Recent Posts Tagged With sichuan earthquake 2008

• Panda Pictures

  Posted on Thursday September 4th, 2008 at 08:10 am in sichuan earthquake 2008

  Historically, the dragon served as China's national emblem. The Giant Panda has however found a niche; its image appears on a large number of modern Chinese commemorative silver, gold and platinum coins.The Giant Panda is an endangered species.Gia...

• Special Feature: Message From A Mother

  Posted on Thursday June 12th, 2008 at 06:42 am in sichuan earthquake 2008

  There are many Mother quotes. From the Internet for example you get quotes like: Heaven is at the feet of Mothers - an Arabic ProverbHer children arise up, and call her blessed - Proverbs 31:28The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom -Henry Ward ...

• Special Feature: The Brave One

  Posted on Thursday June 12th, 2008 at 06:40 am in sichuan earthquake 2008

  Forget Jennifer Lopez's 2007 album, Brave or the brave American Native Warrior! Read on about the brave high school student from Sichuan ...This high school student was rescued from the collapsed building. She lost both legs, and her both hands ar...

• Special Feature: Noble Teachers

  Posted on Thursday June 12th, 2008 at 06:32 am in sichuan earthquake 2008

  I read in the paper on 19 June that Fan Meizhong, a Chinese language teacher from a private high school had been sacked in China. Branded Running Fan, the teacher had run away when the 8.0 magnitude earthquake hit Sichuan on May 12 and since then 70,...

• Special Feature: He ain't heavy, he's my brother!

  Posted on Thursday June 12th, 2008 at 06:30 am in sichuan earthquake 2008

  There was this fat, obnoxious Malay boy whom I knew to be an annoying chatterbox in class. Once he took his equally fat little brother to his teacher's house during Chinese New Year. When it was time to take leave, the boys had to walk quite a distan...

• Special Feature: Moved to Tears

  Posted on Thursday June 12th, 2008 at 06:25 am in sichuan earthquake 2008

  Smiling occurs in all cultures. A smile is a facial expression when the muscles most notably near both ends of the mouth flex but it has been said that a smile can be found around the eyes too. It has often been reported that it just take 17 muscles ...

• Special Feature: Sichuan Earthquake: Parents' Love

  Posted on Thursday June 12th, 2008 at 06:24 am in sichuan earthquake 2008

  I've often heard of Mother's Love; hardly Father's Love and during the Sichuan Earthquake, one get to see Parents' Love... Read on...Song Xinying (宋馨懿), 3, pulled out from rubble after being buried for 2 days. She was in critical condition and ...

• Special Feature: Pennies and Dimes

  Posted on Thursday June 12th, 2008 at 06:21 am in sichuan earthquake 2008

  Many years back, I remember reading about Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng, the James Bond girl from Malaysia,making a RM10,000 donation for some causes. That was of course, a big amount by Malaysian standard. When famine hit North Korea in the late ninetie...

• Special Feature: Sichuan Earthquake: Back to Basics

  Posted on Thursday June 12th, 2008 at 06:14 am in sichuan earthquake 2008

  When one wonders over the wonders of the world like the Pyramids and the Great Wall of China, one wonders how on earth the ancient people come to build such great monuments. How on earth do they move such great rocks to such faraway places to bui...

• Special Feature: Sichuan Earthquake - Uncalled for Adventure

  Posted on Thursday June 12th, 2008 at 06:11 am in sichuan earthquake 2008

  All the world over, especially in well to do countries, one would sometimes see some sort of Adventure Team organsing 4-Wheel Drive and motorbike expeditions taking on diverse environments around the globe – from hostile deserts and snow-capped mo...

• Special Feature: Sichuan Earthquake: Selfless Rescuers

  Posted on Thursday June 12th, 2008 at 05:56 am in sichuan earthquake 2008

  You'd probably think these are scenes from Pearl Harbour or some other Hollywood pictures..The scenes below are from Sichuan, the site of a big earthquake on 12 May. It makes you wonder, while man can create destruction, can Mother Nature... or rathe...

• Special Feature: Sichuan Earthquake: A Real Leader

  Posted on Wednesday June 11th, 2008 at 07:46 am in sichuan earthquake 2008

  Years ago, I heard, or maybe read of a case where a leader sped off to another country where the air was clean and fabulous when disaster struck a country. I heard of leaders of institutions and saw too these leaders delegating the dirty work to the ...

• Special Feature: Sichuan Earthquake: Open Hospital

  Posted on Tuesday June 10th, 2008 at 02:39 am in sichuan earthquake 2008

  Sometimes , while we were at the air-conditioned waiting room in the hospital in town,we scream and complain about the crowd and the long queue. We heard too of doctors in government hospitals leaving for greener pastures in private sectors, opening...

• Special Feature: Sichuan Earthquake: The Awakened Human

  Posted on Monday June 9th, 2008 at 02:34 am in sichuan earthquake 2008

  Was it in the movie or in the novel, City of Angel? Well, I don't know. Somewhere, I heard, it has been documented that some people, probably because of poverty, sell their blood. In the recent Sichuan Earthquake, some people could probably earn a ...

• Special Feature: Sichuan Earthquake: Vast Destruction!

  Posted on Friday May 23rd, 2008 at 11:10 pm in sichuan earthquake 2008

  The Sichuan Earthquake was the deadliest and strongest earthquake to hit China since the 1976 Tangshan earthquake and had therefore, unsurprisingly caused great devastion. Strangely, there were signs and predictions of this earthquake.In 2002, a...

• A Special Feature: Sichuan Earthquake

  Posted on Friday May 23rd, 2008 at 09:50 am in sichuan earthquake 2008

  Baskaran sent me via e-mail a Power Point presentation entitled Heroes, dedicated to the brave people of Sichuan province of China. As the whole world knows, there was a terrible earthquake there which measured at 8.0 Ms and 8.3 Mw according to the ...