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June 3 2007
Nikon 200



A new exhibition "Monet to Dali" consisting more than 60 drawings
and sculptures that demonstrate key examples from the European
modernist movement will start from June 11 for three months in
Vancouver Art Gallery.

This exhibition will showcase important works by Manet, Monet,
Cézanne, van Gogh, Rodin, Picasso, Dalí and other renowned artists
most of which drawn from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Together, the
works in this stellar collection illuminate the breadth of creativity in
one of the most extraordinary epochs in the history of Western art.







you wanna go this one if u are into impressionists..

Northwest Territories

My roommate Don Pyper, on his 2 weeks Canoe trip to the Northwest Territories in the photo,
is a very inspiring spirit who always puts his groceries loosely in the fridge without
bags since he sees potato, orange pepper, tomato, basil, mushroom, and etc that he would
consume everyday to keep his body going as organic forms that are most natural and beautiful just by themselves. They don't go well with
the chemically made, mass-produced plastic bags.

Lilian

advertising the Mook in Pit Lake.

Secrets of a Successful Marriage

wanted to jot down the quote heard just now from Lisa

"...u can't trick someone into loving you. There's a reason
two people come together and stay together- there's
something they give each other that nobody else can give
to them. If you wanna get Mom back, you'll just have to
remember what you give her that no one else can. "

Homer: "I'll pay you forty dollars if you think of it for me."

Fading Away

Forgotten by the city's glamour, old man,

playing guitar in his own pitch and rhythm

that only the forsakens comprehend.

阿Ben

for an engineer, this guy knows heck a lot about

history, politics, and various social affairs. A random chat with him,

I usually get to learn something new, including the fact that

the former governor general of Canada, Adrienne Clarkson,

is 台山人 like him. I used to misbelieve those chinese men in the meat section of

ottawa's 168 chinese grocery store spoke Vietnamese, but only later

did I found out it's actually a 台山話. 一種很像越南話的廣東話.

Gastown

Gas town is a historical spot that most tour groups would stop by when

they visit Vancouver. Its landmark is an antique clock that emits smoke

and chimes at every full hour, which when happens, tourists would stare

at it with amazements and sometimes even clap at it. Gas town is also

geologically very close to the troubled Downtown East Side (DTES) in which

most homeless people, prostitutions, drug addicts, and poverty of the city

concentrate.

[Urgent] Looking for people that is part Chinese and Caucasian

Spread the word, please !

Lovely Canoeing & Hiking Trip

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thank you, j & n, for taking me to this lovely trip/adventure in which I have learned how amazing it was to feel like being an integral part of the mother nature, to feel like being a part of the anciently spiritful forest, and to feel like being a part of the beautifully calming, crystal-like water. you guys were lovely company to have in a trip that requires intimate contact with the nature in that you don't mind getting your hands and shoes dirty and messed up as long as you get to taste the freshness of the breathe of the most primitive forest, to see the graceful trajectory of an eagle soaring high over us, and to put the wooden sign of your beloved club name on the big white rocks by the waterfall, which is also our hiking destination, so that it might make a meaningful enough photograph.

that was a great trip and fulfilling experience, thank you.

her beautiful love and tender heart

Went to Mrs. Pang's yesterday and she gave me tons of freshly picked flowers

from her backyard as well as a grey vase, cuz i told her that she is giving me

more flowers than the number of vessels, glasses, mugs, beer cans,

wine bottles, and whatever else that can be used to hold them in my house.

And this is the new haircut she just recently got from one of her past student.

She jokingly told me she was feeling quite unsure when she sat down inhe salon where

the student works cuz he has only one year's experience. However, I know by

heart that even if this student has no experience or whatsoever but a passion

and dream for becoming a hair stylist, Mrs. Pang would have asked him already for a hair cut.

Indeed, she is truly a god-sent, for everyone of her stuents, old or new,

and yes, including me.

Gorgeous Sunday

going for a ride or taking a stroll in Stanley Park in a beautiful spring day is such a

treat for Vancouvourite. Stanley Park, sitting right next to downtown Vancouver

surrounded by the mountain views and ocean bay, is a great manifestation

of the charm and essence of this one of the most livable city in the world-

urban living in natural landscape. i've got to say, getting to live in such a city

is really quite a bless, except during the ten out of twenlve months

of rainning a year of course.

Innocence

weren't sure if they are sibilings or friends, but it shoudn't matter, as i believe

that the 情誼 between every human beings are all unique and independent

such that they shouldn't be categorizedly bounded by the title that bear within.

So there they are, lying on top of each other, holding hands, rolling off the

green hill in laughters. the laughs were so innocent, the two were seemingly

so comfortably close, the pure bond and deep sense of closeness need not to

be spoken out, but were perceived so vividly, i was touched.

and there they are again, climbing back to the top of hill and roll down on each

other and burst into laughter everytime while they go down.....

i stood, there and watched them climb up and roll down, again and again ...

trying in vein to remember if i ever felt such closeness in life.

I have, or have I?

Mind is like a parachute

it works the best when it's open.

Nikon D200

@ Library Processing Center
Apr. 25 2007

A cheap and low-tech solution to saving millions

By Anwulika Okafor

NEW YORK, USA, 24 April 2007 –

Each year, between 350million and 500 million people are infected

with malaria, and 1 million die from the disease. Malaria accounts for

one death every 30 seconds in Africa alone.

© UNICEF/HQ05-1286/Getachew

A girl rests under an insecticide-treated bednet in the South Omo Zone of Ethiopia's Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region.

Though the challenge to make a significant impact in endemic countries

is daunting, all is not lost as UNICEF, its partners and governments

gather to rally the world for Africa Malaria Day on 25 April.

For 2007, the annual observance will focus on the need for global partnerships

to reverse the spread of malaria in Africa – in hopes of eradicating the deadly

disease, which is crippling so much of the continent’s youth.

© UNICEF/ HQ07-0127/Pirozzi

A child receives tablets for malaria

at a mobile health clinic in Chad.

Devastating a continent

It was not so long ago that malaria was a worldwide scourge.

Medical and social innovations were able to eliminate the disease

in some areas, but malaria is still devastating many parts of the

world – especially sub-Saharan Africa, where up to 90 per cent

of all malaria fatalities occur.

In much of Africa, malaria strains already overburdened health

systems. The majority of cases occur in children under the age of

five. Malaria-infected pregnant women are also at risk of contracting

anaemia, putting their lives and those of their unborn children at

risk.

In addition, weakness caused by the disease in adults can

severely impair their ability to work, limiting the means of livelihood

for families and communities, and perpetuating the cycle of poverty.

© UNICEF/ HQ06-0726 /Brioni

A UNICEF-supplied bednet protects

a woman and her newborn son from

malaria-bearing mosquitoes.

Resources for the futureMalaria is deadly, but there are

ways to treat it and tools to prevent it. At a cost of just

$10 each, for example, insecticide treated bednets (ITNs)

have been shown to reduce malaria deaths by up to 20 per cent,

with each net lasting up to five years.

UNICEF has been a major proponent of the use of ITNs

to fight malaria, funding the procurement and distribution

of these lifesaving nets across Africa. The organization has

also played a key part in the Roll Back Malaria campaign to

heighten public awareness about the importance of fighting

this disease.

Changes in health policy at the country level are also opening

doors to the use of anti-malarial drugs and combination therapies

to treat those who have already been infected.The treatments

are available and the education is there. What are needed now

are the resources. Africa Malaria Day 2007 is a day for the world

to speak with one voice, and the message is clear: Yes, malaria is

deadly, but it is also preventable

source

To me it makes a lot more sense to use our resources to deliver such cost-effective and

readily realizable cure to those in desperate need rather than blindly throwing hundreds and

thousands of millions to findingthe magic cure for the newer diseases that are more complicated

and difficult to treat such as AIDS. Not that AIDS is less immenent of an issue it's just that those

philanthropists gotta realize that if indeed the purpose of their charity is to save/help lives, and

not to become the world's most famous funder for advanced medical research which would

perhaps serve to earn them a Nobel Price Award in the end rather than saving more lives NOW.

Another example of pragmatic and effective solution to help the AIDS problem is, not by feeding

African inflicted magic curing pills, but giving and allowing African men and women free and

easy access to condems has long been known to be , by far, themost effective method to combat

the AIDS pandemic in Africa. But sadly the reasons why theuse of condem in Africa is still so low

are 1. Bush government's boycott (as this administration thinks that African people should rely

on "abstinence" instead of using condem to protect themselves); 2. African womenoften

wereforced to not use condems by their male partners.

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