Elly drawing on an i-pad

Yesterday night, after I had helped Abby spell some English words for preparation of her dictation today with an i-pad, little Elly wanted to draw something on the “chalk board”.

That was a good idea for Elly to draw something herself through her mind and hands. At once, I took a photo of her drawing by camera and studied it carefully. I did not ask her for what she had drawn at that moment.

It may be interesting to express my perception of the drawing.

1.    The rectangular thing is the eyeglass which a diver wears. The two circles are the eyes of the diver. The “S” is a worm or an eel that comes before his/her eyes. The diver is swimming in the sea towards Elly, so we cannot see the body.

2.    The other “S” are worms or eels that stay in the sea swimming or dancing orderly as Elly drew.

3.    The left-hand colourful “mass” is a coral fish also swimming towards Elly.

4.    On the left of the coral fish described in no. 3 is another fish which we see is the lengthwise (side) of the fish.

Here is what Elly describes her drawing:

1. The rectangles are twin doors with circular door-knobs.
2. The "S"s are English letters which she learns from her father in previous Saturday lessons at home.
3. The left-hand colourful mass is her mother.
4. The other one is her favourite sausage roll.

From this, I learn that Elly recalls the letter "S", the vision of doors and the bread she likes most. One thing which is important - she never forgets to put her mother in the drawing.

Though all these are loose images without a close linkage, but it shows to me that  Elly receives good experience in daily life such as food, love from her mother, literacy and the protection device of doors.

Australian Oranges

Recently this kind of Australian Oranges (Navel 6476 - with the map of Australia on labels) are sold at a very cheap price of $8.70 for every three. Its sweetness ranks high than Sunkist Navels or Non- navels (South Africa), Sunkist Valencia (South Africa), Outspan (South Africa) and Red Navel Cara Cara 3110 (producing country unknown).

The latest and sweetest Australian orange is one called Australian "ONE" 4012. Its photo is below.

The sweet Sunkist oranges from the United States have not arrived at the market yet, otherwise they will compete with the Australian ones at costs and degrees of sweetness. I am waiting for that moment for sure.

花比葉多

這些龍船花像趁墟一樣一下子把自己同根生的綠葉遮蓋了。

驟眼看去，矮叢變成一張用花瓣編織成的立體名貴錦繡，也許蜜蜂群已經在這些開得燦爛的龍船花身上採去了不少花蜜作過冬之用。我相信這個景象至少可以維持兩三個星期呢！

Same Bus looks different

There are two kind of new KMB buses here.

My discovery is that the same kind of buses can look remarkably different when they are painted in modern or nostalgic style.

Under the current “gold” paint, the KMB buses look a "wealthy" class of “gold” bars running on the roads of Hong Kong while the nostalgic-look KMB buses bring us back to the old days when we inserted “coins” or bought “tickets” from a bus-conductor or conductress.