What a strange phenomenon in the UK. A Christian society with Church of England as their official church, they are not even allowed to mention their faith in their recruitment advertisment. What does this “Customer Insight and Strategy Director” mean? Are they looking for someone to attract congregation back to the church? “A Visionary Christian [...]
What is French cuisine? I have asked this question to many people and to myself. To get an answer is harder than you think. For example, when you think of Italian cuisine, you will say immediately pizza, pasta. For Indian, it’s curry. For British, fish and chips. For Chinese, sweet and sour. But for French [...]
This is the original story of “Gordon Brown’s son has cystic fibrosis” written by The Sun published on 30 November 2006: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article73335. The story started with this: “FRIENDS of Gordon and Sarah Brown last night called their second baby heartache an ‘enormous blow’ – but said the couple were determined to stay strong.” and the [...]
Heidi, her years of wandering and learning; a story for children and those who love children was written by Swiss author Johanna Spyri (12 June 1827 – 7 July 1901) in 1880. The book is about a little girl Heidi, who lost her parents and was taken under the care of Aunt Dete. The story [...]
The dream started with a Japanese anime series from the 70s called Heidi, Girl of the Alps (飄零燕) about an orphan Heidi who lived on the Alps. It is based on the Swiss novel “Heidi’s Years of Wandering and Learning” by Johanna Spyri (1880). Ever since watching the cartoon series, I always idealised that one [...]
Don’t give up….. One day I decided to quit… I quit my job, my relationship, my spirituality… I wanted to quit my life. I went to the woods to have one last talk with God. ‘God’, I asked, ‘Can you give me one good reason not to quit?’ His answer surprised me… ‘Look around’, He [...]
Since the Second World War, the Japan China relationship has always been awkard and uneasy and they have never been close. This is true not just from the government and political level, but among the ordinary citizens as well. I am a Chinese. My grandfather would never buy any Japanese goods when he was alive. [...]
Recently, I watched the programme of Britain’s Trillion Pound Horror Story by Channel 4. The programme, presented by Martin Durkin, painted a very gloomy picture for Britain. Using many visual presentations, Mr Durkin was telling the people in Britain that we are in serious trouble with 4.8 trillion pound in debt. And then, it used [...]
Hong Kong is a place to make money. Elizabeth Gilbert in her book Eat, Pray, Love has said that there’s a word in every city, which defines what people think most of the time. If you could read the thoughts of the people on the street, you could discover that most of them were thinking [...]
If you are looking for romantic luxury hotels for your holidays, I have a recommendation for you – the Paradores in Spain. My best travel experience in Spain was not Barcelona, which of course is always fascinating to visit when you are surrounded by Gaudi’s architecture and Picasso/Dali’s paintings. But my most romantic luxurious experience [...]
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