Last week, I was driving past a university, and I saw some students taking their graduation photos in the rain.
When
you have slogged three, four, six, ten years. Don't you think you
deserve an elaborate ceremony like this? The water engineer getting his
PhD.
***Inside the Auckland Town Hall***
This
was my capping/graduation/convocation with Mark. I walked from the
campus at Princess Street, down Victoria Street, walked up the stairs
into the Great Hall. Then I never saw him again. I wonder where he is
now.
My reflection for this week is two profound
ideas. I just learn that some Town fathers wanted to demolish this
building. Luckily there was some wise people who opposed to this move.
Imagine this grand old lady was gone? What a great loss it would be.
The
other is some people advocate that you don't need to succeed in life
without an education. I beg to differ. Education has served my family
very well. My grand grand dad had a SIEW CAI, and equivalent of a
university degree more than 100 years ago in China. The family had
instilled in us the value of education. Yes, we may not be rich
financially, but we have a wealth of experience.
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); born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean writer.[1][2] Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the "magic realist" tradition, is famous for novels such as The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias,
2002), which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called
"the world's most widely read Spanish-language author".[3] In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters,[4] and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize.[5]
Gutted to see this Aihe (dolphin) washed up at Browns Bay yesterday. It
had drowned from fishing line tangled around it's tail, fins and body.
One of it's fins had been torn by the
fishing line... If you're a keen fisherman like myself please be aware
of the damage that can be done by treating our moana (ocean) like a
dump. That old fishing line off your spool belongs in a bin not tossed
overboard! Otherwise this is what happens!
