Life in United Kingdom

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Xiao Qiang" < brenda.rili.sheng@gmail.com > Date: Apr 27, 2014 10:56 AM Subject: Warrior Cats To: "Jim Sheng" < jim.sheng@gmail.com > Cc: I like the book a lot. The book is sad and also funny but exciting and adventurous at the same time. A lot of battle mode and survival stuff and it is really a good book. But... i would appreciate it if they talked more about the other clans. Because in this book they only talk about Thunderclan. If they talked more about where Windclan was and how they survive or if they survive. Also Riverclan isn't mentioned much apart from the beginning and the gathering each moon. I liked the great description of each scene for example, Erin hunter talks about the scene in the forest a lot. And i like how Firepaw (Fireheart, Rusty) meets Smudge again and Smudge looks different than before. I was confused at the beginning what the word cutter was so I looked farther int...

Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device From: brenda sheng <brenda.rili.sheng@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 19:26:52 +0000 To: Jim Sheng<jim.sheng@gmail.com> Subject: Story The Fat King Once upon a time there was a kingdom with... a fat king! He was very fat and lazy, he had 10 servants to help him to eat, and helped him to go to bed, and lots of other things. His first servant served the food on the table, the second servant put food on the spoon, the third servant opened his mouth, the fourth servant put the food in his mouth, the fifth servant had to help him chew! The sixth one fed him soup, the seventh one blew the soup if it was too hot, the eighth one wiped his mouth with a wet towel, the ninth one fed him desserts, and the tenth one put drinks in his mouth. The king was ''so'' lazy that he didn't even walk! He was carried around by some servants. One day the chairs for the king were braking so the servants had to mak...

Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device From: brenda sheng <brenda.rili.sheng@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:35:52 +0000 To: Jim Sheng<jim.sheng@gmail.com> Subject: The gingerbread Man by dory The Gingerbread Man Once upon a time… there was a old man and old lady, they made a gingerbread man and they mixed.  They mixed and they mixed. It was done, and they pressed the cutter on the dough. They made raisins for eyes… and cherry for nose. Orange skin for his mouth and three raisins for his buttons. They put it on the oven and they were watching TV. and the oven called ding ding! So they opened the oven and the gingerbread man quickly ran out the door and said "run run run! As fast as you can! you can't catch me! i'm the gingerbread man!" The old lady and old man said "stop stop!" We love gingerbread men! They ran and they met a little boy and little girl and the boy was pushing the girl on the swings. The girl said ...

Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device From: brenda sheng <brenda.rili.sheng@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:02:13 +0000 To: Jim Sheng<jim.sheng@gmail.com> Subject: Acrostic Poem S pringtime when baby lamb are born, beautiful flowers and small chicks. P ray for the lord Jesus Christ for Jesus has risen from the dead R ound the short corner to becoming older a new year, be happy refresh yourselves. I nside caves and growing, new lives come to earth and live a happy life together with their mothers. N o snow is left a splash of colour grows from the ground respect spring for it is beautiful. G rass is green, starting a new year, celebrations to the end new events coming up so...... Happy New Year!!!!!

Most of us are quite lazy when it comes to the news. There are 24 hour news channels like the BBC and SKY news; surely they must cover all of the issues? If you thought so then you are in for a rude shock. Although these news channels claim to be international you will generally only hear what is going on in the UK. Sure there is news from the US and very major events are covered but they make the decision as to what is major and what is not. There is a major skew in terms of focus to the US, leaving only time for bad news from the Middle East and nothing from the east or South America. The only time you will hear about Africa is during the (depressing) charity commercials in-between.  I became bored with this paltry offering and looked further afield. The first and easiest options are to look a few channels over at say Russia Today which has a strong US focus but in the negative skew. They also cover other world news with more breadth and depth. Al Jazeera English is...

I recently watched a TED talk about how we look at charities and other organisations which try to help people or causes they believe in. It was a real eye opening moment for me. I was always suspicious of large charities and their high “overheads” which I read as the organizers taking home a nice pay packet. I would also wonder why so many charities spend so much on advertising and not actually on the cause itself. Well I can explain why this is not the best way to analyse a charity in a few examples. Firstly it is acceptable for a very successful professional to go to work make money for his or her organization and be sufficiently compensated for this at the end of the month. Now, if we were to have a professional who was making a charity a lot of money and took home a good competitive salary we may deem them to be a parasite. This attitude is not useful, it makes many people have to choose between a life where they can achieve financial success or one where they can help people...

I used to buy two bottles of milk, two bags of bread, etc., in order to get multibuys saving. But recently I noticed you can mix and match any products, like one bread and one milk, to get multbuys savings. I don't know if it's checkout system error?