New ZEaland Election 2011.

I voted today, and not every woman had a vote in our history.

I am very proud of Kate Sheppard. Her image appears on our ten dollar note. She is mainly responsible for New Zealand to be the first country to give women the vote in modern times.


Katherine Wilson Sheppard (10 March 1847 – 13 July 1934) was the most prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage movement, and is the country's most famous suffragette. Because New Zealand was the first country to introduce universal suffrage, Sheppard's work had a considerable impact on women's suffrage movements in other countries. During one of the protest movement, she led a whole group of ladies to lie down on the road and the police couldn't do anything.

Sheppard played a considerable part in getting the women's suffrage bill was successfully passed, granting women full voting rights. Sheppard herself was widely acknowledged as the leader of the women's suffrage movement.

An elderly friend in her 80s told me that when she was growing up, the girls wanted to be like Kate.
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"On 19 September 1893 the governor, Lord Glasgow, signed a new Electoral Act into law. As a result of this landmark legislation, New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections.

In most other democracies – notably Britain and the United States – women did not win the right to the vote until after the First World War. New Zealand's world leadership in women's suffrage became a central part of our image as a trail-blazing 'social laboratory'."

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I felt very funny at how flimsy the ballot boxes are, They are just card board boxes. In 1974, Sarawak had a election. As a teacher in Kai Chung school, together with Miss Chieng, i was invited to count the votes.

It was serious busniess, the ballot boxes were made of heavy metal and had a strong padlock. I felt very important that night. An experience I will tell my grand children about. I suppose I can consider that as one of my bucket list.

Sunday Stills: Letter P

Sunday Stills, the next Challenge: The Letter P
Posted in Sunday Stills with tags Sunday Stills on March 6, 2011 by Ed

So anything that starts with the letter “P” this week, including people, places and things..Hava great week…Ed

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Thank you Ed, Letter is just the right letter for me this week. P is for Point Chevalier School where I work. This Friday, our teachers Nicole and Keren organised our first Crops for Christchurch to raise funds for the victims of the earthquake in Christchurch. P is for peaches, parsley, produce and parents who donated the produce and who bought the organic herbs and vegetables and fruits.

FSO/Outdoor Wednesday: Panning for gems

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We were at Crystal Mountains, For $5 you get a packet of black sand with at least 5 gems and you get the experience to a pan for gems.

My World Tuesday: Maori poles.

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These three Maori poles greet tourists at Achilles Point at St Heliers. A Pou or totem which has been carved with a variety of different faces symbolizing gods.


Achilles Point commemorates the 1939 battle of the River Plate where the New Zealand crewed Achilles engaged with other allied vessels to defeat legendary German cruiser Graf Spee.

FSO: Framed

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Double Takes With Rebecca: Frame Your Photo
One way to add interest to your photos is to frame them before you take them!
So obviously I am not talking about a wooden frame with glass,
I am talking about using the environment to create a frame for your subject.

I am so not creative. Even as I post this, I realise the Thai lion I photographed on top of a Thai restaurant does not qualify. But it is an interesting object. The fish is real.

Happy New Year to all, I greatly enjoyed being part of Friday Shootout.

Ahoy there! Matey

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This pirate was outside the Maritime museum recruiting people to join him. I also ran away with him, but I couldn't get rid of the water engineer.

Last year, when I was doing Pirates, I got my students to write their runaway note, and used tea bags to stain the paper. It almost looked like the real thing.

sunday stills red and green

The last two photos of the church, the roof of the old building was red and the plants are green. For the new church building, the lights of the cars are red so they qualify for this theme.

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Sunday Stills, the next challenge: Red and Green
A little explanation of this challenge, the picture or pictures must have both the colors red and green in the same pic. This will take a bit of imagination and a staged picture and once again no Archives so christmas pics from last year don’t count..;-)

Good luck….Ed

Thank you Ed, it just happened that again, I could do s SS theme in one day, and it is not last year's Christmas photos.

Every now and then, I get the opportunity to serve. This past Friday and Saturday, Mt Albert Baptist Church hosted the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit. One hundred and twenty people attended. In an event like this, a lot of hard work is involved.

Under the leadership of the Hospitality Coordinator Wendy Kettenbeld, we put on not only beautiful refreshment for the stomach but also for the eyes. I am posting this specially for Wendy as she was too busy to stop and look, and also for other people in the church who were curious of how it went.

These photos have red and green for this week's theme. Don't you think the church lounge looked as though it was decorated by a team of professionals. I included the toy corner, as it was the place where the volunteers had their lunch.

outdoor wednesday: Dressing up

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If only schools in my time was this interesting and fun, I would have become a doctor or a scientist.
Here with her students is Sarah Turner, the principal of the Kids Forever Christian Preschool in Mt Albert, Auckland.

I had an errant to run when I saw her dressed in a beautiful black sparklely Indian Sari. She obliged me with this photo taken today for their dressing up day in her preschool. Go to this link of my other post and see her oranges.

Friday shootout: Graffiti

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A few weeks back we had Public Art as the Friday My Town topic. There is formal public art: fountains, statues, freeway overpasses embossed with the state flag or the cities football team logo or ‘legal’ art as it is called. How does graffiti or illegal art fit into the scheme of things? Is it different in every city, or in the country in which we live? Or is there an international, across all borders, aspect to all this stuff that seems to cover all vertical spaces in our cities? Has you town managed to miss this outcry – this need to express oneself in a most public way. I would like to see what others have, sometimes hidden, in their towns. I would like to know how your town tries to keep public spaces clean of ‘graffiti’ or do they encourage this ‘art’ form. Ginger VanStaveren, Rio de Janeiro

I make no bones about it,
I make no apology either.
Graffiti is wrong.
It is not a freedom of expression.
You have no freedom,
The medium is not yours.
If you draw anything on other people's property,
You have no respect for the property.
You have no respect for the owner.
You are vandalising,
You are a hoolingan.
If you think you are good,
Go approach the owner,
He may even pay you to draw on his property.

I have done a few post on this topic.

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