Winter garden of Auckland.

 

roots of this fern.

 

pork cracking

 

toilet in the city

 

Christmas lily

 

pineapple

 

geese

 

A fledgling dropped from another tree. . It is a thrush bird.

 

auckland harbour bridge

 

yellow tubular flower

 

christmas lily

 

Christmas lily

 

auckland CBD

 

Christmas tarts

 

mum

 

The year was 1973. This is a photo of my mum, Mary Wah Kiew Chan Nee Kong.

On this day, I remember her and how she was taken away from us twenty one years ago at the age of sixty. Gone but not forgotten in her children's heart.

The second World War came and altered her life. She lived as a teenager during the war, and became a war bride.

For fear of forcedly made into a Japanese Sex Worker, my grand parents married her to an unknown man at fifteen. Loved blossomed and together, they had nine children.

This photo of Mum was taken as a group photo of some of my siblings as we were at the airport to farewell Elizabeth, the day of her engagement to Kalang.

Mum was dressed in a Kebaya, the national dress of Malaysia. People asked if she was a Malaysian Airlines stewardess. She smiled and said she was too old. We teased that she should have told them she was the director of the stewardess. At this time, she was the DEO's wife.

I wish my children got to know her, except for D, the others have not seen their wonderful grandma.

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Ann Chin

Christmas pudding

 

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My friend A, gave me this English Christmas pudding.

 this is the real McCoy, she made it herself from her old English recipe.

Here is my sister Grace demonstrating, "How to serve Pudding."

1: Steam the pudding

2: Pour brandy over the pudding.

3: Light the pudding until it flames all over,

4: Smell the delicious aroma.

5: Eat the pudding with custard and ice cream

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giant prawns from Austrlia

 

Giant garlic butter prawn from Australia

Meryta sinclairii, the puka or pukanui,

 

Meryta sinclairii, the puka or pukanui, is a large-leaved evergreen tree endemic to New Zealand that grows to about 8 m tall, with the distinctly tropical appearance typical of the genus. There are about 27 species of Meryta, all small, resinous trees of the subtropical and tropical Pacific Ocean. Wikipedia

Nandina domestica 'Nana' - sacred bamboo,

 

 Nandina domestica 'Nana' - sacred bamboo,

passion fruit