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15 global challenges that cannot be addressed by any government acting alone

  The 15 Global Challenges  from t he Millennium Project, a global participatory think tank. 1. How can sustainable development be achieved for all while addressing global climate change? 2. How can everyone have sufficient clean water without conflict? 3. How can population growth and resources be brought into balance? 4. How can genuine democracy emerge from authoritarian regimes? 5. How can decisionmaking be enhanced by integrating improved global foresight during unprecedented accelerating change? 6. How can the global convergence of information and communications technologies work for everyone? 7. How can ethical market economies be encouraged to help reduce the gap between rich and poor? 8. How can the threat of new and reemerging diseases and immune micro-organisms be reduced? 9. How can education make humanity more intelligent, knowledgeable, and wise enough to address its global challenges? 10. How can shared values and new security strategies reduce ethnic conflicts,...

Hot Cross Buns toasted

Jim bought a pack of Hot Cross buns. It was reduced to clear and looked stale. When he was about to eat one. "You can toast and then butter it," Becky suggested. "I have never tried that," Jim said "You cut the bun into half, and toast it. I saw my teacher do it in school."  Becky explained, "She said it's delicious, I haven't tried it though." So Jim thought it might be a good idea to toast a hot cross bun. It turns out quite delicious. Hot Cross Bun is a spiced sweet bun made with currants or raisins, marked with a cross on the top, and traditionally eaten on Good Friday.

A Second Hand Piano

I had a walk to the town, and paid deposit for a second hand piano at Home Garden furniture shop. It costed me hundred and ten pound. The shop is on the first floor of a building called Empire, it seems to be a cinema, but now a second hand furniture shop occupying the main lounge, Designer City at the left side, and Bob's Taxis on the right side door. So I felt a kind of sorry for the film industry, not exactly the whole film industry, it's the way of producing and distributing, the way of how people watching it. But there is always something puzzling me. I didn't know exactly what it really was. I just can feel it. Whenever I pass the building, there are always men standing outside the Bob's Taxis, the Black and White sign of "Empire Cinema Club" just over the door,  appears shabby and unattractive. But before I wrote down this note, I check the Google Maps, and to my surprise, actually the cinema club is still operating, and it's for ad...

Fairtrade Logo

When I was urging Amanda to go to bed, I spotted several leaflets on the bedroom floor, and picked them up.  One of these was Fairtrade. Amanda saw it too, and asked, "What can you see on Fairtrade logo?" "They looks like a Chinese Tai Chi Fishes." Fairtrade logo always looks like Taiji fishes to me, though it's a bit different, as the colors, shapes are slightly different, another dot is missing too. I have never tried to find out what it actually means. "Taiji Fish?" Amanda laughed, "it's not a fish, it's a person waving hands." "A person? I can only see a large circle, and small circle, one giant blue fish looks like a whale, and another orange fish looks like a shark." I stared at the logo, turned upside down, at a slanting angle, moved it further away at a distance and then closer to myself to examine it, I couldn't figure out a person from the picture. "The black dot or circle is the head, and th...

Who were the artists behind those gorgeous Warrior Cats fan art?

Look at these beautiful Character Pairing by Warrior Cats Fans. Gingertail and Cloudfrost: Cloudkitten and Russet:​ ​ Copper and Liche: ​

TIGER's Revival and First Romance

Good writing, but not a very interesting story. On 5 Feb 2015 16:58, "Brenda Sheng" < brenda.rili.sheng@gmail.com > wrote: TIGER's Revival TIGER was in heaven, with god, watching LION angrily. God realized TIGER wasn't bad so he gave TIGER another chance to live. TIGER was revived as a female baby tiger named PANTHERA. Meanwhile, LION had a baby boy, with his wife, named LEO. LION was in a fight and LION was older now and weaker so he couldn't beat the opponent. So LION died, leaving LEO with his mother. LEO was out playing one day when he saw a young tiger just about his age, a girl. LEO wanted to make friends, so did PANTHERA so they asked what their names were and started talking and playing together. Before long they became best friends and started hanging out with each other now and then. As they grew older they became so close you could barely see them apart, PANTHERA had decided she wanted to be part of the lion's pride so she asked LEO if she c...

A chicken rap battle

Once upon a time, in an African Savanna, there was a lion and a tiger. The lion was called LION and the tiger was called TIGER. LION and TIGER were hunting, they didn't know each other yet. LION came across a buffalo and chased after it, TIGER saw the same buffalo and chased after it. They came across each other and they stopped chasing the buffalo. "Hi," said LION, "Hello there," said TIGER in a deep voice. TIGER was hungry, he wanted to eat LION as lunch. LION was hungry, too, LION wanted to befriend TIGER. TIGER pretended to be friendly, so when LION wasn't noticing, he would run for the kill. But LION noticed that TIGER had a plan. So LION sat beside TIGER and listened. LION heard TIGER's stomach rumbling and LION knew for sure he wanted to eat him. SO LION told TIGER about TIGER going to eat him. TIGER growled and now knew that his act wasn't enough, then he challenged LION to a chicken rap battle. What’s that? LION asked. “A chicken ra...

Little Blue Naughty Dude and the Big Good Wolf

Once upon a time, there was a famous little boy called Little Blue Naughty Dude. Everybody called him that because he always wore his blue hood while stealing groceries from the stores.  One day, Little red riding hood (Little blue naughty dude's mother) asked the little blue naughty dude to go out into the woods and send his grandma some cake and milk. Little blue naughty dude hated his grandma because she always called him cutie pie, and he hated it.  So he sneaked out into the woods and met up with the "big bad wolf", and said, "If you team up with me, you will get to eat a fat grandma for your lunch."  "Really?!" replied the wolf.  "Of course. I'm going to my grandmas house, and this is the plan...." said Little blue naughty dude. He whispered the plan about him going into the house and letting the wolf sneak in and eat his grandma.  "Ok, meet up at 12:00" the big bad wolf also whispered.  "Sure, meet up here?" Lit...