On This Day - (1st Aug) #Reminders from FB#

1st Aug 2025

Day 07: crossing my fingers eyes and toes the hydrangea is still doing well.

This is the only flower I have to bring to pong pong 🚿daily, the reason why hydrangeas bloom so beautifully during 梅雨

1st Aug 2023

一眨眼就是八月了！Where did the beginning of 2023 go? Time really flew by, before I know it it'll be 2025.

Footnote written in 2026 : 

Hello! It’s 2026 now. 😩

1st Aug 2023

太离谱了吧！

Price increase. Everything also increase, my size also increase, money never increase only.

1st Aug 2022

有点希望 right? My adenium plant, I've been waiting for the last 3-4 mths when it came with only leaves.

Tho this can never beat the record of my first adenium plant which was flower-less for a year right?

The only happy thing I can look forward to.

My 🌻 s? Failed attempt for the dunno how many times. I need ☀️ , strong ☀️ !! Maybe I should just go to the nursery and buy the sunflower plants.

1st Aug 22

Honestly I don't sympathise with these people who brings in food into Australia without declaring. So I'm thinking why Subway needs to reimburse the lady?

Just for PR sake?

Not sure about now, but I remembered there are constant reminders in the airport if you have any food, fruits in your bag, if yes please discard it or something to that extent. All the way from the gate to the immigration counters, still not enough warning?

Signages in Oz stations, NZ and a few other places.

That's why I never dare bring in any food into Australia.

1st Aug 22

Yesterday lil' one saw me with a cotton bud and asked me why am I cleaning the plants. 🤣

Ah girl ah....your mummy is doing some RA act to the plants lah! I'm not so siao to clean my plants right?

Let's hope this works. This is the 3rd and last pod that only has flowers. The other 2 pods mati at the leafy stage. I wish I can have small little tommies, just like the ones we came home to in Jan

The ones that greeted us when we came home. But the rests all mati coz no more 💦 in the holder.

1st Aug 22

Keeping it simple

Happy Monday, everyone!

1st Aug 16

Was searching up on how to repel crawlies on plants.

This is what I found :

"Aphids: Cedarwood, hyssop, peppermint, spearmint, orange, cedarwood"

The funniest thing is I found small aphids on my mint plant.

1st Aug 15

This was taken on 30th July. I decided to grab my SLR and tried all sorts of dunno what things to get this, instead of the blobs I normally get. I still couldn't get the clouds in which were visible to naked eyes.

I'm happy with the outcome of the pics tho!

This evening, I was hoping to catch the blue moon but alas wrong timing. Ah mat was chauffeuring and I kept looking in the sky but saw nothing, maybe it was above the car? Or behind? Next one in May 2019, by then mei-mei would be in Sec1. Maybe I'll be more free to sit and wait?

Anyway in order to look for that full moon, I looked in the same direction (which is next to the gym.

Residents exercising must be thinking I'm taking pics of them) today, it was not in my favour. However when we left home at 9.10ish it was so clear but we had to rush to airport. I thought I could get a pic today after we got back home, but clouds just blocked it. Sigh….....

Earthquake + a little geography lessons

28th July @ 3.36pm (SIN) 

Was busy around the house when I saw down to rest awhile and saw the missed message from M about an earthquake in Kumamoto occurring 9 mins ago. Kumamoto is about 100km away from her. 

I exclaimed out at home, and hubby nodded. Yah he knows the news even faster than me. Coz I was working around the house so missed the news many many many minutes later 😉. 

This is how Google map looks like now ❤️

Although earthquakes is so common and she’s more experienced / calm than me I can’t help but worry for her. 7.1 by Japan Meteorological Agency (6.8 by USGS Earthquake Hazards Program) leh! Is she alone at home at that time so I messaged to ask about her. Thank goodness it’s the summer holiday so the girls are at home. M her youngest was holding on the bookshelf and the other hand on Instagram. Haha! My first response was “posting in Instagram?” 

The wanna-be geologist

This super crazy n scared getting dirty me wanted to be a geologist before 😂😂. I told my Geography teacher, Mrs Quintal that before. Ok I can’t be a geologist but that doesn’t stop my interest. I had just a little free time as I was having my dinner so went to check. 

If you do not know, in geography class we learn of the tectonic plate boundaries. But they are not the only fault lines, there are thousands of fault lines across the world with lots of regional fractures.  

How many fault lines in Kyushu?

Kyushu has dozens of individual active faults grouped into major designated fault zones, with the Japanese government specifically tracking 6 major active fault zones of primary regional significance alongside the island's broader rift systems. 

Major Fault Systems and Zones

Hinagu Fault Zone: Extends northeast-southwest through Kumamoto Prefecture and the Yatsushiro Sea, heavily involved in recent major regional seismic activity.
Futagawa Fault Zone: Runs alongside the Hinagu system in central Kyushu, forming a prominent strike-slip and normal fault network.
Japan Median Tectonic Line (MTL): Japan's longest fault system, which cuts across the eastern and central parts of the island.
Beppu-Shimabara Graben: A complex rift and volcanic zone cutting across central Kyushu packed with numerous active normal faults

Which fault line caused this earthquake? 

The likely culprit is the Futagawa-Hinagu fault zone, the same system that devastated Kumamoto in April 2016

Zoom in closer to Kyushu. 

This pic taken from : https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Tectonic-map-view-of-Kyushu-Solid-lines-T1-T4-indicate-Matsuyama-Imari-Oita-Kumamoto_fig16_334437046

Read the short article, the same link as above. Click HERE

What kind of fault caused this earthquake 

Like most earthquakes, strike slip fault caused this earthquake. 

Click HERE for description and animation of the different kinds of fault 

Other interesting links :
A blogger wrote about the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake. Very interesting but very wordy. Click HERE

Not related to Kumamoto’s earthquake but was checking things when I saw there was earthquake in China in late morning. Haha! The earth seems to rattle all the time that nobody pays attention to everything. 

Click HERE for article on this earthquake 

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While editing this post days later, as usual, I came across this article from this FB group

WHAT?!?! 😭

Saw in their FB page. Why why why do they have to close the hotel? I hope another hotel takes over the building. 

My heart hasn’t left since last year, Infact this year 还是心痒痒，很想回去. I wanted to go and stay overnight coz I want to stargaze in the open. I wanted to see the milky way as clearly as possible. People do camp during autumn, this place is as busy as it gets in autumn where the foliage is simple gorgeous. But ehh…..like ah-nia is so daring to camp ⛺️ in the open, later want to pang jio how? Later the bears 🐻 come out how? 

But now ….. 

Spoil 了 😩

Bought this sometime in 2020 during CB. Then everything had to be delivered to us coz we were all locked in, I vaguely remember it was something that I had been looking forward to. I badly needed to scrap away the dirt on my skin. 

Recently I tried to use it but it died very fast, as in I can only clean my chin area and then it stopped. Initially I thought the battery had depleted. So for three occasions I had to charge fully and then same thing happened. 

算了吧! 6 years later also time to change. 

This Taobao convert shopper decided to check out. But …. I don’t know how good it is. I’ve bought a few “beauty gadgets” including one that stated on my packaging “vibrator” 🤣 from Taobao and it seems the gadgets all only make the sound but doesn’t seem to work. 

In the end I chose back Labelle, a Korean brand. Bought L8 coz I only need the peeling mode, I barely used the ionization mode with my L6 anyway. I prefer to use Vanav for that function. Can’t wait for it to arrive, I need to clean my mor-peng face. 

On This Day - (30th July) #Reminders from FB#

30th July 2024

* with Che-che

This cute おばあさんwaved to us from a corner of the temple premises and I felt so obliged to go to her coz ....rude to ignore her when I waved back to her. Felt like she was beckoning to us in Hansel and Gretal, only thing she isn't a witch 😂.  Think she's in her late

80s or early 90s and still so alert.

She offered us a tea and then I felt paiseh so bought a pack. She asked us where we were from, which we understood her question but answered back in halting Japanese. Then she asked us how do we say Thank You in our language. At least her question sounds more sensible than the American guy in US whom we had conversation prior in english, asked how do we "say thank you in wherever you're from" 😅

I don't mean to be a bitch but I did pause and replied him, "Thank You."

#okithinkiwasbitchyafterall#

30th July 2021

The big 无聊 girl is so free coz school hasn't started for her yet!

#sofreetokeepirritatingherlittlesister#

Said she drew this on lil' one's whiteboard coz copied the one lil' one did long time ago

Took me a long time to find back this post 

30th July 2021 

Athena Ting asked me before how long it'll take to walk from one end to another of Central Park. Gave her an estimate (based on my walking speed last time) coz I never walked all the way to the end, she can find it out herself next time.

Maybe with her longer legs she'll walk much faster than I did and also coz I like to #tHia] take pictures last time K.

I do rmbr well tho I went out with a CSS,Christine, to meet her friend, who has an apartment facing Central Park. Lovely view of the park from his house. Told myself I'd love to own an apartment there one day.

And it was that same flight where she n I fell asleep in the front row while watching The Scarlet Pimpernel (to the Broadway cast, I'm terribly sorry) as we were both jet-lagged.

Footnote written in 2023 : 

And she’s getting ready to go over now

30th July 2017

I saw a building and commented to lil' one. "They couldn't think of any name to name the building." She looked ahead and read out "EFG" and laughed.

30th July 2017

Che-che's $19 wagyu burger (without vegetables), add cheese $1 and add bacon $4. Basically I'm paying $19 for the beef patty; bun and potato chips!!

Total: $24 😮

Chilli crab!! I dunno if this oddly timed meal is going to be our dinner or what....actually already cooked rice at home. I guess will wait for che-che, let her have her dinner here.

Lil' one stealing my food!!

My chilli crab spaghetti

She ate some of my spaghetti and says this is better than the one from Coffee Club

Looks like I’m the one eating kids meal

赚到咯！ just coz she refuses to stay at home alone, I gotta drag her out.

Off to the Asian Civilisation Museum just coz we’re there … 

Waiting for che-che for some band thingy to be over

30th July 2013

Where was I when I was in Sec 1 after school? Home!

I was so guai to bus home everyday even tho' I was a latchkey child.

Now I see Sec 1 boys n girls hanging in Macs.

Nothing to 大惊小怪 if u see the "blue girls" sitting amongst the "termites". But they're Sec 1 leh! In my time, you'd only see girls 'buoh-ing n giggling at boys' in Sec 3.

Oh my oh my! Kids mature really fast now.

Makes me fear if my girl will be like that. I need a ROPE!!! Hahaha!

30th July 2012

Mee hoon kueh

30th July 2011

Aricia's goodie bag for the party she missed last

Sunday. Nice of friend to keep hers and gave it to her on Thursday.