Now, it’s almost 1am here…I am surfing the internet, and i found an interesting post in Poonam’s blog. So I am trying to follow this and to see what will I make in here lol
The rules are shown below: ( I copied this from Poonam’s blog)
1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
2. Using only the first page, pick an image.
3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.
Here is my work:
1. What is your first name?
Suet fun. We chinese first name might have 1 or 2 words or 3 words… so I will use the meaning of “Suet” means “snow” for seaching the first picture.
2. What is your favourite food? Right now?
My favourite food is chocolate. ;-p
3. What high school did you go to?
NTHYK Southern District Secondary School. There was nothing..so i just used ” Southern” to search for the result.
4. What is your favourite color?
Blue
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
I don’t have any crush on celebrities. Don’t know “Westlife” can be courted in it? It’s a boysgroup from Ireland. I love their songs so much in the past. ( I took this image in first page and it’s the first image…so only one member of the boysgroup was shown in the picture with 2 little fans).
6. Favorite drink?
Cold Milk Tea.
7. Dream Vacation?
A trip to Greece.
8. Favorite dessert?
Chocolate Icecream
9. What do you want to be when you grow up?
Doctor. (But now i am not. It’s my dream when i was a child)
10. What do you love most in life?
The one who love me and care for me so much.
11. One Word to describe you.
Emotional
12. Your flickr name.
snow fun. I made it in funny snow lol.
At the beginning, I thought it must be quite complicated but finally, I made it and It’s funny to see the final result! Now, it’s 1:42. I have to go to bed sleep…because tomorrow has to work..lol.
I don’t know how to TAG people in my blogroll for this tag. So if someone interested to make one, you can try it yourself and let me know if you made it~
I would like to introduce another songs for you all… “Everytime” and “I am not a girl, not yet a woman” by Britney Spears. Let’s listen to her songs. I know maybe there are some people do not like her….Anyway..
Music is no Bias and no nationality. Enjoy!
Everytime
Notice me
Take my hand
Why are we, Strangers when, Our love is strong?
Why carry on
Without me?
Everytime I try
To fly I fall
Without my wings
I feel so small
I guess I need you baby
And everytime I see
You in my dreams
I see your face
It’s haunting me
I guess I need you baby
I make believe
That you are here
It’s the only way
I see clear
What have I done?
You seem to move on easy
n’ everytime I try
To fly I fall
Without my wings
I feel so small
I guess I need you baby
And everytime I see
You in my dreams
I see your face
You’re haunting me
I guess I need you baby
I may have made it rain
Please forgive me
My weakness caused you pain
And this song’s my sorry
Oooh…
At night I pray
That soon your face will fade away
And Everytime I try
To fly I fall
Without my wings
I feel so small
I guess I need you baby
And everytime I see
You in my dreams
I see your face
You’re haunting me
I guess I need you baby
I am not a girl, Not yet a woman
I used to think
I had the answers to everything
But now I know
That life doesn’t always go my way, yeah
Feels like I’m caught in the middle
That’s when I realize
[chorus:]
I’m not a girl,
Not yet a woman
All I need is time
A moment that is mine
While I’m in between
I’m not a girl
There is no need to protect me
It’s time that I (I)
Learn to face up to this on my own, oh
I’ve seen so much more than you know now
So don’t tell me to shut my eyes
[chorus:]
I’m not a girl (A girl, not yet a woman)
Not yet a woman (I find the woman in me)
All I need is time
A moment that is mine
While I’m in between
I’m not a girl
But if you look at me closely
You will see it in my eyes
This girl will always find her way
(I’m not a girl) I’m not a girl, don’t tell me what to believe
(Not yet a woman) I’m just trying to find the woman in me, yeah
(All I need is time) Oh, all I need is time
(A moment that is mine) That’s mine
While I’m in between
[chorus:]
(I’m not a girl)
I’m not a girl (A girl, not yet a woman)
Not yet a woman (I find the woman in me)
All I need is time (Oh, all I need is time)
A moment that is mine (That’s mine)
While I’m in between
Now, it’s 2:18. I am still awake because I do not feel sleepy, so I pop up here and write this post while I am listening to this song.
Elton John is a pop/rock singer, composer and pianist in England. I think everyone know who he is. I would like to introduce this song ” Your Song” in here. The melody of this song is nice and it made me feel comfortable and relax to listen to. It also made me thinking about something happened in the past…..
Elton JohnYour Song
It’s a little bit funny, this feelin’ inside
I’m not one of those who can easily hide
I don’t have much money but boy, if I i did
I’d buy a big house where we both could live
If I was a sculptor, but then again, no
Or a man who makes potions in a travellin’ show
I know it’s not much but it’s the best I can do
My gift is my song and this one’s for you
And you can tell everybody, this is your song
It may be quite simple but now that it’s done
I hope you don’t mind
I hope you don’t mind that I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you’re in the world
I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss
Well a few of the verses, well, they got me quite cross
But the sun’s been kind while I wrote this song
It’s for people like you that keep it turn on
So excuse me forgettin’ but these things I do
You see, I’ve forgotten if they’re green or the bue
Tomorrow is Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節, zhōng qiū jié), it also known as the Moon Festival. It is one of the two most important holidays in the Chinese calendar (the other one is Chinese Lunar New Year) and it is a popular Festival in Asia. This year, the festival is fall on Sunday (14th Sept), so we will have an extra hoilday on Monday!!!
The origin of this festival can date back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China’s Shang Dynasty, that spread to neighbouring cultures like Japan. The name of Mid-Autumn Festival was first called in the Zhou Dynasty. It is held on the 15 day of the 8th lunar month of the Chinese calendar, (usually around mid- or late- September in the Gregorian Calendar).
In the past, famers celebrated the end of the summer harvesting season on this date. Besides, Chinese family memebers and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and eat mooncakes and pomeloes together as a tradition.
Furthermore, there are additional cultural/ regional customs, for example:
1) Eating mooncakes and fruits outside under the moon
4) Burning incense in reverence to deities including Chang’e
5) Planting Mid-Autumn trees
6) Fire Dragon Dances
About the traditional food of this festival, Mooncake cannot be missed… There are tons of different tastes of mooncakes sale around in here…
Typical mooncakes are round or rectangular pastries, measuring about 10 cm in diameter and 4-5 cm thick. A thick filling usually made from lotus seed paste is surrounded by a relatively thin (2-3 mm) crust and may contain yolks from salted duck eggs. Mooncakes are rich, heavy, and dense compared with most Western cakes and pastries. They are usually eaten in small wedges accompanied by Chinese tea.
Mooncake filling made of with lotus seed paste and egg yolk
The Snow Moon Cake become popular these years in Hong Kong, there are many different tastes: like orange, mango, durian, chocolate, Cuppacino….etc..Why it called snow moon cake? It is because the skin of this moon cake is white in color and it keeps cool in the fridge, when you taste it, like eating ice-cream lol~~ Besides, there are different kinds of color because of the tastes, like greentea taste with green color skin, mango taste might be with yellow skin color lol..like the picture below..it’s sesame taste with green bean paste inside.
There are different versions of tales about this festival. I just told the two most common one in here:
Chang’e flies to the moon, from Myths and Legends of China
Version one:
Houyi was a lazy boy who did nothing but to practice his archery. He practiced day and night until he became the greatest archer in the world. One day, the ten suns all assembled around the earth. Their presence destroyed all vegetation, and hundreds of thousands were perishing. The emperor, who was desperate, offered his crown to anyone who could shoot down the suns. Houyi answered his call. He shot down nine of the suns, and as he pulled his bow to shoot the last one, the emperor stopped him. Saying the earth must have one sun. Houyi then became the emperor. He was pampered to the extent that he wanted to be emperor forever. He called his advisors to look for a way to make him immortal. His advisors found a way. They found a recipe for the Pill of Immortality. It required 100 adolescent boys to be ground into a biscuit like a pill. Every night he was supposed to grind one boy. On the hundredth night, his wife Chang’e (Chinese: 嫦娥; pinyin) could not bear to watch her husband become the tyrannical dictator for eternity. She prayed to Xi Wang Mu for help. She stole the pill, with Houyi shooting arrows at her, and flew to the moon grabbing a rabbit to keep her company.So the Chinese say that if you look up at the moon to this day you can sometimes see a rabbit making moon cakes.
Moon Rabbit
Version two:
Chang’e was a goddess. She fell in love with a farmer, Houyi, and he fell in love with her, not knowing she was from the heavens up above. Soon he had found out and the gods from heaven were furious of them because it was forbidden for a god or goddess to fall in love with a human. They had a child together but she still had to leave both her beloved husband and child behind during mid-autumn. She would represent the moon, he would represent as the sun and the child would represent as the stars. Taken pity over them, they are only allowed to see each other every mid-autumn.
There is a music can be represented this festival. I have introduced this singer in the former post:
但願人長久 Wishing we last forever- by 鄧麗君 Teresa Teng
Actually, this song lyrics was from a famous poem Shui diao ge tou (traditional Chinese: 水調歌頭; simplified Chinese: 水调歌头) which made by a Song Dynasty poet Su Shi, commonly known as Su Dongpo.
明月幾時有？
把酒問青天。
不知天上宮闕，
今夕是何年？
我欲乘風歸去，
唯恐瓊樓玉宇，
高處不勝寒。
起舞弄清影，
何似在人間！
轉朱閣，
低綺戶，
照無眠。
不應有恨，
何事長向別時圓？
人有悲歡離合，
月有陰晴圓缺，
此事古難全。
但願人長久，
千里共嬋娟。
English translation:
Bright moon, when did you appear?
Lifting my wine, I question the dark night sky.
Tonight in the palaces and halls of heaven
what year is it, I wonder?
I would like to ride the wind, make my home there,
Only I hide in a jade room of a beautiful mansion,
As I could not bear the cold of high altitudes.
So I rise and dance and play in your pure beams,
this human world — how can it compare with yours?
Circling red chambers,
low in the curtained door,
you shine on the sleepless.
Surely you bear us no ill will —
why then must you be so round at times when we humans are parted!
People have their grieves and joys, their togetherness and separation,
The moon has its dark and clear times, its waxings and wanings.
Situations are never ideal since long ago.
I only hope we two may have long long lives,
So that we may share the moon’s beauty even though we are a thousand miles apart.
