The Mid-Autumn Festival celebrates the time when the moon is furthest from the earth and is said to be perfectly round. The moon symbolizes balance, harmony and family. This is a very happy festival as families and neighbours gather together for moon-watching parties whilst children carry brightly-coloured lanterns. Mooncakes filled with exotic fare and tea is always served.

There are many stories regarding the origin of the mooncake and the Mid-Autumn Festival. The most popular is related to the Yuan Dynasty.

A long time ago, most of China was ruled by the Mongolians. For many years, the Chinese endured ruthlessness and hardship. Then, a revolutionist leader, Chu Yan Zhang arose to lead the Chinese people against the Mongolian empire. He organised an uprising on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon. To communicate this vital information to all other revolutionists, he concealed messages in cakes to escape scrunity of the Mongolian officials. The revolt was successful and the Mongolians were overthrown. Chu Yan Zhang later became the first Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

What is bandwidth theft and why shouldn't I do it?
If you are using images on your blog that are located at someone else's blog or website, you are stealing their bandwidth.

In other words, when you use someone else's URL address in your html codes to display an image on your site, you are stealing their bandwidth.

If you are stealing bandwidth, you are probably uneducated about the crime you are committing.  If you're a blogger, you're probably a victim of bandwidth theft.

A Crime? Yes, it is a crime. The person whose site the image is on that you are linking to for the source of the image is paying to display their image on your site.

What is bandwidth?
You go to a blog/website and see text and images.  Each time you view these, you are receiving a certain amount of information from the blog owners server**.  The amount of information you receive is considered bandwidth or traffic.  Each month or year, the blog owner pays money for a specified amount of bandwidth.  So each time an image that "lives" on their server is viewed, they are paying for it to be seen.

Lets say you found a blog button you want to display on your blog.  You figure out what the URL for the image is, and you insert that URL into your blog to show the image.  Every time someone views your blog, you are using that other blog owners bandwidth.  Which at the end of the month, they have to pay for!

How am I supposed to be doing it?
When you find an image on the internet that you want to display on your blog, you should save the image to your computer and then upload it to your blog or server. 

ADD A BUTTON TO YOUR BLOG 
Saving a blog button* or image to put onto your blog.

1. Move your cursor over the image on the left.

2. Depending on your browser and computer type, right click or left click with your mouse to show a pop-up menu. 3. Choose "save picture as" or "save image as". 4. Save this image anywhere on your computer. (and remember where you put it) 5. Upload the image to your blog. 6. Insert the image into your blog and make it a link to the blog you want people to go to. If you are a bandwidth thief and didn't know until now, follow the instructions above to correct the situation.

MIL.....she's the kind of person who.... 

  

• So into herself that she thinks she deserves the world.
• The woman thinks of herself as a kind, caring, religious woman with a positive thinking on life, but She never has anything pleasant or positive to say about anyone or about her life.
• Always treats my partner like he is a 10 year old school boy!  
• Can't tolerate people miss her phone call (or...may be just me !).
• Always think that you did not do your best to take card of your baby and her baby.
• She love to tell you the way you take care your child is not rite but she's not taking care for you.
• You dun love your child enough because you never try to cook for her every single day.
• Think you are a superwoman because you are half of her age.
• Too many friends will cause you spend more (High mainteinance cost).  
• Never do or say anything that she believe will bring her or her son bad luck, your story will broadcast islandwide and the issue will haunt you for long.
• Think you are her dearest son secretary...taking message, handling phone calls and his daily appointment..etc
• Her effort is out of goodwill but your effort is your responsibility. 
• Never say you can't make it when she cook dinner....
• Last but not least...she always "WORDS SPEAK LOUDER THAN ACTION"

One day, God created the dog and said: "Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. For this, I will give you a life span of twenty years."

And God agreed again.

         CHEER UP....

TOMORROW HAS GOT TO BE A BETTER DAY !

I've always wanted to try for YOGA but as usual...no action taken for a long long time. Finally....Aug 2005...5th Aug.....last  week.....on Friday....at 6.30pm, here I come ...my very first Yoga lesson. I had done all the above poses plus many many more....ummmm tougher poses (not easy for a beginner like me..ok !) but I follow thru' what the instructor does......SO proud of myself.

Beginning students often ask to master on the "right" way to breathe. simple breath work can lead you to a deep state of relaxation. I think I will enjoy it and will try my best to master it.

**The word yoga, from the Sanskrit word yuj means to yoke or bind and is often interpreted as "union" or a method of discipline.**

           Life is like an adventure

• Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.
• Birthdays are goodfor you - the more you have the longer you live.
• Life is a test, I didn't take very good notes.
• The meaning of life is to give life meaning.
• It is hard to understand how a cemetery raised its burial cost and blamed it on the cost of Living. 
• Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
• When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
• I intend to live foreve...so far so good.
• I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.
• I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.
• Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.
• Middle age is when the broadness of the mind and the narrowness of the waist change place.
  Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
  
  " 9 Times Out of 10 in our Life, Its not The Problem That Kills us, It's Our Solution"