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5/3/2008 Take care of yourself.How many of us are not living our dreams? What's stopping us? And what does dedicating ourselves to closing the gap between what we wanted for our lives and how we are actually living them have to do with ethics?
 Some of us have no choice but to sell ourselves short. Perhaps we are the main bread winners in households that barely scrape by or, as was the case for a young woman I know,are the only possible carer for a dependant relative. Maybe the needs and wants of our partners or children are incompatible with ours, and must take precedence in the short or ling term.
 For others,however the picture is less clear. Research over decades confirms that beyond the level of income needs,additional income does not increase our life satifaction.
 Despite this many of us work longer hours than we want at jobs we despise in the desperate hope that one more purchase will finally deliver the happiness our consumerist culture promises. Most of us know that the best way to get the measure of our own lives is to imagine ourselves on our deathbeds looking back at our choices and deeds.
 When what we do conflicts with our values,in other words,it is our values that tend to give way,So in the same way that those who wish to believe in God should simply start praying,those who want to keep faith with the life they are living need do little more than continue to live it.
For what it's worth,I need to say that I don't think it's good enough,No matter OUR AGE,or the things we've said or done in the past, IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO LIVE THE EXAMINED LIFE. To remember the DREAMS we had for ourselves the talents we sought to develop,the contribution we wished to make during our lifetimes and to put them into action.
TO SPRINT TOWARDS THE FINISH LINE,BEFORE IT"S TOO LATE. TO: ALL MY FRIENDS.
   4/26/2008 Babies waiting for urgent surgeryBABIES are waiting months for urgent open heart surgery as the Royal Children's Hospita cardiac department HITS CRISIS POINT.
 At its worst,some babies have had operations postponed seven times.
 The Age show that this year the hospital has averaged 16 cardic surgery cancellationn a week Thirty were canceled in the first 10 days of this month.
 The official explanation given for most is the hospital's LACK OF INTENSIVE CARE BEDS,NEEDED TO CARE FO CHILDREN AFTER SURGERY.
 But the main problems was a LACK OF NURSES to staff the beds, We have the equipment,the facilities the theatre time,and we have fantastic,world-class
surgeons, but we need specialised nurses with intensive-care TRAINING.
  Dominic turned one a week ago Four days after his birth,he was diagnosed with a heart murmur and Fallot's tetralogy, a dangerous condiation in which blood leaks through a hole between two heart chambers, leaving the baby with reduced blood flow through the lungs and tendency to turn blue.
Left untreated,it can lead to difficulty feeding,failure to gain weight,retarded growth and physical development, and EVENTUALLY HEART FAILURE.
Some surgeons said "he could go on for six month without surgery but the optimum time to have surgery was now"
One years old Dominic Siber,with mother had five cancellations because of overcrowding at the Royal Children Hospital before his open surgery.
 SCHEDULED TO OPEN IN 2011.the new hospital will be closer to $1 billon but what happents in the means time with BABIES BOOMS?
IT WOULD BE OTHE WAY AROUND THAT THE HOSPITAL BUILT FIRST?
4/19/2008 The Baby boom.For the past 30 years CHINA'S controversial ONE -CHILD policy has been credited with keeping the country's population at a manageable level by reducing the number of births by an estimated 400 million.
But official's worried about an ageing population and severe gender imbalance because of the traditional preference for SONS,
are considering whether the policy should be scrapped or significantly changed. To restrict family size since the 1970s.The rules vary but usually limit urban families to ONE CHILD,
rural families to TWO and give ethnic minorities a higher allowance.
The system has caused bitterness because rich and corrupt communist party officials,who can afford THE FINES.
The women were being forced to have abortions and sterlisations.
China 's population would grow to 1.5 billion by 2033 with birth rates set to soar over the next five years.
The Australia's fertility rate has been declining since the 1970s and, while it has recently increased,it is still well below replacement levels of 2.1 babies for every woman. In the mid 30-39 started breeding like bunnies, they get the baby bonus$4000 from the Government and many women in Australia already have access to paid maternity leave 14 weeks. funded by their employer.
There was barely a spare crib at St Vincents & Mercy Private Hospital 8-April 2008 after THE EIGHTH set of twins to be born there in a month arrived after lunch.
These stories were bright way but other side stories is not happiest ones...To be continued next Saturday. 4/12/2008 That funny feelingHave you ever made a truly awful decision,and berated yourself later because at some level you actually did know what you were getting into?
Or have you ever quite spontaneously done something that seems to make no sense,only to find that it has rewarded you exceptionally?
We human beings are different from animals in countless ways,but one of the way in which we are at least somewhat similar is that we too are creatures of
instinct. From the first moments of life we are driven and in many ways protected by a vast rang of instincts,most of which we barely need to acknowledge consiously. However when we think about getting through life and talking the best possible care of ourselves as well as other people,we ignore at our peril those special istincts that are close to intuitions but somehow even more primal.
Anyone who lives with animals knows how finely tuned their instincts are,not just sensing any degree of unfriendliness or danger but also knowing
when someone is ill,sad or grieving and offering unobtrusive comfort.
In everyday language we talk not just about"following our nose" but also about"gut feelings" those mysterious moments when it seems your body knows more than your mind does.Whether related to your health,child rearing,choices at work, love affairs or a vast range of everday decisions,
you can easily discover how your body literally relaxes and expands in the face of some inner urgings,and tense an contracts in the face of others.
Trusting this more instinctive way of preceiving takes courage. It certainly doen't mean setting analysis or good sense aside.
Sometimes you will be completely wrong.But there will also be times when you are right and,as with any other skill. this one rapidly improves with experiment and reflection. 4/6/2008 4th Annual C.S.W. 4th ANNUAL C.S.W.COMPUTER SURRONDING WEEK 2008.
Everyone must play post your pictures of your home computer space.
My picture is one of room that is my Grandson's rooms, I said "please cleaning it up in the front of computers" then Yes G-ma !
there nice cleaned the desk LOL!
that why nice in tidy the deskLOL! I can tell you how I started bloggingIt was started back to July of 2005 that I was boring because golf course was closed from floods and cold out side there I looked the internet
in Japan that just of interesting.
there I found Marie touching beauty space,it was beautifully presents of Japan.  Somehow I manage to comments(at meantime a lots of problems) I had recived form her comments " I am very glad your son taught you how to use a computer.
you are lucky that you have such a good and thoughtful son. now you can communicate not only with me but also with other friends from around the world. Well! the way I started blogging ha ha ha
December 2005 I won the BEST OF MSN that was very surprised news.
Now I'm glued to the computer so much.I would like to said to Marie "Thank you very much for gave me an opportunity to do this blogs that I appreciated very much.
I wish you can read my entry ....I knew you were away from blogging that I'm sure a lots of your friends were missing you.
And of course I missed you too. I hope you are keeping well and your family.
MY NEW SCALES.
On the left is an old one,(Soehnle)the other day I found my weight was two kg heavier for only within three days? I was stupidity enough went bought other scales (Tefal) made in France,this is all in complecated on digital computerize..I was regreted bought this
....you can set up a weekly base or monthly..You look frount of the wall the little numbers coming up LOL! Not look down as an old scales, the number shows (12.07 )is a times,not my weight.
do you know sometimes the shops ladys had talking to you then end up buying items that not necessary wonted it ha ha ha
The old scales had flatted batteries that I wish checked it before I went to the shops LOL!
THE SUNRISE BEFORE THE STROMS COMING..
The last Wednesday taking in the morning (7-00 am)that before big storms follows by in the afternoon and 200.000 house had blackout and my computer was out of order too. some people had still no powers
the SEC said by Tuesday will resumed all the powers. 3/29/2008 Middle-agedMemory loss may be the midlife crisis we're far too BUSY to remember...we don't wanted to thinking getting old
.But we said remember that book by what's her name? YOU KNOW,it was made into a movie. With that gorgeous guy.Damn.
What his name again? he was married to that actess,the redhead...If that sound like a "Senior moment",
why we do so many middle-aged people have SIMILAR CONVERSATION?.
Why,for that matter,do people over 40 spend so much time looking for their keys?
Why do they arrive at the theatre on the wrong nigh? And find the wool wash they'd lost for three weeks on the kitchen shelf
behind the dog biscuits?
The small routine things at night time,when I take my calcium tablets,I'll stand there and think,Did I take them already,
or was I just thinking about taking them?LOL!
A woman was at a shopping centre,came out,opened up the door of her car and found there was a woman sitting in it.
And there was a period of shock and fear, Why is she sitting in my car? Why is she stealing my car?
Until she realised she had in fact opened the WRONG CAR.
I haven't actually done myself yet......A good idea to take multiitamins and antioxidant-RICH BRAIN FOOD and joined an online "MIND GYMNASIUM" exercising
that we need it to kept younger ourselves.
NOW I can tell you mines, One morning I was runing out time at my golf there I trying fast I can do to be ready..
 I had my little wallet(home keys with a card for golf clubs gate) in MY HAND then I trying to pick up few thing as well....
in the mean time I left my little wallets.
I look for eveywhere I went to even in the toilet.....eventually not be found. there I need to use spare car keysto drive my car and spare keys to open my house ( in the grden special spot in glass jar) thank god!.
After few days morning I used washing machine .....there after washing that I found my little wallets
..luckly the wallets was alright.I must had put into with my dirty clothes ......
 3/22/2008 PYTHON MAKES A MEAL OF GOLF BALLSA CARPET pythhon has been saved from a bumpy slide to certain death by GOLD COAST vets who removed FOUR GOLF BALLS from its intestines.
The 80 centimetre snake was found by a couple from NOBBYS CREEK in northem NSW, who had put the golf balls in their chicken coop to encourage
their broody hen to nest.
But they deceived the hapless PYTHON-- which thought it had found a FREE LUNCH and GOBBLED the GOLF BALLS.
The couple put two and two together when they discovered their GOLF BALL WERE MISSING AND A LUMPY SNAKE NEARBY.
The animal was taken to the GOLD COAST"S Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary,where senior veterinarian Michael Pyne operated.
He said snake was making a speedy recoveryfrom surgery.
"If it hadn't been found,it would have died for sure. Those golf balls weren't moving any further, they were stuck where they were".
Dr Pyne said the python had been a highly unusual but very rewarding case. "it could have been a sad story but it's nice to fix them up, and we will RELEASE HIM OUT INTO THE WILD SOON".
 I WISH TO ALL MY FRIENDS : A HAPPY EASTER !
3/15/2008 Mercury rises for mad MarchFeel like summer has passed you by? it has,technically speaking,degrees in Melbourne along side four more days of 30 degrees or more for the next week. Officially it's autumn but SOMEONE FORGOT to tell the weather.
The weather bureau said we could expect dry conditions to continute through the beginning of autumn, but other states have seen TOO MUCH RAIN,
NSW that have been swamped with torrential rain and floods in big areas.
The March record for the longest strech of above 30 degree days stands at 11.set back in 1989. we had 39 degree just after 3pm yesterday.
Discussing the weather used to be SMALL TALK but now it's more serious,there has always been an interest in the weather. But people are now more worried
about the future than they are about tomorrow's weather or next week's sporting fixture.
Keeping precious plots alive in the summer with the harsh water restrictuons for trying to save what I had left in my gardens,
the roses were JUST DOING OKAY in the hot weather.
The water restrictions: 6.00 am-8.00 am twice a week on the TUESDAY and SATURDAY we can water by hand hose in the garden. But the early in the morning 6.00am -7.00am STILL DARK then how we going to water in the dark?
 Turn on the light? and people WHO ARE going to WORKING that how they could water in the their garden at the morning? An ESPECIALLY THE SATURDAY MORNING is HARDEST ONE that WHO WOULD WANTED get up 6-00am in the morning.
Other thing is BUSH fIRE: SOFAR SO GOOD there is small one in the other states.
The Summer Day light saving time will finished in the an end of this month.
The water restrictions continuously until September the dams are getting fuller.
A good things about Melbourne weather: DRY and Hot in the daytimes but at night after the sunsets became QUICKLYcooling down to comfortable night..
And we find seldom hot night
I prefer hot weather than cold weather(no restriction the water) a specially snows in the ground that I would rather like to seen only at CHRISTMAS TIMES.I HOPE THIS IS A LAST COMPLAINED ABOUT OUR WEATHERS .
To my friends:I wished a bright spring weather coming to your way and enjoy work at the garden.
3/8/2008 A Kinder attitudeA long list of worthy things you ought to be doing improving your mind as well as calming it,listening more appreciatively to your loved onece.
you're ready to offer help to a colleague who's struggling?
Or need just the smallest encouragment to cook dinner at home for friends who care much more about getting together than whatever you put on the table?.
Or spend a glorious day at home alone snacking on cheese and cherries with glass of wine?
Many of our wants and dreams are perfectly possible ,yet we so easily let them slip out of the kindness.
A kinder life will always be a happier one.
Kindness. A kinder attitude makes it so easy to see what you need to add to your life and what you can certainly risk letting go.
Kindness will always be most powerful when you take it up as a fundamental attitude rather than as series if individual acts: when you see it as cause and effect,
Then it's not a question of whether you can afford to be kind,but whether you can afford not to be.
How easily it's misunderstood that kindness is for the weak or needy even when the opposite is true.
It takes strength to be consistently kind and it develops strength.
Whether you're conscious of it or not,you have the ability to increase other people's joy and safty through acts of simple kindness to others.
3/1/2008 My darling little girl Millie!It has been a long week for wating to a baby arrived, the baby is due on 18th Feb ...there all our familys were wating for that when will happents?
Everyday keeping phone called each other,
the doctors suggested to her that if nothing happents on 25th Feb.then she's going to have baby on the date.
all we hope to have nutural birth that makes everybody happier...I had deeply concerns that pain of delivery the birth????
I was told by my daughter in law that the doctor's gave an injection on her back then after that she has an easy birth.
But I can tell you that in past weeks when I wake up in the EARLY HOURS of the morning which I DON'T do normally,
it's NIGHTMARE I started worry about that just the only think in the NAGATIVE WAY,it's such an emotional time spent whole weeks.
23th Feb, at 0230. morning it has sign of beby's .....and she went into the hospital.....
following after noon at 14-30. the new baby's safty arrived in this world.
Millie Jane Johnson, Weight 8Ibs 14ozs, Hight 53-30cm, She was born on 23th Feb 2008 and very proud parents Andrew & Vaness and of course G-Ma too.
Now I can't help thinking about how is baby? there's one, it not serious problems but she wake up couple times in the middlie of night....
A while in the hospital that evrynight the nurse coming around 1-00 am in the early morning to mum to feed baby.
That why Millie's still wake up same time in the every night?
and sleep most of in the daytimes. Hopefully going to change soon. would believes in this, I wake up in that times too
then just starting to thinking how baby's sleeping???? I'm pretty much night owl these days. Vaness's mum (from New Zealand) stayed with them for the last three weeks and father's coming next Thursday.
I thinking that after they going to home then perhaps I better help them??
From 2nd of March. Millie's sleeping more in the night times, that make for happier for her mum & everybody in the their home.
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