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The Painting on My Wall

June 27, 2019 FLAI40 Leave a comment

When you enter my home at its front door, you are greeted by this painting: Not surprisingly, not a single visitor to my home has ever stopped to take a closer look at this painting. No one has ever asked how this painting comes to be on the wall at so prominent a position. It is obvious therefore that I am not from a family of art collectors or even art appreciators. In fact, when I showed, in my younger years, interest to draw (cartoons mainly during those days) and to paint, my mother had never failed to remind me […]

Learning Chinese - from drama (Lc7019)

June 24, 2019 FLAI40 Leave a comment

For the next month, July 2019, the teaching materials for both the ‘Learn Chinese’ and the ‘Learn English’ online courses are from the Chinese Drama series entitled “Put your head on my shoulder (2019)”. 致我们暖暖的小时光. There are 24 episodes in this TV Drama series and therefore 24 lessons. The course is conducted through social media WeChat or WhatsApp or Messenger. The first five lessons are free and thereafter the fee for each lesson is US$1.00, payable 20 lessons in advance at any time. For details of how to join the course and how to pay for the lessons please email […]

Modern Methods of Valuation

June 19, 2019 FLAI40 Leave a comment

What is the value of my house? What is the price I should be paying for that house? What is the cost of building a house similar in all respects to that house but on my piece of land? ‘Value’, ‘Price’, and ‘Cost’ - are these terms referring to the same dollar value? Definitely not. All students in Property at Universities around the world use the book “Modern Methods of Valuation” as their standard textbook since my days of study of the subject at the College of Estate Management in London way back in the early 1960s. The current edition […]

May’s Testimony - May 的见证

June 17, 2019 FLAI40 Leave a comment

I have known May Hang Lee since 1982 when her family members (her husband, her and four children) and my family members (my wife, my mother, four children and I) went to the same Chinese Baptist Church for Sunday worships and frequent fellowship meetings under Minister Reverand John Lo and his wife. I can vouch that May is a very devoted Christian and together with her husband (now with the Lord) she had assisted many Chinese new migrants through her generosity. 自1982年以来，我认识May Hang Lee，当时她的家人（她的丈夫，她和四个孩子）和我的家人（我的妻子，我的母亲，四个孩子和我）去了同一个中国浸信会参加星期天的礼拜和经常团契。 Reverand John Lo和他的妻子会面下的会议。我可以保证，May是一个非常忠诚的基督徒，并与她的丈夫（现在与主一起），她通过她的慷慨帮助了许多中国新移民。 The following is the testimony of the Lord’s grace and blessings showered upon […]

Dragon Boat Festival - 端午节

June 7, 2019 FLAI40 Leave a comment

I still cherish the memories of my earlier days in Singapore when the dragon boat festivals are celebrated with the traditional customs of making and tasting the zongzi (sticky rice puddings) and watching the racing of the dragon boats down Singapore River. It is just a pity that, slowly but surely, Chinese traditions are dying out when Chinese migrants come to westernised societies like New Zealand. In order to keep the meaning of the Dragon Boat Festival alive at least to my seven grand-children, I am compiling this article mainly for them and for those in their generation of Chinese […]

Is Anger a Crime?

June 3, 2019 FLAI40 Leave a comment

Apparently, according to the Kingdom Code, God’s Law, anger, no, continued anger, is a crime. In God’s Kingdom, so we were told last Sunday 26th May 2019, it is not only against the law to murder. It is also against the law just to stay angry with someone. Note that the words here are “to stay angry [continuously] with someone.” To put this in another way, unresolved anger is a sin. Anger itself is not a sin, but continued anger is. Then there is the need for us to separate ‘kill’ from ‘murder’. Please Read on. “That is the kind […]