Rainy mood on a sunny day

15 Feb 2014

Captured lifestyle: Wuzhen old street

Narrow flagstone alleys and ancient homes from the Qing Dynasty...Time frozen here.

Captured lifestyle: Wuzhen China

An ancient water town. Houses are all by the water edge and The transportation mode is by boats rowed along the many canals.

Home, heart

ABC WEDNESDAY this week is letter "H",

My "H" is for hearts, a heart shape cake from my dear daughter...

and My "H" is for Home too.

"Home is where your heart belongs to."

The yellow leaf

 
Happiness is looking at the yellow leaf among the green, and appreciate the beauty…
More happiness is here.

Imperfect Beauty 2

Imperfect beauty, need you pay more attention to them…

Art Of Food

The little guy made from all fruits and vegetables, will you eat "him"?
Color Carnival

Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often

These three handsome burgundy and ivory blocks featuring three favorite traditional sayings "Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often" are the the giveaway gifts by Ruby Tuesday hosted by Mary. The winner is JUNIE ROSE of Our Place. A nice blog too. My previous Ruby Tuesday post is about aquarium fish, Though I am not the winner, but I still love these six words. I think it is good enough for me to have the picture here with this famous quote. It is one of my favorite quotes in life.

“Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often”

Visit the Six words Saturday Meme here, there are more interesting and wonderful six words.

Life as I see it #2: Aquarium Fish Tank

What do you see in life? I wish to see more of different views in life from different parts of this world. So I created this meme last week. This is the 2nd entry. I wish to receive more entries.
“Life as I see it” will be up every Wednesday pacific time after midnight and will remain open until the following Wednesday. That is simple to join this meme, during the week, you can post anything about what you see in life on your own blog. (It can be a photo, a random though to share your happiness or sadness in life.) So make your post, and remember to come back here to sign MckLinky to add your blog, visit other blog listed, maybe the views from other people life do help you.
I try not to complicate this meme with many rules. But I will appreciate that you leave a link to this blog on your post, You can find the code of “Life as I see it” badge on side bar. Thank you.

Ten posts will be randomly selected on the first Saturday of each month, and be featured on the sidebar of this blog for one month period. This is my way to say thank you to all participations.

Enjoy life as whatever it is.
Here is a piece of my life. Learning something new, and looking forward to create some fun for home. Don’t forget to add your blog list below if you have something to share with me.
Ruby Tuesday: Aquarium Fish Photography continued…

Here are another two photos of aquarium fish tank for Watery Wednesday,  have fun visiting the other participation…Photos were taken using my Nokia cell phone, it is a very bad result. Next time I should avoid using the flash, it may cause a glare off the glass.

Silly Haiku Wednesday: Time

Blooming under the sunshine
Happiness and love is short
Time of sadness

This week’s theme is: Time

Shadow Shot-Love Story

   

 

Young Photographer

It's Outdoor Wednesday hosted by the wonderful Susan @ A Southern Daydreamer. I enjoy outdoor activities but not many that wonderful photos taken. Here are three old photos of my daughter which were taken during our trip to China last year . 

                                           

Photos were taken China, Xiamen Gulangyu Island

What If

Life as I see it, these are answers to What if? from http://alteringlife.blogspot.com/
What if you had a bad day? -A day is only 24 hours, it will be over very fast.
What if you had a bad week? -I believe the following week will be better.
What if the sliding door on your van jammed shut and wouldn't open? – Call help line…
What if said van started making screechy, scary noises and you thought it was going to kick the bucket? –Stop it
What if you didn't do so well on your diet?--Try my best, do oit again.
What if you weren't rich, but had neighbors who were?--So what, does it bored me?
What if those neighbors looked down their noses at you like you weren't as good as they were?--It doesn't matter, as long as they weren't disturb my life.
What if your prime lens stopped working for no reason at all?--Send for repair.
What if that happened on the very day your warranty expired?--No choice, it is my bad luck.
What if your four year old (kid) was still two years behind in language development?—I will be busy checking around for help.
What if they wanted to test him for a new medical condition that has no cure?—Wordless. What can I do now.
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What if you realized that all life's problem, no matter how big, were temporary?—Yes, I always think by this way.
What if you knew that at the end of your journey awaited righteousness, peace and joy?--LOL
What if your Father could wrap his arms around you and make it all better?—Yes he did, but he was far away from me now and will never be back forever.
What if you were a child of God?--Never ever think of this question.
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Joy is…

"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." ~Marianne Williamson

My friend who loves flowers so much, she got this 99 roses from her secret admire…

Two things in life

Two things in life that, once gone- never come back: Time and Words 
Two things in life that are most valuable: Love and Confidence
Two things in life that are never certain: Dreams and Fortune
Two things in life we must learn: Learn to wait and learn to laugh
Two things in life are most important:Sincerity and Commitment
Two things in life we must appreciate: Family and Friendship
Two things in life that can destroy a man/woman: Alcohol and drug
Two things in life we must give up: Pride and anger
Two things in life that, once lost, hard to build-up: Respect and Trust

Are you fit?

You're Pretty Fit

You are fitter than most people but likely not as fit as you want to be. You do your best to work out, but you probably don't do it as much as you like. Maybe you need to do mini-workouts throughout the day to fit in exercise. Or maybe you need a whole new activity to motivate you. No matter what, you should get moving!

Are You Fit? Try this out.

And I think you will like this post A simple way to sexy

ABCs of my happiness

a: a cup of coffee in the morning
b: being active as a participant in society
c: coming home after a long day out
d: doing nothing
e: eat and won't get fat
f: forgive and forget
 
g: ghost stories
h: have friends to share your happiness
i: Internet surfing
j: jogging in a park
k: kneeling in the dirt to garden
l: listening to the birds singing in the morning
m: morning can sleep till 9am
n: no queue when waiting for taxi
o: open minded in life
p: preparing dinner for be loved one
q: quiet house
r: reading a good book
s: sunny days
t: tea time
u: understand and being understood
v: visits from friends
w: waving hello after a long absence
x: x means hugs from be loved people
y: yellow light on right turn traffic junction
z: zzzzzzzzzz... a good night of sleep
Read the post from Mama craft, this is my ABCs of happiness, what is your ABCs of happiness? Cheers.

What are you creating in your life?

What are you creating in your life? I was asked when having dinner with my good friend Tina last Sunday.  That’s a tough question for me. I was thinking about it for a few days... I think I’m a person like to create something new and fun in my life. As these words are typed on a keyboard I am creating my friendship with all of you by sharing some though in life. I work as search engine optimizer, I like to help my clients to create a web presence that is effective and authentically to them. I like gardening though I don't even have a small piece of land to be a gardener, but I create the greedy and lovely feeling for my house using different kinds of container, taking good care of many plants in my balcony. I like artistic creation, I enjoy flowers arrangement for my friends whenever they have special occasion. Decorating a wedding car is one of my favourites, I am creating the happiness for the wedding couple. There are much more things on the list... What are you creating in your life? It doesn't matter what you are creating in life but remember don't create any troubles for yourself, for others.

The Ten Greatest Person On My List

Here are the greatest person on my list and their favourite quotes I like. They are on my idol list, what is yours?
Mother Teresa

• Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
• Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
• Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
• Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

Jerry Yang (Co-Founder of Yahoo!)

• I don't like the outcome of what happens with these things. But we have to follow the law.
• I think that it's always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas. I will say that since the Web has become more commercialized, it also takes some good financial resources to build a great business, but as I always say, you have to have the idea first.
• We are all here in China that represents quite a lot of opportunities, not only on the business side, but also on the social side.
• China is a key market for any Internet company. We think (the deal) will allow us to grow from a strong position to a dominant one.

Bill Gates (Founder of Microsoft)

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  Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

• Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
• If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Jimmy Wales (Founder of Wikipedia) 

• Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together. 

Steve Jobs (CEO of Apple)

• Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
• You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
  

Kevin Rose (Founder of Digg)

• It gives us a chance to show off our community.
• It's not that we don't want to pay people, but we don't want to discourage people who are not getting paid from submitting quality content.

Mark Zuckerberg (the youngest self-made billionaire who founded Facebook)

• There's lots of stuff none of us have ever seen before. That's good in some ways, but limiting in other ways.
• People are learning how to use the site and what's OK to share. As time goes on, people will learn what's appropriate, what's safe for them - and learn to share accordingly.

Larry Page (Founder of Search Engine Giant - Google)

• If you can run a company a bit more collaboratively, you can get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.
• You don't need a 100-person company to develop the idea.

Sergey Brin (Founder of Search Engine Giant - Google) 

We just want to have great people working for us.

Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.
Lee Kuan Yew, Minister Mentor Of Singapore 

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

The best way to connect with my daughter

I didn't know that the best way to connect with my daughter is blogging, until one day she sent me an email said, "Mum, I love your blog..."
I start to realize that she has some improvement on what I complained in my blog about her bad habits, I realize that she accepts my advices and opinions on a lot of things, like fashion, friends etc though she doesn't want to accept it in front of me and always says there is generation gap...
Does the generation gap exit? Yes, think back of my own young time, I dare not to say I was a "good" girl who listened to mum on every thing. So how can I except she will accept my opinions and listen to me all?
Many moms get in the “Mom Mindset” of seeing everything that is wrong. Me too. By reading her blog, reading her friend's commons on her post, I get to know better about her opinions too, know what they like and what don't like. It did help me when I want to scold her on some topics. But do remember to never blog about things about your kids  that might embarrass them. I read one of her friends write something like this: "I hate my mum telling people about my ugly haircut..." Sometime, small matter to us, is a big deal to them. 
When you do blog, remember your kids maybe reading, look for ways to connect with them through your words.  I think blogging is definitely a way we as moms can connect with our children, whether they read our blogs now, or later. For sure if you write something you don't want them to know, it is better you don't let them know what is your blog URL at all,  and do not write your real name too. Children are very smart now. :) LOL.