Planet X Nibiru

In a very ancient Sumerian text, it was believed that there was a planet called Nibiru. It has a very long elliptical orbit and our Solar system is located towards the far end it’s orbit. Nibiru’s long orbit will complete in the duration of 3600 year. So it will approach our solar system once every 3600 years. When [...]

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Who Is Michael Heart?

Many of us have listened to his song for Gaza : “We Will Not Go Down”, but we hardly know about the writer and singer Michael Heart. I just want to share what I found online about him,  his career and his works.

Source: http://cdbaby.com/cd/michaelheart
 
 
Michael Heart
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© 2008 Annas Music (634479738715)
Notes
Michael Heart has no propensity for nonsense. [...]

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Chinese Ox Year

The Year of The OX
Chinese Horoscopes for 4706 – 2009
Source : http://www.chiff.com/a/chinese-horoscopes.htm

 
Chinese New Year 4706 or 2009 in the Western calendar is the Year of the Female Brown Earth Ox — sometimes called the cow or water buffalo. This year of the ox is the second year in this 12 year cycle of the Chinese [...]

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A Rose for World Peace

When my Peace rose blooms profusely in Spring this year, I was really captivated by it’s beauty. Then I started to wonder why they named this particular rose “Peace”? Was it to remind us of peace? Then later on I looked for the answer online. How perfect is the name for such beautiful flowers with [...]

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Bonsai, Tenpin Bowling and Geocaching

We have different hobbies. I enjoy gardening, growing bonsai, cooking , music and bushwalking. My husband’s hobby is Ten Pin Bowling while our son spends his spare time  doing Geocahing and Off Road 4WD.
Facts about bonsai:

Bonsai is an ancient art more than 2000 years old
It started in China during the Han Dynasty in 206 BC [...]

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Odd Road Signs in Australia

Australia is famous for the odd road signs. Few of them don’t even make sense. While others obviously have been vandalized to make them funny.
If you travel along the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, you will be greeting by a questionable road sign. It warns us to drive on the left side of the road. [...]

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Winter Melon

(This entry was also posted on: http://www.thoughts.com/Gwatlan/blog)

 

I remember long time ago when we used to grow winter melon in the family property in Central Java. The trailing plants crept as far as they could reach and the rounded fruits, which looked like as they were excessively covered by talcum powder, were sitting there on the ground [...]

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Brushtail Possums

After the neighbour in the back has trimmed his trees, there are some brushtail possums move into our shed. Brushtail possums are commonly live in the suburbia. Our shed sits under a pear tree.  My husband is going to make a couple of boxes and he will hang them in the tree with the hope that they [...]

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My Baseball Plants

More than ten years ago we went to Western Port Bay, Victoria Australia and we stopped at a Sunday market in small town of Hasting. There we bought  two unusual plants called Baseball Plant. The friendly man who sold the plant told us to buy two of them, the male and the female one. This way [...]

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Sorrow

For Those In Sorrow
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. (Carl Jung)
How true it is [...]

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