小小咪公園玩耍

颱風來臨前趕快到公園玩

回頭等爸比及媽咪

涼風徐徐吹來真舒服

自己跑跑跑 

對什麼都感到好奇新鮮的年紀

偷拍被小小咪發現了

富比士: 全球最有權勢女士 Forbes: the world's most powerful women

Top 5 of the world's most powerful women by Forbes

1. Angela Merkel / Chancellor of Germany 德國總理莫克

"It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change."

--Angela Merkel

2. Hillary Clinton / Secretary of State of The United States 美國國務卿希拉蕊

"Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right."

--Hillary Clinton

3.Dilma Rousseff / President of Brazil 巴西總統羅塞夫

"Today, Brazil is admired for mort than just football, music and its popular festivities."

--Dilma Rousseff 

4. Indra Nooyi / Chief Executive of PepsiCo 百事公司執行長努伊
5. Sheryl Sandberg / COO Facebook 社群網站臉書營運長桑德柏格

參考網站http://www.forbes.com/wealth/power-women

hope for the best and assume the worst

最近美國有艾琳颶風(tropical cyclone Irene) ,台灣有南瑪都颱風(typhoon Nanmadol)
讓我想起了一句常講的英文

hope for the best and assume the worst
or
(hope for the best and prepare for the worst)
(抱最好的希望; 做最壞的打算)

也讓我想到嚴長壽說的：「抱最大的希望，為最多的努力，做最壞的打算。」

我們中文常講的『做最好的準備, 做最壞的打算。』英文也可以這樣翻。

"No man is an island" 沒有人是一座孤島

"No man is an island, entire of itself:

every man is a piece of the continent,

a part of the main."

(main=sea)

--By John Donne (1572-1631) in Devotions

"沒有人是一座孤島, 全然只是它自己:

每個人都是大陸的一塊,

海洋的一部份。"

卓蘭山上的香椿樹Toona sinensis

a cyclist, the art of horticulture; 腳踏車騎士, 園藝之美

This photo was taken in CKS Shilin Residence Park on a rainy day.

The gardening there always catches my eye.

This work of a cyclist was so vivid as if  you may feel the speed and the wind.

20110820動物園 Taipei Zoo

台北木柵動物園這個暑假12歲以下免費

大人兩人還一人免費喔

還沒九點就在動物園外等開門

動物園的兒童動物區也種起了稻，架起稻草人

小小咪看著山羊一直笑著

坐高高果然視線好, 看到貓熊了

看大象

很喜歡坐在這顆大石頭上

更多照片在https://picasaweb.google.com/littlelily8/20110821#

富比士排名的十大噁心美食 Top 10 disgusting delicacies from Forbes

1) Fermented mare's milk from Central Prairies

酸馬奶  (ferment 發酵; mare 母馬; prairies 草原; Central Prairies 中亞游牧民族)




2) Hakarl, or dried shark meat from Iceland, with a distinctive rotten fish meets stinky cheese flavour
爛鯊魚肉


3) Snake wine
蛇酒


4) Balut, or fertilized duck egg from the Philippines
鴨仔蛋  (fertilzed 受精的; 將孵化的)


5) Kopi luwak, or civet cat feces coffee
麝香貓咖啡 ( civet 麝香; feces 排泄物)


6) Drunken shrimp - a dish of live shrimp tossed in alcohol
活醉蝦


7) Bird's nest - made from the saliva of swifts
燕窩  ( saliva 唾液; swifts 褐雨燕)




8) Preserved century egg - a duck's egg that is preserved with clay, ash, lime and salted until it turns black, brown or gray coloured
皮蛋


9) Casu Marzu, a Sardinian sheep's cheese that is made by allowing flies to lay their eggs on it. When the maggots hatch, they eat the cheese and excrete the cheese to make it softer and more flavourful.
蛆乳酪 (maggot 蛆; excrete 排泄; 分泌)


 
10) Smalahove, a sheep's head
燻羊頭



英文部份參照自下方網站 (English part of Forbes listing is from the following website)
http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20110807-293285.html

20110808小小咪與小東東的快樂卓蘭之旅 Two kids' happy tour to Zhoulan

在河邊步道手牽手玩

Playing hand-in-hand on the river bank

 在阿嬤家一起玩工程車及機器人
Playing with a toy car and a robot in Grandma's house

在阿太家騎車車

Riding on toy cars in Great-grandma's house

在卓蘭國小玩漂亮的新溜滑梯

Standing on the new fancy slide in the Zhoulan Elementary School

在卓蘭國小玩傳統的大象水泥溜滑梯

Enjoying the old-fashioned elephant cement slide 

Sitting on Daddy's shoulder

在舅公的山上撿石頭
Picking up stones on Granduncle's mountain

 

傍晚卓蘭家窗外的麻雀
sparrows outside the windows of Zhoulan's house in the evening

更多照片在https://picasaweb.google.com/littlelily8/20110808#

倫敦暴動的英文 rioting in London

riot 暴動



looting 搶劫


arson 縱火


buildings looted and vehicles set alight
建築物被搶劫, 車輛被放火燒


England’s worst civil unrest in decades
英國數十年來最嚴重的暴動


The riots started after police shot and killed Mark Duggan a 29-year-old black gangster and drug dealer in Tottenham, north London.
暴動起因於警方在英國首都倫敦北部托登罕區射殺了達根，一名29歲的黑人幫派毒販。

Duggan’s friends and relatives organized a protest outside the Tottenham police station, and then the demonstration spiralled out of control.



廿餘名親友在警局前示威，結果一發不可收拾。

春有百花秋有月--宋 無門和尚 頌

春有百花秋有月
夏有涼風冬有雪
若無閑事掛心頭
便是人間好時節
          --宋  禪僧  無門和尚  頌

玫瑰花--聖母大教堂

My favorite quotations from Aristotle (亞里斯多德)

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

                                      --Aristotle

(快樂掌握在我們自己手裡。)

We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.

                                     --Aristotle

(一直做某些事, 我們就會成為那樣的人。因此，卓越不是一種行動，而是一種習慣。)

 

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小小咪與黃昏時的士林官邸; CKS Shilin Residence Park

到過士林官邸好幾次,不過都是早上,今天特地下午出發

整個感覺很不一樣,多了些悠閒與慵懶

小小咪整個也很放鬆地跑來跑去

在夕陽的餘暉下

涼風徐徐吹拂

We used to go to CKS Shilin Residence Park in the mornings,

but this time, we left for there in the dusk.

It was a very different feeling, more relaxing and lazier than before.

My son also enjoyed the cool wind and ran happily in the golden twilight. 

 

更多的相關的照片在

https://picasaweb.google.com/littlelily8/20110806#

彈珠汽水的英文 marble soda

兩天前的新聞，有夏令營製作彈珠汽水發生玻璃瓶爆裂意外，

彈珠汽水的英文是 marble soda


Marble soda is a carbonated beverage, and its bottle is made of glass and sealed with a marble.
(彈珠汽水是一種碳酸飲料，瓶子是玻璃做的，用彈珠封住瓶口。)

黏人的英文 be clingy

黏人的英文用 be clingy來表示
如 She is so clingy.   She clings to her boyfriend every day.
如果指東西很黏,則要用sticky

香港港灣風光-1

 

 香港港灣風光-2

 

香港港灣風光-3

『 藍色小精靈』 (The Smurfs)

最近的電影『 藍色小精靈』 (The Smurfs)，勾起了不少兒時回憶，

印象最深刻的就是邪惡巫師(the evil wizard) 賈不妙 ( Gargamel), 

鬍子老爹（Papa Smurf）,  小美人（Smurfette）, 及 小笨蛋（Clumsy Smurf)了。

Gargamel這個字的發音很容易讓人想到gargle(漱口或漱喉)

而在名詞後面加上ette，則是指女性(female)的意思，如小美人（Smurfette）, 

clumsy這個單字是指笨拙的(heavy and ungraceful in movement)，中文也常翻成笨手笨腳的。

 

 

California Grill 加州燒烤堡

上上禮拜一，坐捷運到古亭站時，
突然想起了三年多前去吃的一家美式漢堡店，
決定再次探訪。我從師大圖書館後的小門前去永康街，
這家店真的很低調，生意很好，但招牌一點都不顯眼，
和三年前一樣，我又走過頭了，
但美味的直覺及記憶讓我很快回頭找到這家店。
沒帶相機所以無法拍下所點的美味Teriyaki Chicken Breast漢堡及服務生甜美的笑容
但帶回了一張DM

這次點的是商業午餐159元，有漢堡、薯條及紅茶，口味很道地，從一進門就看到一桌外國老夫妻及陸陸續續進來的ABC及外國人就可猜想受歡迎的程度了。

早上11:30營業