Peace and Quiet for 3 Weeks 宁静的3个星期

Myself, my wife and three other good friends have just returned from an overseas trip, covering Los Angeles (USA), Alaska, Vancouver (Canada) and surrounding places of attraction. At Los Angeles, we visited Hollywood Boulevard, Disneyland, Universal Studios, Las Vegas and Grand Canyon West Rim.

After leaving Los Angeles, we travelled to Seattle (USA), boarded a ship and cruised north to Alaska stopping at Ketchikan, Juneau and Skagway.

My mobile phone could not receive any messages or phone call in USA, Canada and on the ship, and it was too expensive to use Internet. I had 3 weeks of peace and quiet and did not have to worry about work!

我，我的妻子和三个好朋友刚从海外的旅行回来 - 包括洛杉矶(美国) ，阿拉斯加，温哥华(加拿大)和周围的地方。在洛杉矶，我们曾到好莱坞大道，迪士尼，环球影城，拉斯维加斯和大峡谷西部游览。

离开洛杉矶后,我们前往西雅图(美国)登上一艘船往北到阿拉斯加–途中停在 Ketchikan， Juneau 和 Skagway。

在美国,加拿大和在该船上我的手机无法接收任何邮件或电话，使用互联网太贵。我享受了3个星期的宁静假日，不必担心工作！

宁静的3个星期 Peace and Quiet for 3 Weeks

我，我的妻子和三个好朋友刚从海外的旅行回来 - 包括洛杉矶(美国) ，阿拉斯加，温哥华(加拿大)和周围的地方。在洛杉矶，我们曾到好莱坞大道，迪士尼，环球影城，拉斯维加斯和大峡谷西部游览。

离开洛杉矶后,我们前往西雅图(美国)登上一艘船往北到阿拉斯加–途中停在 Ketchikan， Juneau 和 Skagway。

在美国,加拿大和在该船上我的手机无法接收任何邮件或电话，使用互联网太贵。我享受了3个星期的宁静假日，不必担心工作！

Myself, my wife and three other good friends have just returned from an overseas trip, covering Los Angeles (USA), Alaska, Vancouver (Canada) and surrounding places of attraction. At Los Angeles, we visited Hollywood Boulevard, Disneyland, Universal Studios, Las Vegas and Grand Canyon West Rim.

After leaving Los Angeles, we travelled to Seattle (USA), boarded a ship and cruised north to Alaska stopping at Ketchikan, Juneau and Skagway.

My mobile phone could not receive any messages or phone call in USA, Canada and on the ship, and it was too expensive to use Internet. I had 3 weeks of peace and quiet and did not have to worry about work!

Where will the smokers go

Where will the smokers go for their cakes or meals if smoking is banned in all indoor and outdoor compound for dining? Nowhere, of course, unless they give up their dirty, and unhealthy habit.

Healthy options for fussy eaters

Children don't like to be told just to eat fruit and vegetables. Besides fun, they want to find out more!

Let them find out the names of fruit and vegetables. Maths questions can be set about the fruit and vegetable prices, per kg or per meal, discount calculation on supermarket promotion.

Outdoor activities can include growing fruit trees and vegetables the organic way, and in biology lab by hydroponic. Combining with other sciences, children can learn about energy in joules, the chemistry of salt and sugar; classify them in terms of carbohydrate, protein, fat, acid, alkali, soluble and non-soluble fibres, various vitamins and minerals.

In English classes, children can have show-n-tell their trips to fruit and vegetable farms; present essays or short stories related to fruit and vegetables. To go further, act out in drama classes the fruit and vegetables characters.

Children should learn about the unhealthy effects of not eating enough fruit and vegetables. They should be shown pictures or documentaries on children suffering from various vitamin deficiencies, obesity; in extreme cases side effects that can lead to cancer.

Alfresco-Style Dining at Footpath Must Go

The Workplace Safety Act 2004 stipulates that all stakeholders - shopkeepers, employees, Council, diners have a duty of care to the safety of the public. To avoid potential accidents, it is only wise to keep footpath to be used as it has been designed for. It only takes one casualty, for example, a pedestrian walking out of the footpath being knocked down by a car in the process of parking at the marked bay, to cost the shopkeepers / ratepayers heaps for insurance compensation.

According to Food Standard 3.2.3, Div 2, Para 3(d), "The design and construction of food premises must to the extent that is practicable – exclude dirt, dust, fumes, smoke and other contaminants." All cafes and restaurants that offer Alfresco dining experience essentially fail the test of the Food Standards Code. Diners breathe in exhaust fumes from motor vehicles, dirt and dust blown in from the street.

300 million Chinese in China are obese

Posted to blog.people.com.cn on 23/2/2010
中国三万万人民是过重的!

看过安徽电视上的一段有关”胖胖艺术团节”目后驱使我写此博客.若要参加这艺术团体重必须超过 250斤.

除非过重者是疾病受害者或遗传故障,他们永远不应承认和接受自己是一个生理正常的人.
这社会是充满矛盾的.我们可以把一个漂亮的女人与名人,明星,仙女或东西相比,举例来说淑美肯尼迪,索菲娅罗兰,姮娥或者是花.但不可把一个过重者与肥猪相比.

不管取笑过重者这些坏蛋是小孩或成人,我不同意过重者使用不理采或者屈服方式于那些人.这只可能克服过重者心理的污点,但体重问题的根仍然存在.

过重的受难者不应被认为懒惰,也不应该误解是一团活泼的人.无任是何种形状和大小的人, 他们也有可能是懒惰或活泼.

我们必须尊重这些过重者为个别人士,并给他们动机和鼓励来克有体重问题,

体重不是一夜之间增加或减轻的;它需要花费几周或几个月.千万不能指望一夜之间或在很短的时间内发生的奇迹.当我感到我的裤子紧时,我知道是减食时候.

我情愿牺牲一些食物,比没命享受食物较好!

300 million Chinese are obese.

I am prompted to write this blog after watching a segment of an Anhui TV program on Pangpang (Fat) Troupe 胖胖艺术团. To join the troupe, one has to be over 125 kg.
Unless overweight people are victims of diseases or genetic malfunction, they should never consider and accept themselves as normal physiologically.

Our society is full of contradiction. While it is alright to compare a beautiful woman with a famous person, movie star, fairy or object, such as Jackie Kennedy, Sophia Loren, Cháng'é or flower, it is not acceptable to compare an overweight person to a fat pig.

I do not agree with the view that overweight people have to ignore or give in to other people calling them names, whether the culprit is a child or an adult. This may overcome their psychological stigma, but the root of the weight problem still exists.

Neither overweight “sufferers” be branded particularly as lazy, nor have the misconception that they are a happy bunch. Many people of any shape and size can be lazy or jovial, too.

We must respect these people as individuals having weight problem, and give them the motivation and encouragement to overcome it.

Weight is not put on or reduced overnight; it takes weeks or months. One cannot expect miracle to happen overnight or within a short time. When I feel my trousers getting tighter, I know I have to reduce my food intake.

I prefer to sacrifice some food, rather than not having a life to enjoy food at all!

Exercise hurdle for new mums

Posted to Waverley Leader on 4/2/2010
Commenting on “Exercise hurdle for new mums”
http://waverley-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/exercise-hurdle-for-new-mums/

I wonder what happened before the "invention" of gym, netball, tennis, etc. Were all the women over-weight? I also wonder what Dr Lombard means by slow and tiring jobs. Is it mentally or physically slow and tiring?

Too much emphasis and credit have been given to exercise by doctors and experts, thus making it the panacea of fixing weight problems. What is lacking in the grey matter in these professionals and fanatics are commonsense and the concept of self management / discipline. Weight gain is the consequence of excess food intake. If energy requirement and dissipation are reduced, one should consume less, no matter whether the food is cheap or tempting.

I have not seen a single obese resident in any aged care home; they hardly do any exercise, and the jobs they performed are slow and tiring (by their standard). So forget about those "expert advice"; start lowering your food consumption. Walking to the toilet, getting letters from the letter box, preparing meals, washing dishes, mopping the floors, wiping the tables and floors, brushing teeth, washing face, rubbing or scrubbing body in a shower, etc. are good enough daily exercises to keep your heart pumping and oxygen flowing.