"The newspaper is better than a magazine. A seashore is a better place than a street. At first, it is better to run than to walk. You may have to try it several times. It takes some skill, but it's easy to learn. Even young children can enjoy it. Once successful, complications are minimal. Birds seldom get too close. Rain, however, soaks in very fast. Too many people doing the same thing can also cause problems. One needs a lot of space. If there are no complications, it can be very peaceful. A rock will serve as an anchor. If things break loose, however, you will not get a second chance."
Addition to the clan. Microbiology and Biology.
P'u, in typical Chinese dictionary will give a definition of "natural, simple, plain, honest."
"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"
"What's for breakfast?", said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"
"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
"It's the same thing," he said.
Hong Kong: Go to Disneyland and buy loads and loads of clothes!
Singapore: After Hong Kong, let's splurge designer's stuffs in Singapore!
There's something peculiar about the Big Apple!
The perfect ambiance of Rome
The Nineteenth Century and Its Impact on Austen's Writings
Whether you call it "the Napoleonic era," "the Regency," or "late Georgian," the era of c. 1795-1830 is one of the most dramatic times in the history of the world. It is a time of war. And gaiety. Sorrow and pain. Downright hedonism. It is social manners taken to the ultimate degree. It is the heyday of the Industrial Revolution when merchants were becoming wealthier than noblemen. There was more education, for a wider range of people. More ideas. New evangelical churches, mostly appealing to the middle and lower classes, and beginning to preach a new morality. There were riots. The landed class lived in terror of a French-style revolution, which was based on the rebellion of the American colonies, both well within the lifetimes of most people of the Regency.
To the outsider, it might seem as if women of this nobility and gentry did very little--but their work was very important and sometimes very hard, as they were expected to manage the home and the household. As Etty Raverat, who was a young woman in the late 1800s, said, "Ladies were ladies in those days; they did not do things themselves, they told others what to do and how to do it" (Harrison and Ford, 226).
However, this lifestyle left ample time for leisure. Social parties and balls were held often. Dancing was a favorite pastime among most upper-class women and men. An evening party often would end with a few sets among the four or five couples present. Unmarried women spent a great deal of time with other unmarried women. However, once a woman was married her role was considered manager of the household, and she had much less time than before to walk and talk with former friends.
Though the life of an upper class woman might seem easier and more secure than that of a lower class woman, it was not always so. Land, titles, and money were inherited by the closest male relative--typically the older son, but if there was no older son then it would go to a more distant relation. Only the small amount of money set aside as a woman’s marriage dowry went to an unmarried woman after the death of her father. As a result, many mothers and daughters were left extremely poor after the death of their husband and father (Mitchell, 107).
The next-highest class was the middle class. Women of this class were much like women of the upper class, though their lands were not so extensive nor their way of life so grand as that of the aristocracy and landed gentry. People of the middle class associated with their peers and sometimes with those in the upper class. Women of the middle class depended heavily on marrying "up" into the upper classes, therefore gaining social prestige as well as a great deal more worldly goods.
The middle class itself was a much broader area of people than the upper class. It included everyone between the working classes and the lower gentry. It depended mostly not on how much money one had, but on how this money was obtained (Mitchell, 20). Because of this, the singular roles of middle class women varied greatly from family to family. Some unmarried women might have a place in the family shop, while others might live very much as a genteel woman would, with little work and much leisure.
My dear baby sister,
As you read this message maybe you are now a full-pledged teenager who also worry about many problems, or maybe a rocketing scientist you invents stuffs,and or maybe a musician like a pianist or a violinist or maybe an opera singer! Anything in this world! I don't know. And I, maybe a doctor or if not a doctor a person who wanders around.
I know, it's not that easy but it's really not that bad also. I have also gone through that and man, I tell you there are times when I feel so hopeless and helpless and worst of all FAITHLESS!!! But my dear, don't let anything or anyone put you down. Don't ever forger that your ever-loving big sister is always here to understand... to listen... and to love. I don't want you to commit mistakes that I have done, that I have really regretted and always regretted.
LIFE is a four-letter word! But it really means something, in fact in means your whole being.
My dear baby sister, I want you to be brave, to consider, to be strong, to be independent and to be faithful! I love you always.Your dearest big sister,
KimThe OVERJOYED big sister!
I was dancing with this very charming and romantic guy, though in my dreams it's as if I have known him very well. We dance all night long, haha. I really don't have the faintest clue on where on earth are we dancing, but I do really have a feeling that we are in Paris!!!! OMG! Yes, Paris! He even surprised me with a song, oh! his voice is like Buble, i almost cry when he sing that song! Oh my, then he propose to me! haha. and I said that "I accept your proposal but let's just make it a secret for the meantime 'cause I'm only 17! Oh my! Oh really my! I got secretly engaged!
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