange look as if I have some intellectual disability), it worked like a wonder to me to take the stress away. I tell you it is much more effective than having a cuppa or a piece of cake. I love the colourful pictures and all whimsical shapes, colours which are far beyond normal adults’ perception towards the real world. I wish I could draw like that, or have the imagination like that.

I found V has her own preference, despite my own opinions about which book is better drawn or more suitable. She has the famous “where is the green sheep” and “A very hungry caterpillar” books pretty much since she was born. Though they are all very well known and popular, she prefers the sheep more than caterpillar, but she has never been super crazy about them. I tried some other books with her as well from time to time, she sometimes would tell me straight away “I don’t like this one”, like last night, I read her the story of “A bed of your own” (Cute Suzy Sue, a chubby little girl), she frowned her eyebrows and showed not much interest. She did remember the word “squashed” from the book though.

Now I have a new Pam Allen’s book in hand, a little challenging reading “Where’s the gold?” and the collection of Dr. Seuss’ 4 books. I love Dr. Seuss myself very much. It’s so inspiring and I think I am kind of in the transforming stage to change my drawing style to his

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind” – Dr. Seuss

I hope V would like them just as much as I do.

Beautiful Dahlias

Annie — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 06:36:15 +0000

I do love dahlias, though for many years, I love all the dahlia-liked patterns without knowing what their names are.

I suppose in my mind, in a not very conscious way, I always want to plant two kinds of flowers in my garden, one would be Hydrangea, and another, of course dahlia. They would both make great cutting flowers, to me, which would be the most important or only benefit from having a garden .

So here is a real dahlia cutting flower, from the Macedonia Temple the next door to my office. One of my colleagues, Susan, who strongly recommended me and Kath to go in and have a look after she accidentally paid a visit after her lunch walk. Apparently she passed by and saw the door open and she went in and got all impressed by the massive wood carving on the whole wall.

So Kath and I went. It is a not a very big place but very finely made. There were ladies decorating some sort of grave thing with the flowers from their own gardens for their Easter ceremony that is going to be held on Sunday morning. I couldn’t resist the lovely smell of the beautiful flowers and asked her to give me one. She gave us two, one for each.

Yesterday, after multiple times of “buying and trying and returning” several sets of lamp shades from Target (that’s why I love target) in the last 2-3 weeks, we finally agreed on this one. They are plain white fabric on outside shade and dahlia patterns on inside fabric), which means that you can only see the dahlia patterns when they are lit up. It is very pretty and effective. I really love the look, and I know it is probably to do with dahlias:-)

Life is a beautiful bitch

Treat With Tricks

Annie — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:53:00 +0000

Do you play tricks with your children to make them believe that the world is in their control rather than others? It’s like a lie with good intention. My husband is a master of this. The very recent trick that my husband is playing with Vivian is to make her believe that she can put out the light by blowing air to the lamp, especially our floor lamp in the living room.

Every time when we need to light up the lamp or put out the lamp, we asked V to blow it from wherever she was. After so many times successful experience in putting out the light by blowing the air from her mouth, now we think that she totally believes that it was her in the control of that lamp, while the real secret is a timer installed in the power point which is linking to this lamp, and a remote control that we can hold in hand to press the button to switch it on/off around the same time when she was blowing the air. The remote control is so tiny that can fit in our fist easily. she never took the notice of its existence and of course she was always very focusing on her action and enjoyed the whole thing.

It reminded me one of Adam Sandler’s movie (Can’t remember the name). He gave the boy a pair of sunnies and told him whenever he feels scared, he can wear them then nobody would be able to see him. Of course it is a lie, just like what we have been doing to V. But sometimes don’t you find it easier to just give children “light” answers than making their world too serious?

Some people might call it deception, false leading information or manipulation of the perception, we see human being’s (especially adult) sense of humour that is being played here to give our children easier version of understanding for their logic. Do you agree? Do you play tricks with them as well?

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Autumn

Annie — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:09:53 +0000

If autumn comes, can winter be far behind? I love every single element of this beautiful season. It is so colourful but indicating the fading of the life (or the beginning of a new cycle)…. Sadness, but with the hope for tomorrow, to come. Related Posts Do I really love autumn? Ave interj Randomness