August 2019 - You Write

Who? Dr. Marc Faber? 马克费伯吗？他是谁啊？

August 28, 2019 FLAI40 Leave a comment

I shall place this article in the ‘Reflections and Historical’ category simply because of the fact that no other category within this website is actually suitable. If there is such a category as ‘Reflective Thinkings into The Future’ that would be the most appropriate. 我将把这篇文章放在“思考和历史”类别中，因为这个网站中没有其他类别实际上是合适的。如果存在“反思未来的思考”这样的类别，那将是最合适的。 Wǒ jiāng bǎ zhè piān wénzhāng fàng zài “sīkǎo hé lìshǐ” lèibié zhōng, yīnwèi zhège wǎngzhàn zhōng méiyǒu qítā lèibié shíjì shang shì héshì de. Rúguǒ cúnzài “fǎnsī wèilái de sīkǎo” zhèyàng de lèibié, nà jiāng shì zuì héshì de. [For all who are currently studying Mandarin Vocabulary, please read out the following Chinese phrases […]

Chess - Setback, Comeback 英国象棋 - 挫折, 返回赢得。

August 26, 2019 FLAI40 Leave a comment

This article is the tenth lesson for young Chess players. The earlier nine lessons can be found in the website u-write-read.com http://www.u-write-read.com/2019/05/06/chess-dot-com/ under the category of ‘Sudoku and Computer Games’. This article highlights the fact that, in all situations, we can come back to win after any setback as long as we have the determination to win and the positive attitude that goes with that determination. There are many real life examples of this. The last America’s Cup victory by New Zealand was one example. The latest example occurs only just (yesterday) when England won the Ashes at Cricket against […]

Ihumatao - Maori Land

August 23, 2019 FLAI40 Leave a comment

Hold it Right There! As I start this second draft on this topic today, Friday 23rs August 2019 7:25 am, I hear over Newshub, TV3, that the Ihumatao issue has been resolved. Now back on the track that started yesterday. Yesterday’s draft: The first news item covering today’s (22nd August) protest march on this particular Auckland’s issue, strangely enough, comes from far away Otago Daily Times, way down south of the country. Read up on this item of news as an introduction to this article’s main theme on ‘Environmental degradation’ : https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/ihumatao-hikoi-begins-pms-office A few extracted passages from this news item […]

Online Tuition - An Example 使用互联网进行修订练习 - 举个例子

August 20, 2019 FLAI40 Leave a comment

I have posted the following announcement on my facebook yesterday 19th August 2019 and this article is a follow up on this announcement, providing two sample-lessons for online tuition based on just one article. A few of you have asked me about my free online tuition, and here below is a brief Q & A session in reply. 你们中的一些人向我询问了我的免费在线学习，下面是一个简短的问答环节。 Q: What subjects are you tutoring or mentoring? A: I cannot say that I know everything but once you ask me a topic, I can do the research for you on those topics I am not good at. My simple reply […]

Teresa Carpio 杜麗莎

August 19, 2019 FLAI40 Leave a comment

I would like to introduce to you this morning a singer, a singer whom you may not have heard of. Let me start this story again. Once upon a recent time, there was this singer called Teresa Carpio 杜麗莎 (born in Hong Kong on the 30th September 1956), her father, Filipino, her mother, Shanghainese. Yes, she is still with us today, retired but still active and she lives in Hong Kong after having spent some periods in the western world. Perhaps it is best that, at this stage, I introduce some of her songs she has sung in concerts. (1) […]

The Numbers Game

August 15, 2019 FLAI40 Leave a comment

The date is 2094 AD. The place is NORA - New Order Republic of America. [“Numbers Game” a fiction story by Rebecca Rode] Everyone has a number. What does the number stand for? Taking 1,000 as the 100% mark, a number of 500 or less signifies a red colour, of little or no use to society. There are simply followers, obeying orders from the greens and the yellows. The yellow colour, numbers between 501 and 700 are mainly technocrats, the working middle class. The Greens represent members from the elite class, the rulers and leaders, with numbers above 700. The […]

Quest is Fun!

August 10, 2019 FLAI40 Leave a comment

I have seven grandchildren, two of whom are young adults, four of whom are teenagers and one just a two-year-old toddler. I want to introduce to them and to all those within their age groups - young adults up to 25 years old, teenagers up to the age of 19 and toddlers up to the age of say four - the young Kiwi Whiz Kid, Tristan Pang, who has reportedly obtained his PhD in Mathematics and Physics, from Auckland University. That report, from one of mainland China’s Bejing TV stations, broadcasted live this morning (4.30am NZ time Saturday 9th August […]

The French Collection 法国歌曲

August 9, 2019 FLAI40 Leave a comment

When you are retired, and nearing seventy-nine years of age, you will find that you have time. You have time to reflect - on your past, on your achievements, and most important of all, of your failures. This is simply because your failures are the ones you want to document in order that your grandchildren and others like them can learn from. One of my failings of my past is the fact that I did not learn French - the French Language and the French Culture. Growing up in a British colonial system of Singapore, my eyes and my thoughts […]

Better English Vocabulary 更好的英语词汇

August 4, 2019 FLAI40 Leave a comment

Increase your child’s understanding of English words by downioading the Wordscapes App for free and let him / her play the exercises therein for half an hour each day, every day. 通过免费下载Wordscapes应用程序来增加孩子对英语单词的理解，让他/她每天在这里进行半小时的练习。 The following are samples that you can print out and let your child try out the answers. Then go to the end of this article for the answers. The vocabulary exercises that follow each set of answers can be printed out for your child to do as homework. See your child’s improvement in his / her English in just seven days. 以下是您可以打印出来并让您的孩子尝试答案的样本。然后转到本文末尾的答案。可以打印出每组答案后面的词汇练习，供孩子做作业。在短短七天内看到您孩子的英语水平提高。 Challenge # 1: Daily Saturday 3 […]

Colin Harold Williams - A Tribute 一个致敬

August 1, 2019 FLAI40 Leave a comment

Let me recollect. It must be the eighteen-month period between the years 1961 and 1963, just prior to embarking on to London on a Singapore Government’s Colombo Plan Scholarship to pursue my studies for the Professional Examinations of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). 让我回忆一下。它必须是1961年至1963年之间的18个月，就在新加坡政府的科伦坡计划奖学金进入伦敦学习皇家特许测量师学会的专业考试之前。 Yes, that must be right! I was engaged as a Valuation Assistant in the private practice firm of CH Williams, Chartered Surveyor. Colin Harold (CH) Williams was the principal and founder of the practice. 是的，那一定是对的！我在特许测量师CH Williams的私人执业公司担任估价助理。科林哈罗德（CH）威廉姆斯是该实践的主要和创始人。 From here on, this article is in the English Language and anyone wanting the Chinese version, please place […]